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Title: The celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its founding as Queens College, 1766-1916
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Rutgers University Lewis, J. Volney (Joseph Volney), 1869-1969
Subjects: Rutgers University
Publisher: (New Brunswick) The College
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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ScudderStudents Joseph L. Chambers Elmer W. Packer Donald H. Davenport A. Leslie Pfeil Harold B. Hill John W. Eastall E. Stuart Jones H. Wolcott Eogers George W. Ingling Jaques M. Stryker Francis E. Lyons Eeller D. Van Wagenen Frank P. Merritt Arthur J. Wirth Eoss H. Miner Citizens of New BrunswickMrs. Asher Atkinson Miss Julia Bogart Mrs. Lewis B. Chamberlain Miss Evelyn Knox Mrs. Holmes V. M. Dennis, Jr. Miss Maud Schenck Mrs. George A. Osborn Miss Helen E. Searle Mrs. Eliot E. Payson Miss Agnes W. Storer Mrs. J. Percy Schureman Miss Elizabeth Strong Mrs. William B. Twiss Prof. Frederick C. Minkler Miss Louise Benedict Dr. Arthur L. Smith Miss Elisabeth E. Bevier Prof. William B. Stone The accounts of the laying of the cornerstone of thenew building for Queens College are extremely meager. 15 The tune of * Yankee Doodle is played as it probably sounded in1776. This version is taken from a selection of Scottish, English, Irish,and foreign airs published in Glasgow about 1775 or 1776.
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FBIDAY, OCTOBER THIRTEENTH 73 The Trustees minutes record the fact that twelve Trus-tees were present at the meeting held on the day that thecornerstone was laid. It is also a tradition that coinswere thrown into the mortar at the conclusion of theceremony. Upon these minutes and this tradition theaction portrayed is based.^^ A procession of Trustees, Faculty, students, and citi-zens wends its way from the city of New Brunswick to theCollege grounds. Upon their arrival President Condictlays the stone and the old Dutch hymn, *We Gather To-gether to Ask the Lords Blessing,* is sung. PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING^We gather together to ask the Lords blessing,He chastens and hastens His will to make known;The wicked oppressing, cease them from distressing,Sing praise to His name, He forgets not His own.Beside us to guide us, our God with us joining,Ordaining, maintaining His kingdom divine,So from the beginning the fight we were winning;Thou, Lord, wast at our side,—the glory be Thine.We all do

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