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

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August IB, l838.-Southern Literary Messenger ordered stopped. June, l839.-Moved: The two Societies should waive the privilege of hearing their representatives already appointed, and agree to invite President Maxwell to de- liver an oration july 4. Not carried. February 5, l84l.-l,35O books in library as far as letter September 6, I8-ll.-lVlr. Sparrow elected to honorary membership. july 5, l8-43.-A table to be bought: 3560. November 25, IS43.-Society to confer with Faculty, being opposed to changing time of meeting. February l7, IS44. Debate: ls it probable that the U. S. will ever be dissolved? Negative. june 22, l844.-Treasurer to pay Mr. Ewell fof the Faculty? money subscribed for the improvement of Hampden-Sidney College. June 28, l845.-Debate: Would it be politic for the Southern States to secede and form a Confederacy? Negative. July I, IS46.-Mr. Jeffries, our representative, to use his own discretion about making a Fourth of july speech at the Court House, at the request of the ladies of the fair. One hundred badges to be bought for the next Commencement, and not to be scattered before that time. June l5, l847.--Appointee to read Declaration of Independence July 4th. September 27, IS47.-Anniversary meeting. Mourning ordered for N. E. Venable, one of the founders of this Society, june 5, l848.-Dr. Green, of Baltimore. elected to honorary membership. fpresident Creenl. June I7, l848.-Dr. Foote presents his Sketches of North Carolina. October 5, l860.-Debate: Would the South be justifiable in seceding from the Union? Negative. September 27, l86l-Debate: ln the War of the Roses, which had the best claim, the Red or the White? March 3l, IS65.-Debate: ls it the right policy for the South to own Slaves? Quite an interesting debate. Decision for the afhrmative. NOTE: This was the last meeting before the Yanks came to this place. Ever to be remembered by me. G. GQLASSJ. Nlarch 3, l866.flVloved and carried that advertisements be inserted in the Richmond Times, Petersburg Index, and Farmville Journal, for the returning of Society books. 20

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March 22, l822.--Communication from American Whig Society of Princeton regarding conduct there of a member of the Philanthropic Society, who is thereupon ex- pelled. November l6, ISZZ.-Standing Committee appointed for furnishing the new Hall. QNew Collegel. November 22, l8Z3.-Treaty with Union Society regarding the new Halls not yet arranged. December 20, l823.-The Treaty. Rejected january 3, l824. April 2, l824.-Mr. Marsh fprofessor Marsh, to deliver an oration at the opening of the new Hall. fThe new halls were in the top story of the main building, over the gymnasiumb. july 3, l8Z4.-Mr. Richard Venable presents a portrait of the President of College fpresident Cushingl. July l7, l824.-Mr. Blauvelt fof the Faculty, presents the last of the Waw'erly novels, SL Bonan's Well. March l8, l826.-Portrait of Mr. Cushing to be hung to the right of the Presidents Chair. September 27, ISZ6.-Anniversary meeting, many honorary members present: John H. Clarke, President, very handsome address. . September 27, ISZ7.-On motion of Mr. Goodrich fof the Seminary Facultyl it was resolved that every Senior Class at the time they leave College, and all the hon- orary members, be requested to procure for Society as many as they are able of manuscripts, books out of print, and valuable'rare works of any kind. june, ISZ8.-A stamp for diplomas purchased through Mr. Goodrich: 555. June 8, H536.-Object of the meeting the election of Dr. Draper, of Mecklenburg. fDr. John W. Draper, the celebrated man of sciencel. january Zl, 1837.-A committee appointed to co-operate with the Union Society in the matter of the Fourth of July celebration. January 26, IS37.- Barbarossa, tragedy, offered as suitable play for acting. Feb- ruary l0, The Robbers substituted. january 29, IS37.-Pictures belonging to the Society to be sold to the highest bidcler. December 9, IS37.-Exhibition resolved upon-a forensic and two English orations from each Society, a dialogue to be performed by each Society, written by its own members: That we recommend to Society to procure vocal music for the occasion. june I7, l838.-Fifty new badges to be purchased for July 4. July Zl, l838.-Debate: Ought the ladies of our country to be encouraged to publish pieces of their own composition? Affirmative. 19

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fgifws Q QE, ., ll NSW E Hiampiivit-Svihnwg auth Atlilrtira N QU Y man who has spent a year at Hampden-Sidney and has seen the splendid battling and the still more splendid spirit shown by her sons on the athletic held knows that athletics is a popular cause at this Institution-a cause that should be, and is, very dear to the heart of every loyal son and supporter of the College, whether he be a veteran of many years agone, or whether in recent days only he has stepped forth to enlist under the banner of Garnet and Gray, so often glorious in victory, yet not less honorable and honored in defeat. Familiar to every one is the three-fold division of education into mental, physical, the mind, body, and heart are severally brought into play and spiritual, according as the ends for which they were created. One reads and hears and trained best to subserve popular side today that one may entirely forget the right of so much of athletics on the physical, bodily exercise in a proper system of education. But the ancients were still alive to the importance of physical training and development as a necessary part in the schooling and equipment of their youth. No people ever attained to greater intellectual prowess than the Creeks, and yet those same Greeks have continued to our own day the wonder and admiration of the world for their exhibitions of physical skill and superiority, and the laurel that crowned the poet's brow they coveted scarcely more than the victor's wreath in the Ulympic games. Nor was this a disparagement of the higher being of man, but a happy correlation of bodily and mental powers, both regal, both supreme in their respective spheres. It is to the ancients, too, that we turn for the felicitous and com:- pendious definition of a well-rounded man as that of a sound mind in a sound body. If mythology furnishes in a Hercules the people's recognition of the physical as the highest type,-nay, if early history affords examples of the peopleis delight in the brutal and brutalizing elements of man's nature, and records for us the rule of international law in vogue with our ancestors that might makes right, we should not be led into the oppo- site error of supposing that a misguided fancy, a grim necessity, or even a willful abuse of native powers must be remedied by the suppression of those powers in all matters of proper conduct and living. The difficulties then, as now, resulted too often from over- emphasizing the one side of man's nature to the disparagement, if not exclusion, of the other. Because we have minds, have we not also bodies? and conversely, are our bodies to be regarded as the sum total existence? Press either too far, and you are reduced to an absurdity. A mind divested of its corporeal existence has no more place in a mun- dane sphere than gross corporeal substance would have in the limitless expanse of an 21