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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Van_Nest_Hall%2C_Rutgers_University_-_looking_north.jpg/220px-Van_Nest_Hall%2C_Rutgers_University_-_looking_north.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Van_Nest_Hall%2C_Rutgers_University_-_looking_north.jpg/330px-Van_Nest_Hall%2C_Rutgers_University_-_looking_north.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Van_Nest_Hall%2C_Rutgers_University_-_looking_north.jpg/440px-Van_Nest_Hall%2C_Rutgers_University_-_looking_north.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4012" data-file-height="2673" /></a><figcaption>In the nineteenth century, <a href="/wiki/Van_Nest_Hall" class="mw-redirect" title="Van Nest Hall">Van Nest Hall</a> housed the meeting rooms and libraries of the college's two rival literary and debating societies.</figcaption></figure> <p><b>The Peithessophian Society of Rutgers College</b> (or <b>Peitho</b>) was a student literary and debating society founded in 1825 at <a href="/wiki/Rutgers_University" title="Rutgers University">Rutgers College</a> (later Rutgers University) in <a href="/wiki/New_Brunswick,_New_Jersey" title="New Brunswick, New Jersey">New Brunswick, New Jersey</a>. Founded by Professor James Spencer Canon after Rutgers College reopened after years of financial difficulty and a brief closing, it was one of two such societies at campus in the nineteenth-century—the other being the <a href="/wiki/Philoclean_Society" title="Philoclean Society">Philoclean Society</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-PeithoInventory_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PeithoInventory-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The name "Peithessophian" is derived from the Ancient Greek meaning "persuasiveness of wisdom."<sup id="cite_ref-PeithoInventory_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PeithoInventory-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to Rutgers, the literary societies allowed students to develop "the skills of rhetoric and statesmanship that helped more fully utilize the classical education being taught in college classrooms. Rhetorical skills were honed through the writing of essays, orations before the society, and participation in debates. The societies also sought to increase their members exposure to literature by establishing private libraries that were often more diverse than that of the college."<sup id="cite_ref-PeithoInventory_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PeithoInventory-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1832 the society's library is recorded as holding 771 books, mostly literature (384 volumes), compared to the college's 1,290 titles which were largely theological texts.<sup id="cite_ref-PeithoInventory_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PeithoInventory-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An 1876 survey by the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Bureau_of_Education" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Bureau of Education">U.S. Bureau of Education</a> reported that Rutgers held 6,814 volumes in its college library and 3,800 in libraries of the Peithessophian Society and Philoclean Society.<sup id="cite_ref-DemarestHistLibrariesJRUL_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DemarestHistLibrariesJRUL-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-PerroneVoorheesLibraryJRUL_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PerroneVoorheesLibraryJRUL-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: p.2">: p.2 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The society first met in <a href="/wiki/Old_Queens" title="Old Queens">Old Queens</a>, the oldest building on campus, but later moved to <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Johnston_Hall" title="Alexander Johnston Hall">Alexander Johnston Hall</a>, and later in 1848 to <a href="/wiki/Van_Nest_Hall" class="mw-redirect" title="Van Nest Hall">Van Nest Hall</a> (built 1845) which it shared with Philoclean.<sup id="cite_ref-PeithoInventory_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PeithoInventory-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On July 20, 1830, former <a href="/wiki/U.S._Attorney_General" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Attorney General">U.S. Attorney General</a> <a href="/wiki/William_Wirt_(Attorney_General)" class="mw-redirect" title="William Wirt (Attorney General)">William Wirt</a> delivered an address before Peithessophian and its rival Philoclean which foreshadowed the coming <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-PeithoInventory_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PeithoInventory-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The address was popular in the nineteenth century and published also in France and Germany.<sup id="cite_ref-PeithoInventory_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PeithoInventory-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Membership declined after the Civil War and the latter half of the nineteenth century and the society ceased to meet in 1897.<sup id="cite_ref-PeithoInventory_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PeithoInventory-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was revived in the 1920s but then once again died out amidst the social turbulence associated with the Depression and World War II.