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

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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

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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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a call to the Presidency of Central University, Ky., which had conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity. Dr. White, besides numerous contributions to the Southern Presbylcrian Onartcrly and other period- icals, published in 1891 An Historical Study of the Epistle to the Hebrews, a little volume of 25 pages, and An Historical Study of the Writings of St. John, a critical work of 181 pages. In 1894 appeared his latest work, The Origin of the Pentateuch in the Light of the Ancient Monuments. This is an interesting and scholarly book of 304 pages, in which strongly conservative views are maintained. At Pittsburgh, in 1890, Dr. White addressed the Scotch-Irish Society of America on The History of W a.shington and Lee University, and at Atlanta, 1892, on Three American Ideals: Puritan, Cavalier and Scotch-Irish. le win Mhitticl jfa Was born January ist, 1S65, at Minden, Louisiana. He entered the Southwestern Presbyterian University, December, 1879, and was graduated Master of Arts, June, 1883. Having spent the three years after his gradua- tion in teaching, he entered Johns Hopkins University in October, 1886. He was University Scholar in Sanskrit and Comparative Philology. i-Sj ' ss, Fellow in j888- ' 89, and graduated Doctor of Philosophy, June, 1890. Mr. Fay spent the next session at the University of Michigan, as instructor in Sanskrit and Ancient Languages. Going to Europe in 1891, he .studied at the University of Leipsic for a year. Returning to America he was appointed As.sociate Profe.s.-or of Latin, vice Profes.sor Fitz-Hugh, in the Univer.-,ity of Texas. He became Pro- fessor of Latin in Washington and Lee University in 1893. A list of Mr. Fay ' s numerous technical writings is as follows: Oricin.al . RTrcLES : ,6) The Latin Gerundive n-ndo. Mn. Jr. Plnl., Vol. XV., pp. (1) Notes. .-Vmerican Journal of I ' liilologv, (B. L. Gildersleeve, 217-222, editor, Baltimore, Maryland,) Vol. xiii, pp. 226-227. (?) Note on ;« .« a ;V;- in Plautus Cla sical Review.l London, (2) Studies in Etymology, ib., Vol. xiii, pp. 463-4.S2, England,) viii., pp, 391-2. (3) Etymological Notes— abstract of the two papers just (,S) Note on Cicero, Tusc. I. 22, 50, il)., p. 446. named. Proceedings of the American Philological (9) Agglutination and . daptatioTi, L .Am. Jr. Phil,, Vol. XV, .Association, Vol. XXIII, pp. xxiii-xxvi. pp. 409, 402. (4) Note to Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, I, lS-79, Am. Jr. (101 Agglutination and Adaptation, II, ib.. Vol. XVI, pp. . Phil., Vol. XV, pp. 77-79. (I,) The Song of the Arval brothers; the Manes worship in (5) English A««. .■ Greek yXtodaa. Linguistic Conservation the Aryan Period. Proc. Am. Ph. Assoc, Vol. XXV, of Energy, Modern Language Notes,Vol, IX, pp. 131-135. pp. v-xi. (Printed in abstract,) 23