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Jsnooots t1_j2weug2 wrote

Reply to comment by Longtermthrowaway5 in The Battle of Princeton occurred 246 years ago today, ending in a small victory for the Colonials. After the battle, Washington moved his army to Morristown, and with their third defeat in 10 days, the British evacuated southern New Jersey by rollotomasi07071

Andrew Carnegie, the Scottish American industrialist/philanthropist, went to visit Princeton University.

He didn't think you could properly mold a young man with just rough sports, like American Football, so he donated money for a dam on the millstone river that would create Carnegie lake so.....that Princeton University could have men's rowing, a proper gentleman pastime.

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THE_some_guy t1_j2xlals wrote

Supposedly Woodrow Wilson (President of Princeton at the time) quipped about Carnegie "we asked him for bread, but he gave us water".

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Jsnooots t1_j2xomuh wrote

I love that. I didn't know that. Thank you. I find NJ history and how so much history connects through our state fascinating.

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THE_some_guy t1_j2zyros wrote

It may be apocryphal- I'm skeptical that "bread" as slang for money was a thing in 1905, or that Wilson would have used it even if it was.

But if it's a lie, it's an entertaining one.

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