Cuyler Hall

Cuyler Hall was built in memory of Cornelius C. Cuyler, a New York banker who was a trustee of the University from 1898 until his death in 1909. His had always been ``a magical name for any 1879 man,'' his classmate, Woodrow Wilson, then governor of New Jersey, said at the dedication of the building in 1912, and it was ``singularly appropriate'' that a dormitory ``symbolic of the democratic life and the comradeships of the University'' should bear his name. ``He always meant to me a singular stimulation,'' Governor Wilson concluded, ``he imparted his own energy to everything he did. Let us hope that his spirit will in some degree touch the life of this dormitory.''

From Alexander Leitch, A Princeton Companion, copyright Princeton University Press (1978).