Virginia Military Institute - Bomb Yearbook (Lexington, VA)

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GENERAL SCOTT SHIPP, LL. D. Born in Fauquier County, Virginia. August 2, 1839; attended Warren Green Academy. Warrenton, Virginia, and Pulton College. Fulton. Missouri; member of engi- neering corps in Missouri. 1855-56; entered Virginia Military institute, September. 18.50. graduating in 185!) with fourth stand in class of twenty-nine, and as Captain of Company D ; Assistant Professor of Mathematics Virginia Military Institute. 1859-00; Professor of Latin, 1860-61; Assistant Adjutant-General, Captain in the Provisional Army of Virginia and Major of the Twenty-First Virginia Volunteers, lstil ; Commandant of Cadets. Virginia Military Institute. September. lS(il-(IO: in command of the battalion of cadets at the liattle of New Market. May 15, 1864; graduated in Law at Washington and Lee University while commandant of cadets; Professor of Latin, 1876-90; Superin- tendent of the Virginia Military Institute, 1890-1907; LL. D. at Washington and Lee, 1891; member of the Board of Visitors of the United States Military Academy, 1890; president of the Board of Visitors of the United States Naval Academy, 1894; since 1907, Superintendent Emeritus of the Virginia Military Institute.

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!HMEfe%Bf ;iMyIl GENERAL EDWARD WEST NICHOLS Horn in Petersburg, Virginia, June 27, 1858; student Hume and Cook ' s School, 18(iii- i ' .l; student McCabe ' s School, 1869- 74; entered Virginia Military Institute in 1874. graduating in 1878 with fourth stand .11 class of twenty-four, and as a Cadet Lieutenant : studied law under tutors and at the University of West Virginia; Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Vir- ginia Military Institute, 1878-81: practicing lawyer in Norfolk, Virginia. 1881; Pro- fessor of Mathematics, Virginia Military Institute. 1890-1907; author of Nichols ' Analytical Geometry and of Nichols ' Differential and Integral - Calculus ; asso- ciated with the American Reporter Inter- national Railway Congress in scientific in- vestigation since 1903; member of the Vir- ginia Geological Society; member of the Society Promoting Engineering Education; member of the Committee of College Presi- dents on Summer Camps: Superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute since 1907.

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COLONEL HUNTEK PENDLETON, M. A.. I ' ll. D. Born in Fredericks Hall, Louisa County, Virginia, January 2 ' i. 183S; attended private school, Louisa Court House, Vir- ginia i student Aspen Hill Academy, Louisa County, 1872-75; entered University, 1875: M. A., University of Virginia, 1881; In- structor, Pantops Academy, near Char- lottesville. Virginia, 1881-82; student in ( liemistry. University of Virginia, 1882-83: student University of Gottingen, Germany, in Chemistry and Mineralogy, 1883-80; I ' ll. 1).. University of Gottingen, 1886; In- structor in Chemistry, Tuft ' s College, Boston, Mass.. 1SS7-S!); Professor of Natural Science, Bethany College, West Virginia, L889-00; Colonel and Professor of Chemistry, Virginia Military Institute, since .luh 30, 1800.