STUDENTS

The student group is small and in close contact with the faculty, all of whom subscribe to a tacit Departmental open-door policy when they are in their offices. The number of students in residence normally falls between 25 and 30 in any one year, and seminars are small, normally four to ten students, meeting three hours per week.

Princeton is a small undergraduate university (approximately 4,750 students) with an even smaller Graduate School (approximately 1,800 students), but our program has attracted students of all backgrounds, from small liberal arts colleges to large state universities. The undergraduate institutions of recent and current students, for instance, include Berkeley, Boston University, Bryn Mawr, Cambridge, Chicago, Columbia, NYU, Oxford, Pomona, Texas, Thessaloniki, Toronto, UCLA, Utrecht, Vassar, Vermont, Virginia, Wellesley and Yale.

Graduate students have their own committee within the Department that sponsors a series of informal colloquia on their research by students and new faculty. This committee, with members from each class, represents the students, concerns as a group to the Chairman and the Director of Graduate Studies, while others sit with a faculty committee to arrange the year's schedule of visiting lecturers.