To the Editor:

I’m guessing I’m not the only one who is looking forward to the day when the obsessive and futile efforts of the Princeton Battlefield Society (PBS) to halt the construction of new faculty housing on the grounds of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) come to an end. The PBS’s hyperbolic misrepresentations of the motives and actions of the IAS are an embarrassment.

A fact the PBS ignores is that the Institute is also an important part of our local and national history. And where is the PBS’s gratitude for the glorious Institute Woods, which the IAS generously shares with the community? The time and energy and funds the PBS has poured into this fruitless fight would have been much better spent on improving and maintaining the Princeton Battlefield State Park’s monuments and buildings — some of which are in serious disrepair.

Jane Eldridge Miller

Laurel Circle