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Law Professor And Preparatory Department Of Wm. & Mary Jul 1860

Law Professor And Preparatory Department Of Wm. & Mary

1859–1861: Charles Morris

A meeting of the visitors of the College was held on the evening of the 4th July, partly for the purpose of appointing a Law Professor, and establishing in connection with the College a Preparatory School.

As professor of Law the Visitors elected Mr. Charles Morris, of Hanover county, Va. From what we can learn, this was a judicious selection. In a letter to the Visitors from Hanover co., we find the following:

“Mr. Morris is a distinguished A.M. graduate of our University, and since he received some ten years ago the highest honors conferred on her favorite sons, …


The Late Lucian Minor, Editors Of The Southern Literary Messenger Aug 1858

The Late Lucian Minor, Editors Of The Southern Literary Messenger

1855–1858: Lucian Minor

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William And Mary College Oct 1852

William And Mary College

1852–1855: George Parker Scarburgh

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William And Mary College: Law School Mar 1852

William And Mary College: Law School

1852–1855: George Parker Scarburgh

The Board of Visitors have supplied the vacancy in this Department, by the unanimous election of Judge Scarburg, a gentleman, whose well known legal acquirements, and long experience at the Bar, and on the Bench, eminently qualify him for the duties of a Professor of Law, and render the selection highly gratifying to the friends of the venerable Institution with which he is now connected.

Although the engagements of Judge S. will not allow the commencement of his lectures before the 2d Wednesday of October next, it is thought advisable, to announce the arrangement in advance, for the information of …


Judge Tucker's Address, N. Beverley Tucker Aug 1847

Judge Tucker's Address, N. Beverley Tucker

Faculty Publications

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Professor Beverley Tucker's Valedictory Address To His Class, N. Beverley Tucker Jun 1835

Professor Beverley Tucker's Valedictory Address To His Class, N. Beverley Tucker

Faculty Publications

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Law Lecture At William And Mary, N. Beverley Tucker Nov 1834

Law Lecture At William And Mary, N. Beverley Tucker

Faculty Publications

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William And Mary College Aug 1814

William And Mary College

1813–1818: Robert Nelson

The Visitors and Governors of William and Mary College have the satisfaction to announce to the public, that they have been enabled to fill the respective chairs in this Colleg . Doctor John Augustine Smith, is appointed President of the College and Professor of Moral Philosophy, including the Philosophy of Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric, Ethics, Belles-Lettres, History, the principles of Natural and National Law and Political Economy. Mr. Ferdinand Campbell is Professor of Mathematics which professor-ship will include Geography, Astronomy, the practical branches of Surveying, Navigation the construction of Maps & Charts, Dialling, Fortification & Gunnery, Perspective & Architecture. Dr. Thomas …


Resolution By William And Mary Students In Regard To The Death Of William Nelson, Professor Of Law Mar 1813

Resolution By William And Mary Students In Regard To The Death Of William Nelson, Professor Of Law

1804–1813: William Nelson

At a meeting of the Students of Wm. and Mary College on the 8th Inst. the following preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted.

We the Students of William & Mary College deeply impressed with a sense of our loss in the death of the late Hon. Judge Nelson, professor of Law in this college, and filled with sentiments of the highest veneration for the unparalleled virtues that adorned his private life, and with the utmost admiration of those talents and patriotic exertions which on pre-eminently distinguished him in his political services are anxious to pay to his memory the only …


Plan For Conferring Degrees On The Students Of Law In The University Of William And Mary (Ca. 1792), St. George Tucker Dec 1791

Plan For Conferring Degrees On The Students Of Law In The University Of William And Mary (Ca. 1792), St. George Tucker

1790–1804: St. George Tucker

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At A Convocation Of The Visitors Of The College Of William And Mary, On The 4th Day Of December 1779, A Statute Was Passed, Of Which The Following Is An Extract, College Of William & Mary Dec 1779

At A Convocation Of The Visitors Of The College Of William And Mary, On The 4th Day Of December 1779, A Statute Was Passed, Of Which The Following Is An Extract, College Of William & Mary

1779–1789: George Wythe

At a convocation of the visitors of the college of William and Mary, on the 4th day of December 1779, a statute was passed, of which the following is an extract.

The friends of the college being no longer competent to support so extensive an institution, as that which the charter recommends; and when science at large cannot be cultivated, that scheme of education being most proper, which is more immediately subordinate to the leading objects of society:

The scanty stipend lately paid by each scholar for commons, having occasioned a considerable expense,

It being just, that students inducted into …