Excerpt from Colonial Echo, 1923 In 1729 it boasted a full faculty of professors, consisting of a president, six professors, an usher, and a writing master. It was the first college in the United States to have a complete faculty. William and Marv was the first college to adopt the lecture system, now prevalent in college and universities the world over. Dr. William Small, who adopted this system, was the favorite professor of Thomas Jefferson; and it is of him that Jefferson wrote, He fixed my destinies in life. Later Small went back to England where he aided James \matts in his experiments with the steam engine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.