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B Y T H E N U M B E R S
"vulgar arithmetic"
Princeton NJ -- According to "A Princeton Companion" by
Alexander Leitch:
• Admission to Princeton in the early years was
based entirely on a knowledge of Latin and Greek. By 1760,
entering freshmen also were required to understand "vulgar
arithmetic."
• The president of the college personally examined
each applicant and determined whether or not he should be
admitted.
• Oral entrance examinations continued to be used
until well beyond the middle of the 19th century, when they
began to be replaced by written examinations.
• When the College Entrance Examination Board was
founded in 1900, Princeton honored its examinations as well
as its own, and after 1915 required them of all
applicants.
• Following a large increase in the number of
applicants to American colleges after World War I, the
trustees in 1922 adopted a policy of limited enrollment and
selective admission in order to "preserve the essential
features of Princeton's residential life and to maintain its
standards of individual instruction."
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September 9, 2002
Vol. 92, No. 1
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Contents
September 11
•University remembers
Sept. 11 by helping with recovery
•September 11: Panel
discussion, exhibition
Page one
•Financial aid
enhancements improve accessibility
•Grad apps increase
nearly 24 percent, enrollment up
slightly
Inside
•Summer lab work
gives seniors a jump start
•Crews work to
improve campus landscape this summer
•Home study course
offered on modern world history this
fall
People
•Three key
administrators appointed this summer
•Claudia Tate,
scholar of African-American literary criticism, dies at
55
•Spotlight,
appointments
•Briefs
Sections
•By the numbers:
Admissions
•Nassau
Notes
•Calendar of
events
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