Rutgers History

Q: The stain glass windows can be found in this building

Kirkpatrick Chapel

Q: The first classes were held in this year?

1771

Q: Please name the bar where the first classes were held:

Sign of the Red Lion

Q: Rutgers is the ____ oldest institution

8th oldest

Q: The first student organization was named

The Athenian Society

Q: The first building to built after Queens College was closed was

Old Queens

Q: Rutgers College was named after Henry Rutgers who donated _______ to the college

$5,000 bond and a bell

Q: Abraham Hasbrouck was the first president who was not

a minister

Q: True or false: the first organized sport to be played at Rutgers was Football

False, it was crew

Q: When the Targum was first founded, how often was it distributed?

Daily

Q: Who was the first African- American graduate of Rutgers?

James Dickson Carr

Q: In 1918, the _______ was founded

New Jersey College of Women

Q: Name 3 areas of involvement that Paul Robeson participated in:

speech at Commencement; football; track; basketball; Cap & Skull; Phi Beta Kappa; Debate Team; Math Club, singe (Glee Club)

Q: Rutgers became a non-denominational college in this year

1920

Q: Please name 3 significant events that occurred between 1945-1946

Rutgers officially became the state university of New Jersey; merged with Newark; acquired Camden

Q: Rutgers professors discovered the cure for what disease?

Tuberculosis

Q: What were the 3 main goals for recruiting students to Livingston College?

Co-educational college; more diverse student body; students from all socioeconomic statuses

Q: in 1989, Rutgers joined this prestigious association?

Association for American Universities

Q: Who is our current president?

Robert Barchi

Q: This college was opened in 1969

Livingston College

Q: Livingston College had a football team named______

The Panthers