Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-07-23

while you are sweltering at a little
under a hundred, behold we have
never passed So Fahrenheit. This
/ say, not to raise in your bosom
envy, hatred and malice and all I'M
charitablenesss but that you may
congratulate yonr former editor on
his fortunate escape.
| l promised to give You some ac-
count of this place as a social insti-
tuition. will try. In comparing
the two great English universities
it has been said that Oxford is q
university ia a city, and Cambridge
lisa city in university; ON agsi1lai-
lar principle Sewanee Iuay be called
a university with very small vii
lage attached to it. The village,
consisting of half a dozen stores, be-
/ sides the railroad depot and the
post-office (which is also a dry
goods STOREY, is built close 20 the
railroad, and the single street on
which the University is built takes
a rambling course from this aiong
the ridge of the mountain, with a
sublime defiance of straight lines.
Along this are to be seen not emily
the University buildings proper but
the private residences of the pfofes-
sors and other official persorages
thereunto appertaining. There are
also residences belonging to digni-
taries of the Episcopal Chiarch.
Bishop Quintard has one, and the
venerable Bishop Green, of Missis-
sippi, another. Besides these there
are several houses occupied by peo-
pie who take boarders, and, AS all
these are either full or engaged,
there must be a demand for more if
any one would build them. These
clearinghouse are OF two classes
those which board University stu
dents and those which take, as
summer boarders, people who flee
from the heat of the lowlands. The
former are called "haIls," and are
generally occupied entirely by stu
dents and their relatives who de-
sire to spend the summer with
them. In this way the youths
have plenty of opportunities for en-
joying the refining influences of fe-
male society, which seems to have
an admirable effect in making gem
tlenen Of them. l have never any
where seer so much of graceful
courtesy among students, SO respect
full and self-respectfuI treatment
of strangers, such an entire absence
of the conceited presumption to
which college boys are liable, as
here on this mountain.
But it must not be forgotten that
this is in large measure due to the
influence and example of their pre-
ceptors. The faculty of the Univer-
sity of the South cannot be sur
passed as a body of high-bred gen
tlemen.
Besides receiving gracious and
welcome attentions from individu-
ais among them, l have been kind
ly invited to the periodical meet
ings of literary club, of which all
are members. Here they all un-
bend after the labors of the week
are over, and seek in learned dis
course, wit, humor, repartee and
high philosophy, that relaxation
which the engrossing labor of teach
ing render so necessary. These
meetings are indeed delightful
they are such as could only be had
in the company of well-informed,
Christian gentlemen. Some of
them are ministers and some not,
but all of them are alike in this,
that purity of thought and chastity
of language are found compatible
with the perfect freedom from re-
straint with which they throw
themselves into the business of the
hour, which is amusement, gaiety
of heart, originality of thought,
mutual raillery on the surface and
mutual respect beneath it. These
are the chief materials of what it
has been to me a delightful privi-
lege to participate in.
| have at present received special
attentions from Professors Eliot and
Harrison, Gen. Kirby Smith, pro-
fessor of mathematics, and Col.
Rogers, U. S. A, the military COM
mandant. Others have signified |
their intention of following the ex-
ample.
DIR. Eliot is the busy man of the
faculty. He is professor of every
thing which there is no one else to
teach-natural philosophy, chemis-
try, geology, natural history and / |
know not what besides; in addition
to which, when | arrived here, he !
was acting vice-chancellor in the
absence of DIR. Hodgson, and sur
geon of the establishment, in which |
capacity he goes his regular rounds
every morning to visit the sick.
He is man of great intelligence,
varied knowledge, indefatigable ac
tivity and the most genial good |
humor. He is Il son of the late
Bishop Eliot, of Georgia.
Prof. Harrison (ancient Ian
guages) especially interests me as a
specimen of the sort of. scholars
they make in England. He got his
education first at the celebrated |
Rugby school, and then at the Uni
versity of Oxford. His chair could
not be better filled, and out of it he
is agreeable as he is learned in it.
Gen. Kirby Smith, as an officer
and soldier, needs not my common
dation; his career in that capacity
is part of the history of the Lost
Cause. Like his great commander,
Robert +. Lee, when he laid aside
his sword, he devoted himself to