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Hall and was established near Lexington in 178o, and was chartered as Liberty Hall Academy in 1782. In 1798 its name was changed to Washington Academy, in recognition of a See also:

GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut. stem gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later English is due to Scandinavian influence)

gift from See also:

George Washington of some shares of See also:

canal stock, which he refused to receive from the Virginia legislature. In 1802 the Virginia branch of the Society of the See also:

CINCINNATI

Cincinnati disbanded and turned over to the academy its funds, about $25,000; in 1813 the academy took the name Washington See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College; and in 1871 its corporate name was changed to Washington and Lee University, the addition to the name being made in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of See also:

General See also:

Robert E. Lee, who was the See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president of the college from See also:

AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1865 until his See also:

DEATH

death in 187o. He was succeeded by his son, General George Washington Custis Lee (b. 1832), president from 1871 to 1897, and Dr See also:

William Lyne Wilson (1843–1900), the eminent See also:

POLITICAL

political See also:

LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS (1831– )

leader and educator, was president from 1897 to 1800. In 1908–1909 the university comprised a college, a school of See also:

commerce, a school of See also:

ENGINEERING

engineering and a school of See also:

law, and had a library of 47,000 volumes; 23 instructors and 565 students. In the Lee Memorial See also:

CHAPEL

chapel, on the campus, General Robert E. Lee is buried, and over his See also:

GRAVE

grave is a notable recumbent statue of him by See also:

EDWARD

Edward Virginius See also:

VALENTINE, or VALENTINUS

Valentine (b. 1838). The Virginia Military Institute was established in See also:

March 1839, when its See also:

CADET (through the Fr. from the Late Lat. capitettum, a diminutive of caput, head, through the Provencal form capdet)

cadet See also:

CORPS (pronounced as in French, from which it is taken, being a late spelling of tors, from Lat. corpus, a body; cf. " corpse ")

corps supplanted the See also:

COMPANY

company of soldiers maintained by the See also:

state to See also:

garrison the Western See also:

ARSENAL

Arsenal at Lexington.

The first See also:

SUPERINTENDENT

superintendent (1830–1890) was General See also:

Francis Henney See also:

Smith (1812–1890), a See also:

GRADUATE (Med. Lat. graduale, to admit to an academical degree, gradus)

graduate (1833) of the See also:

UNITED

United States Military Academy; and from 1851 until the outbreak of the See also:

CIVIL

Civil See also:

War " Stonewall " See also:

Jackson was a See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor in the Institute—he is buried in the Lexington See also:

CEMETERY (Gr. Korrsnri7pwv, from Hoiµav, to sleep)

cemetery and his grave is marked by a See also:

MONUMENT (Lat. monumentum or monumentum; from monere, to advise, bring to mind, remind; the German equivalent is Denkmal)

monument. On the campus of the institute is a See also:

FINE

fine statue, " Virginia See also:

MOURNING (from the verb " to mourn," to be sorrowful, 0. Eng. murnan; cf. O.H.G. mornen, Goth. maurnan, to be anxious, O.N. morna, to pine away; by some referred to root seen in Gr. jdptpva, sorrow, by others to root mer-, to die)

Mourning Her Dead," by See also:

Moses See also:

EZEKIEL (SKpm', " God strengthens" or " God is strong "; Sept. 'IE'EKL?)X; Vulg. Ezechiel)

Ezekiel (b. 1844), which commemorates the gallantry of a See also:

BATTALION

battalion of 250 cadets from the institute, more than 50 of whom were killed or wounded during the engagement at New See also:

MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

Market on the 15th of May 1864. In 1008–1009 the institute had 21 instructors and 330 cadets. See also:

FLOUR

Flour is manufactured in Lexington and See also:

lime in the vicinity. The town owns and operates its See also:

WATER

water-See also:

WORKS

works. The first settlers of Rockbridge county established themselves in 1737 near the North river, a See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short distance below Lexington. The first permanent See also:

settlement on the See also:

PRESENT

present site was made about 1778. On the ith of See also:

JUNE

June 1864, during the occupation of the town by Federal troops under General See also:

David See also:

Hunter, most of the buildings in the town and those of the university were damaged and all those of the institute, except the superintendent's headquarters, were burned.

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