Source : WordNet®

Princeton University
     n : a university in New Jersey [syn: {Princeton}]

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Princeton University
     
         Chartered in 1746 as the College of New
        Jersey, Princeton was British North America's fourth college.
        First located in Elizabeth, then in Newark, the College moved
        to Princeton in 1756.  The College was housed in Nassau Hall,
        newly built on land donated by Nathaniel and Rebeckah
        FitzRandolph.  Nassau Hall contained the entire College for
        nearly half a century.  The College was officially renamed
        Princeton University in 1896; five years later in 1900 the
        Graduate School was established.
     
        Fully coeducational since 1969, Princeton now enrolls
        approximately 6,400 students (4,535 undergraduates and 1,866
        graduate students).  The ratio of full-time students to
        faculty members (in full-time equivalents) is eight to one.
     
        Today Princeton's main campus in Princeton Borough and
        Princeton Township consists of more than 5.5 million square
        feet of space in 160 buildings on 600 acres.  The University's
        James Forrestal Campus in Plainsboro consists of one million
        square feet of space in four complexes on 340 acres.
     
        As Mercer County's largest private employer and one of the
        largest in the Mercer/Middlesex/Somerset County region, with
        approximately 4,830 permanent employees - including more than
        1,000 faculty members - the University plays a major role in
        the educational, cultural, and economic life of the region.
     
        {(http://www.princeton.edu/index.html)}.
     
        (1994-01-19)