Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-15

ton of learning the proceeds OF the
tobacco tax and 10000 acres OF land,
for which the college was to pay a
yearly rent OF two copies of Latin verse.
London merchants pledged 5000 pounds.
Some pirates. whose pardon had been
secured by DR.. Blair, showed their graft
tude at escaping from the gallows by
donating 800 pounds. With this sub
stantial financial foundation. the Col
lege OF William and Mary was estab-
lished In 1898. with DR.. Blair as Its
first president.
A few years later the new institution
aroused the interest Of Robert Boyle.
the great Irish physicist, over whose
laws" fundamental In science, high
school boys still struggle. He beQueathed
TO the college the annual rents from
his estates OF Brafferton. to be used foe
converting and educating the Indian
youths. Boyle made q provision. how
ever. that the Virginia college pay over
part Of this annual fund TO the newly
established Harvard University In
Massachusetts, 10 be used for the same
purpose. The Indian students were
housed In Brafferton Hall, which still
stands on the campus and Ia an i'm
portant unit In the restoration project.
The actual establishment OF Their
Majesties' Royal College of William and
Mary, as II was designated In the char
ter. received under the seal of the Privy
Council OF England, is antedated slightly
by that of Harvard, but the Virginia In
stitution had the first buildings and the
first official recognition. The coat OF
arms OF the college was received from
the College OF Herald In London and
bears the date OF 1904. The interest
fAlt In Eyau tlaA amVfi TnftfnfiAn
OF learning was exemplified further In
1897 when Sir Christopher Wren,
greatest OF British architects, drew the
designs for the first college building
This is the only building In the New
World for which the design was FUR
nished by Wren. The original walls
still stand Three times the structure
has been burned, but these walls never
have fallen. II still Ia the main build
ing Of the college. 1t Is proposed to re-
store IL TO Its original form AZ me-
mortal TO Or. Blair and to the Right
Rev. DR.. James Madison. first Episcopal
bishop of Virginia. The plan includes
the restoration OF the ancient chapel
the royal governor: Peyton Randolph.
president of the Continental Congress,
Sir John Randolph. Bishop Madison
and others
For nearly century after It's estab-
lishment the college enjoyed nndimin-
iahed prosperity II was the center OF
culture In the New World. II was
patronized by a succession OF royal
governors. The brightest young men
In the province came there for their
instruction In arts and letters under
the fatherly eyes of the learned Episco-
pal clergymen who succeeded each
other In the presidency of the institu-
ton. II by no means was an austere
seat of learning, but place of liberal
culture where the students not only
received Greek and Latin but had access
TO the new poems OF Mr., Pope and
sometimes ehuekled over COMES OF the
Spectator IT was essentially place
for the training OF gentlemen,
True enough, the good doctors did
not neglect the souls Of their young
charges. The student body was obliged
To be al the Brutnn Parish Church every
Sunday morning for divine Worship.
They marched 10 seats In the gallery,