Princeton of the daytime filtered slowly into his consciousness—West and Reunion, redolent of the sixties, Seventy-nine Hall, brick-red and arrogant, Upper and Lower Pyne, aristocratic Elizabethan ladies not quite content to live among shopkeepers, and, topping all, climbing with clear blue aspiration, the great dreaming spires of Holder and Cleveland towers.
This side of Paradise
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
Opened on October 22, 1913, to a design by Ralph Adams Cram, it was the first residential college in the U.S. dedicated solely to graduate students. Built on a hill half a mile from the campus, the Gothic complex is unified by Princeton stone and slate roofs, and is recognized by the Cleveland Tower, built as a memorial to Grover Cleveland, former president and member of the University's Board of Trustees.
