Mark Twainvisited Princeton in the early 1900's
and considered coming here to live.
"Princeton would suit me as well as Heaven," he wrote
his friend Lawrence Hutton, a former editor of Harper's who
was a lecturer in the University, "better, in fact, for I shouldn't
care for that society up there."
This is adapted
from
Alexander Leitch, A Princeton
Companion, copyright Princeton University Press (1978).
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