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 . ather, andin the same year the generalassembly of Virginia changed the name of the insti-tution from Washington college to its present one,that of Washington and Lee university. La
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 . ather, andin the same year the generalassembly of Virginia changed the name of the insti-tution from Washington college to its present one,that of Washington and Lee university. Large ad-ditions have been made to the endowment fund dur-ing President Lees administration through the gen-erosity of William W. Corcoran of Washington,D. C, Robert H. Bayley of New Orleans, La., A. Scott, John Robinson, and Vincent of Philadelphia, and Lewis Brooks ofRochester, N. Y., and other donations of moneyhave founded fellowships and scholarships thai areopen to competition by students of the college. Theinstitution is in a very prosperous condition, and theoutlook for its future is both brilliant and Lee worthily follows the lofty exampleset by his father, and resembles him in his integ-rity of character, courteous bearing, Christian faith,and the same unswerving devotion to duty. In 1887Tulane university. New Orleans, La., conferred uponhim the degree of or AMEEICAW BIOGKAPHY. 167
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