. History of the city of New York : its origin, rise, and progress. gan to lodge and mess in the college building inMay, 1760; and in June of the same year the procession moved fromthere to St. Georges Chapel on Beekman Street, to hold the third Com-mencement. In 1762, at Dr. Johnsons request, the Rev. Myles Cooper,fellow of Queens College, Oxford, was sent to New York by the Arch-bishop of Canterbury, and appointed fellow of Kings CcjUege, professor 646 HhSTORY OF TUE CITY OF NEW YORK. of moral philosophy, and to assist the president in instruction and disci-pline, with the understanding that
. History of the city of New York : its origin, rise, and progress. gan to lodge and mess in the college building inMay, 1760; and in June of the same year the procession moved fromthere to St. Georges Chapel on Beekman Street, to hold the third Com-mencement. In 1762, at Dr. Johnsons request, the Rev. Myles Cooper,fellow of Queens College, Oxford, was sent to New York by the Arch-bishop of Canterbury, and appointed fellow of Kings CcjUege, professor 646 HhSTORY OF TUE CITY OF NEW YORK. of moral philosophy, and to assist the president in instruction and disci-pline, with the understanding that he was to succeed him, which he didthe following year. Dr. Cooper was one of the most elegant scholars ofhis time, and the young men placed under his training were taught, byjjroper masters and professors, natural law, physic, logic, ethics, meta-physics, mathematics, natural ]>liilosophy, astronomy, geography, history,chronology, rhetoric, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, modern languages, the belles-lettres, and whatever else of literature tended to accomplish them as. Kings College. scholars and gentlemen. A grammar school was annexed to the collegefor the preparation of those who wished to take a full course. A highfence surrounded the edifice, enclosing also a large court and garden. Aporter attended the front gate, which was always closed at nine oclockin the winter and ten oclock in the summer; after which hour, thenames of all those who came in were duly reported to the the earlier graduates were the three celebrated New-Yorkers,John Jay, Robert R. Livingston, and Oouverneur Morris. It was during the summer of 1754 that Robert Hunter Morris re-turned to New York, commissioned as governor of Pennsylvania, to super-sede Hamilton, who had resigned. Benjamin Franklin was on a jour-ney to Boston, and stopped a few days also in New York. He had beenpreviously acquainted with Morris, and they had several pleasant inter-views. Morris asked Franklin if he must expect as
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