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He is notable for proposing that [[King's College]] become the center of a university encompassing all the previously-founded North American colleges (including [[Harvard]], [[Yale]], etc.)
 
He is notable for proposing that [[King's College]] become the center of a university encompassing all the previously-founded North American colleges (including [[Harvard]], [[Yale]], etc.)
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He also ordered a fence built around [[College Hall]] in order to keep the students away from internationally recognized prostitutes that hung around the neighborhood.
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==

Revision as of 14:07, 30 March 2008

Portrait of Myles Cooper
See also Wikipedia's article about "Myles Cooper".

Myles Cooper was the second president of King's College and a loyalist who opposed the American Revolution. He was allegedly saved from an angry revolutionary mob by Alexander Hamilton (see Banishment of Myles Cooper).

He is notable for proposing that King's College become the center of a university encompassing all the previously-founded North American colleges (including Harvard, Yale, etc.)

He also ordered a fence built around College Hall in order to keep the students away from internationally recognized prostitutes that hung around the neighborhood.

See also

Preceded by
Samuel Johnson
President of Columbia University 
1763-1775
Succeeded by
William Samuel Johnson