By Brett Tomlinson. Photographs by Beverly Schaefer and Frank Wojciechowski.
The P-rade is an event for Tigers of many stripes — and for many patterns, prints, and plaids, too. But this year, viewers perched on the banks of Elm Drive likely experienced sense of déjà vu from two large contingents of alumni donning jackets that featured alternating, finger-width vertical slats of orange...
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By Katherine Federici Greenwood
Relief, pride, joy, sadness, exhaustion — graduates felt all these emotions as they completed their journeys through Princeton. After surviving finals and the writing of their theses and dissertations, 1,125 undergraduates and 743 graduate students...
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For the Class of 1968, senior year was a time like no other
By Christopher Connell ’71
The rites of Princeton University’s 221st Commencement played out on the sun-swept lawn of Nassau Hall on June 11, 1968, after a semester of national torment and heartbreak.
Former Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg received an honorary degree, along with the poet...
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What class reunion books can tell us
By Landon Y. Jones ’66
When the men of Princeton’s Class of 1885 prepared to gather for their 25th reunion, they decided to publish a book reporting the latest doings of classmates “in anticipation of the reunion in June, 1910.” The 116 pages of the resulting hardcover volume did that and more: They...
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Josh Tauberer ’04 is someone a policy wonk could love
By Brett Tomlinson
Since graduating from Princeton in 2004, Josh Tauberer has led a double life. By day, he’s a mild-mannered graduate student in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. By night, he commands a legion of computer programs, trolling the Internet for data about congressional...
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A new course marries literary analysis and dramatic performance
By Deborah Yaffe
After six weeks’ intensive study of ancient Greek drama, a group of Princeton students stood in the 2,400-year-old amphitheater of the Greek city of Epidaurus, a space renowned for its acoustics. One by one, they mounted the stage to sing, declaim, or chant in tones destined to...
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