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

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JMX: ' The I 9 La-44,93 Kaleidoscope' ' fz H Q The Founding and the Founders of Hampden-Sidney College i LONG the Atlantic Seaboard from New York to South Carolina educational facilities in the eighteenth century were provided mainly by. Presbyterians-The College of William and Mary being the chief exception. Many of the Scotch, Scotch-Irish, and Huguenot inhabitants of this section were educated men who desired educational advantages for their children because they knew that an educated ministry and educated laymen were necessary for the best interests of Church and State. So, wherever they settled they arranged for the establishment of schools. This effort resulted in the organization of the so-called Log Colleges, private academies under the control of tried and trusted teachers. Some of these were deservedly famous in their day and gave to the new country many young men of mental force and moral power. ln Pennsylvania, the Tennents were at Neshaminy, Samuel Blair was at New Londonderryg Samuel Finley was at Nottingham in Marylandg while in New jersey Messrs. Dickerson and Burr fostered the incipient college now known as the College of New jersey. Later it became evident that the educational system must rest on concerted effort and corporate support. To this latter method of solving the educational problem Hampden-Sidney owes its existence. It has been said that an institution is but the elongated shadow of a man. This is often trueg for instance, the University of Virginia is the academic incarnation of Thomas Jefferson. ln the effort to apply this doctrine to Hampden-Sidney, Mr. Hugh Blair Grigsby in a spirit of enthusiastic generalization says: nl might be justified in saying that the founder of your Ci. e. Hampden-Sidney, College was John Knox. It would, perhaps, be nearer the truth to say that Hampden-Sidney is the daughter of the Log Colleges of l720-l750. If the credit of founding Hampden- Sidney College could be given to one man, that man would clearly be Samuel Davies C1723-17615, though he had no official connection with itg for this remarkable man was the apostle of Presbyterianism in Virginia, was the organizer of this church in the colony, and was the upholder and able defender of religious toleration in the Old Dominion. The Synod of New York in I755 appointed the Reverend Messrs. Samuel Davies, John Todd, Alexander Craighead, Robert Henry, john Wright and John Brown to l6I