James M. Mathews
James M. Mathews | |
|---|---|
| 1st Chancellor of New York University | |
| In office 1831–1839 | |
| Succeeded by | Theodore Frelinghuysen |
Rev. James M. Mathews was the first Chancellor of New York University (NYU).
In December 1829, a group formed as the "New York Athenaeum" led by
Jonathan M. Wainwright of Grace Episcopal Church, echoing the thinking of the group, proposed a curriculum based on "useful instruction".[2]
Rev. James M. Mathews was first
Columbia College in a building secured through the assistance of Matthews. The building would only be NYU's home for a few years as Mathews looked uptown for a more suitable and permanent academic environment, more specifically bucolic Greenwich Village
.
Rev. Mathews was also instrumental in the financial development, faculty and student growth and facility improvement of the university. He published a series of defenses of the Constitution and civil government as consistent with the Bible. In 1859 he delivered a baccalaureate address at the Virginia Military Institute.
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