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1991 · ref. 10272311 — Princeton: Princeton University Press 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Thick 4to. These volumes the fourth and fifth complete the series of biographical sketches of students at Princeton University The College of New Jersey in colonial times. They cover pivotal years for both the nation and the College. Introductory essay by John Murrin editor of the series since 1981 explores the postwar context of the College. The two volumes contain biographies of 354 men who attended with the classes of 1784 through 1794 and two other students whose presence at the College in earlier years has only now been demonstrated. During these years Princeton accounted for about an eighth of all A.B. degrees granted in the United States. It was the young republic's most 'national' college although it had nearly lost its New England constituency and was instead beginning to draw nearly 40 percent of its students from the South. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. Princeton University Press hardcover