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CONTENTS Book One . . . The Institute Book TwD .... Tlie Classes Book TlirEE . . Tlie Military Book Four . . The Athletics Book Five . . The Activities
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p M l l ll l l i l il . l lJ gasa t MAJOR-GENERAL FRANCIS H. SMITH 1840-1889 Born October 18, 1812, son of Francis H. Smith, merchant of Norfolk. Commissioned Second Lieu- tenant, First Artillery, November 30, 1833. After his graduation from the United States Military Academy in July, he was on garrison duty for a year, then taught geography, history, and ethics at the Academy for a year. In 1834 he married Sarah Henderson; they had seven children. Resigning his commission in 1836 to accept the professorship of mathematics at Fiampden-Sydney College in Virginia, in June, 1839, he became principal professor and after 1840 Superintendent of the newly organized Virginia Military Institute, to the service of which he devoted the remainder of his life. After 50 years as superintendent, as a builder and rebuilder of V. M. I., Ceneral Smith retired, December 31, 188?. He died in Lexington, March 21, 1890. ACADEMIC BUILDING, 1900 JACKSON STATUE
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