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  Princeton University
       n : a university in New Jersey [syn: Princeton]

  Princeton University
       
           Chartered in 1746 as the College of New
          Jersey, Princeton was British North America's fourth college.
          First located in Elizabeth, then in Newark, the College moved
          to Princeton in 1756.  The College was housed in Nassau Hall,
          newly built on land donated by Nathaniel and Rebeckah
          FitzRandolph.  Nassau Hall contained the entire College for
          nearly half a century.  The College was officially renamed
          Princeton University in 1896; five years later in 1900 the
          Graduate School was established.
       
          Fully coeducational since 1969, Princeton now enrolls
          approximately 6,400 students (4,535 undergraduates and 1,866
          graduate students).  The ratio of full-time students to
          faculty members (in full-time equivalents) is eight to one.
       
          Today Princeton's main campus in Princeton Borough and
          Princeton Township consists of more than 5.5 million square
          feet of space in 160 buildings on 600 acres.  The University's
          James Forrestal Campus in Plainsboro consists of one million
          square feet of space in four complexes on 340 acres.
       
          As Mercer County's largest private employer and one of the
          largest in the Mercer/Middlesex/Somerset County region, with
          approximately 4,830 permanent employees - including more than
          1,000 faculty members - the University plays a major role in
          the educational, cultural, and economic life of the region.
       
          http://www.princeton.edu/index.html).html">(http://www.princeton.edu/index.html).
       
          (1994-01-19)