The Sentinel=record., 1914-03-08

tieed. Of unwse admiration, much may be hoped, for there is really much good in it; but unwise contempt is nothing.
 -Thos. Carlyle No words of the great Scottish phil osopher are more pregnant with mean ing, for the Jew. as well as for the Gentle. The Jew of all men knows and feels that ITO condemn is easy" He is also aware that nothing is more often practlced upon him and his race. If unwise admiration be the verdict rendered by those who read this sketch let it be known that love as well as admiration has prompted the effort: and perhaps. there really may be some good in 1t. However, let us remember. and continue to recollect that "Unwise contempt is nothing
 Leo N. Levi was a Jew, a Southern Texas Jew: like Gemalal, "A leader among the Jews" as was truthfully said of him. "A leader safe and sane; a thinker erudite and profound; aH orator unexcelled in his time and gen. eration; a man good and true; a dis tinguished citizen Of the United States, an ideal Jew" To this shall add, an intellectual giant. grown to maturity in the school of Thomas Jefferson, the University of Virginia.
 Most of us il 1872 had come through the great Civil War in home ly dress. poor in pocket but loyal 10 the South Defeated too young 10 fight, hut aged by experience, some had been with Mosby. All of us felt that the future of tT land we loved would be in our keeping That there were real warriors among us no one knew better than Colonel Venable. Gen. R. F. Lees chief of staff, who was chairman of che faculty The carpetbag governments were then on the run, and the reincarnation of the South was ever uppermost il our minds What we have done and how we did it Is written in the history of our nation; but whatever or where. ever we have been the bare fact that we were taught in Jefferson's school was. is. and always will be recognized as an introduction worthy of attention and respect
 ipfo or tleman, and scholar, occupies the White House. No one is prouder than he of being one of our alumni; none has done more to lift up our entire country Honest men are rushing to his aid from every part of the world.
 Coming to the University of Nir- einia, at the age Of 16. animated with the same desire common to all of us there was, if possible. a more burning longing in the breast of Leo N. Levi. Is it strange that the young and handsome Jewish youth grasped at once the significance of Jefferson's s own epitaph: Author of the Decara ton of Independence, the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia" Born at Victoria, Texas, September 15. 1856, the brand of the western prairies was upon him. He was a living Declaration of independence himself Strong in body; modest in demeaaor yet would be book no i'm position. Haunted with being a Jew, the wisdom of Solomon, as well as the warlike spirit Of David. arose with him. He won a medal for an article in the University Magazine and aa. other as a debater but he used his fists with much reputation and great success What if he was a Jew? Was not Judah P Benjamin secretary of war, secretary of state, and attor 1ey general, the brains of the Con. federacy?" Did not Chief Justice Field say of Benjamin, when he stated his first case before the supreme court of the United States, Judge Black