A Crimson Key To Nassau Hall?

FOUND in the Harvard Graduate's Magazine of 1917:James Hibben, Princeton's 14th President, was in Cambridge to receive an honorary degree from our rival up north.  During his acceptance speech he tells this awful story...

"In the year 1802, Nassau Hall, the oldest of our college buildings, and at the time the only college building, was burned, and there was a loss not only of the building, but of the library and all of the philosophical apparatus, as it was then called.  The Board of Trustees made an appeal to the friends of Princeton that in the hour of her distress they would come to relief.  The first response to that appeal, and the first contribution to our necessity, came from Harvard University.  Not only that, but the then President of Harvard, President Willard, appointed a committee to collect funds in Boston for Princeton."

That's right: NASSAU HALL - Old Nassau, our Nassau, the building we give praise to, sing to, salute to - WAS REBUILT WITH HARVARD MONEY.  Will you ever be able to look at it the same way again?image: Dmadeo