Gibbs Affair - Revision history

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Pacman at 17:19, 6 April 2007

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Pacman: Wolcott Gibbs Affair moved to Gibbs Affair: known more popularly by this name

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Wolcott Gibbs Affair moved to Gibbs Affair: known more popularly by this name

Pacman at 17:15, 6 April 2007

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Absentminded: New page: Columbia trustees refuse to hire Oliver Wolcott Gibbs (C 1841) to become the new science professor, even though he's an alumni and he's the most qualified scientist in America. They're ann...

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New page: Columbia trustees refuse to hire Oliver Wolcott Gibbs (C 1841) to become the new science professor, even though he's an alumni and he's the most qualified scientist in America. They're ann...

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Columbia trustees refuse to hire Oliver Wolcott Gibbs (C 1841) to become the new science professor, even though he's an alumni and he's the most qualified scientist in America. They're annoyed that he's Unitarian and that other people actually had the gall to tell them who to hire. So out of spite they hire some other guy who turns out to be a confederate spy during the civil war. Oops.
Gibbs goes on to become one of America's great chemists at Harvard.

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	The Gibbs Affair provided the impetus for trustee [[Samuel Ruggles]] to publish a 60-page pamphlet not only urging the trustees to reconsider their decision to turn away Gibbs, but to pursue the agenda of a modern, secular research university over that of a vaguely religious and classicist college, a direction which he was eventually successful in persuading Columbia to take. As such, the Gibbs Affair may have proven the high water mark of the old Columbia College and the beginnings of Columbia's rise as a graduate research institution in which the college was marginalized.		The Gibbs Affair provided the impetus for trustee [[Samuel Ruggles]] to publish a 60-page pamphlet not only urging the trustees to reconsider their decision to turn away Gibbs, but to pursue the agenda of a modern, secular research university over that of a vaguely religious and classicist college, a direction which he was eventually successful in persuading Columbia to take. As such, the Gibbs Affair may have proven the high water mark of the old Columbia College and the beginnings of Columbia's rise as a graduate research institution in which the college was marginalized.

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-In [[1854]], the Columbia [[trustees]] refused to hire [[Oliver Wolcott Gibbs]] (Class of [[1841]]) to become the new science professor, even though he was an alumnus and was the most qualified scientist in America. They were annoyed that he was Unitarian and that other people actually had the gall to tell them who to hire. So out of spite they hired some other guy who turned out to be a confederate spy during the Civil War. Oops. Gibbs went on to become one of America's great chemists - at [[Harvard]].
+What became known as the '''Gibbs Affair''' was an incident in [[1854]] in which the Columbia [[trustees]] refused to hire chemist [[Oliver Wolcott Gibbs]] (CC Class of [[1841]]), even though he was an alumnus and was the most qualified scientist in America. They were mostly annoyed that he was Unitarian, at a time when being such was considered practically atheist. Out of spite they hired some other guy who turned out to be a confederate spy during the Civil War. Oops. Gibbs went on to become one of America's great chemists - at [[Harvard]].
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-In [[1854]], the Columbia [[trustees]] refused to hire [[Oliver Wolcott Gibbs]] (Class of [[1841]]) to become the new science professor, even though he's an alumni and he's the most qualified scientist in America. They're annoyed that he's Unitarian and that other people actually had the gall to tell them who to hire. So out of spite they hire some other guy who turns out to be a confederate spy during the civil war. Oops. Gibbs goes on to become one of America's great chemists - at [[Harvard]].
+In [[1854]], the Columbia [[trustees]] refused to hire [[Oliver Wolcott Gibbs]] (Class of [[1841]]) to become the new science professor, even though he was an alumnus and was the most qualified scientist in America. They were annoyed that he was Unitarian and that other people actually had the gall to tell them who to hire. So out of spite they hired some other guy who turned out to be a confederate spy during the Civil War. Oops. Gibbs went on to become one of America's great chemists - at [[Harvard]].
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-Columbia trustees refuse to hire Oliver Wolcott Gibbs (Class of [[1841]]) to become the new science professor, even though he's an alumni and he's the most qualified scientist in America. They're annoyed that he's Unitarian and that other people actually had the gall to tell them who to hire. So out of spite they hire some other guy who turns out to be a confederate spy during the civil war. Oops.
+In [[1854]], the Columbia [[trustees]] refused to hire [[Oliver Wolcott Gibbs]] (Class of [[1841]]) to become the new science professor, even though he's an alumni and he's the most qualified scientist in America. They're annoyed that he's Unitarian and that other people actually had the gall to tell them who to hire. So out of spite they hire some other guy who turns out to be a confederate spy during the civil war. Oops. Gibbs goes on to become one of America's great chemists - at [[Harvard]].
 [[Category:Scandals]]
 [[Category:History]]

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