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

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iff! JOHN MAYO PLEASANTS ATKINSON, D. D

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1897 June 5 H 8 8 8. 9 9 9 U xo H I0 Sept. 15, 16, Nov. 25, Dec. 23, 1898. Jan- 7. Feb. 22, Baccalaureate Sermon, at II a. m. Board of Trustees meets, at 4 p. m. Celebration of the Union Society, at 8 p. m. Examination of Candidates for Admission into College. Address before the Literary Societies, at II a. m. Address before the Society of Alumni, at I2 m. Celebration of the Philanthropic Society, at 8 p. m. Commencement Exercises, at II a. m. Senior Class Celebration, at 8 p. m. Vacation of thirteen weeks. Examination of Candidates for Admission into College. X Session begins at 4 p. m. with a Public Address. - Thanksgiving Day, with Service at Il a. m. S ylliiif, tu Christmas Recess begins. Y A i' Second Term begins. Intermediate Celebration of the Literary Societies, and Public Addresses by members of the Senior and junior Classes.

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3obn flbayo llbleasants LEltki11so11, EJ. E. f- ' L HE salient facts 111 tl1e life of this adniirable 1111111 are these: He was the son . of Mr. Robert and Mrs. Mary Mayo Atki11so11, and was lJO1'l1 at D.i2lllS1'1Q1l.1, -- Dinwiddie County, Virginia, O11 Jainiary 10tl1, 1817. His father and lllHtl1Ql' , 1 belonged to the old Virginia gentry of that day andto gentleness and 1't-1i11e- nient of manners added 1l1CO1'l'll1'11'1lJlC integrity of character and loyalty to truth and right, for which the social life 111 which they mingled was so reniarkably distinguished. He graduated froin Hznnptlen-Sidney College in 1835 and froin Union Theological SGIH1llLl1'AY11l 1838, after which he spent two years 111 post-graduate study at 131111061011 Se111i11a1'y. He was licensed to preacli the gospel by East Hanover Presbytery, on May 5th, 1838, and ordained as 2111 evangelist on May 5th, 1841. 1Vhile yet a lieentiate, he was stated sn1111ly for briet' periods ot' the clinrches ot' Wine-liester, Virginia, and of Lelmanon, in 1Vest. llanover Presbytery. Atter O1'1lillilt1Oll, he was a 1111SSiOl12l1'5' in Texas for two years, ot' whit-h one was spent as stated supply ot' the church 111 Housto11. He was pastor ot' tl1e church at. XXrill'1'El1fOll, Yi1'gi11i11, from 1343 to 1850 a11d of Bridge Street Presbyterian Church, Georgetown, D. C., 11111111 1350 to 1856, and President of Hainpden-Sidney College froni July, 1857, until l1is resignation, July lst, 1883. He died at l1is residence at II2l1l1Pl,lGl1-SlLlllGy, August 28th, 1883. He was thrice married and left two Slll'ViV1l1g Children: Mrs. Alfred J. Morrison, of Fnrinville and Mrs. A. A. Owen, of Halifax County, Virginia. He received the degree ot' Doctor ot' Divinity 13