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

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Faculty J. H. C. VVINSTON, A.B., B.S., Ph.D. Proffstor of Chrmixlry and Grnlngy o X, X n fr A.l3. and B.S., Hampden-Sidney College, '94, Graduate Student, I'niversitv of Virginia, '94-'95, Professor, Tazewell College, '95-'96, Graduate Student, johns Hopkins University, '96-'99, and Ph.D., '99, present position since '99, and Acting Professor of Biology, '17-VZO. Asa D. VVATKINS. AB., B.D. Profrssor of English H It A, E T A.li., Hampden'Sidney College, '94, Instructor in English, Hoge Academy, '95-'96, Principal South Boston High School, '96-'99, Student of English and A.l3., Harvard I'niversity, '99-'oo, B.D., Union Theological Seminary, Va., '03, Professor of Bible, King College, '07-'11, Instructor in Bible Courses, Fitting School, VVofTord College, '13-'14, present position since 't8. J. B. Massey. A.B., B.D., D.D. Profrssor of Billlr, Plfilosojvlzy, and Pxyrlmlogy A.Ii., I'niversity of North Carolina, '00, B.D., I'nion Theological Seminary, Va., '03, Moses D. Hoge Fellow, Union Theological Seminary, Va., '03-'04, Student, Summer Session, Columbia University, '20, D.D., VVashington and Lee University, '20, present position since 'I9. THUM.-xs CARY JOHNSON, JR., AB., IN'I.A. Profrssor of History and Ernnoznivs KE AB., Hampden-Sidney College, '15, M.A., University of Virginia, '16, Instructor in English, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, '16-'18, and '19-'20, U. S. Naval Air Service, '18-'19, Student, Summer Session, Ilarvard l'niversity, '20, present position since '20, Instructor in History, Col- lege of VVilliam and Mary, Summer Session, '22. H. B. QDVERCASH. B.S. B.S., Davidson College, Professor of Mathematics and Science, Catawba College, Adjunct Pro- fessor of Biology, Davidson College, Professor of Mathematics and Science, Palmer College, Professor of Chemistry and Biology, Catawba College, Graduate Student I'niversity of Virginia and Columbia I'niversity. MACON Reign, A.B., M.A. Professor of Mzzfllffrzalirx AB., I'niversity of S. C., M.A., Columbia University, Professor of Greek and Mathematics, Presbyterian High School, Columbia, S. C., 'or-'04, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, I'ni- versity of S. C., '04-'05, Professor of Science, Peacock Military School, San Antonio, Texas, '07-'08, Headmaster, Donaldson Military School, Fayetteville, N. C., '08-'16, Associate Pro- fessor of Greek, Latin and Mathematics, Davidson College, '16-'20, Elected Associate Professor of Latin, University of N. C. in '22, released for present position. CARI. D. Laws, A.B., lNI.A. plsxislanl Profrxxor nf 1lIafln'matif.t A.B., North Carolina State Agriculture College, '21, M.A., University of Georgia, '22, present position since '22.. C. E. GREEN, A.B., Ph.D. Proffrsor of lfrnnlz and Spanish 8

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Faculty -IOSEPH IjL'l'L'Y Eoolrsrox, A.M., LL.IJ. Prrririrlzt 12 o 11, -11 I1 K AB., Hampden-Sidney College, '86, A.M., '92, LL.I7., XV:1shington a11d Lee l'11iversitv, 'I'j: LL.D., Hampden-Sidney College, '18, SLIPCTIIIIEIHIEHI Schools, Asheville, N. C., '03-'0O,'I'riI1CQ Edward County, Va., '03-'05, State Superintendent P11blic Instruction of Virginia, I79lH'lIJlI'Y, '06-january 1, '13, Chief of Field Service in Rural Education, I'. S. Bureau of EKIIIUXIYIOII, january 1, '13-Jlllj' 1, '13, President Virginia Polytechnic Institute, July 1, '13-'19, Editor and Secretary Bureau of Information a11d Publicity, Southern Education Board, I'niversitv ot Ten- nessee, '02, has been Editorial XVriter for leading papers i11 Virginia, North CIlf0lIllIl'IlHKl Ten- nessee, MCITIIHCF Phi Beta Kappa, Beta Theta Pi. Author lwith R. YV, liruerej The XVork of the Rural School. As11ToN XV.1t'o11 RICXVIIORTER Dr'nr1,' Prnf1's.ror nf Grrwk 11- I3 lt, 2 'r AJS., Roanoke College, '95, A.M., '02, Tutor in Greek, illiti, '95, Principal of High Schools in South Carolina, '95-'93, Graduate Student, johns Hopkins I'niversity, 'QS-'oq and '03-'05, Phi Beta Kappa, '04, Fellow in Greek, 'o.1,-'05, Ph.D., '05, Professor of Latin and English, Presbyterian College of South Carolina, '99-'03, Instructor i11 Greek and Latin, tl1e George hh'IlSlllII2I0l1 Uni- versity, '05-'06, Classical Master Sewanee Grammar School tThe I'niversity of the Southj, '06-'07, Professor of English, History a11d Political Science, Hampden-Sidney College, 'o7-'18, Librarian, '07-'18, Treasurer, '14-'19, Acting President, '17-'19, Present Position since '18, Professor of Latin, Summer Session of NVilliam and Mary:, '15-'16e'22, Professor of History, ilzitl, '19, Member American Philological Association and Archaeological I11stitute of America. HENRY CLAY BROCK. B.Lit. Professor Emfrilm of Crrrk Student Richmond College, '59-'61, Randolph-Macon College, '61-'62, University of Virginia, '69-72, and B. Lit., I'niversity of Virginia, '72, Assistant Instructor in Latin, I'11iversity of Vir- ginia, '70-'71, .Associate Teacher Kenmore l'11iversity High School, '72,-'79, Associate Teacher Charlottesville High School, Charlottesville, Va., '79-'81, Master of I'niversity School, Charlottes- ville, Va., '81-'86, Professor of English and History, Hampden4Sidney College, '86-'89, Protessor of Greek and French, ilriil, '89-'IIQ Professor of Greek, '11-'13, J. H. C. BAGBY, AAI., NLE., Ph,IJ. Proj'c,r.tm' of Pl1y,vir.v and ,Islrnnomy A K 12, X 12 111 Student Norwood's University School, Richmond, Va., M.A., Cniversity of Virginia, '88, MI., '91, Ph.D., '94, Teacher XVallace's University School, Nashville, Ten11., 'SR-'90, Professor of Natural Philosophy, Hampden-Sidney College, '92-'98, Present Position since '9S. VVA1. H. XVI-IITING, jk., A.B., A.M., LL.D. Prof1'.v.ror of Latin and Gl'fflIHIl 41 1' A, 3 T AB., Hampden-Sidney College, '80, A.M., '82, Graduate Student, I'niversity of Virginia, 'So-'81, Assistant, Prince Edward Academy, Va., '81-'86, Assistant, I'niversity Nashville, Tenn., '86-'88, Principal, Clay Hill Academy, Millwood, Va., '88-'02, IIHLI '05-'06, Graduate Slllllellf, Summer Session, Harvard Cniversity, '18, and of Johns Hopkins I'niversity, '21, LL.D., Ilampden-Sidney College, '22, Professor of Latin and German, Hampden-Sidney College, 'oz-'05, and '06-'III Professor of Lati11, 'II-'ISQ Professor of Latin and Spanish, '18 2:, Professor of Latin Illlll Ger- m'-'1 since '22. 7

