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 The '''history of [[Columbia College]]''' extends back over 250 years to debates over the appropriateness for higher education of colonial [[New York City]] and the eventual establishment of [[King's College]]. Formally reinstated after the American Revolution as Columbia College, the institution would, by the early 20th century, be subsumed into the larger organization of Columbia University.
-==Early Beginnings==
+==King's College==
 Although moves were made to grant land for the establishment of a college as early as [[1709]], talk of what would become [[King's College]] did not begin in earnest until the 1740s. The founding of the College of New Jersey (later [[Princeton]]) in [[1746]] brought together three unlikely factions: civic-minded New Yorkers, Anglican clergy, and the English establishment. New Yorkers loathed to see themselves outdone by New Jerseyans. The Anglican clergy worried that they were being overtaken by the Puritans ([[Harvard]]), the New Light Congregationalists ([[Yale]]), and the Scotch Presbyterians (Princeton). Finally, the English establishment worried that there would be no great center of higher learning in the mold of [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] and [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]] in what was then called the "heart of English America".
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 Classes began in June, when the first class of 8 was admitted to instruction by College's first President (and only Professor), [[Samuel Johnson]]. On [[October 31]], [[1754]], Governor James De Lancey signed the Royal Charter <ref>http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/kingsv1/documents/charter.htm</ref> in the name of [[King George II]], providing for the establishment of a college "for the instruction and education of youth in the learned languages, and liberal arts and sciences".
-==Revolutionary Period==
+===Revolutionary Period===
 During the intervening years, the College grew richer and richer. By the time of the revolution, it was easily the richest institution of higher education in the thirteen colonies, funded and financed by the largess of its royal patrons. There was even talk, in [[1771]], of re-establishing King's College as the "University of North America" in the same manner of Oxford and Cambridge, and to require other colonial colleges (by that point, [[Harvard]], [[Yale]], [[Princeton]], [[Rutgers]], [[Dartmouth]], [[Brown]], and [[UPenn|Penn]]) to delegate their degree-granting authority to the new University. College officers visited Parliament with this petition in [[1774]], but it is unknown what, if anything, came of it.

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 ==Early Beginnings==
-Although moves were made to grant land for the establishment of a college as early as [[1709]], talk of what would become [[King's College]] did not begin in earnest until the 1740s. The founding of the College of New Jersey (later [[Princeton]]) in [[1746]] brought together three unlikely factions: civic-minded New Yorkers, Anglican clergy, and the English establishment. New Yorkers loathed to see themselves outdone by New Jerseyans. The Anglican clergy worried that they were being overtaken by the Puritans ([[Harvard]]), the New Light Congregationalists ([[Yale]]), and the Scotch Presbyterians (Princeton). Finally, the English establishment worried that there would be no great center of higher learning in the mold of [[Oxford]] and [[Cambridge]] in what was then called the "heart of English America".
+Although moves were made to grant land for the establishment of a college as early as [[1709]], talk of what would become [[King's College]] did not begin in earnest until the 1740s. The founding of the College of New Jersey (later [[Princeton]]) in [[1746]] brought together three unlikely factions: civic-minded New Yorkers, Anglican clergy, and the English establishment. New Yorkers loathed to see themselves outdone by New Jerseyans. The Anglican clergy worried that they were being overtaken by the Puritans ([[Harvard]]), the New Light Congregationalists ([[Yale]]), and the Scotch Presbyterians (Princeton). Finally, the English establishment worried that there would be no great center of higher learning in the mold of [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] and [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]] in what was then called the "heart of English America".
 Naturally, just because the three factions came together did not mean there was no rancor. The Anglican establishment wanted a seminary. The New Yorkers wanted a non-denominational academy (as New York was then, as now, a melting pot of different races and religions) established by an act of provincial assembly. The English establishment desired a university in the mold of Oxford and Cambridge, established by royal charter.
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 ==Revolutionary Period==
-During the intervening years, the College grew richer and richer. By the time of the revolution, it was easily the richest institution of higher education in the thirteen colonies, funded and financed by the largess of its royal patrons. There was even talk, in [[1771]], of re-establishing King's College as the "University of North America" in the same manner of Oxford and Cambridge, and to require other colonial colleges (by that point, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, [[Rutgers]], [[Dartmouth]], [[Brown]], and [[UPenn|Penn]]) to delegate their degree-granting authority to the new University. College officers visited Parliament with this petition in [[1774]], but it is unknown what, if anything, came of it.
