Colonial Echo, 1899 . iritits Sancti. Amen. The religious character wasshown bv the selection of oilficers. Rev. James Blair was the first president,and the of London and .Archbishop of Canterbury were the holders 22 of the chancellorship down to the Kexolution. After this time the collegewas presided over by IJishops Ahulison, Johns, anil other eminent after the Revolution all connection between college and churchand state were severed by Jefferson, some of the most distinguished divinesof modern days have been sons of William and Mary. William and .Mary, like Harvard
Colonial Echo, 1899 . iritits Sancti. Amen. The religious character wasshown bv the selection of oilficers. Rev. James Blair was the first president,and the of London and .Archbishop of Canterbury were the holders 22 of the chancellorship down to the Kexolution. After this time the collegewas presided over by IJishops Ahulison, Johns, anil other eminent after the Revolution all connection between college and churchand state were severed by Jefferson, some of the most distinguished divinesof modern days have been sons of William and Mary. William and .Mary, like Harvard, had no private ends to subserve : it haslived for the State. The privileges granted in the charter of 1693 had greatinfluence in Ijringing the college into close connection with the State. Uvbeing situated in Williamsljurg. which, for a long time, was the social ami])olitical center of the colonies, it had every opportunity for sending out themen wdio should shape the destinies of our countr\. \\\ holding the office. EDMUND RANDOLPHGovernor of Virginia and Secretary of State. Stiilfti 17:i:: Mtmirr nl the Board of Visitors 1779. of Surveyor-! ieneral. it practically coiUrolled the land system, and thus thewisest statesman that .America can boast of—George Washington— receivedfrom William and Mary his first commission as a ])ublic laud surveyor, itexercised the duties of this office miti! ;, and among the other by the college, were Zachary Taxlor. grandfather of the late(ieneral Taylor, and Thomas Jefferson. iVior to the Revolution, the college consisted of six schools includingtlie Indian school, sujjported ])\- the donation of Hon. Robert Boyle. Tlie average niunbcr of students was ai)out sixty. Tliese were uniexce])tions to the general rule of young men of their time, and the Iaculty 23
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