Colonial Echo, 1899 . K conferred by the favor of \\illiam and Otieen Marv. The sale ofthese lands ;ind some others in the neighborhood nf Williamsbitrg, voteil to 27 the coUcijt li\ iIk- Lci; cnahU-il tin- colU-s^e to realize a suftieinitmini 111 piosi-cme Us work as of old. IIk- iirijanizatiiin ami courses, however, were entirely cliaiiijed hyJefferson. At this college, as in other places, this eniint-ni philosophershowed himself to be at least one hundred years ahead nf his time. .Manychang;es which he made in the courses at William and Mar\. are only justbeinjj adopted by
Colonial Echo, 1899 . K conferred by the favor of \\illiam and Otieen Marv. The sale ofthese lands ;ind some others in the neighborhood nf Williamsbitrg, voteil to 27 the coUcijt li\ iIk- Lci; cnahU-il tin- colU-s^e to realize a suftieinitmini 111 piosi-cme Us work as of old. IIk- iirijanizatiiin ami courses, however, were entirely cliaiiijed hyJefferson. At this college, as in other places, this eniint-ni philosophershowed himself to be at least one hundred years ahead nf his time. .Manychang;es which he made in the courses at William and Mar\. are only justbeinjj adopted by other ;es. ISeing elected in ijcj one of the Board ofNisitors, he had the two professc^rships of Divinity and ( iriental Languagesabolished and substituted a professorship of Law and Police, one of Auat-om\-. and one of Modern Languages; and as the charter confined the Fac-ulty to six professors, he added the Law- of Nature and Nations and the Fine Arts to the duties of the NForal Professor, and Natural History. RESIDENCE OF JOHN BLAIR, IN WILLIAMSBURG. Fiirmerly Burmr of the Ccllef/e; Associate Jus/ire f the Sit/iriiiie C<iiirt nf Ihe United Slates. to the duties of the Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philo,TOi)hy. Asthe English courts refused to permit the rents from the llrafferton estateto come to America after the Revolution, the Indian school was i/Sc; Washington was elected Chancellor, and under the wiseguidance of Jhshop Aladison and his successors, the college continued itscareer of usefulness. From 1835 to the Civil War the catalogues show anaverage \earl\- attendance of seventy-five students who came to drink atthis spring of ])hilosophy. literature, and science, under the guidance ofsuch men as Judge Beverley Tucker, the Right Rev. John Johns, Thomas ^ew, and their associates and successors. The largest number attending atanv one time was in 1840 under President Thomas , when ihe matric-ulation book showed an attendance of one hu
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