'A universal place of study.' (College of William and Mary)

History Today | February 1, 1993| | Copyright

Three hundred years ago, on February 8th, 1693, William III and Queen Mary set their names to a document which signalled royal approval for the plan to establish 'a place of universal study' in the colony of Virginia.

The College of William and Mary has every right to honour its royal charter but there is reason to insist that the ceremony at Hampton Court was but the culmination of a long sequence of seminal episodes and that by celebrating 1993 as its tercentenary the college not only surrenders to Harvard its proper place as first in the order of precedence of ...

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