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Af ffl'- For 17 years the silent circle of the clock has watched him as adviser and teacher of the classes that have gone before. We met him first as sophomores, when he served as our instructor in English, and for some of us in Latin. ln our iunior year, he guided us as dean of the class. Now that we look back upon the years that have been torn from the calendar, we see him as an unselfish friend who gave to all of us something of himself. COLUMBIANA '49 is dedicated to: L' 1. aww, This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England -Richard ll i' f
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-me swat af vm... This was our year There were many such years The first of them was 1764 A school was born The Governmg Body of Kung s College resolved on a grammar school under the close supervision of the college to provide students suitable for admission to the college Since Kings College Itself was less than ten years old and In ex tremely poor financial condition this first official an nouncement of the ancestor of our C G S IS remark able An outlme for the proposed grammar school was submitted to the trustees The school was to be super vlsed by one master teaching no more than thirty two students without the help of an usher Before Christ mas each scholar was to provide one load of nut wood for the school The actual date location and number of pupils ln the first year have been lost but at is known that the school was housed in a pnvate home purchased for the purpose The first numerical evidence shows that by the end of the year the student body had grown to twenty through the period of the Revolution the records are sunk In oblivion lt as supposed that when Kung s Col lege closed its doors in 1776 the infant grammar school suspended operations Some histories state that the British occupying New York used the school s first building as a stable for the horses of officers Many years passed until May 4 1784 The Board of Regents of the State of New York acknowledged the renewal of Kings College under the name of Columbia University November 17 1784 The grammar school re opened with William Cochran a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and a member of Columbia s faculty appointed headmaster Once again oblivion except for occasional refer ences to the necessity of establishing lor re establish H1971 the grammar school December 1 1828 More than the required forty students having been enrolled John D Ogllby was appointed headmaster of the Grammar School of Columbia College The usual branches of English education were taught with the minimum of mathe Q AE matics and classics requisite for qualnficatlon to the College the Board of Trustees had power to appoint and dismiss masters and assistants and to define the administrative duties and academic courses and the expenses of the school were paid out of the tuition sixty dollars yearly A rent free building was erected on College grounds Although the College finances were low the grammar school obvuou ospered there were seventy seven pu :ls htm ass: cal department and twent gllsh section Surprisingly en vlmon was lowered to forty do 'uf 'U Ill 1829 Q was not yet a permanent enterprise posals were made that the buildings for the rapidly growing school be located either on Park Place from College Greenlwssli X ltlx Chapel Street Clater Church .Qreei or op sate the 5 center of the College fronthlqhniklifyiiriltgtheg 1 1 1 student body now numbered mnety seven DQGIHW i'nWF?mn'E'F?flt ?5t QP bYt'Ftt ed the number of pupils at one hundred thirty nme forty five more than at the opening November 12 1830 Mr Ogulby had promised to transfer the school to the care of Professor Anthon on the next day but he dismissed classes on the twelfth and took some forty students with him pre sumably to start a new school Anthon was named rector immediately and saved the school from dns integration March 15 1831 The Regents reported that the school had one hundred and forty pupils June 7 1831 Dr Anthon overburdened with one hundred and sixty seven students in addition to his college duties sought to resign October 31 1831 With has duties at the college lightened Dr Anthon becalte permanent rector It was estimated that fifty peravcent of Columbia students were graduates of the little grammar school March 1832 The enrollment reached two hundrid .I 1211832 only a few students were under eight yedrs of age The faculty included the rector o . 3 ' . . . . . ' , - I . . . . . . I . , . .. QI I . . . . . , X . . - I . sly 5 I I . .. I . . - - I . I i U .- I . I . I . . t 1 . ' .. 'cfs . '1 ' A ' . - II I txt , ' .Imax -' u ' Il Il ' - . ll ll ' I I ' 1 . r ' V d . . I I I 1 1 n 1 5 L 0 - 0, l - . .- x :Ln seven, and an usher was employed. From this time , I ' I ' 1 - I n- ' I , . z ' ' .. . , . . I I I - . . I ' I c I ... I T - u . . . . . , 1 . , I 4 n no . . , ' I I I . ' . . , , . . .. I . I I , . . . . I . I II . I 1 ' I . ' i , - n I 5 , .I . .. .' I K, f . If . U ' . Ulf! -+' . . . . . 1'-fl f , . - , ,
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