418:, the list of students from all of Waddel's schools includes: two vice-presidents, three secretaries of state, three secretaries of war, one assistant secretary of war, one US attorney-general, ministers to France, Spain and Russia, one US Supreme Court justice, eleven governors, seven US senators, thirty-two members of the US House of Representatives, twenty-two judges, eight college presidents, seventeen editors of newspapers or authors, five members of the
364:. He became the fifth president and served from 1819 until his resignation in August 1829. Waddel found the school "nearly extinct, consisting of only seven students with three professors." With great industry he scoured the state and soon built enrollment to one hundred students. He acquired money for the library, garnered state funding, and raised three new buildings: Philosophical Hall (1821), New College (1823) and
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Georgia and South Carolina with a strict classical education, in an environment shrewdly calculated by Waddel to foster self-reliance and self-motivation. Graduates generally entered university at the
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Republic: Political interference in the TExas State Library during the tenure of Elizabeth Howard West, 1911-1925. Libraries & the Cultural Record, 45(4),
368:(1824). As said by Longstreet, "The effect of his coming to this Institution was magical. It rose instantly to a rank which it had never held before, and which, I am happy to add, it has maintained ever since."
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