Princeton University is led by a President selected by the Board of Trustees. A number of noted American statesmen, clerics, and revolutionaries led the Univeristy during its salad days in the eighteenth century; today, the office is usually held by prominent academics. Princeton University, located in Princeton, New Jersey, is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. ...
Jonathan Dickinson 1747
Aaron Burr, Sr. 1748-1757 (Elected 1748, effectively in charge since 1747 [1] (http://etc.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/university_president.html))
The Reverend Aaron Burr (January 4, 1716(?) - September 24, 1757) was a notable divine and educator in colonial America. ... Jonathan Edwards is the name of several individuals: An American theologian in the 18th century; see Jonathan Edwards (theology). ... John Witherspoon (February 15, 1723–November 15, 1794), was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New Jersey. ... James McCosh (April 1, 1811 - November 16, 1894) was a Scottish philosophical writer. ... Dr. Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was the 45th state Governor of New Jersey (1911-1913) and later the 28th President of the United States (1913-1921). ...
Princeton is among the wealthiest universities in the world, with an endowment just over 11 billion US dollars (#4th largest in the United States) sustained through the continued donations of its alumni and maintained by investment advisors.
PrincetonUniversity was named by the Princeton Review (which is, despite the name, unaffiliated with the university) as one of the most affordable colleges in the nation.
PrincetonUniversity Art Museum was established to give students direct, intimate, and sustained access to original works of art to complement and enrich instruction and research at the University, and this continues to be its primary function.
Even when PrincetonUniversity had far outgrown its small beginnings, presidents like Francis Landey Patton carried a disproportionate burden, though by the close of the nineteenth century, this was seen as an error in judgment rather than a necessary virtue.
Until Wilson assumed the presidency of PrincetonUniversity in 1902, the men who held this office were exclusively Presbyterian clergymen, and in two cases, family members succeeded one another: Burr by his father-in-law, Jonathan Edwards, and John Witherspoon by his son-in-law, Smith.
And, inevitably, there were presidents who failed to sustain the burdens of their office: men like Smith, whose tenure was marred by a fire that gutted Nassau Hall in 1802 and student riots that led to mass suspensions in 1807.
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