. Bulletin of the College of William and Mary--Virginia Educational Conference Edition . ere is gleaming yet A quickening light for the years afar,And the race shall perish whose sons forget: From the days that were come the days that are. gtbtmt tfje Campus. OWHERE in America, perhaps, do memories of thepast so thickly cluster as about the College of Wil-liam and Mary. The College was chartered in1693 by King William and Queen Mary, and itsvery name is suggestive of associations with anOld World and a New. Upon the campus stand the dormi-tories which bear, on the one hand, the name of the Eng
. Bulletin of the College of William and Mary--Virginia Educational Conference Edition . ere is gleaming yet A quickening light for the years afar,And the race shall perish whose sons forget: From the days that were come the days that are. gtbtmt tfje Campus. OWHERE in America, perhaps, do memories of thepast so thickly cluster as about the College of Wil-liam and Mary. The College was chartered in1693 by King William and Queen Mary, and itsvery name is suggestive of associations with anOld World and a New. Upon the campus stand the dormi-tories which bear, on the one hand, the name of the Englishestate of the wise Sir Robert Boyle, the Brafferton, and onthe other the names of two of Virginias illustrious sons, Ewelland Taliaferro. The Presidents house, accidentally destroyedby fire started by French troops during the seige of York-town, was restored at the private cost of a king of the Library and on the college walls, hang the portraits ofstatesmen, warriors, poets, who were identified with the col-lege in colonial and later times. Under the college Chapel are. 4 William and Mary College the last resting places of men noted in the annals of earlyVirginia; among them that of the popular royal governor,Lord Botetourt, whose statue stands in front of the mainbuilding of the college. The campus itself is made sacred bythe footsteps of the patriots, Washington, Jefferson, Marshalland Monroe. ®!je H»torp, Fostered by the king and queen of England and underthe care of the bishops of London, the work of the collegeprogressed from the foundation. During the long incumbencyof the able first president, Dr. James Blair, the main buildingof the college was unfortunately burned, though the work ofteaching went forward in spite of the disaster. By 1711, thecollege had been rebuilt upon the old walls, and in 1723 theBrafferton building was erected and used at first as the IndianSchool. Later, the south wing was added to the college for achapel, in 1732, and in the sam
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