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

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Rs 2,41 1 m f DEN iff., SYD Though he was, of all men, most modest and retiring, Professor Brock's scholarship was widely recognized. Forty years after his student days, one of his fellow students said: The rest of us wrote fairly correct exercises: Brock wrote French. A distinguished alumnus, widely known as a man of intellectual power, once said: Every faculty should contain at least one scholar. At Hampden-Sydney, Professor Brock deserves the name. Austin College conferred the degree of Doctor of Literature and Randolph-Macon that of Doctor of Laws. Dr. Brock had an intuitive appreciation of the exact shade of meaning inherent in words which made his translations from foreign tongues seem well-nigh perfect renderings of the sense of the original. Master of English, he chose his words with meticulous care-writing and rewriting-never satisfied until he had hit upon the turn and phrase which precisely expressed the thought intended. l-le possessed, too, the rare gift of suggestion in language and his style attained a richness, a beauty and a force far beyond the literal meaning of his words. Of Dr. Brock, as a man and as a friend, we need not speakg those who knew him loved him and appreciated him to the full. To those who did not know him, a true characterization would seem fulsome eulogy. Whiat he meant to Hampden-Sydney was expressed by Dr. A. D. Watkins in his own inimi- table way, as follows: To most of the living alumni, Hampden-Sydney, with- out Professor Brock, seems to lack its peculiar character. I-le represented much of the distinctly Virginian cast of the institution-breeding, gentility, manners, reserve, classical scholarship, chivalry-much that we should like to believe is of Hampden-Sydney's essence . . . Whatever new may come to the College-and much that is new is greatly needed-the loss of the 'tender grace of a day that is dead' is a sad loss indeed. ln times when refinement may have lost its flower, and honor is an oldish word, and chivalry seems not desired by womankind, some ask, with great concern, 'will it still be said that Hampden-Sydney produces gentlemen? H We, who loved him, miss our loyal friend-so sincere, so courteous, so gentle. Quis dcsiderio sit pudor aut modus Tam cari capitis? -W. H. Wi-1mNc, JR. I '01

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