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

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EDICATIO N APPRECIATIVE MEMORY of his devoted r service to HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE for many . . . years and his profound scholarship, of his noble qualities and lofty character, of his remarkable abilities as a teacher, of his type of that being which men call gentleman, we reverently dedicate The Thirty-Fifth Volume of THE KALEIDOSCOPE To our late lamented friend and professor HENRY CLAY BROCK

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DEN SYD Henry C. Brock, B. Lit., D. Lit., LL. D. Integer vitae scelerisque purus. N THE kaleidoscope of life the law of change prevails and the forces and actors, as a rule, reassemble themselves constantly and swiftly into new shapes. When, therefore, we find an institution like Hampden-Sydney that, with fair consistency, resists change and maintains for years its distinctive characteristics, we wonder. But when we remember that outstanding personalities have influenced and moulded the institution's life and policy for long consecutive periods, we, in a measure, understand its conservative attitude and tendencies. It is really remarkable how many of Hampden-Sydney's faithful teachers have stood by the old College for long years in spite of hard work and small pay. Charles Martin U847-18711 helped to carry it through some of the most depressing periods in its history, L. L. Holladay, for thirty-six years H855-l89IJ was a professor whom our students loved, Walter Blair H859-l896J was our ideal of a classical scholar: James R. Thornton, here for twenty-eight years H883-l9l l D, looms large in the memories of hundreds of alumni, H. C. Bagby's marvelous memory and straight thinking are the admiration of his classes to-day as they have been since l892. For a longer period C1886-F9281 than any of these Dr. Henry C. Brock served the College. As active and emeritus professor, he was here for nearly one-third of Hampden-Sydney's corporate existence. His life and work have been so frequently and fully set forth in the publications of the College, and in the press of the State, that recapitulation seems superliuous. The briefest outline must suffice. Son of Robert King Brock and Mildred Ragland, he was born in Rich- mond, Virginia, january 26, IS45. When the Civil War began he was attending Richmond College, IS59-l86l g later he was a student for a year at Randolph-Macon College, then located at Boydton, Virginia. As soon as he reached the age for enlistment he volunteered for service in the Confed- erate States Army, joining a troop of King William cavalry in General Rooney l..ee's brigade. Severely wounded at lVlalone's Crossing, in 1864, the young soldier was for months an invalid and was never again able to rejoin his command. When his health was sufficiently restored, in 1867, he accepted a position in King William County, where he taught a small neighborhood school, board- ISI