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

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done them. These blocks, a separate one for each color in the print, were cut exprefsly for this book by the well-known artist, Charles W. Smith, who devoted much time and research in their preparation. It is the hope of the staff that we have captured, even to a small extent, some of the calm beauty which made Williamsburg famous throughout the eighteenth century world. We, then, present this thirty-first volume of The Colonial Echo to you as a reminder of the days when you watched Williamsburg come back out of the past — for a glorious future.

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A] FOREWORD lN echo of the past, a reincarnation of the lazy, beautiful Williamsburg of Colonial days, sur- rounds us here. It is particularly suitable then that we fit this, the thirty-first volume of The Colonial Echo, to the things about us. Even the name suggests the theme, that of the rebirth of Colonial Williamsburg. With this in mind, the staff has conscientiously tried to build up a book which, wherever pofsible, has been modeled after those printed by William Parkes, a famous printer of Williamsburg in the eighteenth cen- tury. The cover, the paper, the typeface, the block- prints, all belong to that colorful period when Wash- ington, Jefferson and Franklin linked their names with that of William and Mary. It is regretted that the mechanical limitations im- posed by photo- engraving prohibit us from using the same paper and type throughout the book, but, since this could not be done, we have tried to match all sec- tions as closely as pofsible. The division pages of this volume of The Colo- nial Echo are interesting. They are reproduced directly from blocks to the pages in this book, in just the fashion that William Parkes or Benjamin Franklin would have

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ft.0Cy 0C30 0OC0O00G S0O0 S00OG0GX 0O0 0O00Cy 3O jC? I5r5?5ooo6o©oooe6o »00oc 5006o AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF THE COLLEGE i f-fr ILLIAM AND MARY elories in licr past, and for good reason. 5; ' r -.ir -;Ci Founded in the dim days of carlv colonization, this ancient institution ' .S4 f ' ' • has been responsible for the education of many Revolutionary leaders v-i ' T $ ? and statesmen, men to whom much of the credit for the pioneering prog- ress of this country may be attributed. This great educational work of of the college did not cease in those Colonial days, but it has continued, throughout generations, to offer educational advantages and inspiration to many famous men in Ameri- can history. The Main Building, supposedly designed, according to musty records, by that illus- trious gentleman, Sir Christopher Wren, has been the nucleus of the College. It has served in many capacities during the many decades of its existence, having been used as the Capitol Building for the Colonies, as a hospital for wounded soldiers, and. as a tunnel from its cellar to a small creek a mile away would indicate, as a fort against Indian in- vasion. The ideals, principles and habits of the Colonial student did not differ to any great extent from those of the student of today. Thomas Jefferson did not pay his board bill for two years and James Monroe, of Doctrine fame, had a squabble with a stew- ardess over lost laundry and her partiality to a nephew in the matter of candle allow- ince. Failing to exhibit the strong sense of assurance which characterized the gentleman