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

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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,

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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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the necessary attention which those I ' l-ofessors oiiglit to pa - to the conduct and behavior of the students has been ahiiost totally interrui)ted. Where- upon they solemnly declare that those I ' rofessors, by engat ing ' in marriage and the concerns of a private family and shifting iheir residence to am place without the college had acted contrary to the principles upon which the college was founded and their duty as Professors. ' Then follows the broad resolve that all i ' rofessors and Masters hereafter to lie ap| ointed, be con- stantly residents of y ' college, and upon marriage of such Professor or Mas- ter that his professorship he iiiinwdiahly ' i ' ucalcd. JAMES MONROE. President of the United States. llowexer ai ' liitrarx and anti-matrimonial these visitors inaA ' seem, they governed the alYairs of the college in a wise and jitdicious manner, as is shown by the umisual clegree of prosperity that it enjoyed during their administration. r.efore 1781 the yearly income of the college, from dtities and advan- tages granted by the charter and front the many handsome endowments thai it received from the colonists, was abotit £4.000. I ' .y tln ' Ucxdlnlion it lost :ill of its endowment except $2,500 and the extensive grants oi land orig- inalK conferred by the favor of Kin.g ' illiam and Otieen Marv. The sale of these lands ;ind some others in the neighborhood nf Williamsbitrg, voteil to 27