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Thread #29207 Message #379371
Posted By: Mark Cohen
21-Jan-01 - 11:05 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Old Nassau, The Rose and Silver Gray
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Old Nassau, The Rose and Silver Gray
Here's a sobering thought. The land for the College of New Jersey (the name was changed to Princeton University at the sesquicentennial in 1896) was donated by a man named Belcher. Generations of Princetonians are thankful that he declined the offer to have the first college building named for him, but instead asked that the honor go to his favorite monarch, William of Orange, of the House of Nassau.