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On August 20, 1942, Princeton student Henry Lind '43 wrote to the NAACP to request resources for his senior thesis. “I am particularly interested in the extent of contribution which the Negro in the United States is making toward the war effort and also in the Negro’s attitude toward the war,” he said.

Lind assembled a variety of primary sources for his the thesis, "Neglected Man-Power: The American Negro in World War II." Several of these sources were included within his bound volume. This page is taken from a pamphlet by the Urban League found in a pocket on the inside back cover of Lind's thesis.

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Tiger Tuesday: This ad from the October 18, 1956 issue of the Daily Princetonian would not appear in today’s paper for too many reasons to list.

All our Tiger Tuesdays are found here.

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Menu Monday: Princeton University celebrated its 250th anniversary of its founding in 1996 with a variety of events. For this June 12 picnic that year, a significant diversity of options was available, including "oodles of cool water."

Historical Subject Files (AC109), Box 242, Folder 9

The entire Menu Monday series

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“Taking it altogether it was certainly an excellent earthquake, vigorous enough to be instructive and interesting, but not cruel and ferocious like those which have desolated other lands and almost ruined nations.”

— Princeton professor Charles Augustus Young, in The Critic, August 16, 1884, on the rare and surprising earthquake that hit the east coast of the United States in August 1884. This earthquake, with an estimated magnitude of 5 on the Richter scale, remains the largest ever known to have hit New York.

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"Our slaves must be emancipated upon the soil which they cultivate. There is no alternative."

--Princeton's acting president, Philip Lindsley, in an address given as he was leaving the role to make way for James Carnahan to assume the post, August 15, 1824

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Throwback Thursday: Workers on strike during construction of Princeton University’s Firestone Library, ca. 1946.

Photo details: Historical Photograph Collection, Grounds and Buildings Series (AC111), Box MP056, Image No. 2036

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This photo is of the sidewalk along Nassau Street in front of Princeton University’s FitzRandolph Gateway. After Commencement in 1970, Princeton University opened gates to the town of Princeton, allowing local residents to come onto the campus grounds. But administrators said that the decision had sparked a crime wave, so Princeton’s president, Robert Goheen, instituted a curfew that prohibited townspeople from trespassing on Cannon Green after dark on August 13, 1970. This brought immediate protest.

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Tiger Tuesday: The program for the hockey match between Princeton University and Notre Dame, January 2, 1985.

Princeton won this game 9 to 4.

Athletic Programs Collection (AC042), Box 22

The entire Tiger Tuesday series

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Menu Monday: This ad appeared in the local Town Topics on February 15, 1968. The coupons would have given Princeton students (and other local residents) the opportunity for a Saturday night dinner for $3.25 or a Sunday night meal for $5.00, though a second diner could eat free. In 2025 dollars, that would be about $30 or $47, respectively.

The entire Menu Monday series

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Diana Matheson ‘08 scored a goal in overtime at the Summer Olympics in London on August 9, 2012, securing the bronze medal for the Canadian women’s soccer team, but before she earned that distinction, she was the Daily Princetonian’s 2008 Athlete of the Year.

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Princeton University’s Nassau Hall in artistic imagination, 1820s-1950s.

1. Unknown artist’s rendering of Nassau Hall, ca. 1825. Nassau Hall Iconography Collection (AC177), Box 1.

2. Nassau Hall stationery, 1844. Historical Subject Files, Grounds and Buildings Series (AC110), Box 7, Folder 10. 

3. Nassau Hall illustration from the front page of Gleason’s Pictorial, August 6, 1853. 4. Invitation to junior orations at the College of New Jersey (Princeton), Class of 1886. Nassau Hall and Cannon Green are both pictured here. Princeton University Class Records (AC130), Box 24.

5. Nassau Hall superimposed within the “Big Cannon” on the cover of Princeton Class of 1861′s menu for the Sesquicentennial celebration in 1896. Princeton University Class Records (AC130), Box 5.

6. George Washington and a tiger walk in front of Nassau Hall on the cover of Princeton’s Washington’s birthday program, February 22, 1897. Washington’s Birthday Celebration Records (AC200), Box 1

7. Nassau Hall on Wedgwood plate, 1930. Memorabilia Collection (AC053), Box 52. 8. Score for Princeton University Triangle Club’s “The Tiger Smiles” featuring Nassau Hall, 1930-1931. Triangle Club Records (AC122), Box 98.

9. Nassau Hall commemorative stamp, 1956. Committee on the Bicentennial of Nassau Hall Records (AC191), Box 1, Folder 13.

10. Drawing of Nassau Hall’s entrance by George C. Thomas ‘57. 1956 Bric-a-Brac.

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"There are now four decided cases of cholera existing in the heart of this town. The authorities of this town, against the wishes of a large portion of the inhabitants, have converted the town house into a hospital for the sick, as there are many cases hourly occurring on the line of the canal. When it becomes known to them, we shall, without doubt, be flooded with them. My object is to give notice to those strangers who may wish to come here, that they may be governed accordingly. A large portion of the students in college have left, and others on the eve of going, in consequence of the alarm which exists here."

--Thomas M. Taylor, to the Philadelphia Inquirer, August 4, 1832, warning people not to visit Princeton due to a cholera outbreak

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Tiger Tuesday: We think this may Lynn A. Stout ‘79 in the Tigress suit being dragged off the field by a Rutgers University student. (Note the bow on the tail and the head.) We have shown you several other examples of the Tigress in earlier posts in this series.

Princeton Alumni Weekly Photograph Collection (AC126), Box 38

The entire Tiger Tuesday series

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Did you know that Princeton University researchers made a working telephone out of a live cat in 1929?

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Several events for the 1992 National Governors' Conference took place on Princeton's campus. This is the program from the Interfaith Worship Service held in Princeton University Chapel on August 2, 1992. The cover image depicts a map of New Jersey with a square representing Princeton superimposed over a silhouette of the Chapel.

To conclude the conference, America’s governors gathered in Jadwin Gymnasium on August 3, 1992, where they could have photos taken with the 1991 Super Bowl trophy, eat fresh peaches found on every table, drink New Jersey wine, and take in a special performance by the Beach Boys. Busy campaigning for president, Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton skipped the party.

Office of the Dean of Religious Life and of the Chapel Records (AC144), Box 43.

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Throwback Thursday: The cover of the score for Princeton University Triangle Club’s 1916-1917 production, “Safety First!” The musical was described as a satire of “futurism, feminism, and prison reform.” Lyrics: F. Scott Fitzgerald (Class of 1917). Musical composition: Paul Dickey (Class of 1917), F. W. Guilbert (Class of 1919), and E. Harris (Class of 1920).

Triangle Club Records (AC122), Box 4, Folder 1

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In 1946, Princeton University faced an unprecedented housing shortage. Hundreds of incoming students would not have dorm assignments despite "doubling up" the rooms (i.e., making all singles into doubles and transforming existing doubles into triples or quads). This was primarily due to an influx of students returning to college after the end of World War II. An appeal was made to the local community to room students in their homes. Even so, when school started that year, more than 200 students bedded down in "Baker Hotel," a makeshift barracks in Baker Memorial Rink, until a more permanent solution could be found.

Historical Photograph Collection, Campus Life Series (AC112), Box MP164, Image No. 6041