Word: 187th
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...issue of October 2 under the head of Education, it is unfair to Duke. These three statements are made in the article. "Eight-year-old Duke University near Durham, N. C., announced the beginning of its 98th year.". . . "Harvard University entered its 298th year." . . . "Princeton University opened its 187th year." The three universities all date back to their humble and modest beginnings. Duke began 98 years ago as York Academy, then Trinity College and more recently Duke University. Harvard began as Newton's College, changed to Cambridge College, again to Harvard College and finally to Harvard University. Princeton...
Princeton University opened its 187th year with a new president, Dr. Harold Willis Dodds. English Professor Robert Kilburn Root is dean of the faculty succeeding Mathematician Luther Pfahler Eisenhart, now dean of the Graduate School. Princeton men noted three new buildings rising not far from their chapel. Anonymously donated, they will house the famed Westminister Choir School, founded seven years ago by Dr. John Finley Williamson and largely supported by Mrs. Harold Ellstner Talbott of Dayton, Ohio...