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

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I h111'e read s1'11111- 111' his letters to l1is wife anil d1111gl1ters, and, while- they are tilled tu 11ve1'fl1111'i11g with 111-1's1111:1l iIi'l:4't'fitlll, he 11l'Yt'1' fails to speak nf the 1111-- ei1111s11m-ss and glory ut' l1is and their S21ViHlll'. l'11dc-1' the leade1'sl1i1111f ltr. iil'l't 11, the Ctillege grew ill llllllllll'l'S and llll'tlllS1 the stanclard of SC'l1Olill'Sl1lll was raised: a new spirit 111-1'1':11le1l C'Vt'l'.VXVl1C1't', t'1'i1-111ls were raised 1111 ill llliillf' tlll2ll'TOl'S, illlll 11'l1e11 l1e left i11 18513, the 1111111herof111at1'ie- nlates llilll gone up fl'Ulll t11'e11ty-sew-11 to lll'ill'lf' une lllll1fll'04i and fifty: a11d 5f4Stl,tNttD lltltl heen added to the K'llllHXYl1lUlll'. Few i1lSf1'llC'f01'S san' as clearly a11d stated as Imsitively as did llr. Green tl1e li111its of lllllllilll faculties. Ile insisted 1111 illii' duty of llt'COltTillg just 111'i111-iples as sueh, and all facts even if i11ex11lie:1hle. .X favorite saying with llilll was: All is inystery or nothing is l11ySiO1'y.ll Uwo Great Sermons. In Dr. lIalsey's Life are 5411110 of Dr. i,i1'CQl1.S se1'1111'111s, a1111111g tllelll one on the Dromise of Jfaitb ill 11'l1iel1 l1e says: All llllllll-111 l'02lSO11i11g' terlninates at last ill smne first prin- ciples. admitted hy all. and 11'l1ivl1 ean he 111-11ve11 and explained hy 110110. All 1bllf'SiC'Hl intlniry lands 115 at last ill st 11119 nltitnate fact, two simple tu he analyzed, tum elear to he illustrzited. tue plain to he 111'o1'e11, which shines hy its 1i1w11 self- 0Vitl011CiI1g'lig'l1i, and uf 11'l1iel1 we can learn lltifllillg, lilll' that it Si2lllt'lS alf,111e there ill its inseriitahle 1l1ySft,'1'f'. Sneh are all the great fat-ts ill 1l21i'lll'ti' to whieli we 111-1j111clly give the 1181110 of law. The wliole universe is one great 111f'SfL'1'f'-0119 teniple of the God i11ViSil'bl9, whose 111ySlC1'lGS we can not pe11etrate, where the learned and ig114'l1'2'l11t alike ean unly stand and YVUl1t,lC'1' :ind a1,lu1'e-witl1 a weiicler the n11i1re p1'0f11111111l, a11d an 111l111'ati011 tl1e inore devout and reVere11tial, as truth after fl'llTll hnrsts upon the awed 1l11LlCl'SiH11Cli11g, Zllltl reveals to hinnan ignorance fresh glimpses of that il111I1911Sify whieh sweeps lJOll11lllGSSiy away heyond the reach of n1an's i111'esti0'-1- s DL tion. This sernion, and the one on tl1e llrlnllence of takes the highest rank illllljllg' any SQYIIIOIIS k111'111'11 to 111e. Xuthing f1'O111 Robert Hall, or fll12ll1l16'1'S, or ,Xl9X2lllt,lCl', or IgPt3t,'llC1', 111' S1'D11I'g6OI1, 111' Tl1o1'1111'ell, or Pahner, or Storrs, ur Parker, ur Patton, excel fl1C111Q they are 1l12l5fC1'11iCCQS of thuuglit, logic, eloq11e11ee and llihle truth. 29

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He entered on his work with a strong' hansl, a hrave heart, a cleterininetl pur- poseg he was a niaster anml knew no fear, anfl soon hail the eorilial atfeetion anal eo-operation of l1is faculty antl stutlents. ln his intercourse with hoth, his every aet was inspireml hy the highest sense of honor, antl this was always through life, one of the niost striking features of his el1araete1'. He utterly ahhorretl any- thing low or hase or niean. tlreen's wortl of honor was worth more than the soleinn oaths of niost lnen. While I was a stutlent, there were associatetl with hint in the Faculty Charles Martin, Vharles S. Yenahle anil Joseph ll. NVilson. Martin was genial, jolly, 1-olieky, hut tliploniatie antl wise in l1is day anfl generation-to his ettorts, ahly seeonaleel hy llr. Green, the Vollege is inilehtetl for the scholarship plan anfl eighty thousantl tlollars. Yenahle, then ancl always, every ineh a gentleman, was a positive terror to boys who were not up on math. I ani sure he territietl nie out of two inches of lllf' growth. No wontler that he has risen to such ilistinetion at the lvniver- sity uf Yirgrinia antl in the I 'onfetleratc Army as the great I,ee's right-liantl inan. XVils1 rn was tall antl liantlsoine, a elassie taee antl graceful form, an intellec- tual athlete, uf class lllllllltftl' one, always well to the front in all things, honoretl hy the Southern l'reshyterian Vhurch, anml now for years past its witty anml genial statetl elerli. Ubc 1bomc Circle at 1bampOen:SiOncQ. Mrs. Mary Green, the tloetoi-'s wife, or, as the hoys ealletl her, The Queen, was a wonian of retineinent, culture, athnirahle tact, antl quite a general i11 the lll2l1l2lg.1'l'lllL'lll' of atiairs. .X wise antl astute eounsellor, to tone tlown the exuher- anee of the inipetuous tloetor, a helpineet to hint, not only at llUll1G, hut in all his otlicial tluties. ' Two mlaughters eoinpleteel the honie eirele at the presi1lent's house. The elrler, Miss Julia, a graceful, vivaeious, sprightly girl, with strong' antl Vlg'Ol'UllS niinml, literary tastes antl talents: her father's pet eoinpanion in his long ritles and walks, the helle of the Hill. anfl the speeial athniration of inore than one stu- clent. Afterwartls she heeaine Mrs. Mathew T. Scott. The other, Letitia, a little girl in short tlresses, very kintl anil genial, affec- tionately ealleml Tish hy the hoys, until the Queen issuetl her positive pro- hihition, then she was Tish no longer, hut Miss l.etitia, until she heeanle Mrs. Yiee-Presitlent A. lf. Stevenson, honorenl and helovemlg four fllIll'S eleetewl presiilent of that. nohle Society, Ilaughters of the .X11lL'l'll'2lll Revolution. As hushanml anml father, his heart went out in tentlerest fontlness to these low-tl ones: hut their spiritual anml eternal interests were to hint of ll11lSf supreme eoneern. 28

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