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B Y T H E N U M B E R S
Residential, dining and social facilities for
undergraduates
According to "A Princeton Companion" by Alexander
Leitch:
• Residential, dining and social facilities for
undergraduates were once concentrated in Nassau Hall, after
the College of New Jersey moved to Princeton from Newark in
1756.
• All undergraduates lived in Nassau Hall (or had
lodgings in town) until 1833, when the first dormitory, East
College, was built. As other dormitories were erected,
Nassau Hall in time was taken over exclusively for
administrative and faculty use, but one or two students
continued to live there as late as 1903.
• By 1973, when Spelman Halls, the first to offer
apartment living, were completed, Princeton had built 40
dormitories, all but six of which were still being used for
their original purpose. Three had been razed: East College
in 1896, Upper Pyne in 1963 and Reunion Hall in 1965. Three
had been converted to other uses: Lower Pyne in 1950 for
business offices, Seventy-Nine Hall and West College in the
early 1960s for departments of instruction and
administrative offices, respectively.
• Nassau Hall also contained the College's dining
room and kitchen until 1804, when they were moved to the
first floor of Philosophical Hall, built that year where
Chancellor Green now stands. For a dozen years, starting in
1834, a second refectory, situated on William Street,
supplied board at a cheaper rate for those desiring it
($1.50 a week rather than the regular $2). Students called
it the "poor house."
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September 30, 2002
Vol. 92, No. 4
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Contents
Page one
•Committee proposes
program for four-year residential colleges
•Pioneer of modern
genetics named director of institute
Inside
•Carl A. Fields Center
for Equality and Cultural Understanding
dedicated
•Library acquires
Arabic calligraphy collection to add to extensive
holding
•Budding journalists
report successful experience
People
•New
director, scholars join Society of
Fellows
•Council celebrates
golden anniversary with sterling
faculty
•Spotlight,
briefs
From HR
•Annual retiree open
enrollment is Oct. 7-Nov. 1
Sections
•Nassau
Notes
•Calendar of
events
•By the
numbers
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