<sup id="cite_ref-PeithoInventory_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PeithoInventory-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the late 1990s, having rediscovered the central role played by Peithessophian and Philoclean in the intellectual life of the college for more than three-quarters of a century, a small group of students began spontaneously to meet informally for regular debate and discussion. In 2008, Peithessophian would be formally reinstituted, with a membership of ten members and a revival of the original 19th-century induction ceremony held each May in Kirkpatrick Chapel. Among its induction speakers have been Yan Lipovetsky, first president of the reinstituted Society, and Professor <a href="/wiki/William_C._Dowling" title="William C. Dowling">William C. Dowling</a>, its faculty advisor.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Among the current objectives of the Peithessophian board of officers is a permanent allotment of college space, equivalent to its Van Nest library and meeting rooms in the nineteenth century, to the Society. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peithessophian_Society&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Queens_Campus,_Rutgers_University" title="Queens Campus, Rutgers University">Queens Campus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Rutgers_University" title="History of Rutgers University">History of Rutgers University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_University_student_organizations" class="mw-redirect" title="Rutgers University student organizations">Rutgers University student organizations</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peithessophian_Society&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-2"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-PeithoInventory-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-PeithoInventory_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-PeithoInventory_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-PeithoInventory_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-PeithoInventory_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-PeithoInventory_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-PeithoInventory_1-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-PeithoInventory_1-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-PeithoInventory_1-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-PeithoInventory_1-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Rutgers University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/uarchives/peithof.html">RG 48/A1/01: Inventory to the Records of the Peithessophian Society of Rutgers College, 1825-1927</a>. Retrieved December 27, 2013.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-DemarestHistLibrariesJRUL-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-DemarestHistLibrariesJRUL_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Demarest, William Henry Steele (Rev.). "History of the Library" in <i>Journal of the Rutgers University Library, Volume 1</i>, No. 1 (1937) 1-.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-PerroneVoorheesLibraryJRUL-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-PerroneVoorheesLibraryJRUL_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Perrone, Fernanda. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://jrul.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/jrul/article/view/16/47">"Voorhees Hall: Rutgers' First Modern Library"</a> in <i>Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries</i>, Volume 61 (2005), 1-27.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Perrone cites Holley, Edward G. “Academic Libraries in 1876,” in Johnson, Richard D. (editor). <i>Libraries for Teaching, Libraries for Research: Essays for a Century</i> (Chicago: American Library Association, 1977), 6–7.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Wirt, William. <i>An Address, Delivered July 20, 1830, Before the Peithessophian and Philoclean Socieites of Rutgers College by Hon. William Wirt, Delivered and Published at the request of the Peithessophian Society</i>, (4th edition New Brunswick, New Jersey: A. Ackerman, 1852).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Demarest, William Henry Steele. <i>History of Rutgers College: 1776-1924</i>. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers College, 1924), 291.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">McCormick, Richard P. Rutgers: a Bicentennial History. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1966), 48.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Dowling, William C. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.peithessophian.org/">Peithessophian Society</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131228054409/http://www.peithessophian.org/#">Archived</a> December 28, 2013, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. 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exist)">Rutgers Cooperative Extension</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_University_Press" title="Rutgers University Press">Rutgers University Press</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waksman_Institute_of_Microbiology" title="Waksman Institute of Microbiology">Waksman Institute of Microbiology</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible expanded navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background-color:#CC0033;color:white;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #000000, inset -2px -2px 0 #000000;"><div id="New_Brunswick/Piscataway_Campus" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_University%E2%80%93New_Brunswick" title="Rutgers University–New Brunswick"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:white">New Brunswick/Piscataway Campus</span></a></div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="background-color:#CC0033;color:white;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #000000, inset -2px -2px 0 #000000;"><div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/New_Brunswick,_New_Jersey" title="New Brunswick, New Jersey"><span style="color:white">New Brunswick, New Jersey</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Piscataway,_New_Jersey" title="Piscataway, New Jersey"><span style="color:white">Piscataway, New Jersey</span></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color:#CC0033;color:white;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #000000, inset -2px -2px 0 #000000;;width:1%">Academics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edward_J._Bloustein_School_of_Planning_and_Public_Policy" title="Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy">Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernest_Mario_School_of_Pharmacy" title="Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy">Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Graduate_School_of_Applied_and_Professional_Psychology&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology (page does not exist)">Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_Graduate_School_of_Biomedical_Sciences" title="Rutgers Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences">Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (Piscataway campus)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_Graduate_School_of_Education" title="Rutgers Graduate School of Education">Graduate School of Education</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mason_Gross_School_of_the_Arts" title="Mason Gross School of the Arts">Mason Gross School of the Arts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Wood_Johnson_Medical_School" title="Robert Wood Johnson Medical School">Robert Wood Johnson Medical School</a> (<a href="/wiki/The_Hub_(New_Brunswick,_New_Jersey)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Hub (New Brunswick, New Jersey)">The Hub</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_Business_School_%E2%80%93_Newark_and_New_Brunswick" title="Rutgers Business School – Newark and New Brunswick">Rutgers Business School (New Brunswick campus)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_School_of_Arts_and_Sciences" title="Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences">School of Arts and Sciences</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Raritan_(journal)" title="Raritan (journal)"><i>Raritan</i></a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_School_of_Communication_and_Information" title="Rutgers School of Communication and Information">School of Communication and Information</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_School_of_Engineering" title="Rutgers School of Engineering">School of Engineering</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_School_of_Environmental_and_Biological_Sciences" title="Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences">School of Environmental and Biological Sciences</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_School_of_Health_Professions" title="Rutgers School of Health Professions">School of Health Professions (Piscataway campus)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_School_of_Management_and_Labor_Relations" title="Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations">School of Management and Labor Relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_School_of_Nursing" title="Rutgers School of Nursing">School of Nursing (New Brunswick campus)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_School_of_Public_Health" title="Rutgers School of Public Health">School of Public Health (Piscataway campus)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_School_of_Social_Work" title="Rutgers School of Social Work">School of Social Work</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color:#CC0033;color:white;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #000000, inset -2px -2px 0 #000000;;width:1%">Campus</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Archibald_S._Alexander_Library" title="Archibald S. Alexander Library">Archibald S. Alexander Library</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Busch_Campus_of_Rutgers_University" title="Busch Campus of Rutgers University">Busch Campus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/College_Avenue_Campus" title="College Avenue Campus">College Avenue Campus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_S._Schanck_Observatory" title="Daniel S. Schanck Observatory">Daniel S. Schanck Observatory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Douglass_Residential_College" title="Douglass Residential College">Douglass Residential College</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Center_for_Women%27s_Global_Leadership" title="Center for Women's Global Leadership">Center for Women's Global Leadership</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grease_trucks" title="Grease trucks">Grease trucks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geology_Hall,_New_Brunswick,_New_Jersey" title="Geology Hall, New Brunswick, New Jersey">Geology Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Livingston_Campus_(Rutgers_University)" title="Livingston Campus (Rutgers University)">Livingston Campus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kirkpatrick_Chapel" title="Kirkpatrick Chapel">Kirkpatrick Chapel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Queens" title="Old Queens">Old Queens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queens_Campus,_Rutgers_University" title="Queens Campus, Rutgers University">Queens Campus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_Campus_Buses" title="Rutgers Campus Buses">Rutgers Campus Buses</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_Gardens" title="Rutgers Gardens">Rutgers