Honoring the 200th anniversary of the founding of Colgate University.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 423 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 423

 Honoring the 200th anniversary of the founding of Colgate University.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 4, 2019

Mr. Brindisi (for himself, Mr. Delgado, and Ms. Scanlon) submitted the 
following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Education 
                               and Labor

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Honoring the 200th anniversary of the founding of Colgate University.

Whereas a Baptist pastor, Daniel Hascall, and Nathaniel Kendrick recruited ten 
        local clergy and laymen, met all together on September 24, 1817, in the 
        home of Jonathan Olmstead in Hamilton, New York, and approved the 
        Constitution of the Baptist Education Society of the State of New York;
Whereas the thirteen men approved the Constitution of the Baptist Education 
        Society of the State of New York with thirteen articles, prayed thirteen 
        times, and had thirteen dollars to pay their first annual membership 
        fee, and elected the institution's first board of trustees;
Whereas, on March 5, 1819, a bill officially incorporating the Baptist Education 
        Society of the State of New York cleared the New York State Legislature;
Whereas, in 1833, the society expanded to include a collegiate course and the 
        school came to be known as the Hamilton Literary and Theological 
        Institution;
Whereas, in 1846, the institution's board successfully petitioned the State 
        legislature to incorporate the collegiate department as Madison 
        University;
Whereas, in 1853, Henry Livingston Simpson became the first African-American 
        student to graduate from the university;
Whereas, in 1890, the New York State Supreme Court granted the petition of the 
        board of trustees to change the name of the university to Colgate 
        University in honor of university patron William Colgate and his family;
Whereas, in 1919, the Colgate University Alumni Corporation was founded and 
        celebrated Colgate's Centennial, the largest reunion at the time, 
        followed by the introduction of the standing special liberal arts model;
Whereas, in 1935, the Washington Study Group was created, which was the first 
        study group offered by any college or university in the Nation to send 
        students to study in the District of Columbia;
Whereas during World Wars I and II, Colgate contributed to the war effort by 
        serving as a preparatory school for the Army and Navy;
Whereas, in 1968, a 100-hour student civil rights sit-in on campus launched a 
        wave of student activism;
Whereas, in 1970, Colgate admitted its first class of women and became a 
        coeducational institution;
Whereas, in 1973, Colgate committed to National Collegiate Athletic Association 
        Division I athletics, hosting the first women's varsity sports teams in 
        basketball, field hockey, lacrosse, volleyball, and tennis;
Whereas, in 2009, Colgate signed the American College and University Presidents' 
        Climate Commitment and achieved a carbon-neutral campus by its 
        Bicentennial Celebration in 2019;
Whereas Colgate now educates more than 2,900 students in 56 different majors;
Whereas Colgate has produced many graduates of national acclaim, including 
        several Members of Congress and other prominent elected officials;
Whereas Colgate has assured its future growth with its Vision and Plan for 
        Colgate University's Third Century, which will ensure it remains a 
        first-rate, world-renowned academic institution; and
Whereas Colgate exemplifies all the best traditions of American higher 
        education: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives honors Colgate 
University, as the university celebrates 200 years as a source of pride 
for New York State and for the people of the United States.
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