Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1853-12-16
70 the Editors Of the Enquirer.

WILLIAMSBURG Decl, 1853.
Dear Sirs: Believing thai you feel :nuested the wei
fare Of our Southern Institutions uf Learning have sem
you few statistics concerning The cole u filom and
Mary an institution that should be dear ever Virginan
and may | not gay every Southcrner2
The number OF Academic students ths'esson5 a. oelGg
ID more than had at this time last Session.
Of the "a students, 63 are from Vir!na, rom Norm
Carolina, 2 from Baltimore Md iron Geo.a and one
trct of Columbia. Williamsburg TO- Norfolk and
Portsmouth six. The average ages l5 aa session It
20 years The greatest number sudens attending
his college time, during thsesson Of lS39-io
when the matricu'aes numbered lao.
1t is OF wonder well rgret 10 ne thai We
have hundred academies ,udent:. we nave
Faculty surpassed by in point oerary ;itanmenis
the head of whom is Bishop Johns and beloved
throughout the whole diocese.
Our course Of instruction, any may by eSamn-
ing the laws Of the college, Is thoroul and sHcced only
by that OF the University Of The State
The standard Of scholarship alwaysgh has been raised
this last session still higher.
Williamsburg, The beautiful vlsgen which the C0Iiege
is situated, is admirably adapted student There arc
Of the cxCiiCmcn;s OF large " TO draw his NINA
from study while there is society unpassed in the State
where he may visit when seeking Taxation from his STU
dies.
We cannot Imagine how yirgInian how Soulhc,ners can
send their sons TO Northern Colleges hn SUPPORT Faculties
composed Of prorssed Abolonsso Increase the pfuspe-
rity OF Yankee cities, and TO enrich o.her Jonaans, who
for their only so long leir money may las
while Colleges in their midst whchby liberal patronage
could be made aurerior to those at Northo look al
the University Of Vrgina)-have az many sudcns al
tending them it would take ppo decently an old
field grammar school.
There is ore feature about WlIin and Mary which |
would do wrong speak Of tht the Law School!
conducted by Judge Geo G. Scarbur
The Law School OF William and ary has been held
in high esteem; many OF the brilliant lawyers and
OF Ibis day and OF past gaeraons graduated al
1t. No less parsonage than "OldBulon" himself! "l'o
graced eea in the Senate chambernli he tread on hia'
sisspps Fooie ard who siuJs at The head oil over
three hundred fellow representatives, the sovereign people
Of America in point Of talent, graduled at this School
Besides the greatest military lawer in the world, Gen
Winfield Scott, read law at William nd Mary.
At the death Of the late amenied ,dgc Tucker who had
noby sustained The reputation that s talented father mad
for it, the law school coseor time; this caused
many who intended TO acquire their ea education here 10
go elsewhere But st session. the shoc revived under
Judge Scahurg whose luens ant energy cannot fail 10
bring again numbers OF young men 10 William and
Mary, receive their fathers we're wont do before
them, their legal education.
No one can say that any Unvetily in the North pos
superior advantages for sucyrs law, than can oe
found at William aud Mary under Sarturg, at the Uni
vesiy under Minor. Yet the Norti.rn schools are n-
mcously attended by soullerners One Unvers ty having
upwards Of thirty sOutherners alicndnc its law class
But hope Judge Scarbng will :eco;ye hearty support
throughout The whole South
Already he has TWO Georeans In fis class ind we nope
long, every State south Mason and Dixon
ne and every section Of the Old Dominion represented In
the Law School OF William and Mary SO mote il be-
l