Pton prof on Tigers vs. Bulldogs

njdad
Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:10:06 +0000

The one and only drawback of Princeton is clearly identified in Prof. Grafton’s article:



As an inveterate grump about the eating clubs, I prefer Yale’s social system to ours. Yale boasts plenty of exclusive, snobbish social life — the student body doesn’t suffer, any more than ours does, from a privilege deficit, but it doesn’t happen in public space, at the official core of the campus, as it does on Prospect Avenue.



This will clearly change in 25-50 years, if not sooner, as the administration attempts to eliminate the eating clubs as the focus of undergraduate social life. When this happens, Princeton will enhance its position as the best, or at least, one of the very best, instituitions for undergraduate education.