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Greeting: The appearance of the 1915 Calyx will mark the twentieth anniversary of the birth of this publication at Washington, and Lee University. The editors in looking over some of the former issues of the book discovered this interesting piece of information: The name Calyx was chosen from the calyx of a Mower, significant of enclosing what is sweetest and best, and symbolical, as the source of what is sweetest and loveliest. In this edition of our college annual, we may not have fully lived up to the beautiful meaning of its name, but we have striven to give, in its pages, as full and accurate a story as we could, in both picture and history, of the life of our Alma Mater in all its manifold interests and activities. We have attempted to especially emphasize the pictorial side of our publication, for we believe that men in after life will enjoy this feature more than any other, when they glance back through its pages. We have made no great effort to make the book humorous, since we believe the real purpose of an annual is not to entertain temporarily, but to furnish the owner a permanent source of pleasure. In another part of the book we have expressed our appreciation for the valuable assistance we have received in producing it. We shall make no apologies for its many faults, but with this brief introduction we submit for your inspection, the 1915 Calyx, a Year Book of the students of Washington and Lee University, which is located in Lexington, Virginia.
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historical £ feetd; of flBastjington anti Hee During the early part of the eighteenth century. a stream of Scotch-Irish immigrants began to spread over the mountainous parts of Pennsylvania, Mary- land and Virginia. One of its branches penetrated far into the valley of the Shenandoah in Virginia. They brought with them the devotion to education and religion which they had manifested in Scotland and Ireland. The settlers in Augusta County, in 1747, established a school about fifteen miles southwest of what is now the city of Staunton, and named it the Augusta Academy. Its first principal was Robert Alexander. His associate and immediate successor was Rev. John Brown. The successor of Mr. Brown was Rev. William Graham, a graduate of Princeton. During his college days Mr. Graham was a classmate and close asso- ciate of Henry Lee, who became a dis- tinguished cavalry officer during the war of the Revolution, and whose son, Robert E. Lee, was yet more distinguished in the Civil War of the next century. On May 6. 177(i. the name Augusta Academy was changed to Liberty Hall, and in 1870 the school was moved to the immediate vicin- ity of Lexington. Through the influence of Mr. Graham. Liberty Hall was incorporated by the Legislature of Virginia, in October, 1782, as Liberty Hall Academy. It had been for a short time under the care of the presbytery of Hanover, but it re- ceived now a charter, under the terms of which the board of trustees became independent and self-perpetuating. In 1793, a stone build- ing was erected, in which Mr. Graha m continued his labors until his resignation, in 1796. Mr. Graham died in 1799, and was buried in Rich- mond. In May, 1911, his remains were transferred to Lex- ington, and interred near the chapel of the institution which he had founded more than a century previously. In May, 1913, the remains of General Henry Lee were brought from Georgia to Virginia. They were de- posited in the mausoleum, at Lexington, at the side of his 12
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