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Excerpt from Farewell Address of Lyon Gardiner Tyler, M.A., LL. D., President (1888-1919) Of the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia: Delivered in the College Chapel, at the Close of the Final Exercises, June 10, 1919
When, as a member from Richmond of the Legislature, ' I was approached in 1888 by a committee of the College Board to take charge inin the House of Delegates of a bill, which had_ passed the Senate under the care of Hon. J. N. Stubbs, appropriating annually for 'the support of the institution, on condition that it would establish a normal course in connection with the academic department, the College had been without students for seven years. Its endowment fund, saved from the wreck of the civil war by the jealous care of its President Benjamin S. Ewell, did not exceed There were five buildings, including the Mathew Whaley Observation and Practice School, all badly out of repair, and there was a neglected campus of twenty (20) acres. The tone of society in Williamsburg, which had not recov ered fromthe Civil War, was, as some remember, stagnant and depressed. We began the work with five professors and a president, who was embarrassed by the care of a department. What has happened since?
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