Luther Rice papers, 1812-1832.

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Luther Rice papers, 1812-1832.

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Luther Rice (1783-1836) is regarded as the founder of Columbian College, now The George Washington University. Collection includes correspondence, financial ledgers, log books. His papers include promissory notes, financial documents, college building appeal, Baptist Documents, notebooks, diaries and other records. The collection covers the period between 1812 and 1832.

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George Washington University. Dept. of History.

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History has been a part of the University's curriculum since the first years of Columbian College. During the freshman and sophomore years, studies included English, Latin, and Greek; geography; arithmetic and algebra; history and antiquities; exercises in reading, speaking and composition; elements of chronology; rhetoric and logic; logarithms, geometry, trigonometry and mensuration; surveying, navigation, conic sections and Euclid's Elements. From the description of History Departm...

Rice, Luther, 1783-1836

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Luther Rice (1783-1836) is regarded as the founder of Columbian College, now The George Washington University. Rice was born in Nothborough Massachusetts in 1783 and died in Edgefield district, South Carolina in 1836. He entered Williams College in 1807 and there developed a strong interest in foreign missions. He was ordained as a Congregational minister in Salem, Massachusetts in 1812. In 1813 and after a missionary journey to India, he went to Boston. Having difficulties with policy within th...

Columbian College in the District of Columbia

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