King's College - Revision history

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‎Revolutionary war and closure

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‎External links

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Admin: disambiguation

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disambiguation

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‎Student body

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 ==Revolutionary war and closure==
-Despite the divisions in its student body, King's acquired a reputation as close to the colony's Tory population. Revolutionary troops turned it into a barracks, but the British did no better when they occupied [[New York City]] in [[1776]], turning College Hall into a military hospital. Many of its students had disbanded anyway, fighting on either side of the conflict. A patriotic battallion, the [[Hearts of Oak]], comprised a number of King's College students. The disruption caused by the war was so great that proposals to continue instruction in private quarters on [[Wall Street]] were never taken up.
+Despite the divisions in its student body, King's acquired a reputation as close to the colony's Tory population. During the [[Revolutionary War]], the rebels turned College Hall into a military hospital, and the British did no better when they occupied [[New York City]] in [[1776]], keeping it as a military medical facility. Many of its students had disbanded anyway, fighting on either side of the conflict. A patriotic battalion, the [[Hearts of Oak]], comprised a number of King's College students. The disruption caused by the war was so great that proposals to continue instruction in private quarters on [[Wall Street]] were never taken up.
 ==Resurrection as Columbia College==

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		+	:''See also main article [[History of Columbia College]]''

	When the war ended, loyal college students, among them [[Alexander Hamilton]] and [[John Jay (person)\|John Jay]], argued for the reopening of the school. It was forced to shed its overtly monarchist name, and reopened in College Hall as Columbia College in [[1784]].		When the war ended, loyal college students, among them [[Alexander Hamilton]] and [[John Jay (person)\|John Jay]], argued for the reopening of the school. It was forced to shed its overtly monarchist name, and reopened in College Hall as Columbia College in [[1784]].

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 == External links ==
 *[http://books.google.com/books?id=SGLOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Catalog of King's College Alumni with Biographies], originally appearing in installments in the [[Columbia University Quarterly]] magazine from 1907-1910
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 ==Resurrection as Columbia College==
 When the war ended, loyal college students, among them [[Alexander Hamilton]] and [[John Jay (person)|John Jay]], argued for the reopening of the school. It was forced to shed its overtly monarchist name, and reopened in College Hall as Columbia College in [[1784]].
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 The law and the ministry were far and away the most popular options for new graduates, although they largely matured into polymaths with wide-ranging careers.
-Among the students educated at King's were Founding Fathers [[Alexander Hamilton]] (who did not graduate), [[John Jay]], [[Gouverneur Morris]], [[Robert Livingston]], and other eminent figures in what would become the early United States, including inventor [[John Stevens]] and [[New Jersey]] university namesake [[Henry Rutgers]]. [[John Parke Custis]], the stepson of [[George Washington]], spent a semester there.
+Among the students educated at King's were Founding Fathers [[Alexander Hamilton]] (who did not graduate), [[John Jay (person)|John Jay]], [[Gouverneur Morris]], [[Robert Livingston]], and other eminent figures in what would become the early United States, including inventor [[John Stevens]] and [[New Jersey]] university namesake [[Henry Rutgers]]. [[John Parke Custis]], the stepson of [[George Washington]], spent a semester there.
 Not every student at King's became an American patriot; many were Loyalists who later fled the country for Canada. [[Samuel Auchmuty]] left and became a famed British military commander.
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 ==Resurrection as Columbia College==
-When the war ended, loyal college students, among them [[Alexander Hamilton]] and [[John Jay]], argued for the reopening of the school. It was forced to shed its overtly monarchist name, and reopened in College Hall as Columbia College in [[1784]].
+When the war ended, loyal college students, among them [[Alexander Hamilton]] and [[John Jay (person)|John Jay]], argued for the reopening of the school. It was forced to shed its overtly monarchist name, and reopened in College Hall as Columbia College in [[1784]].
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 ==Administration==
-After long debate, King's had been set up as an Anglican institution that answered to a board of governors. The college's first president was [[Samuel Johnson]]. When he retired, [[Myles Cooper]] took the helm.
+After long debate, King's had been set up as an Anglican institution that answered to a board of governors. The college's first president was [[Samuel Johnson]]. When he retired, [[Myles Cooper]] took the helm. After Cooper was driven out of the colony by a Revolutionary mob, alumnus [[Benjamin Moore]] stepped in to serve as acting president during King's last year.
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	'''King's College''' was the name for the institution that was reinstated as [[Columbia College]] after the American Revolution. It was opened with the granting of a Royal Charter by [[King George II]] in [[1754]].		'''King's College''' was the name for the institution that was reinstated as [[Columbia College]] after the American Revolution. It was opened with the granting of a Royal Charter by [[King George II]] in [[1754]].