Now that I am missing the Kings undergrad reunion, I will not be able to go see the Charter from 1754 signed by George II...or was it the one from 1802 signed by George III... that sat on the wall in the room where I took my freshman year classes. The first was granted to the school at its first location in New York City but moved (or really should have) with the Loyalists first to Windsor NS where students invented hockey and then on to Halifax where I went to school. I think of that signature watching a show on Alexander Hamilton, the US Founding Father, who turns out to have been a Kingsman about 210 years before I was. As was Amor De Cosmos. Yup, he was there, too.
Not many of those sorts around SMU.
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Mike - May 15, 2007 8:21 AM
"SMU". Pittuie!
Hans - May 15, 2007 9:37 AM
Both Alexander Hamilton and Amour de Cosmos are pretty cool. Any other notable grads? (Aside from yourself ;) .)
Alan - May 15, 2007 9:49 AM
Early US Supreme Court Judge John Jay was a NYC Kingsman and my pal Chisholm Pothier is Press Secretary to the Canadian Minister of Finance. I can't imagine Jay was as snazzy but Chis has fewer peaks named after him.
Hans - May 15, 2007 11:31 AM
Jay has a street in Ogdensburg named after him, too: Jay Street, funnily enough. My memory tells me he had some kind of North Country connection.
portland - May 15, 2007 2:40 PM
i went to smu. not a great school. i admit it. better to go to a middling school that get all puffed up with the kings sense of entitlement and superiority. fucking kings. repeat after me in whiny voice: we're have our own bar, it's in a basement, we're live in dorms that were barracks, they're special, we get all dressed up on friday to have dinner and bad port wine with our wanker university president, we can all speak exactly six words of middle english and talk intelligently for exactly four minutes about dante because we all had to take foundation year and you didn't. ha ha ha." no, better to go to a middling school and drink beer and feel lousy about yourself than have all that kings bullshit be one of the most intense experiences of your life. i feel sorry for you all. it was an old beat up college that was some dim witted individuals idea of tom browns school days set in canada. who's gonna come knock the coffee up out of my hand now?
Alan - May 15, 2007 2:44 PM
hehehe
portland - May 15, 2007 3:05 PM
you piss me off sometimes.
you see dice k last night? i'm loving the games he pitches.
Alan - May 15, 2007 3:08 PM
I know. If it weren't for my middle english rudeness, we'd never fall into these disagreements. Dice was good. No wonky fourth inning.<p>And did you see that show on Hamilton on PBS. I never knew he went to Kings.
portland - May 16, 2007 3:56 PM
didnt know. did see the show. alex hamilton is a pet subject of mine. i wouldve hated jefferson too. poser.
Alan - May 16, 2007 3:59 PM
Chamberlain kicks both their arses.