Education: Princeton's Latest

One crisp autumn day in 1896, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, Professor of Jurisprudence at the College of New Jersey, eloquently addressed a crowd of alumni and visitors who had gathered to witness the formal changing of the institution's title to Princeton University. Professor Wilson solemnly charged his audience to think of the University's destiny as "Princeton in the Nation's Service." Said he:

"It is indispensable, it seems to me, if the University is to do its right service, that the air of affairs should be admitted to all its...

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