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

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DEDICATIO Through the various course of one hundred eighty-one years Hampden-Sydney College has enjoyed the succes- sive dedicated efforts of seventeen presidential admini- strations, which constitute a collective consecration to the ideal of Christian education in the liberal arts, the supreme purpose and vital hope which has led these our Presidents to provide the history of this College with cherished examples and honored achievements of fi- delity and visiong in token of our ineffahle gratitude we advance this volume in commemoration of the hody of Presidents of Hampden-Sydney College. The history of l'lampden-Sydney is the record of her Presidentsg the traditionally academic atmosphere, founded upon stand- ards and quality of students and faculty, the physical, intellectual. and spiritual facilities with which the Col- lege is endowed. her entire tenor and direction of life, all producing the development and cultivation sought here. all mirroring the essence of human spirit devoted to the human intellect to he encouraged here. all are her Presidents' legacies to Hampden-Sydney. Now the College cannot consist simply in an attitude of mind: it must pursue an ohjective of worth with means conducive to its attainment. The ohjective of worth is supplied hy the context of our cultural heritage, and. ultimately. it gave birth to Hampden-Sydney as an institution of liheral learning. But the presidential task emhraces the conception and administration of the means necessary in achieving this cherished goal. As may he seen. our Presidents have heen blessed with the faculty of vision. Why do we seek vision in what commonly is an educational administrator? We aver that Hampden- Svdney is not a common institution. requiring an ad- ministrator as presidentg rather we insist that this is a Christian educational institution requiring. therefore. a Christian educational philosopher to guide, guard, and direct its progress and achievement. As we reflect upon the men who thus far have executed the Presidency of this College. there is suffused in us a pride of association. nay. communion with the collective result of a confluence of soul and mind into a hody of tradition which compels an humility and gratitude for one hundred eighty-one years of perseverance in the attainment of an ideal imperishahle and implacahle so long as truth survive and men of Cod seek her. Venable Hall -gui' Cushing Hall

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THE INSPIRATIO OF A NAME .J t 4 si, YV jvgi ln ITT6 the Thirteen Colonies began their struggle for HLUWDFN HOUSF E- Am.em.a1 Q fskfl intlependence. Willy then should a college in Virginia. the home of John Hwlpden in Buck- ,A 'ffl' . . .. ' . . . . ' A ..'..if leader in tlns fight for llllt'1'lY. be named for two English- inghamsliire. England. - e e x-4. men? Although we have no accurate record of circumstances surrounding the naming of Hampdcn-Sydney. these reasons may he readily conjectured. The one idea which pervaded the thoughts and actions of these founders of our school may he summed up in one word--Liberty. In the immortal words of one of the first trustees. Give me liberty or give me deathlu Small wonder then that the idols of these early patriots were men who had given their very lives for liberty. .-Xnd in what better way could these two men be honored than by having a small liberal arts college bear their name: a college where the ideals of its founders would be passed on from generation to generation. ,lolm Hampden had begun his struggle for liberty nearly a century and a half before our Declaration of Independence was written. He was well-born. highly educated. and heir to an ample fortune. Yet Hampden did not choose this easy life. for it meant abject service to a selfish and unscrupulous king. Instead he sided with an oppressed people in their struggle for liberty. After nearly a quarter of a century of fearless service for this cause. he died the death of a martyr while leading a brilliant charge against the king's forces at Chalgrove Field. where he was mortally wounded. But this cause of English liberty was not to go uncham- pioned. Another brilliant young nobleman, Algernon Syd- ney. took up the fight where Hampden had left off. Sydney's service for liberty is a long tale of brilliant exploits. Upon PEXSHVRST PLACE - present the restoration of Charles II, Sydney. for defiance of the hgnye ,-,f Lord De L'I5le and Dud. king. was exiled for seventeen years. But he returned to ley in Kent. England. It was the England to take up again the cause of liberty. He produced home Of Algeffm Sydnef- a great book. Discourses on Covernmentf, which became a handbook for those who loved civil and religious liberty. Finally he too diecl the ff'lEt1'l.Y1'iS death. He was falsely con- victed and beheaded. his chief crime having been that, in his own words. 'tfrom my youth I endeavored to uphold the common rights of this land, and the true protestant religion, against corrupt principles, arbitrary power, and povertyf' Surely it was fitting to immortalize these two men by nam- ing the new educational institution Hampden-Sydney College.

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Mcllualne Hall REV. SAMUEL STANHOPE SMITH ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER I? Q Q JONATHAN P. CLSHING 18121-1835 J. D. EGGLESTON 1919-1939 EDGAR GRAHAM GAMMON 1939-1955 ah url Aer' -' -: Lrg, -t 1 '