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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Wertenbaker sketches the first 150 years of Princeton history [and] in doing so he traces, as well, the fascinating development of college education in America... The book is replete with ... anecdotes and descriptive matter, which, deftly interspersed throughout its pages, breathe life into historical facts... [Princeton, 1746-1896] deserves a wide and continuing general appeal."--Journal of Higher Education "Wertenbaker, ... employing a mass of published and unpublished information, well commemorates the growth of Princeton and the services of its chief educators."--The Times Literary Supplement
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. v*LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, pg. vii*PREFACE TO THE 1996 PAPERBACK EDITION, pg. ix*CHAPTER I. The Cornerstone Is Laid, pg. 1*CHAPTER II. T The Cradle of Liberty, pg. 48*CHAPTER III. The School of Statesmen, pg. 80*CHAPTER IV. The Stepchild of the Church, pg. 118*CHAPTER V. Princeton's Nadir, pg. 153*CHAPTER VI. Life in Nassau Hall 1790-1830, pg. 184*CHAPTER VII. The Alumni to the Rescue, pg. 215*CHAPTER VIII. Through Fire and War, pg. 256*CHAPTER IX. The Birth of a University, pg. 290*CHAPTER X. Expansion and Inaction, pg. 344*CONCLUSION, pg. 391*APPENDIX Charters of the College of New Jersey, October 22, 1746 and September 14, 1748, pg. 396*INDEX, pg. 405
