the school that was charted on 1812. hired Forest Evashevski in what year
Hamilton College (New York) Hamilton College is a private, nonsectarian liberal arts college located in the village of Clinton, New York, in the Mohawk Valley region of the Eastern United States (in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains). Founded as an academy in 1793, it was chartered as Hamilton College in 1812 (named for charter trustee Alexander Hamilton). It has been coeducational since 1978, when it merged with its sister school Kirkland College. Hamilton's student body is 52% female and 48% male, and comes from 49 U.S. states and 45 countries.
Stepan Rumovsky Stepan Yakovlevich Rumovsky (Russian: Степан Яковлевич Румовский ; 29 October [O.S. 9 November] 1734 – 6 July 6 [O.S. 18 July] 1812 ) was a Russian astronomer and mathematician, considered to be the first Russian astronomer of renown. Rumovsky studied in Berlin under Leonhard Euler. He taught mathematics and astronomy at the University of St. Petersburg from 1756 to 1812 and held numerous important positions in the St. Petersburg Academy, including director of the geography department from 1766 to 1786 and director of the observatory and professor of astronomy from 1763 until his death. At some point, he became a vice-president of the Academy of Sciences. He was appointed an honorary foreign member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1763.