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unusual facts about Columbian College



Howard Lincoln Hodgkins

As a member of the very first class to graduate from the Washington High School, Howard Lincoln Hodgkins went on to attend the George Washington University’s Columbian College in the fall of 1878.


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John Blaisdell Corliss

He attended the common schools and the Fairfax, Vermont Preparatory School and graduated from the Vermont Methodist University at Montpelier in 1871 and from the law department of Columbian College (now The George Washington University Law School), Washington, D.C., in 1875.

Obadiah Bruen Brown

At the encouragement of President James Monroe, Brown was among a group of Baptist leaders who created the Columbian College, which decades later became the George Washington University.

Theodore W. Noyes

After attending public schools in Washington, Theodore entered the preparatory program at Columbian College (which later became George Washington University) at age twelve.