In this week’s installment of our ongoing series bringing you the history of Princeton University and its faculty, students, and alumni, Ethel Barrymore is on campus, undergraduates head to Washington to celebrate a presidential inauguration, and more.
March 1, 1969—The new Jadwin Gym is dedicated at a Harvard-Yale-Princeton track meet.
March 2, 1931—Ethel Barrymore appears in the opening of “Love Duel” at McCarter Theater.

Ethel Barrymore, ca. 1931. Photo from the Daily Princetonian.