The Princeton Eating Clubs

Author : Clifford W. Zink
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11
Category : Clubs
ISBN : 0692946586

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The Princeton Eating Clubs by Clifford W. Zink Pdf

The majestic clubhouses lining the west end of Prospect Avenue represent student social life at Princeton as much as ¿gargoyles and spires,¿ in the words of F. Scott Fitzgerald, represent academic life on campus. Dating from 1895 to 1928, the sixteen clubhouses in Classical and Gothic styles embody the aspirations, creativity, and craftsmanship of the era when Princeton became a university ¿in the nation¿s service,¿ and America became a world power. The Princeton Eating Clubs are unique, and the story of their origins and development is captivating. Groups of genial undergraduates started each club as a private entity to share good food and companionship. The camaraderie they enjoyed in their clubhouses led graduates to broaden their friendships and foster the famous ¿Princeton spirit¿ so evident on game days and at reunions. The eating clubs thus emerged as collaborations between undergraduates and alumni. The students enjoy the clubhouses daily, and returning alumni meet students and strengthen their connections to each other and to Princeton. Five clubhouses are now University facilities, but eleven eating clubs continue their century-old tradition of independent service to students and alumni.

Author : James Axtell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780691227528

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The Making of Princeton University by James Axtell Pdf

In 1902, Professor Woodrow Wilson took the helm of Princeton University, then a small denominational college with few academic pretensions. But Wilson had a blueprint for remaking the too-cozy college into an intellectual powerhouse. The Making of Princeton University tells, for the first time, the story of how the University adapted and updated Wilson's vision to transform itself into the prestigious institution it is today. James Axtell brings the methods and insights from his extensive work in ethnohistory to the collegiate realm, focusing especially on one of Princeton's most distinguished features: its unrivaled reputation for undergraduate education. Addressing admissions, the curriculum, extracurricular activities, and the changing landscape of student culture, the book devotes four full chapters to undergraduate life inside and outside the classroom. The book is a lively warts-and-all rendering of Princeton's rise, addressing such themes as discriminatory admission policies, the academic underperformance of many varsity athletes, and the controversial "bicker" system through which students have been selected for the University's private eating clubs. Written in a delightful and elegant style, The Making of Princeton University offers a detailed picture of how the University has dealt with these issues to secure a distinguished position in both higher education and American society. For anyone interested in or associated with Princeton, past or present, this is a book to savor.

Author : William Barksdale Maynard
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271050850

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Princeton by William Barksdale Maynard Pdf

"Explores the architectural and cultural history of Princeton University from 1750 to the present. Includes 150 historical illustrations"--Provided by publisher.

Author : William K. Selden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Clubs
ISBN : 0963444441

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Club Life at Princeton by William K. Selden Pdf

Author : Ian Caldwell,Dustin Thomason
Publisher : Dial Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004-05-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780440334958

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The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell,Dustin Thomason Pdf

“One part The Da Vinci Code, one part The Name of the Rose and one part A Separate Peace . . . a smart, swift, multitextured tale that both entertains and informs.”—San Francisco Chronicle NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Princeton. Good Friday, 1999. On the eve of graduation, two friends are a hairsbreadth from solving the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, a Renaissance text that has baffled scholars for centuries. Famous for its hypnotic power over those who study it, the five-hundred-year-old Hypnerotomachia may finally reveal its secrets—to Tom Sullivan, whose father was obsessed with the book, and Paul Harris, whose future depends on it. As the deadline looms, research has stalled—until a vital clue is unearthed: a long-lost diary that may prove to be the key to deciphering the ancient text. But when a longtime student of the book is murdered just hours later, a chilling cycle of deaths and revelations begins—one that will force Tom and Paul into a fiery drama, spun from a book whose power and meaning have long been misunderstood. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Dustin Thomason's 12.21. “Profoundly erudite . . . the ultimate puzzle-book.”—The New York Times Book Review

Author : Geoffrey Wolff
Publisher : Knopf Publishing Group
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015025376610

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The Final Club by Geoffrey Wolff Pdf

A half-Jewish outsider from Seattle must navigate the snobbery and discrimination of 1950s Princeton, learning a bitter-comic lesson about the way of the world.

Author : Michaela DeSoucey
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691183183

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Contested Tastes by Michaela DeSoucey Pdf

An inside look at the complex and controversial debates surrounding foie gras In the past decade, the French delicacy foie gras—the fattened liver of ducks or geese that have been force-fed through a tube—has been at the center of contentious battles. In Contested Tastes, Michaela DeSoucey takes us to farms, restaurants, protests, and political hearings in both the United States and France to reveal why people care so passionately about foie gras—and why we should care, too. Bringing together fieldwork, interviews, and materials from archives and the media on both sides of the Atlantic, DeSoucey offers a compelling look at the moral arguments and provocative actions of pro- and anti-foie gras forces. She combines personal stories with fair-minded analysis and draws our attention to the cultural dynamics of markets, the multivocal nature of “gastropolitics,” and the complexities of what it means to identify as a “moral” eater in today’s food world. Investigating the causes and consequences of the foie gras wars, Contested Tastes illuminates the social significance of food and taste in the twenty-first century.

