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About Princeton

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. The institution moved to Newark in 1747 and then to its Mercer County campus in Princeton nine years later. It officially became a university in 1896 and was subsequently renamed Princeton University.

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In 1927, Princeton's internal newspaper, the Daily Princeton, revealed that the university was going to begin admitting women.

from No Such Thing As The Jam Of Entertainment, 2024-12-19 at 00:24:21 · read transcript

Other times Princeton came up

  1. This is amazing. So grew up in Vienna, left for Princeton in 1940, right? There was a Viennese physicist called Hans Thuring who wanted to warn the US government and the US president about the risk of the Nazis developing a nuclear bomb. Hans Thuring wanted to contact Einstein to pass the message on. There's no way of contacting him from Vienna without the Nazis reading the message, intercepting the call, bugging him, whatever.

    No Such Thing As A Sweater For Einstein, 2024-11-14 · listen

  2. The oldest known one was discovered last year. It's 2,500 years old. It's in this Aegean island called Astipalaya, or Astipalaya. It was discovered when a Princeton professor was taking a bunch of archaeology students there to show them the wonders of the island, the island's archaeology. They uncovered just hundreds of obscene pictures and obscene graffiti. Things like Nicositamos was here mounting Timiona and various bits of abuse against people.

    65: No Such Thing As A Chickenosaurus, 2015-06-12 · listen

  3. Can I tell you guys about his time as a spy? I don't even do you know if you did this. This is amazing. So grew up in Vienna, left for Princeton in 1940, right? There was a Viennese physicist called Hans Thuring who wanted to warn the US government and the US president about the risk of the Nazis developing a nuclear bomb. Hans Thuring wanted to contact Einstein to pass the message on.

    No Such Thing As A Sweater For Einstein, 2024-11-14 · listen

  4. Can I tell you guys about his time as a spy? I don't know. This is amazing. So Grew up in Vienna, left for Princeton in 1940, right? There was a Viennese physicist called Hans Thuring, who wanted to warn the US government and the US president about the risk of the Nazis developing a nuclear bomb. Hans Thuring wanted to contact Einstein to pass the message on.

    557: No Such Thing As A Sweater For Einstein, 2024-11-14 · listen

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