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Wikipedia Description: Georgetown University
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Georgetown University is a private Roman Catholic research university located in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., United States. With roots extending back to 1634, and founded in 1789 by Father John Carroll, it is both the oldest Roman Catholic and oldest Jesuit university in the United States. While the school struggled financially in its early years, Georgetown expanded into a modern university after the U.S. Civil War under the leadership of president Patrick Francis Healy.

Academically, Georgetown is divided into four undergraduate schools and four graduate schools, with strong programs in international relations, law, and medicine. The university employs distinguished faculty members including former ambassadors and heads of state. Georgetown's three urban campuses feature traditional collegiate architecture and layout, but prize their green spaces and environmental commitment. At the center of the main campus is the Romanesque Healy Hall, designated a National Historic Landmark.

The student body is noted for its pluralism and political activism, as well as its sizable international contingent. Campus groups include the nation's oldest student dramatic society and the largest student corporation. Georgetown's most notable alumni, such as former President Bill Clinton, have served in various levels of government in the United States and abroad. The Georgetown athletics teams are nicknamed "the Hoyas," made famous by their men's basketball team, which leads the Big East Conference with seven tournament championships.

History of Georgetown University
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The history of Georgetown University spans over four hundred years, and is closely tied to that of America. The school has grown with the United States and Washington, D.C., all which date their founding to 1789.

Founding:
Above the door of White-Gravenor Hall are the two dates. Further up are the five seals, which mark the three prior incarnations of Jesuit schools in Maryland, the year John Carrol attended the Bohemia Manor school, and the present school at Georgetown Heights
Above the door of White-Gravenor Hall are the two dates. Further up are the five seals, which mark the three prior incarnations of Jesuit schools in Maryland, the year John Carrol attended the Bohemia Manor school, and the present school at Georgetown Heights

The founding of Georgetown University took place on two main dates, 1634 and 1789. Until 1851, the school used 1788, the start of construction on the Old South building, as its founding date. In that year a copy-edit in the college catalogue began mis-labeling the construction as beginning in 1789. This was discovered in preparation for the centennial celebration in 1889, at which point rather than correct the annual, the date of Georgetown's "foundation" was fixed to the date 1789-01-23.

First Establishments:

On 1633-11-22 Jesuits Andrew White, John Altham Gravenor, and Thomas Gervase set sail on The Ark for America under the leadership and financing of the Lord Baltimore, Leonard Calvert. Their landing on 1634-03-25 on St. Clement's Island marks the birth of the Maryland colony, this anniversary now celebrated as Maryland Day. These Jesuits were joined in 1637 by Thomas Copley and Ferdinand Poulton, together establishing near St. Mary's City some means of Christian education for the native Yaocomico tribe. Inquiring about patronage for their school, Poulton wrote to superiors in Rome, who on 1640-09-15 approved the institution of a school in principle. That year they moved to a permanent building to Calverton Manor on in the Wicomico River. This early establishment was burnt in 1645 as part of the English Civil War, and the remaining Jesuits were brought to trial in England. The new protestant administration had their school outlawed, though it was functioning by 1648, when Thomas Copley managed to return there.

Newtown Manor, also known as "Bretton's Neck," become available to the Jesuits in 1677. This house served as the Jesuit schoolhouse until 1704 when it's existence was alerted to British authorities. The school afterwards conducted itself periodically and in secrecy at the new Jesuit colony of Bohemia Manor. John Carroll attended this school in 1745 for one year at the age of twelve. Carroll left for studies in Europe, but was forced to return to Maryland in 1774, when Pope Clement XIV ordered the suppression of the Jesuit order. This put Carroll in the right place at the right time, when the American Revolution pushed out the English administration, opening up new possibilities for scholastic expansion.

Georgetown Heights:

In 1786, Fr. Carroll published formal plans or Proposals for an "academy, at George-town, Patowmack-River, Maryland," and in March 1787, formed a fund raising committee. In April 1788, construction on Georgetown's first building, "Old South," began, leading Fr. Carroll to write "We shall begin the building of our Academy this summer. On this Academy are built all my hopes of permanency and success of our holy religion in the United States." His Academy was finally established on 1789-01-23, when the title to the land that became the core of the campus was formally acquired. As a result, the University celebrates 1789 as its founding year. In November of that year Carroll became the first American bishop. The first student, William Gaston (1778-1844), was admitted in 1791, and classes commenced on 1791-11-22.

Early growth:

Carroll had difficulty filling the position of president of the university, with many candidates declining the job before Rev. Robert Plunkett first took the office in 1791, though he only served 18 months. Georgetown's second building, Old North, which survives to this day, began construction in 1794. At three times the size of Old South, it greatly increased the number of classrooms and sleeping space on campus. Upon the building's completion, George Washington visited and spoke from the porch, a position since reserved for sitting US Presidents. In 1796, Louis William Valentine Dubourg, S.S., arrived and became president. He would later become the first bishop of the Louisiana Territory. Rev. Leonard Neale and his brother Rev. Francis Neale over saw the growth of the university as presidents for a combined eleven years, beginning in 1798. He acted in the dual capacity of president and tutor for several years and under his guidance the institution was developed from an academy into a college in 1801. Carroll had some time previous to this applied to Rome to name Father Neale as his co-adjutor. Neale was appointed co-adjutor by Carroll in 1800, but remained as president of Georgetown until 1806 when he was succeeded by the Rev. Father Molyneux. In 1809, Leonard Neale's brother, Francis Neale, became president of Georgetown College.

John Carroll didn't seek civil recognition for Georgetown until after the suppression of the Jesuits ended in 1814. Instead of seeking a state charter, he went to the federal government, then in charge of the District of Columbia. Now Congressman William Gaston sponsored the legislation, and Georgetown received the first federal charter in 1815. Other Jesuit school would confer degrees under Georgetown's charter for many years afterwards. On 1844-06-10, the school was incorporated by Congress under the name The President and Directors of Georgetown College.