+During the intervening years, the College grew richer and richer. By the time of the revolution, it was easily the richest institution of higher education in the thirteen colonies, funded and financed by the largess of its royal patrons. There was even talk, in [[1771]], of re-establishing King's College as the "University of North America" in the same manner of Oxford and Cambridge, and to require other colonial colleges (by that point, [[Harvard]], [[Yale]], [[Princeton]], [[Rutgers]], [[Dartmouth]], [[Brown]], and [[UPenn|Penn]]) to delegate their degree-granting authority to the new University. College officers visited Parliament with this petition in [[1774]], but it is unknown what, if anything, came of it.
-By the 1770s, King's College was a bastion of Loyalist orthodoxy. Loyalists outnumbered pro-independence voices four to one, with three celebrated and notable exceptions, namely [[Alexander Hamilton]], [[John Jay]], and [[Gouverneur Morris]]. Hamilton, specifically, was famous for publishing tracts under the ''nom de plume'' "A Friend of America" in his college years, and for giving rousing speeches at the "Liberty Green", now Bowling Green Park.
+By the 1770s, King's College was a bastion of Loyalist orthodoxy. Loyalists outnumbered pro-independence voices four to one, with three celebrated and notable exceptions, namely [[Alexander Hamilton]], [[John Jay (person)|John Jay]], and [[Gouverneur Morris]]. Hamilton, specifically, was famous for publishing tracts under the ''nom de plume'' "A Friend of America" in his college years, and for giving rousing speeches at the "Liberty Green", now Bowling Green Park.
 In May [[1775]], tensions boiled over, and an angry mob stormed toward King's College with the intent of tarring and feathering King's College's stalwart, Loyalist, Oxford-education President [[Myles Cooper]]. Hamilton stopped the mob at the gates of the college, asking them to reconsider their rash action. This delay allowed Cooper to slip out the back door of the College and wander to the [[Hudson River]]. He spent the night sulking along the docks, and boarded the HMS Kingfisher early the next morning, which bore him back to England, never to return.

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 With exception of a brief periods of hosting a medical school, Columbia College consisted of one undergraduate degree granting school from its reopening in 1784 until 1858, when [[Columbia Law School]] was founded. Even as Columbia also opened the [[SEAS|School of Mines]], re-affiliated with its [[College of Physicians and Surgeons|renegade medical school]], entered the fields of [[GSAS|graduate education]] and [[GSAPP|architecture]], the whole thing was still called just "Columbia College" despite clearly being a university. This state of affairs continued until 1896 when the [[Trustees]] voted to officially change the name from Columbia College in the City of New York to the more appropriate Columbia University in the City of New York.
-As a result, between the 1860s and 1896, what we know today as Columbia College went by a number of other names including the "School of Letters and Science"<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=cjQbAAAAYAAJ&dq=Columbia%20College%20%22school%20of%20letters%20and%20science%22&pg=RA2-PA147#v=onepage&q&f=false]</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=F2NMAAAAYAAJ&dq=Columbia%20College%20%22School%20of%20Letters%20and%20Science%22&pg=PA7#v=onepage&q=%22School%20of%20Letters%20and%20Science%22&f=false]<ref> and "School of Arts."<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=RtlMAAAAMAAJ&dq=Columbia%20College%20%22School%20of%20Arts%22&pg=PA401#v=onepage&q=Columbia%20College%20%22School%20of%20Arts%22&f=false].</ref>
+As a result, between the 1860s and 1896, what we know today as Columbia College went by a number of other names including the "School of Letters and Science"<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=cjQbAAAAYAAJ&dq=Columbia%20College%20%22school%20of%20letters%20and%20science%22&pg=RA2-PA147#v=onepage&q&f=false]</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=F2NMAAAAYAAJ&dq=Columbia%20College%20%22School%20of%20Letters%20and%20Science%22&pg=PA7#v=onepage&q=%22School%20of%20Letters%20and%20Science%22&f=false]</ref> and "School of Arts."<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=RtlMAAAAMAAJ&dq=Columbia%20College%20%22School%20of%20Arts%22&pg=PA401#v=onepage&q=Columbia%20College%20%22School%20of%20Arts%22&f=false].</ref>
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 <ref>http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/kingsv1/documents/statutes.htm</ref>
-==Old Names==
+==Names between 1858-1896==
 With exception of a brief periods of hosting a medical school, Columbia College consisted of one undergraduate degree granting school from its reopening in 1784 until 1858, when [[Columbia Law School]] was founded. Even as Columbia also opened the [[SEAS|School of Mines]], re-affiliated with its [[College of Physicians and Surgeons|renegade medical school]], entered the fields of [[GSAS|graduate education]] and [[GSAPP|architecture]], the whole thing was still called just "Columbia College" despite clearly being a university. This state of affairs continued until 1896 when the [[Trustees]] voted to officially change the name from Columbia College in the City of New York to the more appropriate Columbia University in the City of New York.
