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Title: SHC 1830-1905
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Spring Hill College
Subjects: SHC Publications
Publisher: Spring Hill College: A private Catholic College of Liberal Arts
Contributing Library: Spring Hill College, John & Marnie Burke Memorial Library
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py a long list were we to enumerate all the old students that have left aname in various pages of history. Paul Morphy, the world-renowned chess play-er, seemed to be as good at his books as at the chess table. For one year we findhe took first premiums in his class for Latin, Greek and English, and second inChristian Doctrine, French and Arithmetic, whilst he was awarded that year thefirst prize for Good Conduct. Another name, which will ever be dear to SpringHill, is that of Hon. N. H. R. Dawson, United States Commissioner of Education,who has on every occasion shown a constant love for his Alma Mater and throughwhose exertions the College Library has been enriched by many valuable books.The Hon. Edward Bermudez, late Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court ofLouisiana, was also a pupil at Spring Hill that year. It is strange with what othernames we meet during our perusal of these old catalogues ; and names whichfame has smiled upon and which have become immortalized by their own works.
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SPRING HILL COLLEGE. 25 While Paul Morphy was a student, Richard Dalton Williams, the renowned poet,was professor of English in Spring Hill College ; and here, under the balmy Ala-bamian sky, midst the picturesque scenery and soul-inspiring atmosphere of thissecluded spot, no doubt inspired by his muse, he composed some of his sweetestand most affecting poems. In those days the boys wore a uniform of dark blue, with pataloons of thesame color for winter, and white for summer. We wonder how the white panta-loons fared with the red sand and during the wet season. That usage has alsodisappeared with the lapse of time, and there hardly remains at present a vestigeof the customs that signalized the opening career of the College. But the warcame and many of those noble lads donned the Oray, and devoted their lives tothe noble yet ill-fated cause which they espoused. Many of those whose nameswe read in the old catalogues followed the flag of Lee or Beauregard. Theyfought long and valiantly f

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