August 2010 Archives

McGovern Processing Project Completed

By Manuscript Mudd Manuscript Library Staff on August 30, 2010 9:00 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
The Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library has recently completed an 18-month project to process the papers of former Senator George S. McGovern. The collection is especially noteworthy for its comprehensive documentation of George McGovern's lifelong work on food and nutrition issues. 
 
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   McGovern's 1974 re-election
   campaign to the U.S. Senate.
McGovern served as the United States Representative for the First District of South Dakota from 1956-1960 and was a member of the House Committee on Agriculture, where he advocated strongly for issues that would characterize his entire political career, including rural development, food stamp legislation, and foreign food aid. 
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From the Archives: Summer at Princeton

By John DeLooper on August 26, 2010 2:50 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
With most students away and the heat beating down on McCosh Walk, summer at Princeton has an undeniably different character than that of the academic year.
 
Unlike Ivy League counterparts such as Columbia and Harvard, Princeton does not hold summer classes. Instead, the campus is populated by a variety of summer camps, conferences, and other special programs. The small cadre of students who remain on campus are often at work on dissertations and theses or employed in summer jobs on behalf of various university departments. Meanwhile, faculty who remain may be preparing material for publication or undertaking research.
 
But this was not always the case. From 1923 to at least the 1940s, Princeton hosted its own summer courses, and students have returned to campus in droves during times of national emergency as well, such as during World War I, when Princeton hosted military training camps, or World War II, when the summer session was greatly expanded so students could complete more courses before going off to serve in the war.
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World War I Summer Training Camp -- Review (1917). Historical Photograph Collection: Campus Life Series, Box MP207

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Exhibition reveals the Tiger inside John F. Kennedy

By Manuscript Mudd Manuscript Library Staff on August 23, 2010 8:07 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
Memorabilia from John F. Kennedy's brief stint as a Princeton student and items from his political career- including a 1935 Christmas card depicting Kennedy with his Princeton roommates dressed in top hats and suits in homage to Fred Astaire from the motion picture Top Hat (which opened earlier that year), and photographs and documents from the Warren Commission's investigation into the circumstances surrounding Kennedy's assassination- are part of a new exhibition in the Wiess Lounge at the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library.  Running through September 2, 2011, John F. Kennedy: From Old Nassau to the New Frontier commemorates the 50th anniversary of the election of our 35th President and his Princeton connections.

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This exhibition showcases the rarely-seen Princetonian side of Kennedy, who attended the University late in the fall semester of 1935 despite his father's desire that he attend Harvard University.  Unaware of his future in politics, Kennedy had declared his intended profession to be "banking" on his application and stated that the campus environment of Old Nassau was "second to none."  Kennedy was admitted to the entering freshmen class in 1935 and shared a dormitory with his former Choate high school classmates Kirk LeMoyne Billings and Ralph Horton, Jr. in #9 Reunion Hall South.  However, after a brief few weeks as a member of the Class of 1939 he left Princeton due to health reasons and later graduated from Harvard with the Class of 1940.  The other presidents to have attended Princeton were James Madison and Woodrow Wilson.

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From the Archives: Princeton and the Supreme Court

By John DeLooper on August 17, 2010 7:30 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Journalists and pundits are noting that Elena Kagan's confirmation to the Supreme Court last week marks the first time three women have served concurrently on the high court. However, Kagan's confirmation marks another historic occasion -- the first time in 168 years that three Princetonians have shared the bench.

While 2010's trio consists of Samuel Alito ' 72, Sonia Sotomayor '76, and Elena Kagan '81, the 1842 trio consisted of Smith Thompson '1788, Peter V. Daniel '1805, and James Moore Wayne '1808.

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Justices Thompson '1788 (Undergraduate Alumni Records),  Daniel '1805 (Dickinson University's House Divided Project), and Wayne '1808 (Library of Congress).

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