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| Reply To: | BP - "Preservationists shouldn't be neat freaks." -- Mary D |
| Date: | Fri, 23 Jun 2000 10:16:33 EDT |
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In a message dated 06/22/2000 3:28:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> The College of New Jersey. Hmmm. Wasn't there a big fight between the
> erstwhile Rider College (now College of New Jersey) and the erstwhile
> College of New Jersey (presently Princeton University) over the right to
the
> name? Always looking for more trivia....
It's not Rider College (now Rider University), but Trenton State College that
changed its name to The College of New Jersey (alphebetized under The).
And, yes, there was a squabble over the name. Apparently the TSC
administration didn't feel that the old name was chi-chi enough for the
small, well-heeled, liberal arts college image that they have been
cultivating.
I feel rather sorry for future historians who will no doubt be confused by
the change.
-Heidi
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