The college he founded, King's College, was renamed by the New York Assembly after the Revolutionary War, and is now Columbia University. For over 260 years, "Columbia has been a leader in higher education in the nation and around the world." In one ranking in 2008, it was tied with two others as the top ranked American University. Nobel Prize winner, Columbia President, and American Philosopher Nicholas Murray Butler summed up Johnson's impact as an educator and philosopher: "Suffice it to say here that Samuel Johnson was, with all his obvious limitations, a very remarkable man. No one but a remarkable man could have had his career, have rendered his public service, or have had his vision of what world-wide illumination might follow from the flickering little candle which he lighted in the vestry room of Trinity Church during the summer months of 1754.”