The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-12-25
fuI as to obtain charter (February 10,

ful as to obtain n charter February 10,
1881 aud l!Jera. subscription. s'-'s
Thus st2fted on its career Of usefulness.
William and Mary has made history Of
whtsn the whole State should be proud, but
which you have not space and have not
time to sketch. / will, however, give the
following extracts from the record OF the
faculty as throwing some light on the early
history OF the college and habits OF the
people:
"Sep'r ye 18th, 1852. :. I. Ordered,
vt no scholar belonging to any school in the
college, Of what age, rank, or quality eoever,
do keep any race-horse at ye college, In ye
town, or anywhere in ye neighbourhood,
vt they be not anyway concerned In making
races. or IN backing or abetfing those made
by others; and Ut all race-horses kept In ye
neighbourhood Of ye college, and belonging
TO any Of We scholars, be Immediately dis
patched and sent of, and never again brought
back; aud all this under pain of ye seyereSt
animadversion and punishment.
"2. Ordered, vt no scholar belonging to
&c college, of what age, rank, or quality So
ever, or wheresoever residing within or
without ye college, do presume to appear
playing or betting at We billiard or other
gaming-tableS, or be anyway concerned in
keeping or lighting cocks, under pain Of We
like severe animadversion or punishment.
(Signed] CIVILIAN STITH."
One Of her eloquent sons says Of William
and Mary: "How few students, compare
lively. have been sent forth from William
and Mary in past times, and yet what pub
lie council, from the session Of the House of
B,lrgesscs Of 1865 to the present hour, has
not been illumined by their wisdom and
cioquencc? What battlefield from York
town to Lundy's Lane, and from Lundy's
Lane to Fort Fisher, has not been illustra-
ted by their yalor?" And again "What
his she not accomplished, this good old
mother, whose germ was planted in 1913,
before Plymouth rock received the pilgrims,
which took root in 1860, and which bore its
fruit in 1898: Besides long roll Of most
eminent divines. lawyers, and physicians, in
private life she has given to the country four
signcrS Of the Declaration of Independence,
three Presidents Of the United States. one
Chief-JuSiice, two eminent Attorney-Gene-
rails of the United States; to the lower house
Of Congress of the United states, twenty
members; to the upper house, fifteen sena-
tors to Virginia and ether States, seventeen
governors, one historian, and numberles>
writers Of distinction !: to The United States
and TO the State, thirty-seven judges ; to the
national army, acknowledgement whose
conquest of Mexico in daring, in skill, in
genius, rivalled if it did not eclipse that of
CorteZ. and Z score of principal and subor-
dinate officers; to the navy, list of Pala-
dins of the sea. 10 all, more than two hun
dred >ages and heroes, preeninently distin-
guished in pubic service and place"
1t was very interesting to me to visit the
college grounds and buildings, to gaze on
the statue of Lord Botetourt zone of the
finest pieces Of sculpture have ever SEEM,
to visit the library where are still preserved
portraits Of Blair, Boyle, and others, and to
learn that the present handsome buildings
have the original walls, which have stood the
three fires of 1905, 1859, aud 1862, and which
show the strength Of walls built in those
days. May they be emblematic of the future
strength and prosperity of this grand old
college. And may that prosperity begin at
once under its present able faculty.
had opportunity of visiting the Eastern
Lunatic Asylum again, and OF noting other
improvements which seem to be constantly
projected under the present able manage
ment.
But the good steamer John Sylvester has
given me quick and comfortable trip de
spite the stormy, and your printers will be
glad that / partook too heartily of their eX-
cellent dinner to write more. FIAToR.