Hampden Sydney College - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Hampden Sydney, VA)

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JAMES R. THORNTON, A. M., 0 K qi, Profatror of rwallvemafzirr, and Instructor 1,71 Eng1'r1z'm'z'r1g. Graduated with A. M. at Hampden-Sidney in 18714 taught at Hampden- Sidney, in Baltimore, and in Richmond, I87I-.741 Principal of Prince Edward Acad- emy, VVorsham, Va., 1873-,8IZ, Professor of Latin, Central University, Kentucky 1881-'83. Since 1883 Professor of Mathematics at Hampden-Sidney. HENRY' BROCK, LIT., P7014-FJJOI' of fb? G!'t't'k Lallgullgf 0711! Lliff'l'l7fll7't , dll!! Ill- .virurtor in ilu' Frmzfb Language. Student at Richmond College, 1859-'6I: at Randolph-Macon College, 1861-'62, wounded in battle, August, 1864, tutor,1867-'69, student at the University of Vir- ginia, I86Q-'72, being Assistant Instructor in Latin the second year: Associate Teach- er in Kenmore University High School, Virginia, 1872-'79, Associate Teacher in High School, Charlottesville, Va., I87Q-'81, Master of University School, Charlottes- ville, Va., 1881-'86, Professor of English and of History, Hampden-Sidney, 1886 89: Professor of Greek since 1889. H. R.McILwA1Ns. A. B., PH. D., B H U, Profrrxor ofEr1gl1'.tl1 and of I-Iisioriv. Student at Hampden-Sidney College, 1883-.853 taught in Greenbrier County, VV. Va., 1885-.872 taught in Tazewell County, Va., ISS7-i8QL student at -lohns Hopkins University,1889-'91g taught in Montgomery, AIa.,1891-'92, student at johns Hopkins University, 1892-'Q31 Ph. D. degree, 18931 since September, 1893, at Hamp- den-Sidney. STEPHENSON SMITH, A. M., Ph. D., Profruor' of llfornf Pltziforopblv and Blibfe' Sflldllff. A. B., Pennsylvania University, 19011 A. NT., Pennsylvania University, 1903, Student at Heidelberg. 1904, Fellow at Clark University, 1905, Instructor in Psy- chology, Columbia University, 19063 Ph. D. Pennsylvania University, 19075 Lec- turer on Psychology, Pennsylvania Summer School, 1907, Professor of Moral Phi- losophy and Bible Studies at Hampden-Sidney since 1906. I2 7

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iaresthent Btrbarh fffltllinatne. 439 Dresthznt EI. cbrap jjiflrillistzr. Hampden-Sidney opened its doors as an Academy on the first day of january, 1776, and was incorporated as a College in May, 1783. In this period of one hun- dred and thirty-one years, a period which covers five wars, fourteen presidents have been chosen to guide her work. Of this number not one has labored for her with more of loyalty and energy than her thirteenth president, the subject of this sketch. And his labors, unremitting and abundant, were richly blessed and are permanent. Dr. Mcflwaine was born in Petersburg, Va., May 20th, 1834, the son of Archi- bald Graham and Martha CDunnJ Mcllwaine. The names, did we have no other record, show that he came from staunch Scotch-Irish stock. His home was one of culture and piety: his training, sincere and thorough, the sort that develops men. The social life in which he moved was of the exquisite type that Petersburg still poss- esses, and the time in which he grew to young manhood marked the golden age of what goes down in history as Old Virginia. Great events were marshaling for later bloody conffict, and great men, Virginia furnishing her quota, were in the lead. Following the training in his home schools Dr. Mcllwaine entered Hampden- Sidney College, a boy of fifteen, in -lanuary, 1850, graduating A. B. in the Class of 1853. This class sent out more than one man whose name and work deserves much more than this passing mention: Lindsay H. Blanton, the present efficient Chan- cellor of Central University, Kentucky, Charles VV. Crawley, giving nearly the whole of his useful life to instruction in private schools, Lewis Littlepage Holladay, profes- sor of' Physical Science in Hampden-Sidney from 1855 until his death in 1891, Matthew Lyle Lacy, a finished scholar, prominent to this day in educational work in Yvest Virginia-these, beside Dr. Mcllwaine himself, are among the number. Leaving Hampden-Sidney on his graduation, Dr. Mcflwaine pursued a special course at the University of Virginia 11853-'55J and in 1855 returned to Hampden- Sidney for his course in Union TheologicalSeminary,thenlocated here. Hampden- Sidney conferred on him the degree of A. M. in 1856, and the following year, 1857, he completed at the Seminary a course that was afterwards C 1857-'58l to be enriched by a year of study in the Free Church College, Edinburgh, Scotland. His class at Union Seminary graduated three other Hampden-Sidney men, all living, whose work abides. Ephraim Henry Harding, now preaching at Milton, N. C., and a writer of ease and grace, many years after graduation became pastor of the church fat Farmvillej in which Dr. Mcllwaine labored for several years. Thomas W. Hooper, who lives in Richmond, has lived to see service in important centers and to help thousands by messages through his preaching, his books and the weekly press. John Bunyan Shearer, Professor in Davidson College, is now spending, in authorship and teaching, the evening of a life that has been lived in founding and developing educational institu- tions. On the conclusion of his course at Union Seminary Dr. Mcllwaine married fMay 14, I857il Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Clement Carrington Read, of Farm- ville, and five children are living: Messers Archibald Graham and John Stevenson Mcllwaine, lawyers in Tyler, Texas, Miss Elizabeth Read, Mrs. Nathanael Fraser, and Mrs. VVm. VV. Dunn, of Richmond. 1+