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

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not every man of intelligence that can be useful on a Board. Morton l-lolladay, not by design or elaborate programme, was able to be very influential as a part of this most influential of our local governing bodies. He had the ideas, because he was born that way and had done a great deal of reading: and going ahead, he could often get his ideas into effect. Our State Parliament could be prorogued indefinitely if many Boards of Supervisors were as the Prince Edward Board has shown that it can be. A man does his work and passes on. If his work was shabby, the next man has an excellent chance. If his work was excellent, the next man has an even better chance. But no man's work can be lost, because there is a unity in our affairs and everything must count. It is a great thing to say of a good man, fwhat may be said of every good manl, that his work has counted positively for clisentanglement. Morton l-lolladay was a man of feeling. l-le had many warm friends. It is the belief of one who knew him well, that it would be impossible for a man to show a greater capacity for friendship, or so little of that easy tendency to break with friends. The last years of his life, not without many cares, were his happiest? He saw a family of beautiful children growing around him. He was at home in his home of contentment, and everywhere a diffuser of cheerfulness and good will, not an egotist. It could have been wished that he might live many years longer, young as he was. Although our friend is no more, we shall not forget him. ' CSignedJ A. J. MORRISON. ' ln l906 Dr. Holladay married Genevieve Venable. of Prince Edward County, a distant relation. As is well known to readers of THE KALEIDOSCOPE, the family of Venable has been. beyond all others. importantly connected with Hampden- Sidney College. through every period Sf the history of the lnstitution. g iff G, 'H is fir! qv?-if 9

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Next after the thoroughgoing priests, fnot seldom making the priesthood seem merely a professionl, what life is more given up to service than that of the country doctor? His rewards are many, but gain is not greatly in his reckoning. The celebrated town physician may do much charity practice at times in his office. He does not often go miles over dark roads in the cold, certain that his time will be as good as lost, if money is to be the standard of value. Let us not enlarge upon these matters, after all not simple. Sure it is that the physician who lives, moves, and works in the country, true to his art, meeting men on the level, is a chief factor in the commonwealth. If the country makes the town, who to a much greater degree of it than the physician, makes the country? The sum of the matter is, perhaps, that the world is wide, and whenever we are, there is a plenty to do. In the country there is so much to do, we sometimes grow confused, more so than in town, where there are paths beaten of many and labor is infmitesimally divided. Morton Holladay spent his life in Prince Edward County. At the time of his death he was the oldest inhabitant of Hampden-Sidney, to use his own wordsi For more than a century the county had been 'accustomed to well-trained physicians-Daniel Flournoy, William S. Morton, C-oodridge Wilson, the Farrars, the Mattauers, Joseph Eggleston. Dr. Holladay took up the work of no incompetent men and carried it forward. He was not in his later period so frequently a contributor to the journals as he had been earlier, but he knew what was going on in the practice of medicine and gave his patients the approved treatmentff Not long before his death he brought round a case of virulent diphtheria, by the most advanced scientific methods applied in circumstances almost as unfavorable as possible. Therapeutics was his forte, and this year, if the sum total of the poll-tax was hgured out, paid by those whose lives he has saved, the amount would look pretty large, even as the poll-tax is paid- This is the man that saved my life, Not only mine, but that of my wife, Each child I have hath lgnonm his skill, And cach I shall, questionless, will. Special reputation is much, but if a professional man has not besides the name of a good citizen, he might as well admit that he cares little except for what goes into the statistical record. As Sir Thomas Brown says, Live unto the dignity of thy nature, and leave it not uncertain at the end whether thou hast been a man. Dr. Morton Holladay was a good citizen. He knew better than most persons what people were, but was chary in judgment, and no pessimist, ready to do anything that he could with his opinions for the best welfare of the people. For years and years he had worked as opportunity was for improved roads about Prince Edward County. For the last five years of his life he was a member of the Board of Supervisors of the County, and during those live years there was not a better Supervisor in the State of Virginia. A Board is a Board, and it is 'For about ten or a dozen years Dr. Holladay was Physician to the College. first in l887, and then for a long term ending with his death in December, 1913. lf Holladay sends us a patient, observes the Director of the Memorial Hospital in Richmond, we know that the case has been well studied. 8

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