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Philip Milledoler was a minister and the fifth president of Rutgers University (Rutgers College, then), but it&#8217;s a little more complicated than that. 



Milledoler took a moribund college and transformed it into the intellectual powerhouse it is today. But how it happened is at the heart of our story. 




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