THE BACCALAUREATE ADDRESS, DELIVERED ON COMMENCEMENT DAY OF WASHINGTON COLLEGE, LEXINGTON, VA., JULY 3D, 1852. BY GEORGE JUNKIN, D. D., PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE
Published by Printed at the Watchman & Observer Office, Richmond, 1852
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Original printed green wrappers, stitched. 19, [1 blank] pp. Very Good. After the Civil War, Washington College would be renamed Washington & Lee. Its 1852 graduates numbered six, all Virginians from Amherst, Rockbridge, Lexington, and Bedford. Junkin [1790-1868] defends higher education from criticism that it produces "immoral, dissipated and worthless" adults. The cause of this, he solemnly proclaims, is "Premature Entrance." Bad parenting has produced a lazy, unpleasant youth. It's not Junkin's fault. A Pennsylvania Presbyterian minister, Junkin became the first president of Washington College in 1848. The web site Presbyteriansof thePast has a long biography of him. One of his daughters became the wife of Stonewall Jackson; she died in childbirth in 1854. With the advent of Civil War, Junkin opposed secession and returned to Pennsylvania. Haynes 9858.
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- THE BACCALAUREATE ADDRESS, DELIVERED ON COMMENCEMENT DAY OF WASHINGTON COLLEGE, LEXINGTON, VA., JULY 3D, 1852. BY GEORGE JUNKIN, D. D., PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE
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- Junkin, George
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- Printed at the Watchman & Observer Office, Richmond
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- 1852
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- AMERICANA, RELIGION, SOUTHERN
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