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

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His humble Clwistiaxn scrf vice Y- f it is lwcczlusc of this rlmt wc gratefully dcnlicntf: 1-he 1959 KA1.1i1nosc:0PI2 to GRAVES HAYDON THOMPSON. EDICATIO Q ' 1 ffm, 4

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PATRIOT'S SCHCOL the SpanishfAmerican War, the First and Second World Wars, the Korean War: these claimed numerous HampdenfSydney men. No school can speak more proudly of the patriotism of her alum' ni. Their monuments are about us: pause to think of Memorial Gate, the Library, and the Rare Book Room of the Library. These are three places devoted especially to the honour of our dead, no number of places could do them just tribute. This campus and what it does can and should be living memorials to a type of devotion that must live on if HampdenfSydney is to live on. The only child of the late Dean D. C. Wilson, David Spencer Wilson, '38, gave his life for his country in the Pacific, while aboard a submarine. Dr, and Mrs. Wilson erected in College Church cemetery a cenotaph on which this profound and simple line is carved: Men have dreamed and men have dared and men have died. Spence Wilson is the example of what Ha1npdenfSydney men have too often found in this tragic chronicle of wars: that for some of us to keep on dreaming and daring, some others of us must die. America is like that, and HampdenfSydney chooses to be like that, America has grown great on dedication such as this, and HampdenfSydney has helped her be so. We know not what will be asked of us in the future, but we can look for our reply to our college years and remember what our bro' thers have done, and that we must follow: we, too, must give, as HampdenfSydney men. This is an inheritance of duty, which we must keep and multiply and hand ong it is part of Hampf denfSydney tradition. We are patriots and we are proud of it. Sanctus amor patriae dat animum. -Algernon Sydney. The entire college in the 19th Century consisted of Cushing Hall fbelowj and the Alamo fdistant leftj.

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ORIA f' A DAVID COOPER WILSON, AB., AM., Ph.D. 18824958 Professor of Greek, 19224957 Dean of the College, 19394954 . . . the secret of his life was dedication- dedication to the liberal arts tradition in edu' cation generally and to its preservation at HampdenfSydney College, in particular. This was the elixir which touched a dynamic and aggressive nature and gave to it the virtues of humility and graciousnessf' -T. E. Crawley NELSON WEBSTER CCE, III 19374955 h Member of the Class of 1955 It is with respect that we remember this member of the Class of 1959. He met each man with confidence. He carried his burden with ease. He bore his Christian faith with pride. Our meager phrase can but call to memory the rich truth of his life.