Gardens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_Ecological_Preserve" title="Rutgers Ecological Preserve">Rutgers Ecological Preserve</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Student_Sustainable_Farm_at_Rutgers" title="Student Sustainable Farm at Rutgers">Sustainable Farm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Voorhees_Chapel_(Rutgers)" title="Voorhees Chapel (Rutgers)">Voorhees Chapel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Voorhees_Mall" title="Voorhees Mall">Voorhees Mall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_the_Silent_(statue)" class="mw-redirect" title="William the Silent (statue)">William the Silent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WINLAB_(Rutgers_University)" title="WINLAB (Rutgers University)">WINLAB</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wood_Lawn_(New_Brunswick,_New_Jersey)" title="Wood Lawn (New Brunswick, New Jersey)">Wood Lawn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zimmerli_Art_Museum_at_Rutgers_University" title="Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University">Zimmerli Art Museum</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color:#CC0033;color:white;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #000000, inset -2px -2px 0 #000000;;width:1%">Student life</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_University_Greek_organizations" class="mw-redirect" title="Rutgers University Greek organizations">Greek Life</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_Day" title="Rutgers Day">Rutgers Day</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_Formula_Racing" title="Rutgers Formula Racing">Rutgers Formula Racing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cap_and_Skull" title="Cap and Skull">Cap and Skull</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Centurion_(magazine)" title="The Centurion (magazine)">The Centurion</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Targum" title="The Daily Targum">The Daily Targum</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_University_Debate_Union" title="Rutgers University Debate Union">Debate Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_University_Glee_Club" title="Rutgers University Glee Club">Glee Club</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Medium_(Rutgers)" title="The Medium (Rutgers)">The Medium</a></i></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Peithessophian Society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philoclean_Society" title="Philoclean Society">Philoclean Society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tent_State_University" title="Tent State University">Tent State University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_Agricultural_Field_Day" class="mw-redirect" title="Rutgers Agricultural Field Day">Rutgers Agricultural Field Day</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WRSU-FM" title="WRSU-FM">WRSU</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WVPH" title="WVPH">WVPH (The Core)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color:#CC0033;color:white;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #000000, inset -2px -2px 0 #000000;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_Scarlet_Knights" title="Rutgers Scarlet Knights"><span style="color:white">Athletics</span></a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color:#CC0033;color:white;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #000000, inset -2px -2px 0 #000000;;width:1%">Teams</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_Scarlet_Knights_baseball" title="Rutgers Scarlet Knights baseball">Baseball</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_Scarlet_Knights_men%27s_basketball" title="Rutgers Scarlet Knights men's basketball">Men's basketball</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_Scarlet_Knights_women%27s_basketball" title="Rutgers Scarlet Knights women's basketball">Women's basketball</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_Scarlet_Knights_field_hockey" title="Rutgers Scarlet Knights field hockey">Field hockey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_Scarlet_Knights_football" title="Rutgers Scarlet Knights football">Football</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_Scarlet_Knights_men%27s_lacrosse" title="Rutgers Scarlet Knights men's lacrosse">Men's lacrosse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_Scarlet_Knights_men%27s_soccer" title="Rutgers Scarlet Knights men's soccer">Men's soccer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_Scarlet_Knights_women%27s_soccer" title="Rutgers Scarlet Knights women's soccer">Women's soccer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_Scarlet_Knights_softball" title="Rutgers Scarlet Knights softball">Softball</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_Scarlet_Knights_wrestling" title="Rutgers Scarlet Knights wrestling">Wrestling</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color:#CC0033;color:white;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #000000, inset -2px -2px 0 #000000;;width:1%">Venues</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/College_Avenue_Gymnasium" title="College Avenue Gymnasium">College Avenue Gymnasium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SHI_Stadium" title="SHI Stadium">SHI Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jersey_Mike%27s_Arena" title="Jersey Mike's Arena">Jersey Mike's Arena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yurcak_Field" title="Yurcak Field">Yurcak Field</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color:#CC0033;color:white;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #000000, inset -2px -2px 0 #000000;;width:1%">Rivalries</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Connecticut%E2%80%93Rutgers_women%27s_basketball_rivalry" class="mw-redirect" title="Connecticut–Rutgers women's basketball rivalry">Connecticut (women's basketball)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Princeton%E2%80%93Rutgers_rivalry" title="Princeton–Rutgers rivalry">Princeton</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color:#CC0033;color:white;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #000000, inset -2px -2px 0 #000000;;width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_Glacier" class="mw-redirect" title="Rutgers Glacier">Rutgers Glacier</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background-color:#CC0033;color:white;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #000000, inset -2px -2px 0 #000000;"><div id="Newark_Campus" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_University%E2%80%93Newark" title="Rutgers University–Newark"><span style="color:white">Newark Campus</span></a></div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="background-color:#CC0033;color:white;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #000000, inset -2px -2px 0 #000000;"><div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Newark,_New_Jersey" title="Newark, New Jersey"><span style="color:white">Newark, New Jersey</span></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color:#CC0033;color:white;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #000000, inset -2px -2px 0 #000000;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_University#Academics" title="Rutgers University"><span style="color:white">Academics</span></a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers%E2%80%93Newark" class="mw-redirect" title="Rutgers–Newark">College of Arts and Sciences</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers%E2%80%93Newark" class="mw-redirect" title="Rutgers–Newark">Graduate School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_Graduate_School_of_Biomedical_Sciences" title="Rutgers Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences">Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (Newark campus)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_Medical_School" title="New Jersey Medical School">New Jersey Medical School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_Business_School_%E2%80%93_Newark_and_New_Brunswick" title="Rutgers Business School – Newark and New Brunswick">Rutgers Business School (Newark campus)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_Law_School" title="Rutgers Law School">Rutgers Law School (Newark campus)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=School_of_Criminal_Justice_(Rutgers%E2%80%93Newark)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="School of Criminal Justice (Rutgers–Newark) (page does not exist)">School of Criminal Justice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_School_of_Dental_Medicine" title="Rutgers School of Dental Medicine">School of Dental Medicine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_School_of_Health_Professions" title="Rutgers School of Health Professions">School of Health Professions (Newark campus)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_School_of_Nursing" title="Rutgers School of Nursing">School of Nursing (Newark campus)</a></li> <li>School of Public Affairs and Administration</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_School_of_Public_Health" title="Rutgers School of Public Health">School of Public Health (Newark campus)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_University_College" title="Rutgers University College">University College (Newark campus)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color:#CC0033;color:white;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #000000, inset -2px -2px 0 #000000;;width:1%">Student life</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Newark_Targum" class="mw-redirect" title="The Newark Targum">The Newark Targum</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_Law_Review" title="Rutgers Law Review">Rutgers Law Review</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_Computer_and_Technology_Law_Journal" title="Rutgers Computer and Technology Law Journal">Rutgers Computer and Technology Law Journal</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color:#CC0033;color:white;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #000000, inset -2px -2px 0 #000000;;width:1%">Athletics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers%E2%80%93Newark#Athletics" class="mw-redirect" title="Rutgers–Newark">Scarlet Raiders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Golden_Dome_Athletic_Center" title="Golden Dome Athletic Center">Golden Dome Athletic Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bears_%26_Eagles_Riverfront_Stadium" title="Bears & Eagles Riverfront Stadium">Bears & Eagles Riverfront Stadium</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color:#CC0033;color:white;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #000000, inset -2px -2px 0 #000000;;width:1%">Campus</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/American_Insurance_Company_Building" title="American Insurance Company Building">American Insurance Company Building</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Cotton_Dana_Library" title="John Cotton Dana Library">John Cotton Dana Library</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/One_Washington_Park" title="One Washington Park">One Washington Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_F_Smith_Library_of_the_Health_Sciences" class="mw-redirect" title="George F Smith Library of the Health Sciences">George F Smith Library of the Health