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

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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

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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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the coUcijt ' li iIk- Lci;islaturi.-. cnahU-il tin- colU-s e to realize a suftieinit mini 111 piosi-cme Us work as of old. IIk- iirijanizatiiin ami courses, however, were entirely cliaiiijed hy Jefferson. At this college, as in other places, this eniint-ni philosopher showed himself to be at least one hundred years ahead nf his time. .Many chang;es which he made in the courses at William and Mar . are only just beinjj adopted by other colle.q;es. ISeing elected in ij ' cj one of the Board of N ' isitors, he had the two professc rships of Divinity and ( iriental Languages abolished and substituted a professorship of ' Law and Police, one of Auat- om -. and one of Modern Languages; and as the charter confined the Fac- ulty to six professors, he added the Law- of Nature and Nations and the Fine Arts to the duties of the NForal Professor, and Natural History RESIDENCE OF JOHN BLAIR, IN WILLIAMSBURG. Fiirmerly Burmr of the Ccllef e ; Associate Jus ire f the Sit iri ' iiie C iiirt nf Ihe United Slates. to the duties of the Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philo,TOi)hy. As the English courts refused to permit the rents from the llrafferton estate to come to America after the Revolution, the Indian school was abandoned. In i Sc; Washington was elected Chancellor, and under the wise guidance of Jhshop Aladison and his successors, the college continued its career of usefulness. From 1835 to the Civil War the catalogues show an average earl - attendance of seventy-five students who came to drink at this spring of ])hilosophy. literature, and science, under the guidance of such men as Judge Beverley Tucker, the Right Rev. John Johns, Thomas R. T ew, and their associates and successors. The largest number attending at anv one time was in 1840 under President Thomas D.Devv, when ihe matric- ulation book showed an attendance of one hundred and forty. 28