(Source: Rutgers University) Photo: Nick Romanenko/Rutgers University The Rutgers 250 celebration kicks off Tuesday, Nov. 10, on Old Queens Lawn, with colonial bell ringers, food, glowing fires, fife-and-drum corps, a bell choir, Mason Gross musicians and the Scarlet Knight on horseback. The story of Rutgers University has many chapters, is richly diverse and is written throughout New Jersey. But it has one beginning, 250 years ago. On Nov. 10, 1766, the charter establishing Queen's College was signed, setting the foundation for today's Rutgers University, with more than 67,000 students attending 31 schools and colleges in New Brunswick, Newark and Camden. On that historic day, William...
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