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Young Frederick having been left an orphan at an early age was adopted and reared by his uncle, Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen. He graduated at Rutgers College, and studied law. He was appointed Attorney General of New Jersey in 1861, and was re-appointed in 1866.
Rah! rah! rah!" Rutgers "Rah, rah, rah! Bow-wow-wow! Rochester University "Waxico, waxico, waxico, wax! Waxico, waxico, waxico, wax! Brek-k-ks Brek-k-ks, ah-h-ah! University of Washington "U. of W.! Hiah! Hiah! U. of W.! U. of W.! Siah! Siah! Shooken' Shookem! Hobart College "Hip-ho-bart! Hip-ho-bart! Hip-ho, hip-ho, HIP-HO- BART!" Syracuse University "Srah Srah Srah Sy-ra-cuse!"
Wetherell in an extremely sensitive portion of his ribs. On such occasions the nasal quality of Bijah's voice seemed to grow. "You see?" he said. "Know that little man, Gibbs, don't ye?" inquired Mr. Hartington. "Airley Gibbs, hain't it? Runs a livery business daown to Rutgers, on Lovejoy's railroad," replied Mr. Bixby, promptly. "I know him. Knew old man Gibbs well's I do you. Mean cuss."
During the Draft Riots in 1863 it was burned down, and Commodore Vanderbilt bought the site in 1866 for eighty thousand dollars, built a house, lived in it, and left it to his son, Frederick W. Vanderbilt. It is the Arnold, Constable site. On the same side of the Avenue as the Croton Cottage, in the block between Forty-first and Forty-second Street, was the Rutgers Female Cottage.
"Peter has just asked me for this waltz," said Leonore. "Oh, Mr. Rutgers, I'm so sorry, I'm going to dance this with Mr. Stirling." And then Peter felt he was to be congratulated. "I shan't marry him myself," thought Leonore, "but I won't have my friends married off right under my nose, and you can try all you want, Mrs. Rivington." So Peter's guardianship was apparently bearing fruit.
She received the degree of Ph.D. from Rutgers Female College in 1870, her first degree of LL.D. from Hanover College in 1832, and her last LL.D. from Columbia College in 1887. Miss Mitchell had no ambition to appear in print, and most of her published articles were in response to applications from publishers. A paper entitled "Mary Somerville" appeared in the "Atlantic Monthly" for May, 1860.
I didn't let anything go just by statin' it bald. I took Briscoe's objections one by one, shot 'em full of holes with the come-backs Rowley had coached me on, and then proceeded to clinch the argument until I had old Rutgers noddin' his head. "And these, Gentlemen," I winds up with, "are what Mr. Briscoe calls the vague, half-baked ideas of an unpractical inventor. He's an expert, Mr. Briscoe is!
Pollard of Brown, a half-back, in 1916, and Robeson of Rutgers, an end, in 1918, also won All-American honors. About the turn of the century Major Taylor was a champion bicycle rider, and John B. Taylor of Pennsylvania was an intercollegiate champion in track athletics.
From Trinity Church they got a ninety-nine year lease of a large tract in what is now the very hub of the business section of New York City which tract they subsequently bought in fee simple. Another large tract of New York City real estate came into their possession through the marriage of William C. Rhinelander, of the third generation, to a daughter of John Rutgers.
We find him hiring a seat in the Unitarian Church of the Messiah, where Orville Dewey was then preaching, and walking every Sunday a distance of three miles from the foot of Rutgers Street, "because he was a smart fellow, and I enjoyed listening to him. Did I believe in Unitarianism? No! I believed in nothing."
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