The College Of William & Mary was founded in 1693 by King William the 3rd and Queen Mary the 2nd, in Williamsburg Va. William & Mary is the 2nd oldest college\university. The oldest college\university is Harvard University. William & Mary is also called W&M. The President’s House, Brafferton and the Sir Christopher Wren building are part of the college’s campus. Before Brafferton was an Indian school. Now Brafferton is used for offices. W&M is one of the Public Ivy League schools. George Washington was once the chancellor of this college. In 1993, it celebrated its 300th anniversary.

Thomas Jefferson was an alumni of this school. James Monroe (the 5th president) and Mike Tomlin (Steelers coach) were also alumni of this college. Every year they celebrate the New Year with magicians, jugglers and more! They call this celebration First Night. At W&M you can check out free ipods, laptops, and videos! There are even two cannons between the doors of the Wren building!

One tradition they do is the president dresses as Santa Clause and reads “How the Grinch stole Christmas”. After this, cold students drop sprigs of holly into the fire for good luck in the Great Hall.

     W&M has a newspaper called The DoG street journal. It is called The DoG street journal because the main street of Colonial Williamsburg is Duke of Gloucester Street so they abbreviated it to The DoG street journal.

People at the William & Mary can make ice cream, not homemade, lab made! They put liquid nitrogen in a bowl with other things and they make ice cream.

At W&M, when you graduate, everybody gets a little model of a brain cell. John Griffin and Pamela Hunt were the first to start this program.

At William & Mary they have a program called Meals on Wheels. It is for people at the Sentara Williamsburg Community Hospital. Chewing and  digesting might be harder for some people so some meals are labled “dental soft”. The meals labled “dental soft”, are chopped up.

Bibliography

           http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_of_William_and_Mary

http://www.wm.edu/

“Schools”. The World Book Encyclopedia, Volume 20. 1998 ed.

 “William & Mary”. The World Book Encyclopedia, Volume 21. 1998 ed

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