James Duffield Harding’s lithograph of Stirling Castle in Scotland, above, marks the entrance to an exhibition of BRITISH COLOR PLATE BOOKS from 1776 to 1868 in Firestone Library’s Milberg Gallery through March 1. The exhibition includes nearly 40 large books from a collection of Leonard Milberg ’53 that is a promised gift to the Princeton University Library. The display highlights lithographic printing during the British Empire’s expansion at the time. “Very often the books reflect expeditions,” Milberg said. “They tell wonderful stories through pictures.”
The University reported that 791 students have been offered EARLY-ACTION ADMISSION, 48 more than a year ago. The University provided this information about the students admitted early: 48 percent of those who are U.S. citizens identify as students of color; 16 percent are Pell-eligible or meet the University’s criteria for highest financial need; 13 percent are first-generation college students; and 11 percent are international students.
A Princeton spokesman declined to release additional information about the early-action students that has been made public in past years, including the total number of applicants, the gender breakdown, and the number of alumni children among those admitted.
From left: Serra ’20, Elzalabany ’20
Matteo Parisi, a Ph.D. candidate in mathematics at Oxford’s Worcester College, received a Sachs Scholarship to study at Princeton’s Graduate School.
EIGHTEEN FACULTY MEMBERS are among more than 2,000 scholars who signed an open letter written by history professor Sean Wilentz supporting the impeachment of President Donald Trump. The signers include history professors Rhae Lynn Barnes, Michael Blaakman, Margot Canaday, James Dun *04, Tera Hunter, Kevin Kruse, Regina Kunzel, Beth Lew-Williams, James McClure, and Martha Sandweiss and religion professor Judith Weisenfeld *92; visiting professors Martin Flaherty ’81 (Woodrow Wilson School) and Daniel Sherer (architecture); and professors emeritus of history Hendrik Hartog, Nancy Malkiel, John Murrin, Nell Painter, and Anson Rabinbach.
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4 Responses
Norfleet R. Johnston ’56
4 Years AgoHistorians and Impeachment
I was very disappointed to see that 18 faculty members signed a letter supporting the impeachment of President Donald Trump (In Short, Feb. 12). As you are aware, he was acquitted by the U.S. Senate. The House impeachment was a sham. I suggest that these faculty members read our Constitution and other info about the authority of U.S. presidents. Need I say more?
Joseph E. Illick ’56
4 Years AgoHistorians and Impeachment
Fleet Johnston was my classmate, club mate (Cannon), and friend when we both graduated in the midst of the Eisenhower presidency. The University and the country have changed since then. Unlike Fleet, I’m disappointed that only 18 professors signed a letter supporting the impeachment of Donald Trump. I wonder whether there was a faculty petition opposing the impeachment. Certainly we can expect that professors and students at Princeton are politically involved in a way we were not over 60 years ago. I applaud the new Princeton!
Damian Long ’98
4 Years AgoPresidential Power
Norfleet R. Johnston ’56, in a letter to PAW (Inbox, March 18), expresses his disappointment in the faculty members who signed a letter supporting President Trump’s impeachment, and encourages them to “read our Constitution and other info about the authority of U.S. presidents.” Presumably, of course, they’ve already done so, but I wonder if Mr. Johnston would include in said “info” Alexander Hamilton’s clear warnings in The Federalist Papers about the abuse of presidential power and foreign involvement in our “councils.” There is no doubt that this chief executive threatened to cut off military aid to an ally in order to pry from them a condemnation of his probable (and now certain) opponent in the next election. Such a move is well outside the ethical bounds of his authority.
Mr. Johnston also reminds us that President Trump was “acquitted by the U.S. Senate,” and offers this as proof of the impeachment effort’s illegitimacy. But those who watched that trial were witness to a disheartening display of cynical loyalty from legislators who feared the effect of a presidential Twitter feed on their election prospects and refused to hear testimony that would have supported the gross misuse of executive power. I’ll take the good judgment and integrity of 18 Princeton professors over the calculations of these morally compromised “leaders” any day.
Lawrence Cheetham ’67
4 Years AgoPresidential Power
Damian Long ’98, in a letter to PAW (Inbox, May 13), expresses dismay that the “good judgment and integrity of 18 Princeton professors” who endorsed Trump’s impeachment was challenged by a March 18 Inbox letter from a most insightful member of the Class of ’56. Bravo Class of '56! Perhaps Mr. Long will now rethink, after reading the recently released, unredacted sworn testimony of Schiff’s House Intelligence Committee.)
Rather than quote Hamilton’s The Federalist Papers or speculate that Trump’s tweets coerced Republican Senators to vote Nay, perhaps he can opine what influence was exerted for House Committee members in attendance for this testimony to vote Yea in contraindication of sworn testimony.