Following the untimely deaths of Princeton's first five presidents, John Witherspoon became president in 1768 and remained in that office until his death in 1794. During his presidency, Witherspoon shifted the college's focus from training ministers to preparing a new generation for leadership in the new American nation. To this end, he tightened academic standards and solicited investment in the college.[16] Witherspoon's presidency constituted a long period of stability for the college, interrupted by the American Revolution and particularly the Battle of Princeton, during which British soldiers briefly occupied Nassau Hall; American forces, led by George Washington, fired cannon on the building to rout them from it.
John Witherspoon, President of the College signer of the Declaration of Independence
In the eighth president the College of New Jersey, Ashbel Green, helped establish the Princeton Theological Seminary next door. The plan to extend the theological curriculum met with "enthusiastic approval on the part of the authorities at the College of New Jersey" Today, Princeton University and Princeton Theological Seminary maintain separate institutions with ties that include services such as cross-registration and mutual library access.
Before the construction of Stanhope Hall in Nassau Hall was the college's sole building. The cornerstone of the building was laid on September During the summer of 1783, the Continental Congress met in Nassau Hall, making Princeton the
country's capital for four months. Over the centuries and through two redesigns following major fires
Nassau Hall's role shifted from an all-purpose building, comprising office, dormitory, library, and classroom space; to classroom space exclusively; to its present role as the administrative center of the University. The class of 1879 donated twin lion sculptures that flanked the entrance until when that same class replaced them with tigers.[22] Nassau Hall's bell rang after the hall's construcon; however, the fire of 1802 melted it. The bell was then recast and melted again in the fire of
A Birds-eye view of campus in
James McCosh took office as the college's president in and lifted the institution out of a low period that had been brought about by the American Civil War. During his two decades of service, he overhauled the curriculum, oversaw an expansion of inquiry into the sciences, and supervised the addition of a number of buildings in the High Victorian Gothic style to the campus.[McCosh Hall is named in his honor.
In the first thesis for a Doctor of Philosophy Ph.D. was submitted by James F. Williamson, Class of
In 1896, the college officially changed its name from the College of New Jersey to Princeton University to honor the town in which it resides. During this year, the college also underwent large expansion and officially became a university.
In , Woodrow Wilson, graduate of the Class of was elected the president of the university.Under Wilson, Princeton introduced the preceptorial system in , a then-unique concept in the US that augmented the standard lecture method of teaching with a more personal form in which small groups of students, or precepts, could interact with a single instructor, or preceptor, in their field of interest.
Albert Einstein and Thomas Mann at Princeton,
In 1906, the reservoir Lake Carnegie was created by Andrew Carnegie. A collection of historical photographs of the building of the lake is housed at the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library on Princeton's c
In Albert Einstein became a lifetime member of the Institute for Advanced Study with an office on the Princeton campus. While always independent of the university, the Institute for Advanced Study occupied offices in Jones Hall for 6 years, from its opening in until their own campus was finished and opened in This helped start an incorrect impression that it was part of the university, one that has never been completely eradicated.
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