The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-08-19
PRINCETON JUBILEE
Preparations for the f5oth
Celebration Going on Very
Successfully.
Speeiaz to the jersey cuu Neara.

PRINCETON, Aug. 10, 18e6-Additional
details Of the approaching celebration OF
the one hundred and fftie1h anniversary
Of the founding of Princeton College were
made public yesterday. It is announced
that while the ses-quicentennial celsbra-
tion proper will cover three days, Octo-
Der 20, q, q, as a matter of fact. the ex-
ereises occasioned b. the anniversary
VIII begin the week before the celebration
proper. and last ten days. 1he entire
week previous. to the celebration will be
given over to a series of public lectures.
Among the delegates from the British
and continental universities to THE ses-
quicentennial celebration viii be a num-
Der OF distinguished professors whose fame
Is worldwide, several Of whom have con-
scented to deliver lectures in Princeton
during the week before the celebration.
The full schedule Of lectures is not yet
completed and the Celebration Committee
is anxious to complete ali details before
giving out the names of the distinguished
men who will be heard on that occasion.
Enough is known, however, to make it
clear that the lecturers who Will be heard
at princeton during the week, October
~ to II. will form q group of distinguished
specialists such as has not previously
been collected together on this side of the
water. The committee promises soon TO
issue a circular announcing the fun per-
sonnet of this illustrious group of 1schol-
Ars, together with the subjects upon
which they will discourse.
Inc reception and Entertainment Com
Inlttee, which Is in charge of James n.
Alexander of New York and Prof. Will
lam Libbey of the Geographical Deuarf-
nent OF Princeton University, is putting
lortn every effort to arrange accou1mo-
odlonS Tor the great throng of alumni
ana friends of the institution which are
expected to be present during the eeIebra-
ton Rooms at the Princeton Inn were
a. engaged some time ago. and the more
desirable places of the town are being
reserved rapidly To provide against the
ialiure OF the village to take care Of the
CROWD, special trains will be run to Phila-
aeiphia, New York and Trenton each
morning and evening, and people living
IN these cities will thus be able to spend
tneir sleeping hours at home. In addi-i
ZION, special arrangement are being
made with the Trenton hotels to accom-
modate the overflow from Princeton. BY.
TINS latter arrangement, many visitors
from a distance will be enabled to attend
an the exercises of the celebration and
spend their nights quietly ten miles from
the sceqne of the festivities. returning nv
an early special for the exercises Of the
q Ine reception and entertainment
committee Will make every effort to pro-
VIDE Tor the alumni of the institution. by
engaging beforehand all the available sac-
co1nmodations and assigning quarters to
such as apply for them before October 10.
But any applications received after this
Date viii be declined. For transient
visitors special arrangements for serving
meals are being made at the Princeton
Inn, the Nassau Hotel n University
Hall.
A force of clerks is busily engaged at
the office OF Prof. Libbey, in Princeton.
completing these details. "A considerable
amount of s-esquicentennial literature is
being prepared. Prof. Libbey viii issue
q new handbook of Princeton, for the
guidance of visitors, and a new edition
OF the general catalogue of the Institution.
and of the alumni directory will soon
appear.