John:
History. Fascinating.
History. Fascinating.
Eva:
Right.
John:
I taught history. At Columbia, ages go.
It was still Kings College.
Eva:
Of course you did.
'New Amsterdam'
Right.
John:
I taught history. At Columbia, ages go.
It was still Kings College.
Eva:
Of course you did.
'New Amsterdam'
One thing I'm enjoying about 'New Amsterdam' is that John is sharing information about his past lives with his colleagues and others truthfully, but they just don't believe him.
Here's what I gleaned about King's College from Wikipedia"

Due to the American Revolution, instruction was suspended from 1776 until 1784, but by the beginning of the war, the college had already educated some of the nation’s foremost political leaders. Even at this young age, ‘’King‘s College‘’ had already educated Alexander Hamilton,

With the successful completion of the American Revolutionary War in 1783, the domestic situation was stable enough for the college to resume classes in 1784. With the new nation's independence from Great Britain, the name of the institution was changed from King’s College to Columbia College, the name by which the institution continues to be known today.
So it had to be at some point between the years 1754 and 1776 when John Amsterdam taught at King's College. And it probably had to be even later than 1754 because for a time Samuel Johnson was its only teacher. In the beginning, classes were all in Latin, so it's likely John Amsterdam is fluent in that dead language.
BCnU!
Toby OB
1 comment:
Oh yes. He's certainly able to speak Latin. Up until the 80s, you couldn't get into Cambridge or Oxford University in the UK unless you were fluent in Latin...
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