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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_University 00:02:09 1 History 00:07:23 1.1 Coeducation at Princeton University 00:09:44 1.2 Princeton and Slavery 00:11:22 2 Campus 00:14:11 2.1 Cannon Green 00:15:40 2.2 Buildings 00:15:48 2.2.1 Nassau Hall 00:16:47 2.2.2 Residential colleges 00:21:27 2.2.3 McCarter Theatre 00:22:00 2.2.4 Art Museum 00:23:52 2.2.5 University Chapel 00:25:26 2.2.6 Murray-Dodge Hall 00:25:59 2.2.7 Apartment facilities 00:26:19 2.3 Sustainability 00:27:28 3 Demographics 00:29:04 4 Organization 00:30:22 5 Academics 00:31:20 5.1 Undergraduate 00:33:38 5.1.1 Admissions and financial aid 00:35:34 5.1.2 Grade deflation policy 00:37:46 5.2 Graduate 00:38:59 5.3 Libraries 00:40:10 5.4 Rankings 00:42:41 5.5 Institutes 00:43:50 6 Student life and culture 00:46:37 6.1 Traditions 00:52:10 7 Athletics 00:53:04 7.1 Varsity 00:55:45 7.2 Club and intramural 00:56:24 8 Songs 00:57:05 8.1 "Old Nassau" 00:58:26 9 Notable alumni and faculty 01:01:39 10 See also Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago. Learning by listening is a great way to: - increases imagination and understanding - improves your listening skills - improves your own spoken accent - learn while on the move - reduce eye strain Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone. Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio: https://assistant.google.com/services/invoke/uid/0000001a130b3f91 Other Wikipedia audio articles at: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wikipedia+tts Upload your own Wikipedia articles through: https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts Speaking Rate: 0.8993331024471929 Voice name: en-AU-Wavenet-C "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." - Socrates SUMMARY ======= Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. The institution moved to Newark in 1747, then to the current site nine years later, and renamed itself Princeton University in 1896.Princeton provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering. It offers professional degrees through the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the School of Architecture and the Bendheim Center for Finance. The university has ties with the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Theological Seminary and the Westminster Choir College of Rider University. Princeton has the largest endowment per student in the United States. From 2001 to 2018, Princeton University was ranked either first or second among national universities by U.S. News & World Report, holding the top spot for 16 of those 18 years.As of October 2018, 65 Nobel laureates, 15 Fields Medalists and 13 Turing Award laureates have been affiliated with Princeton University as alumni, faculty members or researchers. In addition, Princeton has been associated with 21 National Medal of Science winners, 5 Abel Prize winners, 5 National Humanities Medal recipients, 209 Rhodes Scholars, 139 Gates Cambridge Scholars and 126 Marshall Scholars. Two U.S. Presidents, twelve U.S. Supreme Court Justices (three of whom currently serve on the court) and numerous living billionaires and foreign heads of state are all counted among Princeton's alumni body. Princeton has also graduated many prominent members of the U.S. Congress and the U.S. Cabinet, including eight Secretaries of State, three Secretaries of Defense and three of the past five Chairs of the Federal Reserve. |