Alumni Directory, The, first appeared in 1888 with the names and most of the addresses of some four thousand living graduates and former students. It was compiled by two graduates of the Class of 1877, Professor William Libbey, Jr., and Trustee M. Taylor Pyne, who spent several years gathering addresses with the help of class secretaries. Libbey and Pyne also edited the second edition in 1892 and the third in 1896. Thereafter new editions were issued at three- or four-year intervals, by the Office of the Secretary from 1902 to 1917, by the Alumni Council Office from 1921 to 1948, by the Bureau of Alumni Records beginning in 1952. The twenty-fifth edition, published in 1974, by the Alumni Records Section of Printing, Mailing and Alumni Records, listed the names (and the addresses of all but 1,964) of some 44,000 alumni of the College and the Graduate School and of about 4,900 undergraduate and graduate students then in residence.
From Alexander Leitch, A Princeton Companion, copyright Princeton
University Press (1978).
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