Tirohia te wāhanga i raro nei, kātahi ka whakautu i te pātai i muri mai i te reo kotahi me te wāhanga:  I te tau 1817, i whakaturia te Baptist Education Society o te State of New York e tekau ma toru nga tangata (e ono nga tohunga me nga tangata e whitu). E rua tau i muri mai, i te tau 1819, ka whakawhiwhia e te kawanatanga te tūtohinga o te kura, a ka whakatuwherahia te kura i te tau i muri mai, i te tau 1820. I whakahaerehia nga akomanga tuatahi i roto i tetahi whare i te taone o Hamilton. E toru tau i muri mai, i te tau 1823, i whakauruhia te Baptist Theological Seminary i New York City ki te Baptist Education Society, a muri iho ka huri i tona ingoa ki te Hamilton Literary & Theological Institution. I roto i nga kaitiaki ko William Colgate, kaiwhakarewa o te Kamupene Colgate. I te 1826, i hokona e nga kaitiaki o te kura nga whenua ahuwhenua i muri mai ka noho hei kaupapa matua o te whare wananga, e mohiotia ana ko 'The Hill'. Kotahi tau i muri mai, i hangaia e nga akonga o naianei me nga kaiwhakaako o te kura te Whare Hauauru, ma te whakamahi i te kohatu i tangohia mai i te kohatu i kitea i runga i te whenua. I te timatanga i kiia ko te West Edifice i mua i te whakaingoa ki te West Hall, koinei te hanganga tawhito o te kura. I te 26 o Maehe, 1846, i whakawhiwhia e te Kawanatanga o New York he karaati karaati ki te Tari Collegiate o Hamilton; i roto i nga tau e rua i mua atu, i runga i te tono a Hamilton Trustees, e wha tekau ma rima nga akonga Bachelor me te iti rawa o te kaitono Kaiwhakaako i whakawhiwhia e te Columbian College i Washington, DC (i tenei wa ko te Whare Wananga o George Washington), he whare Baptist ano. I te tau 1846, ka huri te ingoa o te kura ki te Whare Wananga o Madison. I te tau 1850, i whakamahere te Baptist Education Society ki te neke i te whare wananga ki Rochester, engari i aukatihia e nga mahi ture. I whakatūria e ngā kaitiaki, ngā kaiako, me ngā ākonga te Whare Wānanga o Rochester. I te 1890, i hurihia e te Whare Wānanga o Madison tōna ingoa ki te Whare Wānanga o Colgate hei whakanui i te whānau me ōna koha ki te kura. Ko James B. Colgate, tētahi o ngā tama a William Colgate, i whakatū i tētahi pūtea $1,000,000 i huaina ko te Dodge Memorial Fund. I te tau 1912, i katia te Colgate Academy, he kura whakariterite me te kura tuarua i whakahaerehia i Hamilton mai i te timatanga o te rautau 1800, a ko tana whare hei whare whakahaere mo te Whare Wananga o Colgate. Ko te taha whakapono o te Colgate...  Pātai: He aha te ingoa o te Whare Wānanga o Colgate i te tau 1846?
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