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 . 166 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA services. His personal care was exercised in regardto the religious condition of each student, and hesaid: I shall fail in the leading object that broug
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 . 166 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA services. His personal care was exercised in regardto the religious condition of each student, and hesaid: I shall fail in the leading object that broughtme here unless these young men all become consist-ent Christians. During President Lees administra-tion students came in large numbers from every partof the South. Some of them were his own soldiers,whose education had been interrupted by the war,many of them advanced in years, who felt the desire. Thediscipline enforced by Pregdegf^ Leewas not mill!ary7^^e ^to learn. _ . _ -^^_„____ r expressed the viewtKa^ the discipline fitted to make soldiers is not best suited toja^jify young men for the duties of the cijizeillHis aim was always lo cultivate in the student anice sense of propriety and a strong sense of treated each one as a young gentleman of goodbreeding, veracity, 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 disp
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