The first student society, the Sodality was founded in 1810 as a religious devotional group. In 1830, the Philodemic Society was founded as the schools debating society, the oldest of its kind in America and the oldest secular group at Georgetown. The Dramatic Association of Georgetown College, renamed the Mask and Bauble Dramatic Society after World War I, was founded in 1852, and is itself the oldest continuous dramatic society in America. John Barrymore was a member of the group, as was the playwright John Guare, and director Jack Hofsiss, who was the youngest person ever to win Broadway's Tony Award for Best Director when he received the prize for The Elephant Man. Georgetown's Observatory, completed in 1844, was used in 1846 to determine the latitude and longitude of Washington, D.C., which was the first such calculation for the nation’s capital.

The Civil War:

The Civil War was an important and tragic time for the University. Many students left their studies to join both the Union Army and the Confederate Army, with only 120 registering in 1862. Only seven students graduated in 1869, down from over 300 a decade prior. Fist fights on campus between northern and southern students were common. Responding to lack of adequate hospital beds and housing for soldiers needed to protect the District, the north sequestered University buildings, and by the time of President Abraham Lincoln's May 1861 visit to campus, 1,400 Union Army troops were stationed in temporary quarters there. Georgetown would later be connected to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. While John Wilkes Booth was not a student, he was active in the school's dramatic society, and familiar with many students, like David Herold, who accompanied him in his escape. Dr. Samuel Mudd, a Georgetown alumnus, set Booth's broken ankle, and Charles Lieberman, one of the founders of the medical school treated Lincoln. After the war, Georgetown College Boat Club, the school's rowing team, adopted blue, color of the northern army, and gray, color of the southern army, as their colors in order to signify the peaceful unity between students from the North and those from the South.

Expansion:

Medical School:

In 1830, construction of an infirmary in the new Gervase Building brought the first hospital beds to Georgetown. In 1849, four Catholic doctors, frustrated with discriminatory practices at neighboring Columbia University, petitioned Georgetown President James Ryder to found a medical program. A building for this purpose was purchased at 12th and F Streets, and the School of Medicine was founded in 1850, holding its first classes the following year. In 1898, Georgetown University Hospital was established on campus, and in 1930, classes moved back to Georgetown.

Georgetown in fiction:

Georgetown, as a major world University, has been featured in many media over the years.

* The 1973 horror film The Exorcist was set and filmed in Georgetown. It was based on a novel by William Peter Blatty, who received an English degree from Georgetown in 1950. Blatty wrote the script in a room in Holy Trinity Church's school, a Catholic parish adjacent to Georgetown University.
* The 1985 "Brat Pack" movie St. Elmo's Fire revolved around a group of students who had just graduated from Georgetown. The bar that much of the film takes place in is based on The Tombs, a bar and restaurant known for its large student clientele and rowing dec�r, located one block from Georgetown's front gates. The university denied the producers the rights to film on campus, so parts of the film were shot at the nearby University of Maryland.
* In the NBC television series The West Wing, President Bartlet's daughter Zoey attended Georgetown. In the show's fourth season, an episode entitled "Commencement" was filmed on campus, with current Georgetown students used as extras.
* In the movie National Treasure, Benjamin "Ben" Gates (played by Nicolas Cage) is said to have a degree in American History from Georgetown.
* In The Girl Next Door, one of the main character's (Matthew) goals is to get into Georgetown, although the university shown at the film's conclusion is not Georgetown.
* In Save the Last Dance, one of the main character (Derek) receives an acceptance letter to Georgetown University early in the movie.
* On The Steve Harvey Show, Romeo tells Steve about his ambitions to go to college by saying, "I don't wanna be one of those guys that just WEARS the Georgetown jacket!"
* In Above the Rim, the main character, Kyle-Lee, hopes to get a scholarship to play basketball at Georgetown.
* A second season sub-plotline of The Sopranos concerns Meadow Soprano's ambition to gain acceptance to Georgetown, and her mother Carmela's machinations on her behalf. Rumor has it that the school denied the show permission to film on campus, leading to a somewhat abrupt switch of college choice to Columbia.
* In Election, the main character, Tracy Flick (played by Reese Witherspoon), ends up at Georgetown.
* In 24, one of the main characters, President David Palmer attended Georgetown where he played on the basketball team. Dennis Haysbert, the actor who plays David Palmer, is the uncle of Nazareth Haysbert who graduated from Georgetown's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service in 2005.
* In Syriana, Prince Nasir al-Subaai says: "I studied at Oxford. I have a Ph.D from Georgetown."
* The major motion picture "Memento" was written by a Georgetown alumnus, and the main character's nemesis, John G., is said to be named after John Glavin, a professor of creative writing at Georgetown.
* In Stargate Atlantis, the main character, Dr. Elizabeth Weir taught a political science course at Georgetown before going to Atlantis.
* In Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Milo Thatch's grandfather, Thaddeus Thatch, and the eccentric millionaire, Preston B. Whitmore, are both members of the Class of 1866.
* In Enemy of the State, Will Smith's character is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center.
* In The Pelican Brief, several scenes are shot inside the Georgetown University Law Center and the Edward B. Williams Law Library.
* In the later Jason Bourne novels, such as The Bourne Ultimatum and The Bourne Legacy, Jason Bourne becomes a professor at Georgetown.
* Jack Ryan, the main character of several Tom Clancy books, received his Ph.D from Georgetown.
* In Young Indiana Jones and the Plantation Treasure, Jones' father, a professor of Medieval history, lectures at Georgetown while Indiana explores the underground railroad in the Carolinas.
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