Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1888-06-27
Catalogue of the Officers and Alumni OF
Washington and Lee University, Licking
ton. Virginia, l749-ISS8.

Washington and Lee University, Licking
ton, Virginia, l749-lSS8.
This very interesting volume of 245 pages
was received shortly after it was issued,
but the delay in acknowledging it was not
in consequence of neglect or interest in its
perusal.
The research and labor required to pre-
duce it were properly estimated when the
Board of Trustees authorized its prepare
tion, and the Committee in the preface
have bestowed high praise upon those who
assumed the difficult task of investigation
and compilation from imperfect records
from 1749 to 1884, and then to complete
the whole TO the present time. Messrs.
John L. Campbell, Treasurer, and Jacob
Fuller, Librarian, are mentioned in this
connection, but in the Hon. William Nc
Laughlin, of the Board of Trustees, who
had charge of the supervision and direc-
ton of the work, the Committee recog-
nizes unsparing and enthusiastic labors
and untiring energy on the part of that
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valuable record of the University.
| 1t is contribution to history that will be
priced in hundreds of households in many
States, as the names upon it's pages call
up the memories Of great and good men
whose impress has been stamped upon the
rise and progress Of the country for nearly
one hundred and forty years. Not alone
in that view will this labor, so ably and
increasingly bestowed, be cherished for it
places in the archives of the Institution a
record which it has long needed, and will
be referred to with still more increasing
interest as time enriches the University in
| its onward destiny.
| The historical sketch We presume is in
positive accuracy the most complete of any
ever written. The germ of Washington
and Lee University was a classical school
established in 1749 by Robert Alexander, a
Master of Arts: Trinity College, Dublin
| University. 1t was the first in the Valley
and was located ten miles southwest of the
site of Greenville. The sketch is read and
will continue to be perused with growing
| interest, but we must pass over it entirely.
The offspring growing in strength and ex-
cellence is to-day q rich and well-equipped
University, adorned with ilIustrious names
in Presidents, Professors, and in its more
than four Thousand of Alumni, on which
long roll, General Samuel Blackburn, Of
Augusta, is the first name.
Turning again to the table Of contents
we express reluctance that We cannot fol-
low it through with a brief of the history
its sixteen departments have furnished.
In the table OF ''invested funds" the do
nation of General Washington stands first.
Then following are the items of that ac-
count which amounted to LIST April, 1888,
to 5000, 494.09.
Under the head of comparative state
ment of endowment property and resour-
ces, July 1, 1865. and April 1st, 1885" is
the following =
July /, 1865-Endowment..... S 10000 OF
| Property in ground, buildings, IL
brary, &c-........ b1.uvU W
sI5S,0OO OK
April /, 1SSS-Endowment, pro -
| oucbtNeJ ..... SOUV,t51 %
| Endowment (Unproductive(-........ 120,C00 VI
Property in ground buildings Ii
brary apparatus, &c."...... -. ...... 235,000 u
S955 494 0s
Leis deDt.... ........"....... 1l.50J u