Memorials of Academic Life - Being an Historical Sketch of the Waddel Family, Identified Through Three Generations With the History of the Higher Education in the South and Southwest #222011

This then, in part, will serve to explain my purpose in undertaking to furnish this narrative. But it will be con ceded that it would fall short very far of a record of the entire history of Southern and Southwestern educa tion were it to comprise only a notice of its progress under one of its earlier agents, however important his labors may have been. Each age has its own workers, and each can furnish only its individual contribution to the history of the whole.