Excerpt from The First Century of Columbia College: Columbia College, 1754-1854, An Article Originally Published in the Knickerbocker Magazine, February, 1863In a very interesting article on our Colleges in the Revolution, written by the Hon. J. T. Headley, and pub lished in the knickerbocker magazine for April, 1861 (a most exciting period in our civil war), a graphic nar rative is given of the part taken by Harvard University, Yale College, and Nassau Hall, at Princeton, and an en thusiastic and merited eulogy is pronounced on the Faculties and students of those venerable seats of learn ing, and their no less venerated Presidents - Langdon.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.