A Sense of Where You Are
Bill Bradley was a Rhodes scholar, a three-term U.S. Senator and a presidential candidate. But before all that, he was the best college basketball player in the country.
Bill Bradley was a Rhodes scholar, a three-term U.S. Senator and a presidential candidate. But before all that, he was the best college basketball player in the country.
John McPhee New Yorker Jan 1965 1h5min Permalink
An overachiever on what he did and didn’t learn at Princeton.
Walter Kirn The Atlantic Jan 2005 35min Permalink
On Julian Jaynes, a Princeton psychologist who told the story of how humans learned to think.
Rachel Aviv n+1 Mar 2013 10min Permalink
From the 1940s through the early 70s, incoming freshman at Harvard, Yale, Vassar, Wellesley, and several other top schools were photographed nude in the name of science–bogus science, as it turned out. Most of the photos were destroyed, but not all.