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c Vale WENTY-ONE years ago this coming August the present professor t Philosophw from the loveh ' land of Missouri, first trod the r- xzA),s v ' H ' - ' ' •ssic streets ot Lexington and heard tlie buds smg in the leaf ' jK f 2|5fe campus ot the Washington and Lee Universit -. At that time (jen- eral G. W. C. Lee was President; James |. Miite had the chair of Greek; Carter ]. Harris, that of Latin; A. L. Nelson. Mathematics; S. T. More- land, Ph sics; James A. Harrison, Modern Languages and Histor ' ; W . G. Brfnvn, Chemistr ' ; D. C. Humphre s, Engineering; Charles A. Graves, Law; and James A. Quarles, Philosoph ' . There were also two assistants. During this ea , 1886-1887, one hundred and twent ' -two students, altogether, were enrolled. There was no g mnasmm or athletic held, and all games were pla •ed on the campus in front oi the main building. At the end ot twent -one ears. General Custis Lee. whom e er protessor and student respected, was succeeded in 1897. b ' William L. Wilson, beloved and admired b - all that knew him; and he, after too short an administration, in 1901. b ' the present energetic and efficient president. George H. Denny. The gym- nasium, power house, and Professor Hogue ' s residence were built b ' General Lee; two additional professorships in Law were established; steam heat was introduced into Newcomb Hall; the preparator ' classes were abandoned and arrangements made for entrance examinations; the Letcher Building was bought during his regime. The Tucker Memorial Hall was built, the Mlson athletic field impro ed, the Societ ' halls renovated, the departments of Ph ' sics and Chemistr - enlarged, and the chairs of English, Economics and Politics added b - President ilson during his three brief ears. Henr ' St. George Tucker tilled out the ' ear m which Presi- dent Wilson died. 19CO-1901. as temporar ' president, and was largeh ' instrumental in securing the means for building Tucker Hall and tor the endowment of one hun- dred thousand dollars for the Wilson Memorial Fund. President Denn completed this last work, and has added the Reid Hall ot Engineering and Ph sics. the Lees Dormitor -. and the Carnegie Library to our equipment, besides renovating the Central Building within and without, establishing the University Inn. installing the superb hot water plant, and la ing the granolithic walks. Moreo er. the enrollment ot students has rapidlv increased under his indefatigable and judicious labors. In 1886 there were ten professors and two assistants, all ot them competent 15
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men. Now there are seventeen- professors,- and fifteen assistants. The enrollment ot iSSfi has grown from one hundred and twenty-two to four hundred and seventeen. Modesty forbids him to say that all this improvement has occurred during the in- cumbency of the present professor of Philosophy! Post hoc, ergo propter hoc. Imagine the ' ashington and Lee with eight academic professors and a single man tor the Law, with only a score more than a hundred students, and some of these in the preparatory department; with Professor Hogue ' s house, the Tucker Memorial, the Gymnasium, the Power House, the Reid Building, the Carnegie Library, the University Inn, and the Lees Dormitory all gone; with no athletic field; with fenced front yards and rear gardens to all the professors ' houses, which were or- namented with dingy stables of wood; with trees half grown; with no granolithic walk; and with no paint on the walls or on the columns of any of the buildings — and you will have the university pictured as it was in 1886. The department of Philosophy, during this period, has always occupied its present quarters. Its equipment is the same as then, except that radiators have supplanted the old stove, and it has been munificently furnished with cast-off desks t rom the Law School and a few old tables bought by the professor from William Harvey, our lamented janitor. The average number of philosophic students during the first three years of this period was seventeen; during the last three it has been fifty-four. During the coming vacation, the trustees will fit up this room with neat desks and chairs and blackboards of slate; and they will soon establish a psychological lab- oratory, for which a request was made in President Wilson ' s day. As indicating the growth of the university in a more scientific differentiation of its several departments of instruction, it is interesting to know that English Liter- ature was assigned to the philosophic chair until 1890; Rhetoric until 1899; Econ- omics, from 1887 to 1898, and that Politics was here taught during the year 1887-1888. The professor of Philosoph} ' since 1899 has had nothing to do but teach Psychology, Logic, Natural Theology, Comparative Religions, Apologetics, Ethics, History of Philosophy, Epistemology, and Ontology. It seems unaccountable that he should be willing to give up such a sinecure. But you must bear in mind that, in addition to his duties in the lecture room, he has walked or wheeled all over Rockbridge County and down the valley to Winchester, has time and again walked twenty miles and conducted divine service on a Sunday, and has preached, during these twenty }ears, ele ' en hundred and sixt -two times, in one hundred and sixty-seven churches, scattered over twelve states and the District of Columbia, besides conducting many funerals and delivering one hundred and sixty addresses in divers places and on various subjects. It is none the less a tact that he is going to retire at the end of this year and 16
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