fashioned to the varying hour;
Far other aims his heart had learned to prize,
More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.

Such was the atmosphere in which our deceased friend was reared. He was
a trustee in the venerable institution of Washington and Lee University
at Lexington, Va., founded by Gen. Washington, and presided over by Gen.
Robert E. Lee during the last years of his life; he was faithful to the
trust, and ever watchful of the best interests of the school. The loss
sustained by this institution in his death has been most fittingly
expressed in the appended minute of the faculty of the university,
adopted on the 19th of October, 1891:

At a meeting of the faculty of Washington and Lee University, held
October 19, 1891, the following minute was adopted:

Upon the announcement of the death of Gen. W.H.F. LEE the faculty
of Washington and Lee University unite in sorrowful sympathy with
his family, bereaved of husband, father, and brother; with the
Commonwealth in the loss of a patriotic citizen; and with the board
of trustees of this university, of which he was an esteemed member.

He was graduated at Harvard for the life of a civilian, but took a
commission in the United States Army as lieutenant, and served with
fidelity to duty under Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston in the Utah
expedition of 1858.

At its close he resigned and returned to his country home, where he
continued to live until 1861, when he entered the Confederate army,
and, rising by rapid promotion to the rank of major-general of
cavalry, closed his efficient and faithful military career in 1865,
when he again returned to country life, and died at the seat of his
ancestors, at Ravensworth, in Fairfax County.

In the mean time his private life was interrupted by the voice of
his people, which called him to their service in the senate of
Virginia and for three terms as their Representative in Congress,
two of which he completed, and left the vacancy in the third by his
untimely death.

Truth, honor, and courage to do good and to resist evil, sincerity
in all relations and fidelity to all duty, were heirlooms of his
race and lineage, which he kept and left untarnished to his
posterity.

With a mind strong and vigorous, a judgment sound and well-poised,
a calm and self-contained temper, which imp