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General Robert E. Lee as College President.
[from the Richmond, Va., Dispatch, January 27, 1901.]
Reminiscences of his work in Lexington, Va.
Professor Edward S. Joynes, who holds the chair of Modern Languages at Columbia College, South Carolina, a similar position to that he held at Washington and Lee University, when General Robert E. Lee was President, gives some interesting reminiscences of General Lee in that capacity.
Professor Joynes is an uncle of Judge J. Upshur Dennis, of the Baltimore bench.
Mr. Joynes says in a letter written to a friend:
My recollections shall be chiefly of General Lee as a College President.
Is is as such that he is chiefly present to my memory—always for admiration, sometimes for contrast with later experiences.
I will not enlarge upon the quiet dignity and patience with which he always presided over our often wordy and tedious meetings, his perfect impartiality, and unwearied courtesy, his manifest effort to sink his own personali