The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-10-21
President To Visit Viii
liamsburg, Virginia
SPEAK AT OLD COLLEGE
Also Participate In 10th Ami
versary Surrender Corn
wallis At Yorktown
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch

Williamsburg, Va, October IT,
When President Harding comes to
Williamsburg on October 10 to de-
liver an address at the Inauguration
Of new president of William and
Mary College he will also participate
in the one hundred and fortic.h ar
niversary of the surrender of Lord
CORVALLIS at Morktown, Va.
Yorktown Day." while not gener
ally observed elsewhere is the &C.
casion OF an annual celeof 4.ion at
William and Mary, in whose. halls
both the British and the Colonial
armies quartered their, troops during
the Revolution. There was great re-
joicing in Williamsburg when Wash
ington and Lafayette delivered the
city from its nearby foes and since
then William and Mary students
have journeyed each year to York
Leave Washington on Mayfiower
President Harding, accompanied by
Mrs. Harding will leave Washington
on the Mayfiower, October Is and
will arrive at Yorktown on the
morning of the 10Th. coming first to
Williamsburg where the President
will deliver the principal address at
the formal installation of DR.. j. A. C.
Chandler as president of the College
Westmoreland Davis of Virginia will
preside at the exercises, which it is
expectedA will be attended by rep
resentatives of several European
Universities and Of all colleges and
universities in the United States
which are more than one hundred
years old.
dent will. be the guest of President
Chandler in the old Presidents
Fousa on and the eornMs where La
headquarters alternately during !. the
revolution. The president and party
then will go to jamestown, seven
miles away, the site of the first Eng
fish" colony in America.
Second Oldest COLLEGE
William and Mary. founded in 1898
bis the second oldest college in the
country, being ranked only by Harv-
ard. Among her alumni were three
Tyler; four justices of the United
States supreme court-John Marsh
all, John Blair, Bushrod Washington
and Phillip P. Barbour; four signers
of the declaration of independence
George Wythe, Thomas jefferson
Carter BraXton and Benjamin Harri
son; twenty nine United States SELL
ators; twenty two governors; three
speakers of the house of representa-
tives: ten cabinet officers and many
representatives William Barton Rog
ers, founder of the Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology and General
Winfield Scott also were graduates
of the school.
Yorktown, where the MayfioweI
will land the, presidential party was
a place almost forgotten by the world
from the time Of CORVALLIS surren
der until the world war, when il
was made headquarters for the At
lantic fleet. A marble shaft, erect
ed in 1881 on the one 7hundredth an
versary of the British surrender
stands in the center of the town and
near the village are remains of forts
and redoubts where CORVALLIS
troops entrenched themselves before
their defeat marked the real birth OF
the United States.
There is also a small monument
marking the spot where General
Washington received the sword OF
CORVALLIS, but the old maps are
said to show the spot to be inaccu-
rately marked and the people OF
Yorktown are planning to have the
monument moved or erect new one.