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

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Magazin? Staff B. D. MORTON W. J. SCOTT F. G. CHRISTIAN J. M. SYDENSTRICKER C. B. ROBERTSON A. G. RAMEY C. G. PETERS H. C. THOMPSON M. ALLEN R. E. WARWICK

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Kalrihnsrnpn Staff T. H. McGAVACK H. R. CROCKETI' A. A. WILSON T. C. JOHNSON C. R. BUGG L. C. TAIT B. W. VENABLE E.. B. PENDLETON P. C. ADAMS C. G. PETERS

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lgrrsihent iq. Efurkm' Csralizun, BB. Fi 4 4:1 N the one hundred and thirty-eight years of its history l-lampden-Sidney had CD twenty-one presidents, sixteen of whom have been ministers of the Presby- nrw terian Church. ln this line of succession are to be found names illustrious and distinguished in the annals of the church and of Christian education. 6 The list includes, among others not less worthy and efhcient, the Princeton Q Smiths-Samuel Stanhope and John Blair, Archibald Alexander. Moses QW Hoge, the elder, Jonathan P. Cushing, Lewis W. Green, M. P. 5 Atkinson and Richard Mcllwaine. The mere mention of these names is QQ significant of the high history of the old college, and of the standard of ideals, character and scholarship that has been maintained within its walls Q now these hundred years and more. To fall heir to such a tradition, therefore-to be called to catch up the mantle of leadership from the shoulders of these fathers in Israel, to be made one more link in so wonder- ful a chain of succession-surely that is a princely legacy, a splendid challenge, a sacred privilege and a mighty responsibility. To the subject of this sketch, the Rev. I-l. Tucker Graham, came such a challenge when on the twelfth of November, l908, he was called by the Board of Trustees to become the president of Hampden-Sidney College: to him was bequeathed the royal legacy embodied in the historic institution of the Revolution, when on the ninth of june, I909, he was formally inducted into that olhce, and had placed in his hands the keys to all the accummulated treasures of the collegeg and from that day forth the privilege has been his of sitting in the seat formerly occupied by l-loge and Alexander and Atkinson and Mcllwaine and the rest, nor less his the responsibility of striving to uphold their ideals and to guide the college to its further destiny of larger and wider service. No mean distinction, this-no ordinary call, and such a responsibility as who shall measure. How Mr. Graham's election to the presidency was received by the friends of the college and the public generally may be seen from these words of the Hampden-Sidney Bulletin for January, l909: The best news which this Bulletin will carry to its readers is the announcement that our Board of Trustees, on November l2, l908, elected Rev. H. Tucker Graham, of Farmville, Va., to the presidency of the college. fprof. W. H. Whiting, In what spirit Mr. Graham accepted this high honor and entered upon the duties of his new oflice may be gathered from the Commencement Bulletin for l909, as 11