Author : Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780691253879

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Getting Something to Eat in Jackson by Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr. Pdf

A vivid portrait of African American life in today’s urban South that uses food to explore the complex interactions of race and class Getting Something to Eat in Jackson uses food—what people eat and how—to explore the interaction of race and class in the lives of African Americans in the contemporary urban South. Joseph Ewoodzie Jr. examines how “foodways”—food availability, choice, and consumption—vary greatly between classes of African Americans in Jackson, Mississippi, and how this reflects and shapes their very different experiences of a shared racial identity. Ewoodzie spent more than a year following a group of socioeconomically diverse African Americans—from upper-middle-class patrons of the city’s fine-dining restaurants to men experiencing homelessness who must organize their days around the schedules of soup kitchens. Ewoodzie goes food shopping, cooks, and eats with a young mother living in poverty and a grandmother working two jobs. He works in a Black-owned BBQ restaurant, and he meets a man who decides to become a vegan for health reasons but who must drive across town to get tofu and quinoa. Ewoodzie also learns about how soul food is changing and why it is no longer a staple survival food. Throughout, he shows how food choices influence, and are influenced by, the racial and class identities of Black Jacksonians. By tracing these contemporary African American foodways, Getting Something to Eat in Jackson offers new insights into the lives of Black Southerners and helps challenge the persistent homogenization of blackness in American life.

Author : Karen Stote
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Eugenics
ISBN : 1552667324

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An Act of Genocide by Karen Stote Pdf

An in-depth investigation of the forced sterilization of Aboriginal women carried out by the Canadian government.

Author : Jerome Karabel
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 061877355X

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The Chosen by Jerome Karabel Pdf

Drawing on decades of research, Karabel shines a light on the ever-changing definition of "merit" in college admissions, showing how it shaped--and was shaped by--the country at large.

Author : Robert Michael,Philip Rosen
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0810858681

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Dictionary of Antisemitism from the Earliest Times to the Present by Robert Michael,Philip Rosen Pdf

Containing 2,500 entries, this Dictionary includes entries that cover ancient, medieval, and modern antisemitism; pagan, Christian, and Muslim antisemitism; religious, economic, psychosocial, racial, cultural, and political antisemitism. A comprehensive scholarly introduction discusses the definitions, causes, and varieties of antisemitism.

Author : William Barksdale Maynard
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300142709

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Woodrow Wilson by William Barksdale Maynard Pdf

Before Woodrow Wilson became president of the United States, he spent 25 years at Princeton University, first as an undergraduate, then professor, and finally as president. His experiences at the helm of Princeton--where he enjoyed four productive years followed by four years of wrangling and intense acrimony--reveal much about the kind of man he was and how he earned a reputation as a fearless crusader. This engrossing book focuses on how Wilson's Princeton years influenced the ideas and worldview he later applied in politics. His career in the White House, W. Barksdale Maynard shows, repeated with uncanny precision his Princeton experiences. The book recounts how Wilson's inspired period of building, expansion, and intellectual fervor at Princeton deteriorated into one of the most famous academic disputes in American history. His battle to abolish elitist eating clubs and establish a more egalitarian system culminated in his defeat and dismissal, and the ruthlessness of his tactics alienated even longtime friends. So extreme was his behavior, some historians have wondered whether he suffered a stroke. Maynard sheds new light on this question, on Wilson's temper, and on other aspects of his strengths and shortcomings. The book provides an unprecedented inside view of a hard-fighting president--a man who tried first to remake a university and then to remake the world.

Author : Caroline Kitchener
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780062429537

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Post Grad by Caroline Kitchener Pdf

An honest and deeply reported account of five women and the opportunities and frustrations they face in the year following their graduation from an elite university. Recent Princeton graduate Caroline Kitchener weaves together her experiences from her first year after college with that of four of her peers in order to delve more deeply into what the world now offers a female college graduate, and how the world perceives them. Each of the five girls in this diverse group were expected to attend college—but most had no clear expectations for their futures post-graduation. And as Kitchener follows each member of the group, it becomes harder to reduce them to stereotypes, harder either to defend or to judge their choices. Kitchener navigates expertly between the very personal and the wider sociological perspectives as she outlines a chronological year in the lives of all five women, illuminating and clarifying each one of their choices, victories, and foibles. Both a broad and an intensely individual exploration, Post Grad is a portrait of the shifting environment of that important year after graduation, as well as an intimate look at how a select group of very different individuals handles its challenges—navigating family tensions, relationships, jobs, and that ever-elusive notion of independence.

Author : Amy Julia Becker
Publisher : NavPress
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781631469220

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White Picket Fences by Amy Julia Becker Pdf

A Gentle Invitation into the Challenging Topic of Privilege The notion that some might have it better than others, for no good reason, offends our sensibilities. Yet, until we talk about privilege, we’ll never fully understand it or find our way forward. Amy Julia Becker welcomes us into her life, from the charm of her privileged southern childhood to her adult experience in the northeast, and the denials she has faced as the mother of a child with special needs. She shows how a life behind a white picket fence can restrict even as it protects, and how it can prevent us from loving our neighbors well. White Picket Fences invites us to respond to privilege with generosity, humility, and hope. It opens us to questions we are afraid to ask, so that we can walk further from fear and closer to love, in all its fragile and mysterious possibilities.

Author : Robert Gambee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Princeton (N.J.)
ISBN : OCLC:1398513046

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Princeton by Robert Gambee Pdf