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Washington and Lee Univ

309 WASHINGTON AND LEE UNI- VERSITY, an educational non-sectarian institute in Lexington, Va.; was founded in 1749 by the Rev. William Graham as an academy at Timber Ridge meeting house, afterward developed into Washington University, and finally received its present name in honor of General Robert E. Lee, who after the Civil War became its president. He is buried in the college chapel, where a noble recumbent statue in marble marks his resting place. It reported at the close of 1919:

Professors and instructors, 30; students, 626. President, H. L. Smith, LL.D. lal top