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

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he Sports world knows him as the leader of a gallant band of football champions, consistently a win- ner and ever a true sportsman. We of Washington and Lee admire him for his qualities of leadership as student, alum- nus, and coach, respect him as a gentle- man, and love him as a friend. There is that genuineness about his broad smile and his concern for the interests of the University that draws us to him and makes us proud of him — proud of Tex ' Tilson, a true Washington and Lee product. - WARREN E. TILSON fl T E D THE GREAT LEADER SLEEPS, HIS RESTING PLACE A SHRINE AND HIS MEMORY ALITE IN THE bre:ast of evert TRTE AMERICAN.

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AUGUSTA ACADEMY 1749-1776 THE indomitable Scotch-Irish who swept over the Blue Ridge and conquered the wilderness soon sought to strengthen the foundations of empire laid with axe, rifle, and Bible with intel- lectual achievement and a broadening culture. In 1749, when clearings were half made and homes still log huts, the long inher- ent desire for learning induced Robert Alexander to establish Augusta Academy, a one-room cabin where a new race of Amer- icans gathered in hunting shirts to whet their intellects and learn the rudiments of Greek, Latin and philosophy. Strapping young fellows they were, these frontiersmen who learned the ways of the world in the forest, and the ways of men and the gods in the classics. They played hard and worked hard in the rustic sim- plicity of this humble school, which is significant not only for what it has become, but also as evidence of the intellectual energy that characterized this fringe of the frontier. Such was the cradle of Washington and Lee LFniversity, sgs x ' O FORERUNNERS OF CONFERENCE CHAMPION ATHLETES