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Photo: Sameer A. Khan h’21
With 1,500 members, the Class of 2026 is the largest in Princeton’s history. The freshmen, clad in a rainbow of residential-college T-shirts, gather on the steps of Blair Hall Sept. 4 to sing school songs (and pop tunes) and learn the locomotive cheer.