Bicentennial Charter Day 1946 Newsreel…‬From the Princeton University Archives: Paramount newsreel about the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the university being granted a charter. The newsreel covers the academic procession for the convocation, during which twenty-three people received an honorary degree, including Trygve Lie, Secretary General of the United Nations (1:42), Walter E. Edge, Governor of New Jersey (2:11), Niels Bohr , Salvador De Madariaga, and Jacques Maritain (2:21). The news reel continues with a Rutgers-Princeton football game (2:47), and a reenactment of the first Rutgers-Princeton game in 1869 (5:51). The festivities were part of the bicentennial celebrations of 1946-1947./nThis film is discussed in the audiovisual blog of the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, which holds the archives of Princeton University. For more information or to comment on this film visit ‪http://blogs.princeton.edu/reelmudd/2011/03/princetons-bicentennial-charter-day-october-19-1946.html

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