Sciences</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background-color:#CC0033;color:white;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #000000, inset -2px -2px 0 #000000;"><div id="Camden_Campus" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_University%E2%80%93Camden" title="Rutgers University–Camden"><span style="color:white">Camden Campus</span></a></div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="background-color:#CC0033;color:white;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #000000, inset -2px -2px 0 #000000;"><div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Camden,_New_Jersey" title="Camden, New Jersey"><span style="color:white">Camden, New Jersey</span></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color:#CC0033;color:white;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #000000, inset -2px -2px 0 #000000;;width:1%">Academics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers%E2%80%93Camden" class="mw-redirect" title="Rutgers–Camden">College of Arts and Sciences</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/StoryQuarterly" title="StoryQuarterly">StoryQuarterly</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cooper_Library_in_Johnson_Park" title="Cooper Library in Johnson Park">Cooper Library</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers%E2%80%93Camden" class="mw-redirect" title="Rutgers–Camden">Graduate School</a></li> <li><a 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Society</a>)</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/University_of_North_Carolina_at_Chapel_Hill" title="University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill">University of North Carolina</a></b> (<a href="/wiki/Dialectic_and_Philanthropic_Societies" title="Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies">Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies</a>)</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/University_of_Pennsylvania" title="University of Pennsylvania">University of Pennsylvania</a></b> (<a href="/wiki/Philomathean_Society" title="Philomathean Society">Philomathean Society</a>)</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/University_of_South_Carolina" title="University of South Carolina">University of South Carolina</a></b> (<a href="/wiki/Clariosophic_Society" title="Clariosophic Society">Clariosophic Society</a>, <a href="/wiki/Euphradian_Society" title="Euphradian Society">Euphradian Society</a>)</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/University_of_Virginia" title="University of Virginia">University of Virginia</a></b> (<a href="/wiki/Jefferson_Literary_and_Debating_Society" title="Jefferson Literary and Debating Society">Jefferson Literary and Debating Society</a>, <a href="/wiki/Washington_Literary_Society_and_Debating_Union" title="Washington Literary Society and Debating Union">Washington Literary Society and Debating Union</a>)</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Washington_%26_Jefferson_College" title="Washington & Jefferson College">Washington & Jefferson College</a></b> (<a href="/wiki/Literary_societies_at_Washington_%26_Jefferson_College" title="Literary societies at Washington & Jefferson College">Literary societies at Washington & Jefferson College</a>)</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Vassar_College" title="Vassar College">Vassar College</a></b> (<a href="/wiki/The_Philaletheis_Society" title="The Philaletheis Society">The Philaletheis Society</a>)</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale University</a></b> (<a href="/wiki/Brothers_in_Unity" title="Brothers in Unity">Brothers in Unity</a>, <a href="/wiki/Calliopean_Society" title="Calliopean Society">Calliopean Society</a>, <a href="/wiki/Crotonia_(literary_society)" title="Crotonia (literary society)">Crotonia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Elizabethan_Club" title="Elizabethan Club">Elizabethan Club</a>, <a href="/wiki/Linonian_Society" title="Linonian Society">Linonian Society</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yale_Political_Union" title="Yale Political Union">Yale Political Union</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color:#041E42;color:#FFFFFF;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #AFA9A0, inset -2px -2px 0 #AFA9A0;;width:1%">Multi-campus</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Alpha_Delta_Phi_Society" title="Alpha Delta Phi Society">Alpha Delta Phi Society</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/St._Anthony_Hall" title="St. Anthony Hall">St. Anthony 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societies</a>)</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Hendrix_College" title="Hendrix College">Hendrix College</a></b> (<a href="/wiki/Harlan_Literary_Society" title="Harlan Literary Society">Harlan Literary Society</a>)</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/New_York_University" title="New York University">New York University</a></b> (<a href="/wiki/Philomathean_Society_(New_York_University)" title="Philomathean Society (New York University)">Philomathean Society</a>)</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_University" title="Rutgers University">Rutgers University</a></b> (<a class="mw-selflink selflink">Peithessophian Society</a>, <a href="/wiki/Philoclean_Society" title="Philoclean Society">Philoclean Society</a>)</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/University_of_Rochester" title="University of Rochester">University of Rochester</a></b> (<a href="/wiki/Delphic_Society_(Rochester)" title="Delphic Society (Rochester)">Delphic Society</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>    </div><noscript><img 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