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r. Alfred James Morrison N liVashington, after his return from evening worship Sunday, the 14th K5 of -january, a chill rapidly developing into pneumonia when he had been I 1- . . . 5 removed to bibley Hospital, and early on the morning of the Sth day Ur. if Alfred Blames lllorrison was dead-dead i11 his prime, a career of dis- ? tinction just opening before him. Thus one of the most gifted of her 5.4 Alumni, touched with divine firef, as a classmate said of him, has been J lost to Hampden-Sidney College, and, to the State of Virginia, an i11- valuable recorder of many phases of her history. Bo1'n at Selma, Alabama, the lltll of july, 1876, the son of a young minister, after whom he was named, brought in his infancy by his widowed mother to her old home, he inherited a love fo1' the college of which his grandfather, Dr. Atkinson, was long president, and throughout his life about it centered his devotion and from it radiated to and beyond the borders of the state his' manifold work whether as investigator or as writer. Graduating there in 1395, one of a class of unusually bright youths, himself markedly so, and an Honorman, he continued his StlltllCS at the State University, Zlllll finally, entering the johns Hopkins, where he was awarded a Fellowship, he took his degree of Doctor of Philosophy, the Romance Languages being his choice of subjects. Afterwards he spent several tentative years, as often happens, with no definite objective before him. Teaching, he had done both in Virginia and in Tennessee after his first graduation. In a spirit of adventure he more than once visited Europe, making a sojourn in Paris for further study of French. On this side of the Atlantic again, he was for a while manuscript reader for the Holt Publishing Com- pany, and when he was so employed his discriminating judgment gave to the public one of May Sinelair's earliest books and best, The Divine Fire, yet years later he told a friend that he no longer read novels, the result of a vagary, surely not with de- liberate purpose, for he was not free from the eccentricities of genius. In 19115 he held the chair of Latin and German in his old college, and for another session a pro- fessorship in Toledo University, Ohio, but the routine of the classroom was irksome to him as well as its confinement to fixed hours. Historical and biographical papers he had already written, the outcome of original inquiryg they are for the most part to be found in the College Library and are duly indexed. His bent thus decidedly evinced, he finally settled down to congenial labors, now fitted for their prosecution by his extensive readings, his wonderful memory, his untiring search for material. During this time he edited certain books of travel, .john Davis' Travels in the States, and a similar work by Dr. john Schoepff, in two volumes, which he translated from the German. His old home was now his residence and it may be the associations of his youth and the scenes about him led him to edit, first, the llinutes of the Board of Trustees of the College and, next, to prepare his Dic- tionary of Biography. This is a most noteworthy contribution to the history of the college, as it contains, in epitome, the lives of all the officers and the students for the first fifty years of its existence, from 1776 to 1825. It means all that its title implies and cost the compiler many months in collecting the material. Fortunately, in the lack of catalogues for those early years, the membership and minutes of the two Literary Societies early organized and actively functioning, and the Minutes of the Board of Trustees supplied a basis to b11ild upon. His intimate knowledge of the educational conditions of the state, as seen in another of his booklets: finally the limited territory fSouthside Virginiaj which for many years furnished in the main the clientele of the 9