Part 6 (1/2)

”The Board take great pleasure in giving a cordial expression of their thanks to the Faculty of this inst.i.tution for the very able and faithful manner in which they have discharged the duties of their several stations. We consider them as having acted on the great principles on which the College was founded, and upon the continuance of which its prosperity in the future depends; and we have full confidence in their ability and disposition to support these principles in their future administration, and they are therefore worthy of the same confidence from the numerous friends and patrons of the College and the warm affection of the young gentlemen who may be placed under their care.

”It is the pleasure of the Board that these resolutions be read to the students of the College.”

The second session of the College opened September 4, 1833, under favorable circ.u.mstances. A laboratory and library had been purchased, and the latter had been increased by donations. Bishop J. O. Andrew had donated forty-three volumes, and Judge A. B. Longstreet thirty.

A few days after the session opened another literary society was formed.

It was first styled the Union Literary Society, but on the 7th of September, at the next meeting, the name was changed to Franklin. At the organization George Stewart, of Georgia, presided, and William C.

Knight, of Virginia, acted as secretary. The following const.i.tuted its first regular organization:

_President_, JAMES L. BROWN, Virginia.

_Vice-President_, JOHN A. TALLEY, Virginia.

_Secretary_, GEORGE STEWART, Georgia.

_Treasurer_, THOMAS S. JAc.o.c.kS, North Carolina.

_Collector_, JOSEPH B. PANNILL, Virginia.

_Censor_, FRANCIS W. BOYD, Virginia.

_Members_.

BATTE, W. C.,... ... Va.

BETTS, WILLIAM S., ... Va.

BLAKE, CHARLES H., ... Va.

BLAND, WILLIAM R., ... Va.

BLUNT, WALTER F.,... . Va.

BOISSEAU, GEORGE F., . . Va.

CARROLL, JAMES ... . . Va.

CLAIBORNE, FIELD,... . Va.

CLEGG, BAXTER, ... . . N. C.

CLEMMONS, JUNIUS L., . . N. C.

DAVIS, ARTHUR, ... . . Va.

DORTCH, ISAAC F.,... . N. C.

DRINKARD, WILLIAM R.,. . Va.

EVANS, AUGUSTUS C.,... N. C.

HICKS, BENJAMIN L.,... Va.

HITE, BENJAMIN W., ... Va.

JEFFRESS, LUTHER C., . . Va.

JONES, ALBERT C.,... . Va.

JONES, AMOS W.,... . . N. C.

JONES, JOHN J.,... . . N. C.

JONES, JOSEPH S.,... . N. C.

KNIGHT, WILLIAM C.,... Va.

MULLEN, FRANCES N.,... N. C.

OLDS, LEWIS P.,... . . N. C.