The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1859-04-07
ORIGINAL.

REV. r. A. p. BARNARD, l.. l.. ID.
President of the University of Mississippi

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DIR. Barnard was born in Sheffield
Massachusetts,, in 1909. He does moi
appear, however, more than forty years
of age. He graduated at Yale College
with the highest honors of his class
Even then, he was considered one of the
hest mathematicians in the United States
After his graduation, he was elected mas
ter of the Hartford Latin School, and af-
terwards Instructor in the Deaf and
Dumb Asylum, at New York. Though
his early years were thus spent at the
North, for the last twenty-five years he
has lived at the South, and taken an &C
tive part in all that relates to her growth
and prosperity. For seventeen years, he
was professor in the University of Ala
bama, at Tuscaloosa and do not be-
lieve an Alumnus of that Institution,
during that period, can be found in the
length and breadth of our land, who will
not join the writer in a hearty laudation
Of his splendid genius ofhis goodness as
man, and of his excellence as teach
er. Eaqually at be me in the mathemat-
les, the ancient classics, the natural sci
ences, and general literature; he could
ill any chair in the Faculty. As lee
turer, his flow of language was so copi-
pious he left nothing unsaid, and yet he
adorned everything he touched. As an
orator, no one that heard his Fourth of
July Grafton on the "Union and the
South" or his magnificent address before
the Grand Division of the Sons of Tenn
perance, or his eulogy on VIM. r. King,
will ever forget the clarion sentences
hnd glowing thoughts that rang in his
Bar, and fastened on his mind. As wri-
Ter for the Press, he edited both papers
in Tuscaloosa with marked ability, and
TO him, more than almost any other man,
Is every friend Of Gen. Taylor indebted
for the large vote the old hero received
lin Alabama. And once he wrote, at a
single sitting, after two days notice, a
pamphlet reviewing some of the canons
|of the Episcopal church, SO that both the
parties in controversy thought it the re-
suit of months of research and study
The writer may seem to strangers too
|prolix in thus speaking of DR.. Barnard,
but he has known him all his life long
He learned to admire him, when he first
learned anything. AS the warm friend,
|the chivalrous gentleman, the sympa-
|thizing teacher, every student loved him.
lie battled hard in Tuscaloosa for an
Eclectic course Of study, and now he is
lin position to carry out his liberal and
|comprebensive views. As to his career
lin Mississippi for the last five years, is
mot its success emblazoned high, so that
all know it who know the condition OF
University, the scholarship and deport-
|ment Of its students, and the rank it holds
abroad in our Unionl His reports to
the Trustees. bis memorials to the Leg
|islature, and his address to his senior
classes, are read in other lands than ours.
DIR. Barnard is Rector of St. Peters
Church, Oxford, and is much revered by
|all his Parish; not only for his intellec-
tual power in the pulpit, but for his sin
cere piety and unaffected goodness.
Long may he continue to fill the sta
(tiOn he at present occupies as President
|of our noble State Univerity station