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

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Kvidence in Respect to Written Instruments, whicli was printed in the report of the association, and reprinted in the American Lawyer and The American Law Review. In the Virginia Law Journal for ApriL 1880, is an article b}- Professor Graves, entitled Dying Without Issue under Virginia Statutes, and for October, 1883, another on The Effect of a Definite Failure of Issue on the Operation of the Rule in vShelley ' s Case. In 1880 were published Professor Graves ' Notes on Real Property, for the use of Students, and in 1894 his Summary of the Law of Real Property, for the use of students, in connection with the Second Book of Black- stone ' s Commentaries. Professor Graves is also associate editor of the ' irginia Law Register. 3ainc5 a. Ibarrison was born at Pass Christian, Miss., in 1S48. The son of wealthy parents, he had every advantage of early educa- tion, and already gave evidence of the scholarl} and literary tastes thit have since distinguished him, when the fall of New Orleans sent his family as refugees to Thomasville, Ga. After the close of the war he resumed his preparatory studies for the University of Virginia, where he remained two years. At this institution he pursued the study of Greek with especial success under the teaching of Professor Gildersleeve. After leaving the Univer- sity of ' irginia he taught one year in Baltimore, and then went to Europe where he remained two years, study- ing at Bonn and Munich. Upon his return to America, in 1.S71, he was elected to the chair of Latin and Modern Languages in Randolph Macon College. In 1875 he was elected to the chair of English and Modern Languages in ' auderbilt LTniversity. This he declined, but in the following year accepted the corresponding chair in Washington and Lee University, to which he had been elected without application. As an author Professor Harrison has achieved an enviable position, being one of the most famous and suc- cessful of the large class of Southern writers that have come into prominence since the war. In connection with his professional work he has written French Syntax, Easy French Lessons, an edition of Heine ' s Reise- bilder, and an Anglo- vSaxon Dictionary. ' ' He is the originator of the Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry. which includes Beowulf, Exodus and Daniel Elene, ' ' Andreas, and Zupitza ' s Old and Middle p;nglish Reader. In this work he had as his collaborators. Professors Hunt, Kent, Barkerville, Sharp and MacLean. Beowulf, of which the fourth edition is just out, has been especially well received, having been adopted as a 17

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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

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text-book in Oxford and other English universities, and very generally in America. As a result of his travels and studies in Europe we have two books of charming sketches, Greek Viquettes and Spain in Profile, and a ' • History of Spain. ' Professor Harrison was .selected to write the first of the now popular Story of the Nations series of histories, the Story of Greece. The first published book was a volume ot reprinted essays entitled A Group of Poets and their Haunts But, however important the.se works appearing as separate books, it is probable that Professor Harrison ' s best and most scholarly work has been done for the columns of dictionaries and the various critical and .scientific journals, that, if collected, would form many volumes. For three years he was engaged as etymologi.st in The Cent ury Dictionary, working in conjunction with the late Professor Whitney and Dr. Scott, and for a like period he was employed by Funk and WagnoUs as definer in the departments of German Rhetoric, History, Art, Archae- ology, Mythology and Heraldry, for the recently published Standard Dictionary. Numerous technical articles from his pen have appeared in the American Journal of Philology, and an article on ' Negro English, published while in Germany, in Anglia, ' attracted unu.sual attention from English scholars, and is often quoted. Besides these there have been contributed to The Critic, ' ' • The Nation, The Independent, ' The Literary World, and like periodicals, many book reviews and criticisms on various literary topics. Such magazines as Lippin- cott ' s ' Appleton ' s, and The Overland Monthly, contain many of his miscellaneous sketches of travel, lectures and reviews. We marvel at the industry and scholarship that have enabled a teacher burdened with the conduct of .so large a department as Professor Harrison ' s, to accomplish so much literary work of lasting worth ; but he has not confined his professional activity to his classroom at Washington and Lee University. He delivered a cour.se of ten lectures in Anglo-Saxon Poetry at Johns Hopkins I ' niversity, and his annual public lectures are eagerly looked forward to by all those privileged to hear them. He is a member and the organizer of the Modern Lan- guage As.sociation. But Professor Harrison ' s literary work is l)y no means limited to critical and scientific subjects. Besides those publications of lighter vein that have been mentioned above, he has written occasional short stories and fre- quent little poems that sparkle out unexpectedly in the columns of the journals to which lie contributes. These latter are characterized by a wealth of vivid imagery that is at times almcst Oriental. Professor Harrison received the degree of LL. D. from Randolph-Macon College, and that of Litt. D. from Columbia College, New York. He has received tempting offers of professorships in such institutions as Tularre University and the Universitv of Texas, but we all earnestly hop; that he is firmly fixed in Lexington and the Facult - of our Alma Mater. If