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Title: The Palm of Alpha Tau Omega
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Alpha Tau Omega
Subjects: Greek letter societies
Publisher: (Champaign, Ill., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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re the while, and gaininghealth and rest with knowledge. Two friends of, and both inti-mately connected with Mt. Union College, laid this successful planfor the culture of a continent, one of whom was John H. Vincent. Bishop Vincent, who was born in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Feb. 23rd,1832, traces his ancestry to the south of France, where his ancestor,Levi Vincent, was born April 10th, 1676. Before lie was six years old, the future bishop would gather thecolored children of his fathers place and of the neighborhood, andthen, while with a whip he insured their sitting still, he preachedthe gospel to them. How much good such preaching did them it would be difficultto say, but his eagerness for the performance of public service indue form went so far that on one occasion he tore in pieces a valuedred morocco hymn-book, the gift to him of his pastor, giving each ofhis congregation a few leaves. He seems to early have had concep-tion of the value of a college education, for, when three years old,
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BISHOP JOHN H. VINCENT 29 with a little next-door neighbor, now the wife of a bishop of theM. E. Church South, he walked a miJe to the University of Ala-bama, where the aspiring couple were picked up by one of theprofessors. The Vincent family moved north in 1838 and settled on a farmnear Milton, Pa. Here, under a governess, he fitted for andentered Milton Academy. At fifteen he taught a country schoolnear his fathers place. The next year he took charge of anotherschool, and during four years of teaching he continued his ownstudies, and finally registered at Alleghany College, Meadville, Pa. It, oi course, had required unusual will and perseverance toteach all day, to hear private pupils in the evening, and at the sametime to study so systematically ^s to be ready for college. But nowcame an unexpected turn of plans. Having joined the church, hehoped in time to become a preacher, and he was anxious to be athis work as soon as possible. He took the advice of unwise coun-selors and aban

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