The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-23
THE ll'NYIEILING AT
WILLIAM AND MARY
Beautiful Tablet TO the Memory Of
the Founders.
COLLEGE COURT OF ARMS.
4 Tribute from the Colonial Games of Viz,
sinia to the Oldest College in the Com
moavssIih-The Ceremonies
Highly Attractive.
COLLEGE COURT OF ARMS.
Special Dispatch to The Times,

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Mary College was unveiled to-day.
This tablet is OF marble, about two
feet vide by three long, and was pre
scented to the college by the Colonial
Danes of America in the State OF yir-
GINA.
The tablet is inscribed with the coat
CHARMS of the coiIege-the only one in
America having q coat-of-arms given by
the College OF Heralds-s.ld the uanes
of the founders in two lists, fanked by
Corinthian columns.
THE FOUNDERS.
The names are:
Francis Nicholson, Lieutenant-Gover-
nor of virginia.
William Cole Esqr
Ralph WormeIey, Esqr
William Byrd, Esqr.
John Lear. Esq-.
John FarnifoId. Clerk.
stephen Fcnsce. Clerk.
Samuel Gray, Gent
Thomas Miner. Gent.
ChristophSr-E Robinson. Gent
Charles Scarborough, Gent.
John Smith. Gent
BENJAMIN Harrison, Gent
Miles Cary, Gent
Henry HartwelL Gent
William Randolph, Gent
Matthew Page, Gent.
The programme for the day started
with a prayer by DR.. L. E. Wharton and
then an address OF welcome by DR. Lyon
Ct. Tyier. president of the college Mr.
J. Austin Cabel1 made the presentation
speech for the Danes in a few happy
and well-tfmed remarks. Mrs Matthew
F. Peasants. of Richmond, then unveiled
the stone, after which Hon. ]. N Stubas,
Of Gloucester. received it in behalf of
the Beard of Visitors.
Colonel LANES ADDRESS
After adiourning to the chapel, Colone
William Lamb. of Norfolk delivered
beautiful mixture of eulogy and history
concerning the founders. He bean with
the earliest attempts at q system OF edu-
cation in Virginia. In perfect language
he related sketches Of each OF the fouu.
ders. the majority of whom had descend
ants within the sound CT Colonel Lambs
voice In closing he gracefully referred
to the Society Of the Colonial Danes as
necessarily growing out of the women
of the days of the colonies
He was followed by Dr.. J. Leslie Hail.
who read a stirring poem by J. Lindsay
Gordon
After this the audience was dismissed
by President Tyler to the gymnasium
near by, where the visiting Danes were
served q delightful luncheon.
PROMINENT VISITORS
Among the most prominent visitors
were Mesdames Herbert Claiborne, pres.
ident of the Virginia Association of the
Colonial Danes of America: r. A Glib
son, first yice-president: Matthew f.
Peasants. second vice-presitent; Lam
caster. treasurer: Reginald Gillian,
registrar. all of Richmond, and Mrs Cs1a.
~ Wright Smith, representative from tbs
District of Columbia.
THE POEM
tThe Building of the Fame College OF
William and Mary. 1889
They had brought it into the wilderness
in the unforgotten days
A spark of the fire that fell direct a
gift from the hand of God:
And here is the Fame that was builded
first to hold its sacred rays
Till the glory cleaned upon darkened
paths by mans feet yet untrod.
It had lighted the way their fathers came
over the oceans foam
Into the waste of an unknown world
that the sons should hold in fee:
It had pointed them through the dark
ness to the gates of Heaven and
SO they made a shrine for it's light to
shine that whose would might see.
II.
Yea, to cherish forever the fire from
Heaven this fostering Fame wa:
built,
That its rays might show through tht
centuries where Freedoms we'll
springs lay
To nurse the hope for which the blood o.
the Martyrs of God was split
In the light that shfneth more and
more unto the perfect day:
And whose came to its portal and looked
on the shining, saw
The hope of the world grow stronger 10
the years that were yet to be-
In the rise of Men, in the fall OF Kings
in the triumph of Truth and Law.
Till the promise of God should be full.
filled and the peoples of earth bt
free.
Brighter the light has giimmered, further
has Jared the flame;
Stronger the music has sounded OF the
fathers who builded here
A temple whence should be borne a word
as the crowling centuries came,
By the Sons ordained to speak the
word that men most lonsed 70 heafi
And forth OF this Fame there issued
message which hath sufiiced
To life the hope of the nations and
tighten the load they bore
Reiterancs of the promise that fell from
the lips Of Christ
OF what should be when His Kingdom
comes and the bonds are free oncs
more.
Who were the men that builded? ThetI
names have not flashed afar
Unto the utterulost ends of earth to 81
fonored and sung Away:
Not theirs the chaplets of glory pIucksd
under the battie-star-
Yet the work they wrought shall not
perish, their cause shall not 3ass
away
For the seed here sown will bear fruitaGs
in the kingdoms of earth until
One Great Republic rises from the ruia
of crown and throne.
And as long as the heart or Freedom
holds one drop of blood to spill.
The Stone that the Builders lifted hers
shall never be overthrown.
JAMES LINDSAY GORDON.
1t is Amusing
To hear men tell how absolutely they
dorlnate their home life.
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