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

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eminurg i13BlZtL'l1'1I. gfaczxltg. TBENJAMIN M. SMITH, D. D., LL. D., IVICCORMICK PROF. EMERITUS OF ORIENTAL LITERATURE. THOMAS E. PECK, D. D., LL. D. CWCLERK OIf FACULTY3, PROFESSOR OF SYSTEMATIC THEoI.Om'. WALTER W. MOORE, D. D., LL. D., PROFESSOR OF THE HEBREXV LANGUAGE ANII LITERATURE, CHARLES C. HERSMAN, D. D., LL. D. ICI-IAIRMANI, HENRX' YOUNG PROFESSOR OF BIBLIC.-XI, LITERATURE AND INTERPRETATION OF TI-IE NEW TESTAAIENT. THOMAS CARY JOHNSON, D. D., PROFESSOR OF ECCLESIASTICAI. HISTORX' AND POLITY. T. R. ENGLISH, D. D., STUART ROBINSON PROFESSOR OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE AND PASTOR.-XL THEOLOGY. gwrietg nf Zntquirg. HENRY AUSTIN, JR., PRESIDENT, C. R. MORTON, VICE-PRESIDENT, H. W. WHITE, TREASURER, L. C. ALTFATHER, SECRETARY Lilwtnrical. D. C. LILLY, PRES. C. L. ALTFATHER,V1CE-PRES. M. C. TAYLOR, SEc'x' Hlagagizu' Qtaff. P. HAWES, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF. ASSOCIATE EDITORS. REVIEW EDITORS. R. A. WHITE, W. W. MOORE, D. D., LL. D., G. G. SYDNOR. C. C. HERSMAN, D. D., LL. D MISSIONARV EDITORS. J. V. MCCALL, H. W. WHITE. 'Deceased. F. G. HARTMAN, BUSINESS MANAGER. 21

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the Seminary was taken under the joint control ofthe Synods of Virginia and North Carolina, and was henceforth called LYIIIAOIZ Theological Seminary. At Dr. Rice's death in lS3I the young ministerial school was already pro- vided with three professors, accommodating about fifty students, and was furnished with ample material equipment. A fourth professorship was added in 1354. At the close of the war in 1865 the funds were almost a total loss, and the rehabilitation of the institution, the building and storing of the library, and other general improvements, were chiefly due to Dr. Benjamin M. Smith, a graduate of the class of '29 of the college. Through his unflagging zeal and devotion, friends in New York, Baltimore and elsewhere came to the support of the Seminary and raised itto its present comparatively easy status. A charter was not secured from the legislature until 1867. The character, scholarship, devotion, and piety of its instructors have been unusually high, and have given it ajust Rune. Dr. Rice was succeeded in the chair of Systematic and Polemic Theology by Dr. George A. Baxter, former President of XVashington College: and other successors have been Drs. Samuel B. Vtlilson, Robert L. Dabney and Thomas E. Peck. The occupants of the chair of Ecclesiastical History and Polity have been Drs. Stephen Taylor, Samuel L. Graham, Robert L. Dabney, Thcnzas E. Peck, james F. Latimer and Thomas Cary johnson. The Professorship of Oriental Literature has been Hlled by Drs. Hiram P. Goodrich, Samuel L. Graham, Francis S. Sampson, Benjamin M. Smith, Hlltl Walter W. Moore. The chair of Biblical Introduction and New Testament Literature has been held by Drs. XVilliam J. Hoge, Henry C. Alexander, and Charles C. Hers- man. A fifth Professorship of English Bible and Pastoral Theology was created i11 ISQI and is to be filled for the coming session by the election of the Board. The wisdom of Dr. Rice's measures has been fully proved by the great work done in the past seventy years by this School of the Prophets in furnishing ministers to the Presbyterian Church in Virginia, in.tthe South, and throughout the world, in the devoted spirit of the men trained under these peculiar surroundings in the character of those who have gone forth to their labors: in the strength of the particular standards which the Southern Presbyterian Church sets : in the conservative and ennobling influences exerted upon the country everywhere. 20

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gqistnrg nf '93, All things that are, Are with more spirit chased than enjoyed. Yes, 'twas four years ago that the elements of the class of '93 were scraped together. But those were different times. Aleck hadn't grown so pious, nor Billy grown a beard, and Chippy had the goslings when we were Freshmen. XVe were -. X slightly thinned by Soph. math., but ' ' . ' as upper classmen in the Junior year, pg held our own surprisingly well, so that ' My -I' v 1-2559 at the opening ofthe session, seventeen ,Q ,ox ofthe old class increased to eighteen 3 ' A - M, XVl1SI'l'iCl1lCliHXV0Olj0l116Cl11S,gI1lCl16I'Ed ff i lg at H. S. as Seniors. XVe assem- igi 'Q ,'2l.f - ,,l,iii-im 1 bled in the old Society Halls, crowded l f, . with memories of the first Friday ii',V,'Lff -A I night we gathered there. How hot 'QQ li! I-bw and close they were, and how ineflably X 'V ' if . Lg -A high, and beyond us seemed tl1e :ZZ X Temple oflinowledge. The portraits of , 7' 'N' 'J 5 E such men as Samuel Stanhope Smith, if 5 Q, ', HJ, V511 23:3 Archibald Alexander, and Dr. Moses i i- Lili. Eff Hoge stared at us with unsympathetic if i I f ' 2: gaze. XVe felt the inspiration of his- ' EAXQ toricalsurroundings,forwewerewithin 'Shias the walls of the old College, whose Centennial had been passed by nearly a score of years. But the Freshman, Sophomore, then the junior year slipped by, and now as Seniors we return 22