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PRESIDENT OF WASHINGTON COLLEGE 1865-70 RECUMBENT STATUE small act such as greeting a stranger or being meticu- lous about the truth, then something more than a tradition is dead. That is why we cherish our customs, our speaking tradition, our honor system, and our code of integrity; not because they are sacrosanct in them- selves, but because they stand for a basic ideal, and because through them we can in some small way come nearer that ideal. Robert E. Lee did not invent truth- fulness, courtesy, or honor, but he practiced them. He left behind for Washington and Lee students a blueprint, as it were, of a good life. There are only a few hasty pencil sketches of it m existence; by and large it ' s passed down by word of mouth. This legacy, which was passed to us at a crucial point in our lives, is infinitely more significant to each of us as human beings than anything we managed to pick up in the classes. We came to college impressionable: we had some home- grown values, but we hadn ' t tested them or even thought about them very much. Most of them came into hard times by the end of our freshmen year. That is normal, and it happens to everyone who attends college, no matter where. It is not this tearing down that has significance, but the rebuilding. Like Washington College in 1865, each of us had to be rebuilt, and Gen- eral Lee performed the task for us, just as he did for Washington College. At the end of our four years we have a set of values again, a set of values which is for the most part a product of Washington and Lee, and of General Lee. In the future, when people ask us to describe Washington and Lee, we can tell them the same thing the catalogues do, but they can always read about that. We ought to tell them something they don ' t know and can ' t look up. Something to pinpoint Washington and Lee. Here is what I ' d tell them: What Washington and Lee owns uniquely is not really definable (as nothing truly unique can be). Perhaps the closest I can come is to say that it resides in an atmosphere, not as the catalogues say, of the Old South, but of the South-That-Should-Have-Been ... the South of Robert E. Lee. WASHINGTON COLLEGE BECOMES WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY 1871
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