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

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Elie Night Muni Through the moonlight on the meadows, and the midnight's velvet shadows In the coverts of the old oak wood, Hear the hounds in chorus mellow, each his booming music bellow, Bingo, Minx, and Punchinello, On the silence of the night's calm Hood. On, on, ye good fellows, harlf forward, all of you Lift your wild joys to the moon, Till the air tingle and throlv to the call of you, Ana' the hills pulse to your tune. Wide the lonely snow-fields glisten, could one look as well as listen, But the river shows a wan dead face, Altered now beyond all knowing from its silv'ry summer glowing, Tinkling shards of sound echoing To the music of the long-drawn chase. Harlg away, on again, mouth it now merrily, Every clog baying his fill, Clad hunters hallooing, horns blowing cheerily,- On we go, on with a will. This is living! thus to breathe me on the hills: to feel beneath me Slim and silken Ruperfs proud heart beat, To be free of every tether, grief and care and wind and weather, And with horse and dogs together, But to ride, and ride alone, seems sweet. Vials may thrill, and the merry hearts whirl away Over the dance-shalfen floors, We to a measure far sturdier, hurl away With the hunt out on the moors. But the hounds are checking yonder, and about the dingle wander- Is it over? Was the wild ride vain? Nay! that tumult mad of swinging gallop fierce and chorus ringing, Brain and heart and life were bringing More than golden ease or dumb toil gain. Blow the recall, then, and let us home leisurely, Under a low waning moon- One chase can not of our metal right measure l9e,- There'll come another night soon! By WILLIAM I-I1-:Rv 16 EY Wooos

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within the circle of his more intimate acquaintances,-his charming and irresistible sense of humor. No one who has ever been associated with Mr. Whiting can fail to recall the inimitable manner in which he is wont to discover and characterize the ludicrous fide of the perplexing situations that so often arise in college life. But if he sometimes speaks in the spirit of play, the point is always there, and nothing that is not worth hearing ever falls from his lips. As a friend and a host, Mr. Whiting is one in a thousand. The doors of his heart, as of his home, always stand open to all who come his way, and nothing gives him more pleasure than to place himself and all he has at the disposal of his friends. Early in his teaching career Professor Whiting was happily married to Miss Sallie Currie, of Hampden-Sidney, who with him today is an indispensable part of the College community: and it is the earnest hope of all who love Hampden-Sidney that Professor and lylrs. Whiting may be here to guide by their counsel and bless with their presence and kindly influence the dear old College through the increasing sessions of the many, many years to come. ASHTON W. IVICWHORTER. Hampden-Sidney College, February I7, 1912. smgmriasrw-ws me .- 21?Ee'l'!'5!4'in?i'kZ 'i:' n,g5inh3'Lfa'a-'4515-'tgiga 5 A ...,,, A s wfvaggrvssaitilgeldassssr- .,. 'Q Wg , 35 s .9 5'--6 if'- ..:.i E! isnt, Q 4 'Q x! 'r ld! 0 ff. ' l'- iistsi s sz ? --73511 ,,.g.5.... 2 --'Es gg-'gr flstr will 'Ms 1, 152, E

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A Svltvtrli nf Br. Zlnliu Hrtvr flllrttaitm' nf Hirgiuizt rzxa cs:- MONG the gallant Frenchmen who followed the fortunes of Lafayette were two brothers, lVlettauer, surgeons. N After the battle of Yorktown the French Army was quartered E scsi Aj' at different points in Virginia. A regiment was sent to Prince Edward County, and attached to this were the surgeons, Mettauer. When the soldiers set out for home, Francis joseph Mettauer, by the persuasion of General Lawson, the Randolphs, and the l-lenrys, re- mained in Prince Edward County, and, later, married there. A son, john Peter Nlettauer, was born to him and Eliza Caulding in l787. But little is known of his childhood and youth, beyond the fact that, raised in an atmosphere of surgery, he imbibed a love for this profession, and early determined to adopt it as his life's work. ln the silence of history we are surely justified by the vent in assuming that the child inherited from an adventurous and accomplished sire much of his cast of mind, and that an hereditary disposition toward surgery was, in those early days when the modern practice was certainly no more than embryonic, vastly aided by that same tendency toward aggressive self-reliance, which brought the elder Mettauer to our shores as a surgical soldier of fortune. Young Mettauer was sent to the neighboring College of Hampden-Sidney for his literary studies, and graduated from this Institution with the degree of A. B. in ISO6. He immediately entered on the study of medicine, and received the degree of M. D. from the University of Pennsylvania in I809. Mettauer's medical education was carried on under the most favorable conditions obtainable in America at that time. The medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, founded in l79l, was the continuation of the first medical school in this country, which had evolved, in I765, from the lectures on anatomy and midwifery by William Shippen, Jr., an ardent admirer and former student of .lohn Hunter. Mettauer entered his medical course in the same winter that brought the death of Shippen, and he always took a mournful pride in having heard the last lecture of that great pioneer teacher. The influence of the character and methods of Hunter were continued in the University by Physick, another exponent and close follower of that great anatomist and 17