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ii T WAS a grievous day for Richmond that brought the news of the death of Dr. Churchill G. Chamberlayne. He had been ill for weeks, dangerously ill, but his friends had hoped that his high courage would carry him success- fully through his attack. To think of him as dead, at the very peak of his powers, is to realize that Richmond has lost a man of unique position. Of his cultural and patriotic inheritance, it is unnecessary to speak. He was bound by ties of blood with some of the greatest lines in Virginia. Men and women of his stock had wrought mightily in the making of the Old Dominion. He was conscious of that, of course, and modestly proud of it, but he regarded all his inheritance as a responsibility to be discharged rather than as a distinction to be enjoyed. For his career he was well prepared, The best that Virginia af- forded him was supplemented by graduate study in the greatest era of the German universities. When he returned to the United States, three calls came to him-that of the ministry, that of historical re- search, and that of education. With the rarest of wisdom and with restless energy, he decided to make the three careers one. Nobly did he succeed. He would have been eminent in any diocese even had he done no historical work. Had he written no books and preached no sermons, he would have earned-as he did earn--the enduring gratitude of Virginia for the training of our boys. Dr. Chamberlayne saw clearly through the diverse theories of education. He was not impatient of them, nor did he shut his eyes to
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their implications. The aim of instruction, as he saw it, was the de- velopment of character and of the powers of reason. It was desir- able that boys know facts, but it was essential that they have alert minds. Language and mathematics and history and the sciences could contribute to mental discipline, but all these failed unless they were taught in an atmosphere of manliness, of truth and of fair play. Be- cause those were his ideals, he received into his school much of the best human material in Virginia. Hundreds there are, of parents and of former pupils, who will attest the skill, the love and the wisdom with which he shaped that material. His intellect, as vigorous as discerning, was devoted in every leisure hour to the church, the Commonwealth and the Confederacy. Scholars sought him out to benelit alike by his knowledge and by his judgment in many realms of history. All that he wrote and all that he edited throughout his career had the mark of high, accurate scholarship, and the mark, no less, of his magnificent personality. It is not in farewell that his friends grieve at his passing and pay tribute to him. His life goes on and on in those whose lives he enriched. 1 DOUGLAS S. FREEMAN.
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