The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-08-11
Their Views Admirably Set
Forth in Recently Printed
"Calcndar.'
A SELF-WRITTEN HISTORY
An Institution Which Has Been
an Honor to State and
Nation.

a very valuable book lately put forth
by DR.. Alfred !. Morrison ana appro
priately called a Calendar (t.om i5I5
10 1870 of the Board Minutes of Hamp-
den Sidney College presents in brief
many striking facts regarding the
views and aims OF its worthy founders
and their successors. among others.
the importance of polite literature
in the training OF prospective citizens
and the Catholic system" which they
proposed to inausurate as benttins
commonwealth OF freemen. So. among
their earliest efforts was one to set
subscriptions on foot for procuring
library and philosophical and mathe-
matical apparatus science and liter
ature being OBVIOUSLY parts OF one indl-
visible scheme OF education in their
eyes. The chronicle thus unfolds. Year
BY year and step By step, a century's
selfwrltten history OF the institution,
and this is supplemented by much i'm
portant mater so indus;riously gathered
and arpositely introduced though
largely in foot notes. that We nave to
regret Or Morrison's inability for lack
OF due financial support TO carry out
his original intention OF preparing a
moro formal narrative. Now. tho dom
inant idea Of its founders-many OF
them notable in public lte-was to
provide Tor their own section. South
Side Virginia. such school as above
indicated. and their object was accom-
plished. for the time was ripe ana
! n fact. the Law OF Demand and Supply
is as applicable to educational as TO
other conditions. Given want. gem
u!ne or fancied. II pervadinE and per-
sistent. the thing sought after is pres
entity forth coming. whether II be n
fashion In dess or a floating palace.
piquant continent or cargoes OF tropic
fruit lessons In the correct manner
OF saluta,!on or the round OF subjects
that makes YOU n doctor OF phlloso
ply
Thirty years ago espirants for that
degree went abroad for IL; IT. was
made in Germany" now IT IS con-
ferred by our State university. Count
ins back scarcely two decades. there
was practically no physical laboratory
at Hampden Sidney; to-day the out
come OF a small appropriation granted
from year to year and admirably uti-
lied. shows equipment that is a
model In its way These are Instincts
that might be indefinitely multiplied.
On the other hand. even the South
Sea Bubble could perhaps find a par
ailel in more than one great educa-
tlOndl venture aoupQdntlN udnCtu. oUt
based on mistaken conditions and
doomed to failure. but, however oh
vlous a real need may DO at a later
period. for whole generations. save by
an individual or two Ii Will be but
vaguely felt and TIL competitive
element is introduced. remains unsup-
Piled.
In the land where we were so long
dreaming. our forward glances met no
such visions as are actualities to-day.
Neither a gladly like Socrates was sent
to stir us TO notwithstanding nor a
dynamic nature like Roosevelt appeared
TO arouse us. Yet the awakening came.
! and so rude was the shock and terrible
the ordeal which followed. that. after
half century but for the innate con-
servatism OF our people and the for
tunate circumstance that no consid .
cradle infusion OF a foreign strain
| came on TO weaken that conservatism.
the New South would be new indeed
to our remedlcss loss.
! AS it was, the changes wrought