Mississippi State University - Reveille Yearbook (Starkville, MS)

Page 23 text:

GENERAL STEPHEN D. LEE, LL. D. 13

Page 22 text:

Our First President. GENERAL STEPHEN 1). LEI-]. LL.l).. President Mississippi Agricultural nml Mechanical Colleye, April 1. 1880, to Maij 1, 1899. The bravest are the tenderest, Tlic loving aii ' the daring. As ;i soldier, the author of this brief sketch served under the late Lieutenant-Genera] Stephen 1). Lee the last year of the Civil War, and as a member of his faculty and as his next-door neighbor was intimately associated with him for sixteen years. In war and in peace, our first President was found, in every crisis of life, a great man — great in nobility of character thai faces duty, that rights in the open with hard blows, that is magnanimous to a defeated foe, that holds no vengeful malice against the foe who is successful. There is no finer model after which the young men of Mississippi can fashion their lives; for he was a great leader, a stanch friend, a just enemy, a generous neighbor, a loving father, a tender husband — a noble gentleman. William Howard Magruder. VI

Page 24 text:

Our Second President. EX-GOVEKXOR JOHN MARSHALL STONE, President Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, May J. 1899, to March 26, 1900. Bora near Milan, Gibson county, Tennessee, April 30, 1830; a teacher in the common schools of Tennessee; clerk in the village store at Eastport, Miss.; captain of the Inka Kirles ;it the outbreak of the Civil War; colonel of I he Second IJegiment of Virginia; mem- ber of the Mississippi Slate Senate from 1870 to 1876; Governor of Mississippi from 1876 to 1882, and again from 1890 to 1896; Presidenl of the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College in 1889 and 10(10; died March 26, 1900; a citizen of the highest type, a public officer true to every trust, a man who stood four-square to all the winds 1 hat blew. 11