Washington and Lee University - Calyx Yearbook (Lexington, VA)

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Ilnstructors. HARRY WADDELL PRATT, A. B., 1891, Instruilor in Mathe»ialii:s and Instructor in tlie Gymnasium. WILLIAM REYNOLDS VANCE, M. A., 1S91, SAMUEL GARLAND ANSPACH, A. B., 1894, Instructor in English and German. Instructor in Latin. JAMES BELL BULLITT, A. B., 1S94, Assistant Instructor in tlic Gvmnasiuin. ©fficers. JOHN LVLE CAMPBELL, B. L., 1.S77, . . . . Cierl; of tlie Faculty. ADDISON ALEXANDER WADDELL, 1S94 Librarian. Cbaplaine. REV. B. H. DEMENT, REV. F. J. PRETTVMAN, REV. T. L. PRESTON, D. D.. Pastor oj tlic Baptist Cliurch. Pastor of tlie Methodist Church. Pastor of the Presbyterian Church. 14

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alcJ:an er XocF bart IHclson Was born in Augusta Co., ' irginia, in 1827. He entered Washington College in 1846, and was graduated first in a class of twenty, in 1849. During the session of ' 48- ' 49, he was Assistant Professor of Mathematics. The next year he spent in teaching a classical school in Charlottesville, Va., in which he was associated with our late revered Professor of Greek, James J. White. Enter- ing the University of ' irginia in September, 1850, he was given his Master ' s degree in 1853. During the session of i8s3- ' 54. he was Assistant Professor of Mathematics, after the death of Professor E. H. Courtenay in September, 1853. Professor Nelson, in 1852, had declined an election to the chair of Mathematics in William and Mary College, but accepted a call to the Professorship of Mathematics in Washington College, extended in the spring of 1854. This position he has ever since held. In 1893 Professor Nelson ' s lecture on Surfaces of the Second Order were published in the work on Analyti- cal Geometry, by Col. E. W. Nichols, Professor of Mathematics in the Virginia Military Institute. T 0 ' i ' Y ' f ' Vuv.l a Cbarlcs a. (Braves. Was born October 20, 1850, in Albemarle Co., Va. Entering Washington and Eee University he was graduated with the degrees of M. A. and B. L. While an undergraduate he was editor-in-chief of the Southern Collegian and won two of the Robinson Prize Medals. In 1869 he was made Assistant Professor of English and Modern Languages. In 1S73 he became Assistant Professor of Law, and in 1874 Adjunct Professor of Law. In 1875 he was appointed to the chair of Common and Statute Law, Washington and Lee University. He is a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. Professor Graves is a member of the American Bar Association, and one of the im- portant standing committee on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar. He also belongs to the Virginia State Bar Association, being a member of i ts committee on Library and Legal Literature. On August 2, 1893, lie read before a meeting of the latter association, at White vSulphur Springs, a masterly paper, entitled Extrinsic IH