The College of William & Mary - (Campus History) by Chris Dickon & Pres Gene R Nichol (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>The second oldest institution of higher education in the United States, William & Mary remains one of the top public colleges in the country.</p></b><br><p>By the time of the <i>American Revolution</i>, the <i>College of William and Mary</i> was already into its eighth decade as the academic source of what the new nation would become and how it would relate to the larger world.</p> <p> Its land had been surveyed by George Washington, and its first honorary degree had been given to Ben Franklin. It would go on to educate two signers of the <i>Declaration of Independence</i>, three American presidents, and three justices of the <i>Supreme Court</i>. Chartered by British royalty in 1693, the college retains that connection to its roots into the 21st century. Remarkably through history, the <i>College of William and Mary</i> was, and remains, a public university--one of 16 in the <i>Commonwealth of Virginia</i>. <p>At a time in American history when the 18th-century thought and practice of Thomas Jefferson has become part of the contemporary conversation, the college from which he graduated in 1762 continues to pursue his simple notion that <i>worth and genius [be] sought from every condition of life</i>.</p>
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