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

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of the College, and certainly, by virtue of ancestry, association, education, scholarship and sympathy, the one man best qualified and equipped to perform this important work is Dr. Alfred Morrison. Thus it will be seen that in every way Dr. Morrison is representative of Hampden- Sidney's best traditions and interests, and the KALEIDOSCOPE Staff have clone well in dedicating the l9l l volume to one who so eminently merits the honor. ASHTON WAUGH MCWHORTER. Hampden-Sidney College, February 20, l9I I. ' -f2 1i Fi5:!' ' Q , GMU 'lf' I3

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during his residence there was of a high order and, in recognition of his ability and promise as a scholar. he was appointed to a University Fellowship in his third year!-a coveted and distinguished honor. With the scholar's bent of mind and an intense love of letters, he has ever since been engaged in literary pursuits, whether in the exacting sphere of the class-room or in the more congenial field of research and investigation. For more than a year he held the important position as manuscript reader for the well-known Publishing House of Henry Holt Bt Co.-a position requiring great accuracy and breadth of knowledge as well as a sound and discriminating literary judgment, qualities possessed by Dr. Morrison in an eminent degree. During the session of IQO6-7 he filled the Chair of Latin and German at Hampden-Sidney and thus became further identified with his Alma Mater, of which he might almost be permitted to say, Cuius pars magna ful. Since that time he has devoted himself largely to historical studies and investigation, being especially interested in the past of Hampden-Sidney and Prince Edward County. In this work he has rendered both the College and the County invaluable service, having already done much toward collecting and preserving various documents and archives of great antiquity and rare interest locally. A genuine lover of books, he is never more at home than when in their company, and here it may be said that the College Library is under special obligations to him for the substantial assistance he has recently given in the matter of re-classifying its contents and for his many helpful suggestions looking to its better equipment and further development. In addition to a ready and intimate acquaintance with the library in all its details, he possesses a knowledge of the books themselves that is well-nigh encyclopedic. He can trace, with accuracy and ease, the checkered career of every volume of peculiar local interest there, and he handles these dusty tomes of ancient lore with a tenderness and devotion that only an ideal worship- per of the Hampden-Sidney past and a true lover of the priceless legacies of antiquity could evince. Nor does his zeal stop with the reading and studying of what others have written, for he has himself done important work in the field of authorship and in the future other contributions to the stream of literature will doubtless How from his scholarly pen. Besides a large number of newspaper articles and contributions to such magazines as the William and Mary Quarterly and the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, he has recently edited, with an Introduction and Notes, The Travels of John Davis in The United States during the Years I 798-l80Z 3 and there will shortly appear from the press another important work of his editorship, being a translation, in two volumes, from the German of Dr. Johann David Schoepf,-also a book of early American travels and ex- plorations. And now that he has already gathered so much valuable material bearing upon the wonderful past of Hampden-Sidney, it is to be hoped that in time he may be per- mitted to embody the results of these tireless and splendid labors in a much needed history I2

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Forgotten jewels Vvilh many a brilliant notion. Wvilh many a noble thought. With many a pure emotion. Our youthful lives aie fraught. Oh, where are those aspirations That lifted our souls in youth? Those eager, clear-eyed glimmerings? Those sparkling bubbles fiom Truth? Out of life-'s hbres rent they Are silently parted and tern. And into clouds of nepenthe On wings invisible borne. Gone from the hopes of to-morrow, Gone from the vista of years- They are lost in laughter and sorrow, They are lost through smiles and tears. And yet in Elysian meadows Methinks we will find them once more. For there invisible workers Are garnering the crystallized store: And each sparkling drop that bubl-led From the wonderful fountain of Truth. ls carefully gathered and garnered. Though lost with the loss of our youth. BEN Gooonmcz I4