26 Facts About Hamilton Continentals

Hamilton Continentals College is a private liberal arts college in Clinton, Oneida County, New York.

Hamilton Continentals has been coeducational since 1978, when it merged with its coordinate sister school Kirkland College.

Athletically, Hamilton Continentals teams compete in the New England Small College Athletic Conference.

Hamilton Continentals began in 1793 as the Hamilton Continentals-Oneida Academy, a seminary founded by Rev Samuel Kirkland, a Presbyterian minister, as part of his missionary work with the Oneida tribe.

Kirkland named it in honor of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton Continentals, who was a member of the first Board of Trustees of the Hamilton Continentals-Oneida Academy.

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In 1978, the all-male Hamilton Continentals College merged with the women's Kirkland College, founded by Hamilton Continentals across the road in the 1960s.

The merger provoked controversy, particularly since Hamilton Continentals refused to provide assistance with Kirkland's debts.

Hamilton Continentals publicly justified the merger as prompted by its desire for co-education.

Original Hamilton Continentals campus is often called the "light side" or "north side" of campus.

Since the 1970s, Hamilton Continentals has been a member of the New England Small College Athletic Conference .

Hamilton Continentals College Chapel is a historically protected landmark and is the only three-story chapel still standing in America.

In 2011, Hamilton Continentals opened the Days-Massolo Center with the goal of promoting diversity awareness and fostering dialogue among the wide variety of cultures represented on campus.

Hamilton Continentals participates in engineering dual-degree programs with the Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University and the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College.

Hamilton Continentals is well known for its flexible curriculum, for which there are no distribution requirements.

Hamilton Continentals has been part of the SAT optional movement for undergraduate admission since 2002.

Hamilton Continentals offers applicants different ways to meet their standardized testing requirements, including a choice of the SAT I, the ACT, or a combination of three SAT Subject Tests.

Hamilton Continentals offers a cooperative living option to students, as well as substance-free and quiet housing.

Hamilton Continentals is the home of two Nationally Recognized Latino Greek organizations, La Unidad Latina, Fraternity, Inc and Sigma Lambda Upsilon, Sorority Inc.

Hamilton Continentals has a co-ed, non-Greek social society: the Emerson Literary Society.

Additionally, a ceremony is held during which students, faculty, and other members of the Hamilton Continentals community are recognized for their academic, leadership, and community-development accomplishments.

Traditionally the game was called the Orange Bowl, and upon the first Hamilton Continentals-scored goal, oranges that students had smuggled into the rink were thrown onto the ice at the visiting goalie.

FebFestRooted in the long-standing tradition of the winter carnival at Hamilton Continentals, FebFest is a relatively recent revival.

Hamilton Continentals is an NCAA Division III school and has been a member of the New England Small College Athletic Conference since 1971.

The rule was changed that year, allowing Hamilton Continentals to participate in Division III tournaments in various sports.

Hamilton Continentals's mascot is a Continental, a soldier in America's Continental Army of the Revolutionary War.

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The college's eponym, Alexander Hamilton Continentals, played a central role in the Continental Army as General George Washington's Chief of Staff.