CALENDAR 1905 Monday, 10 A. M., and Tuesday: Examinations for admission. Examinations for removal of June conditions. Wednesday, 8.40 A. M.: First term begins. Recitations, II A. M. Friday, Saturday: Sloan Entrance Prize examinations. Trustees. Tuesday: Election Day. Friday: Charter Day. Wednesday, 11 A. M.-Monday, 8.40 A. M.: Thanksgiving recess. Monday-Friday: Friday-Monday, 8.40 A. M.: Christmas vacation. 1906 Examinations. First term ends. Recita Stated Meeting of the Board of Monday, 8.40 A. M.: Second term begins. tions, 9 A. M. Thursday, 2 P. M.: Trustees. Thursday: Day of Prayer for Colleges. Tuesday, 2 P. M.: Stated Meeting of the Board of Wednesday-Tuesday: Examinations; second term ends. Wednesday: Exhibition Drill, 4 P. M. 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. 140TH 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, II A. M. Friday, Saturday: Sloan Entrance Prize examinations. Trustees. Tuesday: Election Day. Saturday: Charter Day. Wednesday, II A. M.-Monday, 8.40 A. M.: Thanksgiv. Monday-Friday: Examinations; first term ends. 1907 Tuesday, 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 prior to the outbreak of the War for Independence, as is evident from allusions in the address of Jacob R. Hardenbergh, who acted as president in the first years of Queen's College. During the Revolution, while New Brunswick was occupied by the British, the sessions of the College were held at Millstone and at North Branch. The second site, on which a “College House" was built about 1788, was a large lot at the junction of George Street and the Trenton Turnpike, now Livingston Avenue. The present site of the College was secured in part by gift from James Parker, and in part by purchase from his estate in 1808. Other additions to the grounds have been made by gift and purchase in recent years. On the 25th April, 1808, the Trustees adopted a plan of a building made by McComb, the architect of the City Hall of New York, and "resolved unanimously that the outer walls of the College edifice be built of stone." The present middle building, now known as Queen's College, of fine and chaste design and proportion, was accordingly erected in 1809. In 1825 a donation from Colonel Henry Rutgers of New York gave new life to the College, and in recognition of his generosity his name was given to the College, instead of the title, Queen's, which it had borne for nearly sixty years. The corporate name of the institution is "The Trustees of Rutgers College in New Jersey." The seal of the College has from the first carried the motto, "Sol justitiae et occidentem illustra." The official color is scarlet. On the 4th April, 1864, an act of the Legislature designated "The Trustees of Rutgers College in New Jersey maintaining Rutgers Scientific School" as "The State College for the Benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts." As such State College the Rutgers Scientific School became the beneficiary under the Acts of Congress of the 2d July, 1862, and of the 30th August, 1800. These acts were due in large part to the foresight and wisdom of the late Senator Morrill of Vermont. An Act of the United States of the 2d March, 1887, established in connection with each of such State Colleges "a department to be known as 'An Agricultural Experiment Station."" These organic acts with their various supplements and amendments established for Rutgers, originally Queen's, College, two schools, the Classical and the Scientific, whose relations, however, are so close that the facilities of both are open in large part to students of each. In the Classical School the various courses lead on the one hand to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, (A. B.), and on the other to the degree of Bachelor of Letters, (Litt. B.). In the Scientific School each of the six courses leads to the degree of Bachelor of Science, (B. Sc.). All courses require four years for their completion. TRUSTEES 0 EX OFFICIO HIS EXCELLENCY EDWARD C. STOKES, LL.D..... HON. WILLIAM S. GUMMERE, LL.D.. Chief Justice of the State of New Jersey HON. ROBERT H. MCCARTER, LL.D.. TRENTON NEWARK TRENTON 99 Franklin St. New Brunswick June 21, 1898 REV. WILLIAM H. S. DEMAREST, D.D. New Brunswick Acting President WILLIAM F. WYCKOFF, Esq. March 7, 1899 REV. JAMES LEFEVRE, D.D. PAUL COOK, Esq. DAVID MURRAY, PH.D., LL.D. HON. GARRET D. W. VROOM, LL.D. J. BAYARD KIRKPATRICK. Esq. WILLIAM H. LEUPP, Esq. PETER DONALD, ESQ. REV. J. PRESTON SEARLE, D.D. Somerville Hudson, N. Y. New Brunswick JOHN W. HERBERT, JR., Esq. Resigned as President January 1, Freehold New Brunswick St. June 19, 1901 1906, and as Trustee January 11, 1906. Died March 6, 1905. elected as Life Trustee March 7, 1905. |