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By the time of the
, the
was already into its eighth decade as the academic source of what the new nation would become and how it would relate to the larger world.
Its land had been surveyed by George Washington, and its first honorary degree had been given to Ben Franklin. It would go on to educate two signers of the
, three American presidents, and three justices of the
. Chartered by British royalty in 1693, the college retains that connection to its roots into the 21st century. Remarkably through history, the
was, and remains, a public university–one of 16 in the
.
At a time in American history when the 18th-century thought and practice of Thomas Jefferson has become part of the contemporary conversation, the college from which he graduated in 1762 continues to pursue his simple notion that
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