In 1917 Hampden Sydney College published six addresses that had been given to their literary societies in the early nineteenth century. The volume is called "Six Addresses on the State of Letters and Science in Virginia." This has Jesse Harrison's address -- he is one of my heroes for his stand against Thomas R. Dew in debates in the wake of the Nat Turner rebellion. One address from this era that I missing is Hugh Garland's defense of classical education. Hugh Garland looms, larger in my thinking for other reasons, mostly for his defense of slavery.
The illustration is John Holt Rice's tombstone in the Hampden-Sydney cemetery.
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