Colonial Echo, 1899 . .Mar\- was not anexception to the general rule. Old endowments had been lost, new onesproved inadecpiate, and the annual exjjenses exceeded the annual income. 30 The \ciKTal)lc Iri-sitlent, [alijaniiii S. Ewell, thrice appeared before Lon-gress, asking lor reiniburscnient for buildings destroyed 1)\ the wanton aetsof Federal Troops. This bill was ably supported by Senator Hoar, of Massa-chusetts, and others, Init with no avail; and an institution which was oncethe beacon of learning and |)iilitical intelligence, not alone for \ irginia. butfor the whole South and for the
Colonial Echo, 1899 . .Mar\- was not anexception to the general rule. Old endowments had been lost, new onesproved inadecpiate, and the annual exjjenses exceeded the annual income. 30 The \ciKTal)lc Iri-sitlent, [alijaniiii S. Ewell, thrice appeared before Lon-gress, asking lor reiniburscnient for buildings destroyed 1)\ the wanton aetsof Federal Troops. This bill was ably supported by Senator Hoar, of Massa-chusetts, and others, Init with no avail; and an institution which was oncethe beacon of learning and |)iilitical intelligence, not alone for \ irginia. butfor the whole South and for the country at large, was suffered to decline bya nation which owed it an actual though ])altry debt of $70,000, Nobleeff(jrts were made to sustain the collei^e, liiii at last all of the professors weredismissed because their salaries could not be jiaid ; 1881 found it without asingle student, and exercises were stispended until 1888. The presidentalone remained at his ])ost, and at the beginning of each year. JOHN of the United States. SOdkiit lS02-hS(ir; Member of the Board of Visifor^ 1S14-1S6S\C/innrrllor of the Coll,r/e lS59-lfi(ig. the college bell tu be rung as a reminder tn the peo|ile that althoughforgotten and neglected, \\ illiam and .Mary could not die. During the stis]jension of seven years, the debts were reduced to $7,000,and this was the state of affairs when, in 1888, the proposition by which theinstitutiiin was revived, was first ))resented to the State Legislature. The(.onstituticMi of the State made it mandatory tqion the Legislatiu-e to estab-lish normal schools. Tt was shown that the use of the college buildingswould save the .Stati- a largi outlay n\ money. Afoxed bv this considerationand by the generous motive of making some rejjaration for revolutionarvlosses and of rescuing from destruction an object of such historic interest 31 and coniiCL-liuiis. llic Legislatiin- appruprialcd the sum of $10,000 annuallyto the college
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