Members of the list may be interested in 1) a news article that includes the resolution and 2) a column that broadens the context: https://wydaily.com/local-news/2018/04/20/william-mary-apologizes-for-colleges-history-of-slavery-discrimination/ http://www.richmond.com/news/local/michael-paul-williams/williams-william-mary-has-apologized-for-its-history-of-slavery/article_e2a6b0d3-a314-5e06-8d66-f12c2cfb6586.html In looking for something else I found this anecdote from 1997 on the Romanticism listserv; True? In the early years of this closing century, the College of William and Mary very nearly lost its charter when one august legislator discovered that there was terrible hanky-panky going on there, in that den of liberal iniquity. It stated right on the first page of the catalog that male and female students _matriculated together_ on campus. A large minority of legislators were not only shocked at such behavior being permitted, they were insulted by the fact that the school had the gross effrontery to advertise it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Terry L.. Meyers, Chancellor Professor of English, Emeritus, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg Virginia 23187 http://wmpeople.wm.edu/site/page/tlmeye/ http://www.ecologyfund.com/ecology/_ecology.html ———————————————————————————————————————————————————— ______________________________________ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html This list is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
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