Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-05-26
HAMPDEN-SiDNEf.
VIII lie Recommended for II. A.-A
Protest.


HAMPDEN-SIDNEY. VA. May 25.-
Especial. 1.-The regular senior classes in
the college closed on Tuesday, and the
faculty announces that the following gen
tlemen will be recommended TO the Board
of Trustees for the Degree OF A. -: W =.
w. Bondurant, of Rice; II. W. Cole, Oh
DanVille; Il. L. Cross Of Norfolk; george
Fitzgerald of Richmond; ii. X. Houston
of Amsterdam; f. r.. Irons, OF Pickaway'
w. Va; r. X. Loving, OF sun. W. va
w. Is. Lorraine. Of Richmond; j. NJ. Love
of Petersburg; NJ. F. Pilson, OF stanton;
y Y. See. of Fort Defiance The names
of several others who have examinations
yet to stand will be announced hereafter.
The hOnors of the class are as 1oiloWs'
Second honor Messrs. Bondurant ana
Cross; third honor, Messrs. Lorraine ana
Love.
The speakers for commencement-day
arg Mr.. T. T. Cross. Yaledictory; Mr. W.
w. Bondurant, Latin salutatory; MT. j.
NJ. Love, philosophical Grafton aho
Messrs. Fitzgerald ana Houston, class
oratiOns.
Rev. DR.. w. L. Murkland, of Baltimore,
was the fourth distinguished alumnus OF
the college and member Of the Board OF
Trustees who has departed this life with
Colonel j. L. Fitzgerald; next, Rev. Or.
NJ. d. Hoge; next, Governor p. w. Nc
Kinney. and last, DR.. Murkland. This h
q serious loss. and lays a heavy respo1si-
bility on the board in supplying their
places.
some interest is felt here in regard TO
the exact action taken by the General AS
sembly now in session in Richmond as
to their students not attending colleges
not under Church control The re-
mort as presented 10 the assembly Wouiu
leave the presbyteres Of the synod Oh
Virginia in a singular fix. in that there Is
not. and is not likely to be, any collese
I'm Virginia "under Church control so
that If the mandate of the assembly, as
formulated by the committee, were obey
cd candidates for the ministry re-
coivine aid from the Church would have
10 be sent out of the bounds OF the SYNOD
10 find an institution deemed suitable Ior
them. 1t sounds a little strange 10 ears
in this part OF the world 10 near that
old Hanpden-Sidney. which has, perhaps
educated two or three times more fres-
hvterian candidates for the ministry thaii
any other college in the South, or lhah
Washington and Lee University, whlch
has sent out its hundreds, is no longer
TO be trusted with this work, because i
Is not "under Churcn cOHlIol. Dul uinN'
change and we change in them, ana new
men come 10 the front with new ioeds
about men and things which do not al
WAYS commend themselves to the sober
common sense of plain people. All that
we feel inclined TO say about II Is, that
~ the authors of this movement eXpect
their colleges "under Church control to
send out better men than those mentioned
above. or than John l.. Kirkpatriek' r.
III Barnett, r. L. Dabney, b. M. smith.
Thomas L, Preston, and hundreds of
others now deceased, or than G.. b. Strick-
Ter. Thomas c. Johnson. Peyton II. Hose.
l.. II. Blanton, and hundreds of others
now standing in the front rank of minis
terial usefulness, they are mistaken.
Thev may succeed in making narrow sec
tarians. but having done that they have
achieved a great loss.