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

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D E D I The forty-third volume of The Calyx is dedicated to Dean Frank Johnson Gilliam whose culture of per- sonality, tolerant wisdom, and enthusiasm for the high ideal translate into life the Washington and Lee spirit, while his unselfish heart makes available these qualities as resources of aid for every student.

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»■ »; • r? - Nearly two hundred years ago a handful of Augusfa County youths were as Augusta Academy. Within the rough-hewn walls of pine they gained wisdom and inspiration and went out to assist in founding a mighty nation, in winning its lands in making its laws and in welding a mighty industrial empire out of the raw wealth of America. Youno men of later generations have heard of its fame learned of Washington ' s hopes for it. Lee ' s service to it, and they too have come. Today no oiher college in America draws so large a proportion of its students from the four ccrners of the nation. Recent surveys conducted by Dartmouth College and Rutgers University have shown Washington and Lee to be far ahead of any other American university in the proportion of students assembled here from sections of the country other than its own. A survey made by the University itseif »his year has confirmed the previous findings. Washington and Lee, after nearly two centuries of conspicuous service to the nation has achieved George Washington ' s ideal of a truly national university.