Princeton University is one of the world’s greatest — wandering around this campus, I felt humbled thinking about the intellectual giants that made this place their home over the last century: Toni Morrison, Albert Einstein, Woodrow Wilson . . . The list is long.
Princeton began in 1746 as the College of New Jersey and didn’t get renamed for another 150 years. Although its oldest building dates from the mid-18th century, the campus is known for the buildings from the late 1800s developed in the Collegiate Gothic architectural style. The grounds of Princeton’s campus are a delight — a woman named Beatrix Farrand developed them in the first part of the 20th century. Among other things, they entail 17 different gardens — I took a few photos of one called Prospect Garden.
In my mind, the thing I most associate Princeton with is its legendary physicists: I counted 19 Nobel Laureates on the department home page and that did not include Einstein (who started his career elsewhere).
