Word: lee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inhabitants had seldom had such a busy week. Every time the daily "Virginia Creeper" crept into the station, it spilled out more notables onto the platform. They included some 90 deans and presidents from colleges all over the U.S., come to help celebrate the 200th birthday of Washington and Lee University...
Even the Lexington postmaster was swamped. The U.S. Government had just issued a new 3? stamp in honor of the occasion, and collectors everywhere were writing in for first-day covers. One Swedish philatelist added that he had been a lifelong admirer of "Sir Washington and Sir Lee." That was a fairly universal sentiment around Lexington this week...
...Boost. Washington and Lee started out in 1749 as Augusta Academy, when early settlers of the region decided to plant Scottish-Presbyterian learning in the Valley of Virginia. In 1798, the year before he died, George Washington handed the school its first big boost: $50,000 worth of canal stock, that had originally been the gift to Washington of the Virginia Legislature. The school gratefully changed its name to Washington Academy, later to Washington College...
...made a fortune out of the "finest, fruitiest, most ropey" rye whisky in the region, gave $50,000 too. That did not mean the college's troubles were over. The Civil War left Washington College in desperate straits. Four months after Appomattox, it invited Robert E. Lee himself to be president. He was the one man, the college thought, who could save the day. Lee agreed to try, at a salary of $1,500 a year ("if that sum can be raised"). He started the schools of law, commerce and engineering, raised enrollments from 97 to 410. After...
Allen Eugene Kline '50, of Atlanta Georgia, and Lowell House; Thomas Stewart James '52, of Chicago and Grays Hall; and Charles Lee Nutt Ill, '50, of Garden City, Long Island, New York, and Lowell House...