-As a result, between the 1860s and 1896, what we know today as Columbia College went by a number of other names including the "School of Letters and Science"<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=F2NMAAAAYAAJ&dq=Columbia%20College%20%22School%20of%20Letters%20and%20Science%22&pg=PA7#v=onepage&q=%22School%20of%20Letters%20and%20Science%22&f=false]<ref> and "School of Arts."<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=RtlMAAAAMAAJ&dq=Columbia%20College%20%22School%20of%20Arts%22&pg=PA401#v=onepage&q=Columbia%20College%20%22School%20of%20Arts%22&f=false].</ref>
+As a result, between the 1860s and 1896, what we know today as Columbia College went by a number of other names including the "School of Letters and Science"<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=cjQbAAAAYAAJ&dq=Columbia%20College%20%22school%20of%20letters%20and%20science%22&pg=RA2-PA147#v=onepage&q&f=false]</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=F2NMAAAAYAAJ&dq=Columbia%20College%20%22School%20of%20Letters%20and%20Science%22&pg=PA7#v=onepage&q=%22School%20of%20Letters%20and%20Science%22&f=false]<ref> and "School of Arts."<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=RtlMAAAAMAAJ&dq=Columbia%20College%20%22School%20of%20Arts%22&pg=PA401#v=onepage&q=Columbia%20College%20%22School%20of%20Arts%22&f=false].</ref>
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 By the 1770s, King's College was a bastion of Loyalist orthodoxy. Loyalists outnumbered pro-independence voices four to one, with three celebrated and notable exceptions, namely [[Alexander Hamilton]], [[John Jay]], and [[Gouverneur Morris]]. Hamilton, specifically, was famous for publishing tracts under the ''nom de plume'' "A Friend of America" in his college years, and for giving rousing speeches at the "Liberty Green", now Bowling Green Park.
-In May [[1775]], tensions boiled over, and an angry mob stormed toward King's College with the intent of tarring and feathering King's College's stalwart, Loyalist, Oxford-education President [[Myles Cooper]]. Hamilton stopped the mob at the gates of the college, asking them to reconsider their rash action. This delay allowed Cooper to slip out the back door of the College and wander to the [[Hudson River]]. He spent the night sulking along the docks, and boarded the HMS Kingfisher early the next morning, which borne him back to England, never to return.
+In May [[1775]], tensions boiled over, and an angry mob stormed toward King's College with the intent of tarring and feathering King's College's stalwart, Loyalist, Oxford-education President [[Myles Cooper]]. Hamilton stopped the mob at the gates of the college, asking them to reconsider their rash action. This delay allowed Cooper to slip out the back door of the College and wander to the [[Hudson River]]. He spent the night sulking along the docks, and boarded the HMS Kingfisher early the next morning, which bore him back to England, never to return.
 The College carried on, headless, for a while. Four men were designated as graduates in [[1776]], although Commencement exercises were cancelled "for want of our absent President". Following the Battle of Long Island in August 1776, during which Washington's army was almost completely crushed and the British occupied New York for the remainder of the war, there was some talk of restarting the College under British protection. A Governor of the College even offered his apartment on [[Wall Street]] as temporary quarters, as the British Army had appropriated [[College Hall]]. Nothing came of it, and King's College quietly dissolved.

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 * [http://www.college.columbia.edu/about/dean/past Action shots of several past deans]
 * [http://books.google.com/books?id=i22Zf8BMbjYC&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false The Original Charter of Columbia College in the City of New York October 31st, 1754, with The Acts of the Legislature Altering and Amending the Same (1854)]
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