Public lectures

Public lectures on topics of general interest are provided by five special endowments given by the following alumni and friends of the University: in 1891 by Spencer Trask 1866; in 1899 by Henry Stafford Little 1844, donor also of the Stafford Little dormitory; in 1912 by Louis Clark Vanuxem 1879; in 1939 by George L. Farnum 1894; and in 1957 by the family of Governor Walter E. Edge. Among those who have occupied these lectureships are Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, Robert Frost, Felix Frankfurter, Martin Buber, William O. Douglas, Edmund Wilson, Ralph Bunche, C. P. Snow, and Linus Pauling.

Some 500 other lectures, seminars, and colloquia, given mainly under departmental auspices, are also open to the University community and the general public without charge each year.

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