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Tag: Haile Selassie I

  • This Week in Princeton History for May 28-June 3

    In this week’s installment of our ongoing series bringing you the history of Princeton University and its faculty, students, and alumni, an Ethiopian emperor tours the campus, the Nassau Lit notes that the institution has no school colors, and more. May 28, 1870—A committee of 20 Presbyterians is in Princeton to lay the cornerstone of Reunion…