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THE IXSTITLTE, 1«59 ' A History of Construction From its founding in 1839 the Virginia Military Institute has always featured very prominently in the history and activity of the State of ' irginia, and the nation at large. In every crisis, large or small, state or national. Institute men have come to the front as true sons of Virginia and the United States, and, being weighed in the balance, the men have never been found wanting. Since as early as 1848, at the time of the Mexican War, men of V. M. I. ha e borne their part of the national burden, and have nc er attempted to shirk their HUNTER S RAW ' Mi :£r '
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? ARRACKS, 1 ' responsibilities. I ' nilowing the Mexican disorder came the War between the States, and then, as loyal Southerners, they united with the Stars and the Rars of the Con- federacy, and did their bit for the Lost Cause. After the Civil War the next respon- sibility of a military nature to face the Cadets was the Spanish-American struggle over Cuba, and the greatest of all — the recent World War, which embroiled prac- tically the entire civilized world. In all emergencies the Institute has steadily forged ahead, and in spite of several severe local set-backs, has emerged greater and better for the vim with which the problem was tackled and completed. The first jiicture, which shows the Institute in its infancy, just before th? Ci il Var, depicts ' . M. I. in 1859. Notice the smallness and barrenness of this photo- graph when compared with the modern West Point of the South. It is only by means of such striking comparisons that the real growth of the Lexington school can be pointed out and appreciated by those who know the Institute only from an external viewpoint. The second photograph makes us realize just how seriously the Ci il Var did affect the grim walls of our Alma Mater. This cut shows V. M. 1. after the raid
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