Excerpt from The Cap and Gown of 1932, Vol. 26 Leonidas polk was a graduate of West Point with honors. Even in the years he was in the Military Acad emy he was interested in education in the country. When he graduated from West Point he was offered a professor ship in Amherst College. He almost accepted, but did not, and remained with the army. In 1827 he resigned his com mission and entered the Seminary at Alexandria, Virginia. During the years his interest in education did not die, and in 1852 he began to study European institutions; the result of this study was his letter 'to the Southern Dioceses about a university. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.