The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-06-27
VIRGINIA NEWS.
From our Special reporter.
LEXINGTON LETTER.
FINALE OF THE WASHINGTON COLLEGE
COMMENC EMENT-hLUMSL SUPPER.

CONfMENC EMENT-hLUMSL SUPPER.
LEXINGTON, June q, 1870.
The Alumni supper came off tonight in
the large dning-rooln Of the College hotel.
Captain Bowie had prepared Il splendid
supper, Weis g. Tutwier and Mr.. S. j.
Campbell had furnished wines of their
own make, and at 10 O'Clock the Alumni
and their invited guests marched in, to the
Inspiring music Of "Shoo Fly" The at
tack on the good things was vigorous and
protracted, and universal satisfaction with
Captain Bowie's cuisine was expressed.
Colonel Bolivar Christian. the newly
elected president, presided, and very appro-
priately and gracefully introduced the regu-
lar toasts, and in the following order:
/. "The President Of Washington Col
lege History furnishes no superior-the
present no equal"
This toast was drunk standing and amid
deafening cheers.
General Lee had sent an apology for not
being able to he present.
.. Washington College: alma Mater
patrtE Magastratuan."
In the absence Of Colonel Johnston, who
had been selected to respond. Colonel Allan
was called out, and made Il brief and witty
response. ....
8. "Virginia Military Institute: dina
Mater p0tri8 defensor4na."
Governor Letcher apoloeized for the abb
sence Of General Smith, who was detained
BY imperative duties, and who desired him
to express his high qualification at the
friendly relations which continued to sub
sist between the two institutions, and to
express the hope that this might ever con-
tinue.
4. "Faculty ofeWashinston College In
whom the Alma Mater places her depend
ence."
Rev. DR.. Kirkpatrick responded that the
Faculty felt their responsibility, and were
seeking to meet it-that they were united
in their views-and that they were working
with one purpose and one heart to carry
out what the Trustees and the Alumni ex-
pected of them.
He thanked the Alumni for their conf
dence. 1t would cheer them in the dis
charge of duty. But he wished to remind
the Alumni that heavy responsibility rest
ed upon them-that they were the repre-
sentatives Of the College before the world.
He did not believe that the race Of old wor-
thies, of whom we heard on yesterday, was
eXtinct-but that we have among the
Alumni now those who will prove worthy
of their ancestors and of the College.
He eloquently exhorted I'LL to rally around
and stand by the College, that we may rear
here monument worthy to perpetuate the
virtues of the great man whom we are
proud to acknowledge rs our president.
5. "The Board Of Trustees of Washing
ton College The Guardians of Our Alma
Matters Prosperity"
Colonel Christian called on "the senior
member of The Board" Major T. j. Kirkpa-
trick, of Lynchburg, to respond.
Major kirkpatrick responded IN very
happy vein. The Board claimed that
they were doing all in their power to
promote the interests of the College. At
the present session they had taken most
important action looking to the rendering
of the honored president more comfortable,
arranging for two meetings Of the Board
every year-one in the middle Of the ses-
sion that should bring the members of the
Board In immediate contact with the pro-
fessors, and with the students and
the further enlargement of the faculty
by associating with the present able
and learned Jurist who presides over
the Law Department, the brilliant and
popular Tucker, and by taking one of the
recent graduates IN. w. HUMPHREYS, gra-
duate of last year, and placing him, as adj
iunct Professor or Ancient Languages, side
BY side with the ablest of the Faculty, and
proclaiming him their equal. If the Board
should be called tn,pudent in this, it was
to be chiefly attributed to Colonel Chris
tian, who hailed from the city of Staunton,
which had worldwide renoWn--for its
pretensions.
"a gentleman suggested, soto poce, that it
was this same "tmpudence" of Colonel
Christians which called General Lee to the
College.
Major kirkpatrick concluded by touch.