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

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experience of the kind, or the agony of fright that I endured. The more lugubrious my tones and manner became, the more irrepressible was the merriment all over the Chapel. The Seniors sat on the first bench below the platform, fthat room is your present gym- nasium, and I can see them now trying to suppress their almost convulsive laughter. One Sophomore in our class, however, was never laughed at. William Mayo Atkinson, of Winchester, was always listened to with marked respect: for his declaiming was true oratory. He spoke with such impressiveness of manner, and with such appropriateness and gracefulness, and with such natural gestures, that it was worth coming over to the Chapel to hear him. When we entered upon our Senior year, one of the Freshmen was a boy only fourteen years old, if I remember correctly, but was well prepared for college. He was quiet, dig- nified, and a capital student. Even now I can see JAMES R. THORNTON walking across the campus with his long stride. A more absolutely irreproachable student was never found inside the walls of any college, I imagine. Well remembered, too, is Col. Kemper's broad smile of gratification the next June when he announced that two of his Freshmen, Lipscomb and Thornton had made IOO on their mathematics examination. Three years later Thornton graduated with first honors. The respect and admiration which he inspired as a Freshman continued unabated-it could hardly increase-during all of his life. We were colleagues in the Faculty later on: and to win and retain the friendship of such a man was a thing to be deeply grateful for. There was no organized Y. M. C. A. in those days. We sent no delegates to conventions, and had no paid college secretaries. It was considered sufficient for the young to be trained and guided by mature and experienced men. But we had our prayer meetingsg we were taught in Bible classes: we did not study on Sunday: nor were there any teams to use on Sunday, to make it a day of travel, or to make any trips. I hope that Hampden-Sidney is still true to those principles, and that she will ever remain so. 'YHA eggs .tit - .r ff l 'QW ,mag '5--1 X jf . ff -Q , s s f 11 .wfiv . -'wer S1155 'J'-2,71 ' T 75 ' Tl- 's' ft f- w Y 1-il,.g:11-txw 17

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