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TO WILLIAM BAILEY ROYALL. D.D.. LL.D. FIFTY YEARS PROFESSOR OF GREEK IN WAKE FOREST COLLEGE THE SCHOLARLY TEACHER THE FAITHFUL PREACHER THE LOVING FRIEND THE CHRISTIAN GENTLEMAN THIS NUMBER OF THE HOWLER IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED BY THE EDITORS
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William Pailcp EopaU, B.B., HIL.IB. In Professor Dowden ' s deliglitful life-story of Robert Browning lie speaks of the inadequateness of a simple narration of facts when the chief concern of the reader is a biography of the mind. The like difficulty confronts the writer in the attempt to construct a biographical sketch of Dr. William B. Royall, for the ):)are relation of the details of a life of this truly great and good man would be insufficient to give a correct idea of his greatness as a teacher and the good- ness and gentleness of his character and influence. In the limited space, there- fore, at our disposal it will be necessary to pass rapidly over the facts of his life and to mention the more obvious characteristics of personality, leaving the bi- ography of the mind — that beneficent and lovable nature that really makes the man — to the sweet and tender memories of the thousands of friends who know and love him. William Bailey Royall was born September 2, 1S44. at Mount Pleasant, S. C, in view of the city of Charleston. It is no mean honor to lie descended as he was from a noble Huguenot ancestry, a sjilcndiil iicojile who have so greatly en- riched and eml)ellished the moral and intellectual lifi ' of , merica. His father was Dr. William Royall — claruin et venerahile iiinncn — a scholar and teacher of wonderful versatility and a preacher .second to none in inspiration anil depth of thought. This learned and godly father was the fruitful mentor of the son, who, at the early age of ten, began under him the study of Greek and enjoyed the un- surpassed advantage of his influence and instruction during the four years from 18.5.5 to 1859 that he was a student at Furman University. In 1860 the family removed to Wake Forest, from which institution Dr. Royall was graduated with the Bachelor ' s Degree in 1861, and the Master ' s Degree upon his return from the war in 1866. Immediately after his graduation he entered the Confederate Army, being at first a corporal in the Santee Artillery of Manigault ' s South Carolina Bat- tallion. Ilpon the appointment of his father as Chaplain of the 55th North Carolina Regiment, the son was transferred to that command in 1862 and served under Longstreet, A. P. Hill, and Robert E. Lee, being with Ceneral Lee at the Surrender at Appomatto.x. During these four years of storm and stress he maintainetl an ardent and enthusiastic devotion to the Greek langviage, as a result of the influence of the scholarly and inspiring teaching of his old master at Furman, Professor P. C. Edwards. On his return from the war he at once took charge of a preparatory school, which he conducted with such success that he was elected a member of the Faculty of Wake Forest College in .January, 1866, and lias thus attaiiic d the
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