OF RUTGERS COLLEGE AT NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J. 1904-1905 CHARTERED AS QUEEN'S COLLEGE 10 NOVEMBER, A. D., 1766 PRINTED FOR THE COLLEGE CALENDAR Monday, 10 A. M., and Tuesday: Examinations for admission. Examinations for removal of June conditions. Wednesday, 8.40 A. M.: First term begins, recitations. Friday, Saturday: Sloan Entrance Prize examinations. Tuesday, 2 P. M.: Stated Meeting of the Board of Trustees. Tuesday: Election Day. Thursday: Charter Day. Wednesday, 11 A. M.-Monday, 8.40 A. M.: Thanksgiv- Monday-Friday: Examinations. First term ends. 1905 Monday, 8.40 A. M.: Second term begins, recitations. Trustees. Thursday: Day of Prayer for Colleges. Wednesday: Washington's Birthday. Tuesday, 2 P. M.: Stated Meeting of the Board of Wednesday-Tuesday: Examinations; second term ends. Monday-Thursday: Senior final examinations. Monday-Friday: Examinations of three lower classes. Sunday, 7.30 P. M.: Baccalaureate Sermon. Tuesday, 8 P. M.: Junior Exhibition. Wednesday: Stated Meeting of the Board of Trustees, 10.30 A. M. Address before the Alumni, 12.30 P. M. Alumni Dinner, 1.30 P. M. 139TH ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT, 8 P. M. Wednesday Wednesday: Long vacation. Examinations for admission. Examinations for removal of June conditions. Wednesday, 8.40 a. M.: First term begins, recitations. Friday, Saturday: Sloan Entrance Prize examinations. Tuesday, 2 P. M.: Stated Meeting of the Board of Trustees. Tuesday: Election Day. Friday: Charter Day. Wednesday, 11 A. M.-Monday, 8.40 A. M.: Thanksgiv ing Recess. Monday-Friday: Examinations; first term ends. Friday Monday, 8.40 A. M.: Christmas vacation. 1906 Monday, 8.40 A. M.: Second term begins, recitations. HISTORICAL SKETCH The germinal thought out of which Rutgers College grew has been imputed to Theodore James Frelinghuysen, first of that name in American annals. Associated with him, in his effort to found a College in the spring of 1738, was Hendrick Fisher. Their effort was not successful. A second movement was led by Theodore Frelinghuysen, pastor in Albany, and a son of the first named. In January, 1755, he urged the formation of a college to be nurtured by the Dutch Church, but American in nature. The progressive party of the Dutch sanctioned the project of a new College in these words: "We. do resolve with all our energy and in the fear of God to plant a University or Seminary for young men destined to study in the learned languages and in the liberal arts, and who are to be instructed in the philosophical sciences; also that it may be a school of the prophets in which young Levites and Nazarites of God may be prepared to enter the sacred ministerial office in the Church of God." A commission from this party of progress, the "Coetus," was issued to Frelinghuysen, authorizing him to go to Holland to explain the necessity for such a training school and to solicit funds for its foundation. On the 10th October, 1759, he left for the Netherlands and arrived there in safety, but lost his life before reaching land on the return voyage. Meantime a determined opposition arose to an independent ecclesiastical judicatory in America, and to a new College. But the friends of an independent College persisted and petitions were from time to time sent to the Royal Governor praying for a College Charter. The prayer was finally granted and the Charter of Queen's College, so named in honor of the royal consort, Charlotte, was received on the 10th November, 1766, under which the Trustees met and organized. The Charter named twenty-one Trustees from New York, eighteen from New Jersey and two from Pennsylvania. A copy of the first Charter is not known to exist, but a petition to Governor William Franklin asks that it may be amended because of the distinction between the residents and non-residents of New Jersey. On the 24th November, 1769, on "petition of Hendrick Fisher, President of the Board of Trustees of Queen's College," the Governor and Council voted to amend the Charter, and on the 20th March, 1770, a Charter was granted which changed apparently but few provisions of the original. On the 7th May, 1771, the Trustees determined to establish the College at New Brunswick, N. J. On the 14th December of the same year they secured for a term of fifty years a lease of the house and lot on the northeast corner of the present Neilson and Albany Streets. The first commencement was held in some year |