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A season
like few others
By Mary Caffrey

When the Princeton men's basketball team faced its rival from the University of Pennsylvania at Jadwin Gymnasium on February 17, the student section hit capacity an hour before the game, and attendance topped 7,200. When Princeton played Harvard at Jadwin three days later, the decibel level rose so high that referees called a technical foul on the crowd, giving Harvard a free shot at the basket.
     Such support is routine at perennial basketball powerhouses. But at Princeton a small student body and academic demands have often meant sparse home crowds, even in winning seasons.
     The current basketball season, however, is like few others in Princeton history. . .

McGraw gift endows teaching, learning center

Publisher Harold McGraw Jr., Class of 1940, has made a $5 million gift to endow a center for promoting innovative teaching and effective learning throughout the University.
     McGraw Center is to serve as a laboratory for new ideas and a place to share, across departments and disciplines, teaching discoveries that have proven successful in individual classrooms at Princeton and other colleges and universities. McGraw Center will be housed in the new campus center, designed by Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, now under construction.

Princeton puts papyri
on Internet

A "descriptive inventory" of more than 1,000 ancient Egyptian papyri in the Library's Department of Rare Books and Special Collections is on the Internet as a result of a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
     In addition to a 243-page classified list, the computer inventory includes high-resolution images of papyri of Homer's Iliad, the New Testament "Epistle of St. James," and tax and census rolls from Philadelphia, Egypt. "If funding is renewed, the remainder of the papyri will be digitized," says Don Skemer, curator of manuscripts in Rare Books and manager of the project.
 
http://www.princeton.edu/~dcskemer/papyri.html

Classicist, engineer
to be 250th Visiting Professors

Classicist Andrew Szegedy-Maszak of Wesleyan University and mechanical and aerospace engineer Zellman Warhaft of Cornell University will hold 250th Anniversary Visiting Professorships for Distinguished Teaching for the academic year 1998-99.
 

On the road again

The house formerly located at 17 Ivy Lane has been resting for several months on Western Way. On February 20 it began the move to its new site at 127 FitzRandolph Rd. but halted for the weekend on the property of 139 FitzRandolph. Weather permitting, the house is expected to reach its final destination within a week, according to Steve Virostko, project manager in Physical Planning.
 

Pictures from
Alumni Day
1998
February 21

Retirements

Obituaries of
   retired employees

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