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

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Si nc ? . flDol•clan Was born in Homer, La., Nov. 27. 1852. He entered Washington and Lee L ' niversity, Sept. 1.S72, and received the degrees of C. li., B. S., A. B., L A. During his college career he won a Department Scholarship, the Young Prize Scholarship and one of the Robinson Prize Medals. He is a member of the Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity. After graduation he taught in the McDonogh school, Maryland, until 1880. when he was elected Professor of Natural Philosophy in Washington and Lee University. Professor Moreland has made occasional contributions to such scientific periodicals as The Electrical Engineer, The American Journal of Science, The Electrical Review, ' and The Annals of Mathematics. He is a member of the American Mathematical Society, and F ' ellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 3ainc9 H. ©uarlcs Was born near Boonville, Mo., April 30th, 1837. Aiter due preparation at the Kemper School, he became a student at Westminster C illege, Mo. After being graduated with the degrees of A. B. and A. M., he entered the University of Virginia, and later the Princeton Theological Seminary. After completing his theological studies, he was ordained to the ministry, and at various times was pastor of churches at Glasgow, Lexington and St. Louis, all in Missouri. He was also successively principal of the Kemper School, the Glasgow Public School, and the Elizabeth Aull Female Seminary. In 1886 he was elected Profe.s.sor of Moral Philosophy in Washington and Lee University. The degree of D. D. was given him by Westminster College, and that of LL. D. by Cen- tral University. Dr. Quarles has written on religious, economic, educational and philosophic questions for the weekly papers of his church, the Baltimore Sun, the American Magazine of Civics. the Southern Presbyterian Review, ' and the Presbyterian Quarterly. He has published in book form the Life of F. T. Kemper, and now has about ready for the press a work on Theism and Apologetics. Dr. Quarles is a clear and forcible lecturer, not only before his classes, but also on the public platform. His course of lectures on Psychology, before the West Virginia Teachers Institute last summer, met with especially high praise. He is a member of the Phi Ka]3pa Psi Fraternity. 1!)

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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

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Ibcnrv 2). (lampbell. Was born in Lexington, Va., July 29, 1S62. He entered Washington and Lee University in September, 1.S76, and was graduated Master of Arts in 1882, and Doctor of Philosophy in 1885. He was Cincinnati Orator in 1882 and won the Santini Medal the same year; he also held the Howard Houston Fellowship, 1884-85. In 1882 he was appointed Instructor in Chemistry and Geology, and in 1884, Assistant Professor in Chemistry and Geology. Going to Europe in 1886, he spent two years in study at Berlin and Heidelberg. In 1887 he was elected Profes- .sor of Chemistry and Geology in Central University. Ky. , but declined the election in order to accept the profes- sorship which he now holds in Washington and Lee University. He is a member of Phi Gamma Delta. Prof. Campbell is a member of the American Society for the Advancement of Science and Fellow of the Geological Society of America. He has at various times contributed articles on the geology of Virginia, to The American Journal of Science, the Bulletin of the Geological Society, and The Virginias, and also to Dana ' s Manual of Geology. He spent the summer of 1891 and 1892 in work connected with the U. S. Geological Survey. 3obn 1Ran oIpb Zwchcv Was born in Winchester, Va., Dec. 24, 1823. He was prepared for college at Richmond Academy, from which he went to the University of Virginia, where he was graduated in 1844, as Bachelor of Law. He immediately began to practice his profession in Winchester, though with but little .success at first. In the presidential elections of 1852 and 1856, he ser -ed as an elector on the Democratic ticket and was elected Attorney General of ' ir- ginia in May, 1857, to fill an unexpired term, and was re-elected in 1859 and 1863. It was while holding this office, just before the war, that he gave his famous opinion holding that the United States mail could be opened by State officials upon warrant from a competent court, in order to prevent the dissemination of hurtful and revolu. tionary documents. Being disposses.sed of his office by the result of the war, he again began the practice of law. In 1870 he was elected Professor of Equity and Constitutional Law in Washington and Lee University. He continued to occupy this chair till 1874, when he was elected to Congress, of which he was a member till 1887. 20