Colonial Echo, 1899 . ion others of almostequal merit. During the first half of the present century it sent forthJohn Tyler, President of the United States: Littleton W. Tazewell, 33 William I!, (iiles, Joiui Raiidulph. SpiiKcr Roaiie, lUisliroil \\asiiiii. Archer,Jolm J. Crittenden. Winlkld .Scntt, William C. Rives, and others of nationaland .State service. Xotwitlistandinj;- the fact that she has svitYered two tires since i<^57, andwas forced to discontinue lectures dnrint; twelve years of the time. Williamand Marv in the interval since has kept |)ace with her former history, andsent fort
Colonial Echo, 1899 . ion others of almostequal merit. During the first half of the present century it sent forthJohn Tyler, President of the United States: Littleton W. Tazewell, 33 William I!, (iiles, Joiui Raiidulph. SpiiKcr Roaiie, lUisliroil \\asiiiii. Archer,Jolm J. Crittenden. Winlkld .Scntt, William C. Rives, and others of nationaland .State service. Xotwitlistandinj;- the fact that she has svitYered two tires since i<^57, andwas forced to discontinue lectures dnrint; twelve years of the time. Williamand Marv in the interval since has kept |)ace with her former history, andsent forth scores of men who have occupied and are now occupying theliiL;hest ])laces in their resi)ective HUGH BLAIR GRIGSBY. Itird C hnvcellvr of till- Vullege aftiv the Rerolution, 7a77-/< ; Prtsidnd if tht- Virginia Hiiforical Sncieiy Jhe list foinid elsewhere in this vohnnc b\ no means exhausts thenumber of prominent men educated at this college. The catalogues showthe names of over five hundred others who have reached a high degree ofeminence. To enumerate these is beyond the scope of this sketch, and so weshall simplv quote the summary made in the present catalogue : Her alumnigave to the Federal l)ar two eminent .\ttorney-Generals of the Inited States ;to the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States, oversixtv mendiers: to the Senate of the United States, twenty-nine senators;to Virginia and other States, twenty-five governors: to the country onehistorian and numberless eminent law and other writers ; to the State andUnited States, thirty-seven judges: to the Revolution, twenty-seven of her .i4 sons : to the army of the Inited States, a lieutenant-genera
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