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

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in later years, Monroe dropped tlie case when tlie ired lady tired a lawyer to defend her name. Complaints about this and that, food in particular, were often voiced by the Jeffersons and Madisons of that time. The statue of Lord Botetourt, now standing on the William and Mary campus in front of the Main Building, can most certainly be linked with the College history. Purchased with funds raised by popular subscription, this memorial was exposed to the Colonial public in an atmosphere of ill feeling. A gentleman in London, irked by the lack of courtesy on the part of the Colonists in not extending a word of appreciation to him for the trouble he had taken m having the statue crated and shipped to the States from London, complained by letter to his son, who was living in Yorktown. He was in quite a huff about the matter and made his displeasure known in no uncertain fashion. This was only the beginning of trouble for old Lord Botetourt. Not long after the statue had been erected in the Capitol Building, the Revolution began. More musty records show that the Colonists demonstrated the fact that they didn ' t appreciate Great Britain or, even in marble form, anything British. This feeling they conclusively proved by knocking off the arm and head from the Lords Statue. Today, close observance will reveal how the head has been joined to the Statue. From the Capitol Building the statue was taken to the Duke of Gloucester Street and from there to its present position, where it suffers new indignities each year, stand- ing as a grotesque old man without a nose and a hand, but a loved old man nevertheless. This history of the school is filled with interesting things which have happened in an unusual past, but we have not space to tell of them. Let it be sufficient to say that we believe its delightful past is but an indication of its glorious future.

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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

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::x M;iMo:R::AM MCMXXXII Dr. Van F. Garrett Clan of 1 866 Graham B. Nichol Class of 1896 John William Rice Claw of 1871 I. D. Akcrs Class of 1911 Rev. M. S. Kennedy Cla« of 1877 Nelson B. Peebles Class of 1918 Charles W. Coleman Class of 1878 Henry Ball Class of 1918 Dr. J. C. Lumpkin Class of 1 891 Mrs. Ruth A. Pointer Class of 1 93 I William Hatcher Jones Class of 1894 George Stewart Class of 1931 George Cole Scott Class of 1894 W. S. Benton Class of 193Z Dr. E. C. S. Taliaferro Class of 1895 Charles McNeil Mott Class of 1933