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the home of Bishop Robert Smith, located on 6 Glebe Street in the
Harelston Village neighborhood. The building today still stands and serves as the residential home for the presidents to the college. Robert Bishop Smith retired from the presidential role in 1797, leaving the college to its second president, Thomas Bee Jr. Bishop Robert Smith's legacy to the College of Charleston was long noted and revered, and the "Bishop Robert Smith Award" was for many years the highest achievement that an undergraduate student could earn.
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Congress on February 17th 1775- Observed as a day of fasting & humiliation, on account of the unhappy differences between Great Britain & her Colonies." The importance of this sermon stems from Smith's vocabulary. Smith did not refer to any "colonies" or any possible threat of a "civil war," but rather referred to the ability of self governing colonies not as a right of man, but as a "right of man's duty to God."
386:. The current president of the College of Charleston, President Andrew Hsu, said that his decision came when the discovery was made that "at the time of his death, Smith enslaved more than 200 people." This decision by the College of Charleston also effected the "Aiken's Fellows Society," a group reserved for the groups highest performing students within the school's honor college. The group is now known as the Charleston Fellows.
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