<p>It's not every day that an institution has the chance to celebrate its 250th anniversary — especially twice.</p>
<p>But 10 years after Princeton University celebrated for the first time, plans are in the works for another major celebration — the 250th anniversary of Princeton in Princeton.</p>
<p>After the university's founding in 1746, classes were first held in Elizabethtown and, later, in Newark. But the trustees were in search of somewhere "more sequestered from the various temptations attending a promiscuous converse with the world, that theatre of folly and dissipation," per Alexander Leitch's definitive history, "A Princeton Companion" (Princeton University Press, 1978). Princeton fit the bill, apparently, and the first classes were held at Nassau Hall in 1756.</p>