Editing University of Rochester (section)

=== Founding ===
[[Asahel C. Kendrick]], professor of Greek, was among the faculty that departed Madison University for Rochester. Kendrick served as acting president while a national search was conducted. He reprised this role until 1853, when [[Martin Brewer Anderson]] of the [[Andover Newton Theological School|Andover Newton Theological Seminary]] in Massachusetts was selected to fill the inaugural posting.<ref name=":2">{{cite web|url=http://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/2309|title=University of Rochester History: Chapter 3, The Year of Decisions: 1850 RBSCP| website= rbscp.lib.rochester.edu | language=en|access-date=December 5, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171205143618/http://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/2309|archive-date=December 5, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

The University of Rochester's new charter was awarded by the Regents of the State of New York on January 31, 1850. The charter stipulated that the university have $100,000 in endowment within five years, upon which the charter would be reaffirmed. An initial gift of $10,000 was pledged by John Wilder, which helped catalyze significant gifts from individuals and institutions.<ref name=":2" />

Classes began that November, with approximately 60 students enrolled, including 28 transfers from Madison.<ref name=":2" /> From 1850 to 1862, the university was housed in the old United States Hotel in downtown Rochester on Buffalo Street near Elizabeth Street (now West Main Street near the [[Interstate 490 (New York)|I-490]] overpass).<ref>{{Cite web |title=United States Hotel |url=https://www.facilities.rochester.edu/history/Hotel/index.htm |access-date=October 4, 2023 |website=www.facilities.rochester.edu |archive-date=October 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231003043328/https://www.facilities.rochester.edu/history/Hotel/index.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>

For the next 10 years, the college expanded its scope and secured its future through an expanding endowment, student body, and faculty. In parallel, a gift of 8 acres of farmland from local businessman and Congressman [[Azariah Boody]] secured the first campus of the university, upon which Anderson Hall was constructed and dedicated in 1862. Over the next sixty years, this Prince Street Campus grew by a further 17 acres and was developed to include fraternities houses, dormitories, and academic buildings including Anderson Hall, Sibley Library, Eastman and Carnegie Laboratories, the [[Memorial Art Gallery]], and Cutler Union.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/2312|title=University of Rochester History: Chapter 6: A Critical Decade RBSCP|website=rbscp.lib.rochester.edu|language=en|access-date=December 5, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171205143600/http://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/2312|archive-date=December 5, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
[[File:RheesLibraryGreatHall.jpg|thumb|The [[Great Hall]] of [[Rush Rhees Library]]]]