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Reservations are required for the public only. Princeton University ID holders with building access do not need to make a reservation and can visit the exhibition every day between 12 p.m. and 6 p.m. "Piranesi on the Page" tells the story of how Giovanni Battista Piranesi, the foremost printmaker in 18th-century Europe, made the book the center of his artistic production. The exhibition is scheduled from October 8, 2021 to December 5, 2021 in the Ellen and Leonard Milberg Gallery, located in the Firestone Library lobby. The exhibition welcomes the public during the following times v...

Calling all Student Friends of the Princeton University Library who missed our first event of the semester! Join us for a repeat showcase of highlights from the Scheide Library led by Eric White, Scheide Librarian & Assistant University Librarian for Special Collections, Rare Books & Manuscripts. The Scheide Library is one of the foremost collections of rare books in the entire world. Housed in Firestone Library on C Floor, this one-of-a-kind library belonged to William H. Scheide, a 1936 Princeton alumnus who left an extraordinary collection of more than 2,500 rare printed books and ...

A Canadian teen who called in a bogus bomb threat to Princeton University in September of last year recently entered a guilty plea in Mercer County Family Court. The 16-year-old, whose name is being withheld because he is a minor, entered a guilty plea on May 28 to one count of third-degree false public alarm. He was sentenced to two years probation, along with conditions that he perform 30 hours of community service, pay a $2,000 fine, and surrender his driver’s license for six months. He also must undergo a psychological evaluation and follow any recommendations that result from the evalu...

Using race-based preferences to admit students with qualifications vastly inferior to those admitted without the need for such preferences creates all sorts of problems and dislocations. One of them is the erosion of standards within various departments, especially ones that teach hard stuff. I wrote about one example -- eliminating econometrics as a required course for graduating from a major school of public policy -- here. Now comes word, via

Princeton Removes Greek, Latin for Classics Majors to Combat Racism Princeton University. Credit:popejon2, CC BY 2.0/Wikipedia Princeton University decided recently to remove Greek and Latin for Classics majors to combat – what it called- institutional racism. Faculty members approved changes to the Classics department, including eliminating the “classics” track, which required an intermediate proficiency in Greek or Latin to enter the concentration, according to Princeton Alumni Weekly. The requirement for students to take Greek or Latin was also removed. ” width=”1080″> A divers...