College of William and Mary - Colonial Echo Yearbook (Williamsburg, VA)

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was often coiisiilcrahly exercised to control their restless natures. A few (juotations from the okl records may be (jf interest and amtisement. In the first place, it would appear that some of these young gentlemen liad unbounded love for horse-racing, billiards and other amusements, which, if indulged, was naturally calculated to detract from the performance of college duties. Therefore, we find that at a meeting of that august body in 1752, it was ordered that no scholar belonging to any school in y col- lege of what age, rank, or quality soever, do keep any race-horse at y ' ' college or in y town, or anywhere. If the student dared to break the rules of the Faculty, or was ' in any way concerned in making races and abetting those made by others. he should be immediately despatched and GEORGE WYTHE. Chancellor of Virginia. Stwhni aho ' it 17. ' 0 ; I ' rofesmv nf Law I77II-I7S!). sent ofT and never again lirought back under [)ain of severest animadversion and pimishnient. Having put its foot down on horse-racing, the h ' aculty then ]iroceeds to order that no scholar do presume to ap])ear playing y ' ' billiards or other gaming tables or be in any way concerned in keeping ligh ling-cocks, under y like severe animadversion and i)unishnient. othing could be more annising than the record of the action taken by the ' isitors on a certain occasion in 1761). when the Kev. . lr. |ohn (amm and the Kev. . lr. Josiali Johnson were arraigned for the terrible crime of having lalclx married and taken up tb.eir residence in the citv of Williamsburg, by which great inconvenience has arisen to the college, and 25

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RUINS OF JAMESTOWN TOWER SEVEN MILES FROM THE COLLEGE,

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1. I. 1-Jo, by lijiri er BrotlK-is. THE OLD CAPITOL. Erected in 1731 , burnt in 1832. RESIDENCE OF CHANCELLOR GEORGE WYTHE, IN WILLIAMSBURG. tleai ' innrie i- ' i of Gevrye Wasliwijtmi hi liSl,