RUTGERS COLLEGE, in New Brunswick, N. J., originally organized by royal charter in 1770, with the. itle of "Queen's College," which it bore until 1825, when the present name was adopted in honor of col. Henry Rutgers, who made liberal contribu tions to its fund. It was formerly connected officially with the Protestant Reformed Dutch church, under whose fostering care it grew from a feeble beginning to a high state of prosperity. In 1865 the synod abrogated its official relations to the institution, which thereupon became independent with the exception that the president and three fourths of the trustees are required to be members iu full communion of the church by which it was founded. It has an endowment of between $300,000 and $400,000. It has a beautiful campus, well shaded, and eight buildings, well adapted to their respective uses. Its laboratories are large and furnished with excellent apparatus. Its cabinets and collections fill a museum 90 ft. in length by 40 ft. in width, with galleries all around. It has a library of 8,000 volumes, besides the libraries of the literary societies.
It has 14 professors, 1 tutor, and 150 students. Its alumni number 1400, including some men of eminence in professional and public life. It has a scientific department, known as the " State Agricultural College of New Jersey, for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, with 14 professors and 41 students. There is a gymnasium connected with the theological seminary, which is open to the college students. Instruc tion is given in military tactics, but without drill. A grammar school has been con nected with the college for 100 years, and has now about 100 pupils. The first presi dent was J. R. Hardenbergh, D.D.; the second, John II. D.D. Its later presidents have been: Philip Milledoler, D.D. 1825-40; Abraham R. Hasbrouck, LL.u., 1840-50; Theodore Frelinghuysen, LL.D., 1850-62; William H. Campbell, au., LL.D., 1863, now in office.