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On October 4, 1966, Congress passed a bill that recognized the school's name as "Georgetown University" for the first time. [14] The 1844 bill in effect until then had referred only to "Georgetown College", which at that point was known as the College of Arts and Sciences and was just one branch of the university.
Georgetown University is a private Jesuit research university in Washington, D.C., United States.Founded by Bishop John Carroll in 1789, [d] it is the oldest Catholic institution of higher education in the United States, the oldest university in Washington, D.C., [e] and the nation's first federally chartered university.
1751: Georgetown founded 1752 – February: First survey of Georgetown completed. [1]1784 – October 7: Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts motions “that buildings for the use of Congress be erected on the banks of the Delaware near Trenton, or of the Potomac, near Georgetown, provided a suitable district can be procured on one of the rivers as aforesaid, for a federal town”.
Georgetown University is a private Jesuit research university in Washington, D.C., United States that was founded as Georgetown College by Bishop John Carroll of Baltimore in 1789. [2] The president of Georgetown University is its chief executive officer , [ 3 ] and from its establishment until the 1960s was also the rector of the university's ...
1789: Georgetown University is founded as Georgetown College. It is the oldest Catholic university in the United States and the first of 28 colleges and universities founded by the Jesuits in the US. 1791: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composes Ave verum corpus and his unfinished Requiem. 1793: French Revolution institutes anti-clerical measures.
The center was founded in 1962 [11] by Arleigh Burke and David Manker Abshire. [12] It originally was part of Georgetown University. It officially opened its doors on September 4, shortly before the Cuban Missile Crisis. The original office was located one block away from Georgetown's campus in a small brick townhouse located at 1316 36th Street.
The Philodemic Society is a student debating society at Georgetown University founded in 1830 by Father James Ryder, S.J.The Philodemic is among the oldest such societies in the United States, [4] and is the oldest secular student organization at Georgetown. [5]
The university's Law Department had been established at the end of Maguire's presidency, and it began its first classes in October 1870. [36] The Georgetown College Journal began publishing in December 1872, [ 37 ] as the university's first student-produced newspaper .