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

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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

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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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Announcements : (i) The Treatment of the vedic inaiilras in the Grihvci Su- Fick ' s Eine Jainistische Bearbeitune der Sagavra-Saj e, . , t, tjt i • tt ■ - r n i- ,, o . ° ' tras. Johns Hopkins University Bulletin, May, 1S90. Am. Jr. Phil. X, pp. 22[-224. This is a brief summary of a still unpublished disserta- (2) Hoffman ' s Das Praeseus der indogermanischen Grund- tion. sprache, ib.. Vol. XI, pp. 217-222. ' -1 - ' i Kdition of the Paricisht of the Atharva veda. Pro- ceedings of the American Oriental Society for 1S93, (3) Recent Editions of Plautus (Fennell ' s Stichus, Gray ' s p, xxx. Epidicus,) ib.. Vol. XV, pp. 359-374. Besides these technical publications, Jlr. Fay is the (41 Boisacq ' s Les Dialectes Dorieus, and Koppners Der ' ° ° occasional poems (in the New Orleans Picayune) DialektMegaras,Cl. Rev. Vol. VH, pp. 5S-72. ' ' co-author of A Consuming Fire (story) m Harper ' s Weeklv, Sept. 19, ' 91. He has prepared for the Bureau of (5) Schwab ' s Historische Syntax der Griechische Compara- Education a still unpuljlished History of F duCHtion in tion, ib.. Vol. VHL.pp. 454-459. Louisiana. H i6on iboouc, Son of Rev. Dr. William J. Hogue, was born in Athens, Ohio, in August, 1849. In 1869 lie graduated in Hamp- den-Sidney College, and spent the next three years at the University of Virginia. In June, 1872, he was elected to the chair of Greek in Hampden-Sidney College, which position he held, teaching French as well as Greek, till ' 86, with the exception of two years (sessions of ' 83- ' 84 and ' 84- ' 85) .spent in Europe on leave of absence. He was elected to the chair of Greek in the University of Mississippi in July, 1886. After three years ' .service there the chairs of Greek and Latin were consolidated, and he was put in charge of the department of Ancient Languages, resigning his position in June, ' 93, in order to accept the Professorship of Greek in Wa.shington and Lee Univer.sity. He -has done some reviewing for the columns of The Nation, his last article being a rev-iew of Pro- fes.sor Goodwin ' s revised edition of The Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb. In the sunnner of ' 89 he pub- lished ' ' The Irregular Verbs of Attic Prose : their Forms. Prominent Meanings, and Important Compounds, together with Lists of Related Words and English Derivatives. (Bo.ston: Ginn Co., $1.50.) If he had the money he wotild be glad to publi.sh an Index to the verb in Isocrates, now repo.sing in the .shape of .some 1,300 pages of MS. If the Board of Tru.stees will publi.sh it for him, he will stirrender to them all the profits, and dedicate it to the Rector liesides 1 24