AUSTIN COLLEGE, Sherman, Texas
Daniel Baker 1815 was chiefly responsible for securing its charter in 1849 and was its president from 1853 to 1857. The trustees proposed naming the college for him, but he declined the honor.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Providence, Rhode Island (1764)
James Manning 1762 was its first president, David Howell 1766 its first tutor, Nassau Hall the model for its first building, and Princeton the source of its original course of study and customs.
DICKINSON COLLEGE, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Begun as a school in 1773, it was chartered as a college in 1783. Benjamin Rush 1760 was chiefly responsible for securing the charter, for naming the college after his fellow patriot, John Dickinson, and for bringing its first president from Scotland. A century and a half later, in 1933, the college honored him by naming a large addition to its grounds, the Benjamin Rush Campus.
HAMILTON COLLEGE, Clinton, New York
The Rev. Samuel Kirkland 1765, missionary to the Oneida Indians, in 1793, with the help of Alexander Hamilton, founded the Hamilton Oneida Academy which in 1812 was reorganized as Hamilton College.
HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE, Hampden-Sydney, Virginia
In 1776 the Rev. Samuel Stanhope Smith 1769 founded and became first rector of Hampden-Sydney Academy, which was chartered as a college in 1783. When he returned to Princeton as professor of moral philosophy in 1779, his brother John Blair Smith 1773 succeeded him as president. Five of the original trustees were Princeton graduates, among them James Madison 1771.
HOBART COLLEGE, Geneva, New York
John Henry Hobart 1793, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of New York, led a movement in 1822 to reorganize Geneva Academy, begun in 1796, as Geneva College. In 1852 the College was renamed in his honor.
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
William Richardson Davie 1776 is called ``the Father of the University.'' In 1789 as a member of the state legislature he drafted and introduced the bill that established ``the first state university in the United States to open its doors to students.'' Later he was chiefly responsible for locating the university and providing for its future development. Joseph Caldwell 1791 was the first president. Two academic buildings across the street from each other are named for Davie and Caldwell. Caldwell is also memorialized by a shaft of marble in the center of the North Quadrangle. An old poplar tree under which, according to legend, Davie and his associates rested after surveying many sites and there decided to locate the University in Chapel Hill, is called the Davie Poplar.
OHIO UNIVERSITY, Athens, Ohio
Chartered in 1804, opened in 1808. The Rev. Jacob Lindly 1800 was the first member of its faculty and administered its affairs until 1822. The College's first two buildings were erected under his direction; one of them, according to tradition, was patterned after Nassau Hall. A college hall of more recent construction is named for him.
TRANSYLV~ANIA COLLEGE, Lexington, Kentucky
The Rev. John Todd 1749 and the Rev. Caleb Wallace 1770 were influential in securing a charter and endowment for Transylvania Seminary in 1783, and David Rice 1761 was the first chairman of its trustees. It became Transylvania University in 1798; since 1915 it has been called a college.
TUSCULUM COLLEGE, Greenville, Tennessee
The Rev. Hezekiah Balch 1766 was the first president of Greenville College in 1794. The Rev. Samuel Doak 1775 founded Tusculum Academy, later chartered as Tusculum College, in 1819. After the Civil War, the two colleges united and came to be known as Tusculum College.
UNION COLLEGE, Schenectady, New York
The Rev. Dirck Romeyn 1765 provided the leadership for the founding of Schenectady Academy in 1785 and for its reorganization as Union College in 1795. John Blair Smith 1773 was the first president of the college.
UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY, Tokyo, Japan
James M. Hester '46, who served as president of New York University from 1962 to 1975, became rector of the United Nations University at its founding in September 1975.
WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON COLLEGE, Washington, Pennsylvania
The Rev. John MacMillan 1772 and the Rev. Thaddeus Dod 1773 founded Washington Academy, later chartered as Washington College, in 1787. The Rev. John Watson 1797 was first president of Jefferson College (1802). The two colleges united in 1865.
WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY, Lexington, Virginia
Begun in 1749 as Augusta Academy, it was called Liberty Hall in 1776, Liberty Hall Academy in 1782, Washington Academy (following a gift from George Washington) in 1798, Washington College in 1813, and Washington and Lee University (following Robert E. Lee's presidency) in 1871. The Rev. William Graham 1773, a Princeton classmate and friend of Light-Horse Harry Lee, was in charge of the institution from 1774 to 1796 and its first president after its incorporation. ``To his exertions, more than to those of any other one man,'' Henry Howe wrote in Historical Collections of Virginia (1845), ``the institution owes its establishment, and its continuance during . . . troublous times.''