Hoover entered Stanford University in 1891, the new California college's first year.

Dr. William Belton Murrah was the college's first president, and Bishop Charles Betts Galloway of the United Methodist Church organized the college's early fund-raising efforts.

A talented musician, he won the college's organ scholarship in his first term ( he had previously tried for the organ scholarships at St Catharine's College, Cambridge and Keble College, Oxford ) which enabled him to stay at the university for a fourth year ; he eventually graduated with a Second Class Honours BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1939.

It was also a home to the college's first principal, James Cleland Gilchrist.

Henry provided a second-story room over his local printing shop for classes while John lodged and fed the college's first teacher, Jacob M. Zuck, free for one year.

Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh ( 1736 – 1790 ), later the college's first president, Queen's College was chartered on 10 November 1766.

These estates allowed the college's sixteen fellowships and scholarships to be filled for the first time – officially, sixteen of each had been supported since 1622, but the college's income was too small to keep all occupied simultaneously.

The college's coat of arms is that of the founder ; it differs slightly from his family's coat of arms, which did not include the gold star on the breast of the first eagle.

The liberal philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin was the college's first president, and was instrumental in its founding.

President Truman was in attendance and received the college's first honorary degree.

The new college's first home was two buildings in Studiestræde and St-Oederstræde in central Copenhagen but although expanded several times they remained inadequate and in 1890 a new building complex was inaugurated in Sølvgade in 1890.

The college's first Master, Arthur Lyttelton, was elected on 10 March 1879, the Archbishop of Canterbury was invited to become Visitor on 28 June 1878, and building of Old Court, as it is now known, began in 1880.

The college site on the River Cam was originally obtained from the purchase of a house from John de Crauden to house the monks during their study, and the main court was built in the college's first few decades.

The first stone of the college's Old Court was laid by the King on Passion Sunday, 2 April 1441, on a site which lies directly north of the modern college and which was formerly a garden belonging to Trinity Hall.

Henry directed the publication of the college's first governing statutes in 1443.

Ms. Post served as the honorary house mother of the college's first local fraternity, Sigma Beta Epsilon, which became in 1969 the New York Beta chapter of the nation's largest national fraternity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

The national Sigma Kappa sorority was founded at Colby in 1874 by the college's first five female students.

The college's first intake of scholarship students included 28 who studied an orchestral instrument.

Along with the name, the college's coat of arms first came into use in the 1880s when Fitzwilliam Hall needed an emblem to represent its newly formed boat club.

Cutler Hall, the college's first building was completed in 1880 and the first degrees were conferred in 1882.

Originally housed on the Robert E. Lee High School campus, Lee College severed its initial integration with the Goose Creek Independent School District under the leadership of the college's first dean, Walter Rundell.

Richard Miller was inaugurated as the college's first president on May 3, 2003.

Then in 1893 Dr. William Jewett Tucker became president and the college's great awakening began.

He served on the college's Board of Visitors under Jefferson and under the second rector James Madison, also a former president, almost until his death.

His mentor at Navarre was the college's president, Nicolas Cornet, the theologian whose denunciation of Antoine Arnauld at the Sorbonne in 1649 was a major episode in the Jansenist controversy.

The college's third president, the Rev.

The college's current president, Professor David Clary FRS, was earlier a Fellow and Senior Tutor at Magdalene College, Cambridge.

The college's mascot is the moose, inspired by the installation in the dining hall of a stuffed moose head in honor of former college master and Yale president A. Bartlett Giamatti.

Daggett became the college's president pro tempore in 1766 after the resignation of President Clap.

The college has four all-male fraternities including chapters of Sigma Chi, Theta Chi, Phi Delta Theta, and a local fraternity, Phi Kappa Pi, ( named Merriman for the college's founding president ).

Daniel McBride Graham was the college's first president, serving from 1844 to 1848 and later serving a second term from 1871 to 1874.

Edmund Burke Fairfield was the college's second president, leading Hillsdale from 1848 to 1869.

James Calder was the college's third president, serving from 1869 to 1871.

Rhoads North and South was named after the college's first president, James E. Rhoads ; Rockefeller is named after its donor, John D. Rockefeller.

The first official District board of trustees hired the college's founding president and district superintendent, Basil Hyrum Peterson, on July 28, 1947.

The college's first president, Dr. Stephen R. Cheshier of Purdue University, was named in that same year.

" In an online article at Christianity Today about the announcement, Olasky suggested the move was related to the recent hiring of Dinesh D ' Souza as the college's president: "' It will come as no surprise to you that Dinesh D ' Souza and I have different ideas about some things ," said in an e-mail to Christianity Today.

The college's president is Dr. Linda Allen.

Barton Aylesworth became the school's fourth president in 1899, and the combination of his non-confrontational style with the presence of the vocal Colorado Cattle and Horse Growers Association on the governing board allowed ranching and farming interests to take the college's agricultural programs to new heights, greatly influencing the development of the entire school.

Michael A. Magnoli, a member of the college's first graduating class, succeeded Weaver as president in 1984.

Gunn previously was denied admission, even though he had the support of the college's president and administration.

On June 30, 2007, Dr. William Nevious stepped down as the college's president after five years at the helm.