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General Lee's College - The Rise and Growth of Washington and Lee University (Paperback)
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General Lee's College - The Rise and Growth of Washington and Lee University (Paperback)
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Originally published in 1969 and now available in this new edition,
General Lee's College offers the early history of the institution
that became Washington and Lee University. Emerging from obscure
eighteenth- century origins on the Virginia frontier as Liberty
Hall Academy, it struggled for survival against what at times
appeared to be overwhelming odds. Receiving a sizeable gift from
Virginia native George Washington in 1796, the school soon after
assumed the name Washington College and established itself in the
mold of the classical colleges of the Old South, as faculty and
administrators promoted a provincial outlook and strict adherence
to Presbyterian teachings. Secession and civil war had a dramatic
impact on the college, as military service called away students,
most of whom enlisted with the Confederate army. The Union victory
in 1865 prompted college trustees to lay out a new vision for the
institution, and they elected Confederate general Robert E. Lee,
another native son of Virginia, to lead the college as president
through the uncertainty of the postwar years. After Lee's death in
1870, the school's fortunes ebbed and flowed against the backdrop
of Reconstruction. Yet the institution- renamed Washington and Lee
University- rebounded in the decades after World War I. With an
expanded curriculum, a larger faculty, and a more diverse student
body, the school began to blaze a path of success that stretches
well into the twenty-first century.
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