OT: Oldest US Universities
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How can you not know?? That list was the same over 200 years ago! Did it sneak up on you?
An original MAGA of sorts, James Buchanan, tried to nix the whole land grant colleges thing (most of the BigTen)…but…
Fortunately for America, Abe Lincoln was then elected and land grant colleges became a thing…along with the intercontinental railroad…end of slavery…
1746 - The College of New Jersey begins in the pastor's home in Elizabethtown in the province of New Jersey. Charter granted by King George II.
1747 - College of New Jersey moves to Newark. The trustees ask if any town would like to host the school. Two towns raise their hands - New Brunswick and Princeton.
1748 - College of New Jersey holds its second ever graduation - not in Elizabethtown, Newark or Princeton - but in New Brunswick!
1748 - acting fast, Princeton makes offer before New Brunswick to host the College of New Jersey and they go there seeking a rural location
1766 - second chance for New Brunswick as a new charter is granted by King George III (the guy we fought against in the American Revolution). Queen's College is named in honor of the King's consort Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg.
1825 - Thanks to Revolutionary War Captain and New York State Militia Colonel Henry Rutgers, the defunct school along the Raritan River is re-activated and the school is renamed Rutgers College. 100 years later, it becomes Rutgers University and after WWII, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
1896 - The College of New Jersey officially changes their name to Princeton. But they were called that many years before the name change.
2023 - Test on Monday.
1747 - College of New Jersey moves to Newark. The trustees ask if any town would like to host the school. Two towns raise their hands - New Brunswick and Princeton.
1748 - College of New Jersey holds its second ever graduation - not in Elizabethtown, Newark or Princeton - but in New Brunswick!
1748 - acting fast, Princeton makes offer before New Brunswick to host the College of New Jersey and they go there seeking a rural location
1766 - second chance for New Brunswick as a new charter is granted by King George III (the guy we fought against in the American Revolution). Queen's College is named in honor of the King's consort Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg.
1825 - Thanks to Revolutionary War Captain and New York State Militia Colonel Henry Rutgers, the defunct school along the Raritan River is re-activated and the school is renamed Rutgers College. 100 years later, it becomes Rutgers University and after WWII, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
1896 - The College of New Jersey officially changes their name to Princeton. But they were called that many years before the name change.
2023 - Test on Monday.
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I always thought that we should make a bigger deal about this, hanging the flags of the Colonial colleges in the student center along with the flags of the Big Ten Universities.
Maybe they were asking what a "RUTGRES" is - from back in the day when the rival was INDINIA
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Two things:
I can’t figure how this guy ordered his list. William and Mary was the first chronologically so that’s not it.
And George III’s Queen Consort was Charlotte of Mecklenberg.
I can’t figure how this guy ordered his list. William and Mary was the first chronologically so that’s not it.
And George III’s Queen Consort was Charlotte of Mecklenberg.
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Yes, I had an omission of words in my post which I have corrected. Thanks for pointing that out.
One last thing, since Princeton gave up on the name the College of New Jersey in 1896, 100 years later Trenton State decided to change their name to TCNJ much to the protests of Princeton University.
Agree. It seems obvious to play to your heritage to help differentiate. Unfortunately this is not obvious to the people getting paid to work at Rutgers.
It started in the 80s when we're scheduled to play Tennessee. Their fans where asking what's a Rutgers? We answered the question with a win.
Yep. That was one sportswriter taking a potshot at the football program. My point earlier was that no accredited college or university in the nation (in the world?) would seriously ask that question.
BTW, the question which he actually asked, which is far more clever in my opinion, was "What are rutgers?" (Note the lower case r.) He said he had heard they were similar to yonkers.
Hmmm.. perhaps adding something in there saying Rutgers was considering New Brunswick and Hackensack as possible locations... Bergen County has never gotten over losing out.
Actually November 9, 1979 when before 90,000+ at Neyland Stadium Rutgers beats Tennessee 13-7. Thus, "What's a Rutgers" was born.
And, iirc, the story was that was in Tennessee's local paper sports headline for that game we beat em.. no.. that wasn't it.. NY Times link.. Frat house at Tenn had that banner... but a newspaper story jokingly interviewed people to see they thought it was.. one woman answered she had just bought a pound of it (Rutgers) for 59 cents (that was from NY times story link).