Colonial Echo, 1899 . completely destroyed the building, with thelaboratory and other apparatus. Steps were immetliately taken for rebuild-ing, but owing to the lack of funds, the work was not entirel)- completeduntil 1723. soon after which a full corps of six professors was selected, andthe college entered upon a career of usefulness unparalleletl by anv otherinstitution in the countr\. Opposite the Urafferton on the college campus stands the Iresi-dents house, the foundation of which was laid in 1732. During the Revo-lution this building was accidently burned w-hile occupied h\- Frenchtroops
Colonial Echo, 1899 . completely destroyed the building, with thelaboratory and other apparatus. Steps were immetliately taken for rebuild-ing, but owing to the lack of funds, the work was not entirel)- completeduntil 1723. soon after which a full corps of six professors was selected, andthe college entered upon a career of usefulness unparalleletl by anv otherinstitution in the countr\. Opposite the Urafferton on the college campus stands the Iresi-dents house, the foundation of which was laid in 1732. During the Revo-lution this building was accidently burned w-hile occupied h\- Frenchtroops before the siege of Yorktown. Louis X\l kindly rebuilt it. and ])rc-scnted the college library with six hundred volumes of great value. -About this time the famous old chapel which forms the southwesternwing of the college building, was opened. It was concerning this Meade, in his Old .d F.\mii,ies of Virgixia. sairl:?? Williamsburg was once the miniature copy of the Court of St. James, r.
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