The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . y, self-respect, and possessing cor-rect principles, until the contrary should be Christian character was of the highest andpurest type^hewas an EpisBopalian, and an act
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . y, self-respect, and possessing cor-rect principles, until the contrary should be Christian character was of the highest andpurest type^hewas an EpisBopalian, and an activemember of the vestry of Grace church in was a man of high intellectual powers, and hiswiiole course as president was marked by constanteffort to carry out a consistent policy of educationbased upon his thorough comprehension of the prob-lem of developing mind, body, and soul. His greatpractical wisdom, mental ability, and moral strengthof character, made him equal to any occasion, andin the academic chair he displayed the consummateability wliich he possessed as a soldier^=,taining the greatest results with the smf|,11fist : Iresiaent Lee impressed upon everySetailof-etjHEge life his own lofty nobility of a critical period in the history of Washingtoncollege, and during the most trying days of his ownlife, his steadfast_adhergnce^JX) duty was a practical. lesson that did not fail to impress the Lee attenaefPeveryexamination heldinthe college; in every department of instruction heproved a wise and intelligent examiner, and it washis plan to establish departments of commerce andmedicine, as well as other chairs in the academic department. During his administration he had thesatisfaction of seeing large additions made to thecollege endowment fund. The munificent gifts ofWarren Newcomb, L. J. and C. H. McCormick,Rotliwell Wilson, and George Peabody, placedWashington college in the front rank of southerninsti
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