Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country.
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I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.
quote by John Forbes Nash, Jr.

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The Higher Education
(Harvard's prestige in football is a leading factor. The best players in the leading preparatory schools prefer to study at Cambridge, where they can earn fame on the gridiron. They do not care to be identified with Yale and Princeton.--JOE VILA in the Evening Sun.)
"Father," began the growing youth,
"Your pleading finds me deaf;
Although I know you speak the truth
About the course at Shef.
But think you that I have no pride,
To follow such a trail?
I cannot be identified
With Princeton or with Yale."
"Father," began another lad,
Emerging from his prep;
"I know you are a Princeton grad,
But the coaches have no pep.
But though the Princeton profs provide
Fine courses to inhale;
I cannot be identified
With Princeton or with Yale."
"I know," he said, "that Learning helps
A lot of growing chaps;
That Yale has William Lyon Phelps,
And Princeton Edward Capps.
But while, within the Football Guide,
The Haughton hosts prevail,
I cannot be identified
With Princeton or with Yale."
poem by Franklin P. Adams

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I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.
quote by Orville Redenbacher

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I don't think Post often came to Princeton during the '30s. I can't remember ever seeing him in Princeton.
quote by Stephen Cole Kleene

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I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.
quote by Harry Mathews

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Why would anyone expect Tyson to come out smarter? He went to prison for four years, not Princeton.
And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.
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I'm a graduate of Princeton, and I just want to say you don't have to go to an Ivy League school to be on the Supreme Court.
quote by Richard Land

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I went to Princeton in the fall of 1930 as a half-time instructor.
quote by Stephen Cole Kleene

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I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.
quote by Stephen Cole Kleene

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The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
quote by Lyndon B. Johnson

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Those three years ended with June 1933. At that time I left Princeton, having submitted my Ph.D. thesis.
quote by Stephen Cole Kleene

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I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships that paid my way, otherwise I would not have been able to continue.
quote by Alonzo Church

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Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones.
quote by David Dinkins

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The candidness
Albert Einstein, the eminent scientist,
Once asked for an impossible sum
From the Advanced Study in Princeton.
Coxed, he agreed to a larger salary.
01.12.2011
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

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I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun.
quote by James Stewart

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When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that.
quote by Stephen Cole Kleene

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At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.
quote by Brooke Shields

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Do pterodactyls write in dactyls?
Dactyls – according to encyclopaedic wise men –
though the staple of classical Grecian and Latinate tread,
are now comical – ‘only used humorously’… And yet, read
at a funeral pace, in solemnity, toll out the dead…
(with acknowledgements to M.G. and the Princeton Encyclopaedia of Poetry…)
poem by Michael Shepherd

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There once was a man from Nantucket
Who kept all his cash in a bucket.
But his daughter named Nan,
Ran away with a man
And as for the bucket, Nantucket.
by Dayton Voorhees from Princeton Tiger (1902)

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