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Perhaps Rudenstine draws his strength of resolve from the experience of his alma mater, Princeton University. The president says that Princeton alumnus James B. Duke once offered the school a large sum if it would take his name...
...trustees considered the offer and turned him down. So Duke turned to Trinity College in Durham, North Carolina. (They sealed the deal in 1924.) Duke, who lived near Princeton, never forgot the rejection, Rudenstine says. A statue of him at the Princeton, New Jersey cemetery faces away from the school...
Bloom captures convincingly the evolution of Isabella's moral universe; the oncerigid Isabella has accepted human imperfection by the final act. The ending--the Duke marries Isabella--feels perfunctory in both the play and in Bloom's piece but detracts only slightly from the rest of the portrait...
...eight-member ensemble played these difficult pieces with considerable flair. All of the instrumentalists--Gloria Cheng on piano, Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick on cello, Arthur Jarvinen and Amy Knoles on percussion, Robin Lorentz on violin, James Rohrig on clarinets and Dorothy Stone on flutes--showed amazing versatility and intensity...
Princeton, a loser this weekend to national powerhouses Duke and Virginia, awaits this Friday's matchup against Harvard with weighty Ivy stakes in the balance...