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

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V A man nt' tlwrougli 1-nnvivtimis. he demanded fur others and used for himself the must pt-rteet standard nt' life and action. Frnni this, I helieve. swine thought him severe. But when und while he ht-nt his own will to the eomnmnds ot' duty and desired to guide :ill thr whuse znftiun his plan-e made him respnnsihle hy the same rigid law, he had the warmest, even the gentlest affections. This, I think. was not always Qliut often it wasj well umlerstmrnl. lVhile unusually determined and resolute. he was at the same time the most en111'tent1s:1inl kindly nt' men-u man titted in my opinion in 11 very high degree for a model und guide ut' young men. Ought nut the portrait ot' sueh it nnni, so long :ind lmppily identified with the college :md whose serviees in its heliult' were su distinguished, tu tind a place nn the walls ot' her Mt-iinfrial Clmlvel? lVill nut some of his old students inaugurate and curry through withuut delay :1 ll1HV0lllCllt lnuking to this nhieet? Smuusumwiawuma Bi 4 :Q-X! ,Si 6 'E '33 'Q 2 ff M H i am r mmnmrrmm S2 :Fum e-n 4u w .aw.a.22 if .g y Q 'w . 'ff Q Q ' J 9 Q 7 :Sa ' i f ,fggesf i N . Q 1 1 2 : ' i 9 1, ,A at . G ?-,'e'sl?gf r 3 1' 'V'-10 si. 3 l ,Ak 'F H' 3: 9 912 18 RICHARD MCILWAINE. ,,u m-awww: can-ma 5:1 nm fm Sgm f em eew g

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well-trained men, who have done credit to themselves and their Alma Mater, who reinember with grateful acknowledgment his salutary example and intiuenee and who prize the benefits they received from his careful training and instruction. Among these may be mentioned Rev. W. U. Murkland, D. D., of Baltimore, Rev. E. H. Barnett, D. D., ot' Atlanta, and Rev. P. H. Hoge, D. D., of Ivihnington, as representatives of the ministry, Maj. R. M. Venable, of Balti- more, Hon. X. C. Manson, ot' Lynchburg, and Hon. Meade IIaskings,ot' Richmond, as repre- sentatives ot' the Bar, Drs. M. D. Hoge, Jr., and P. A. Irving, ot' the University School ot' Medicine, Richmond, and Dr. YV. D. Booker, Baltimore, as representatives of the medical profession, and President Charles YV. Dabney, LL. D., of the University of Tennessee, lVilliam M. Thornton, LL. D., of the University ot' Virginia, Thomas C. Johnson, D. D., Union Theological Seminary, and Addison Hogue, A. M., of ivashington and Lee University, as representatives of the Colleges, to whom scores of others under each head might be added, many of them equally distinguished and all doing honest and fruitful work in their several positions. V The following sentences of a private letter from Professor liralter Blair, now in Europe, who for more than twenty years was Dr. Atkinson's colleague, and who, but for his absence, would have Written this sketch, is a itting close to this tribute. Professor Blair says, Indeed, I knew him Well and long, and thoroughly admired and honored a man, who as a citizen, a college President, a Christian and a man, lived in the steady and constant view of the purest and highest ideals. t'Wliile he was without certain showy qualities, otten looked tor by the public in men who stand in conspicuous places, qualities quite commonly possessed by persons of a greatly inferior type of character, yet to those who took the trouble to inquire into his motives of action or were capable of understanding his unselishness and his devotion to duty, he was an unusually complete model of a manly man. 17

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TN AD X31 ' PS iff xx: .. . Q. 'f' 25 ' 'J' lf w g af Illalter IIBIair, El. flb., . . HAVE been asked as a elassnmte and intimate friend ot' I rotessor Blair to write a short sketch of his life for TIIE IiALEIDOSCOPE. I ina-V be supposed, as a warni friend, to idealize his virtues and overlook or smooth away defects, but I shall hope to he just, so as 'tnothing to extenuate nor set down aught in malice. Dr. Blair is a native of Ric-lnnond, Virginia, coming of honorable stoekg being the son of YValt.er D. Blair and his wife, Miss Louisa IVills, ot' Kentucky. On the thther's side he is related to tl1e Jordans and W'instonsg on his motherls to the Carringtons, Mayos, and Cabells. He is a grandson of the well-known 'L Parson D. Blair of Virginia. In his iifteenth year young Blair left Richmond to attend school under Dabney, then pastor of Tinliling Spring Church, in Augusta county, Virginia. sixteen he entered the Junior Class at Hampden-Sidney College, where he was Dr. Robert I.. At the age ot graduated two years later, taking the second honor in his class. For a while he was tutor in the college, and made assistant professor in 1858, then full professor, with leave of absence to prosecute his studies in Europe. He remained in Germany for some time. He Caine home during our civil 19 ' 0