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

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i E JONATHAN CUSHING THE COLLEGE

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QXMX-1 F S'-Uhe I 9 '21 6 va-44 YQ1Ie-jdoscopel Sidney company of volunteers and colonel in the Continental Armyg and Thomas Scott, of Charlotte, burgess and father of fighting sons. A careful reading of this list of trustees will show that the College came into being not only because of Presbyterian influence and initiative but also because of social and economic conditions prevailing in the valleys of the Staunton and of the Appomattox. The rich planters on the James and in the Tidewater could send their sons to England, or, if they could do no better, to William and Mary. The residents in Southside Virginia, pioneers in a comparatively new country, not wealthy but comfortable, knowing the value of an education, but unable to obtain it at a heavy expense, felt impelled to provide suitable scholastic advantages for their sons in their own territory. Thus the Scotch-Irish from Pennsylvania, from the Valley and from Eastern Virginia, the English, who, in successive stages, moved up from the low countryg the l-luguenots, who had settled on the james: all, Presbyterians and Episcopalians, were willing and eager to join hands cordially in a united effort to initiate and to press to accomplishment all plans for the common good. The courtly manners of Williamsburg, the cheerfulness and ease of the Huguenots, the honest frankness and stern independence of the English country gentleman, the activity and shrewdness of the merchant, the simplicity of republican life-all have been combined. These causes, these commingling elements, had produced a good seed-bed for an educational enterprise. The seed sprouted and grew. ln l783, the Academy, planted and watered by Samuel Stanhope Smith and his faithful coadjutors, bloomed out into a chartered college under the same trustees in the main. but with John Blair Smith in his brother's place. With bright prospects it started on its new development-but that is another story. -W. H. WHITING, JR. ISI

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