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

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For eight j ' ears he was a member of tlie Va)-s and Means Committee, of which he was chairman for a short time. He was chairman of the Judiciary Committee in the Fort ' -eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses. While a member of Congress Mr. Tucker exerted great influence over the deliberations of that body. His most famous speeches are those made in reference to the Tariff, the Electoral Commission Bill, the Constitutional Doctrine as to the count of the Electoral Vote, the Hawaiian Treaty of 1876, the Federal Elections Bill, in 1S79, and Chinese Immigration, in 1883. He was also the principal factor in securing the defeat of the famous Blair Bill. In 1889 he was elected Profe.ssor of Equity and Commercial Law, and of Constitutional and International Law, in Washington and Lee University. Mr. Tucker is an orator of great power and generally recognized as the first authority on Constitutional Law in America. He has, beside innumerable political speeches, delivered many public addresses that have been generally noticed and widely published. The most famous of these are probably those delivered at Saratoga, in 1877, before the Social Science Association, and at New Haven, before the Yale Law School, 1887, and the two great addresses before the American Bar Association at Saratoga, August, 1892, on British Institutions and American Constitutions, ' and at Milwaukee, August, 1893, as President of the Associa- tion, to which office he had been elected the preceding year. The ovation which Mr. Tucker received upon the delivery of his recent address before the Virginia Bar Association at Richmond, proves that the students of Washington and Lee are not alone in thinking that Old Ran has the biggest head and the biggest heart in all the land. Mr. Tucker received the degree of LL. D. from Vale in 1887. He now has in preparation a work on Constitutional Law, the publication of which is eagerly awaited. )avi C. Ibumpbrcv s Was born in Wythe County, X ' irginia, October 14, 1855. He entered the engineering office of Major Hotchkiss, in Staunton, Va.. and there conceived a strong liking for the profession that he afterward made his own. In 1874 he became office assistant and draughtsman for the Valley Branch of the B. 0. R. R. Entering Washing- ton and Lee University, September, 1875, he won the Taylor Scholar.ship, the Scholarship in Applied Mathematics and the Robin.son Medal in Applied Mathematics, and was graduated with the degree of C. E. in 1 78. During the se.ssion of 1877-78 he was Instructor in Mathematics. He belonged to the Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity. In 21

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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

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the summer of 1878, he attracted the notice of engineers by increasing the water supply of Lexington, bringing the water from a spring three and one-third miles distant from the reservoir, and over a high ridge of hills, a feat that had been thought impossible. During the session of ' 78- ' 79 Prof. Humphreys taught at the McDonogh School, which he left to enter, as draughtsman and assistant engineer, the office of Lt. Col. Suter, in charge of the Army Corps engaged in improving the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. In i884- ' 85, he had charge of the observing parties in the triangulation of the Missouri River. For a short time he was in charge of the engineering department of Washington University, St. Louis, but came to Washington and Lee Uni versity as adjunct Pro- cessor of Applied Mathematics, Oct., 1885. He was made professor of his department in 1889. Prof Humphreys is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Association of Civil Engineers of Virginia, ' and the ••Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education. He recently read a paper before the Good Roads Convention in Richmond, which was published in the report of the proceedings of the Convention by the De- partment of Agriculture. Prof. Humphreys has just published a work entitled, Notes on Rankine ' s Civil Engineering, after the Notes of Profs. Wm. Allan and G. W. C. Lee, which has attracted the most flattering notices from engineering periodicals, and will probably be widely used in schools of engineering. 1bcnv ) alCIan cv Mbitc Was born in Greenbrier County, Virginia April 15. i860, of Scotch-Iiish parentage. He was a student of Wash- ington and Lee University from i88i to 18S7. The degrees of M. A. and Ph. D. were conferred upon him in 1885 and 1887, respectively. During his career as a student he won almost every prize and honor within the gift ol the University, from a Department Scholarship to the Howard Houston Fellowship, and including the Orator ' s Medal and the Santini Medal. He was editor-in-chief of the Collegian, i883- ' 84. Assistant in Moral Philosophy and Belles-Lettres 1886, and Assistant Professor of English, Modern Languages and Modern History, i885- ' 87. He attended Union Theological Seminary, i887- ' 8S, and Princeton Theological Seminary, i888- ' 89, from which he was graduated. Ordained as minister of the Gospel by the Lexington Presbytery, 1889. he was called to churches in Virginia, Missouri and Mississippi, and to the chair of Greek in Westminster College, Mo., but de- clined all to accept an election to the chair of History in Washington and Lee University. In 1891 he declined