Halls of Honor: College Men in the Old South

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Notes abbreviations ADAH Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama. AU Special Collections, Auburn University Library, Auburn, Alabama. DU Special Collections Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. GHS Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Georgia. SHC Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. UA Hoole Library Special Collections, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. UVA-Alderman Alderman Library Special Collections, University of Virginia, Charlottesville. UVA-Wilson Wilson Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. VMI Virginia Military Institute Archives, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington. introduction 1. See the Andrew McCollam Papers, SHC. 2. E. Merton Coulter, College Life in the Old South: As Seen at the University of Georgia (New York: Macmillan, 1928; reprint, Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1983), xv–xvi. 3. Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Campus Life: Undergraduate Cultures from the End of the Eighteenth Century to the Present (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1995), ix–x. 4. Ibid., 23, 27–9. 5. Ibid., 81. 6. Ibid., 31–4. 7. Bertram Wyatt-Brown’s definition of southern honor in Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South (New York and Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1982), xv. On honor and southern society, see Peter W. Bardaglio, Reconstructing the Household: Families, Sex, 119 and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South, Studies in Legal History, edited by Thomas A. Green and Hendrik Hartog (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1995), 22–3. 8. On cognitive change during adolescence, see Jean Piaget, Six Psychological Studies (New York: Random House, 1968), 61; Henry Markovitz et al., “Reasoning in Young Children : Fantasy and Information-Retrieval,” Child Development 67 (1996): 2857–72; and Deanna Kuhn et al., “The Development of Formal Operations in Logical and Moral Judgment,” Genetic Psychology Monographs 95 (1977): 97–188. 9. L. Ray Drinkwater, “Honor and Student Misconduct in Southern Antebellum Colleges,” Southern Humanities Review 27 (fall 1993): 329. 10. Samuel Eliot Morison, Three Centuries of Harvard, 636–836 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1936), 199. For further discussion of the differences between southern honor and northern gentility, see Kenneth S. Greenberg, Honor and Slavery: Lies, Duels, Noses, Masks, Dressing as a Woman, Gifts, Strangers, Humanitarianism, Death, Slave Rebellions , the Proslavery Argument, Baseball, Hunting, and Gambling in the Old South (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press, 1996), 11; and Wyatt-Brown, Southern Honor, 96–7. 11. Wyatt-Brown, Southern Honor, xii. 12. Bardaglio, Reconstructing the Household, 5. 13. Greenberg, Honor and Slavery, 62; for a discussion of modern regional differences related to the code of honor, see Dov Cohen, Joseph Vandello, and Adrian K. Rantilla, “The Sacred and the Social: Honor and Violence in Cultural Context,” in Shame: Interpersonal Behavior, Psychopathology, and Culture, edited by Paul Gilbert and Bernice Andrews, Series in Affective Science (Cambridge: Oxford Univ. Press, 1998), 261–82. 14. See Edith H. Altbach, “Vanguard of Revolt: Students and Politics in Central Europe , 1815–1848,” in Students in Revolt, edited by Seymour Martin Lipset and Philip G. Altbach (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969), 451–74; Konrad H. Jarausch, “The Sources of German Student Unrest, 1815–1848,” in The University in Society: Volume II, Europe, Scotland , and the United States from the 6th to the 20th Century, edited by Lawrence Stone (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press, 1974), 533–69. 15. Christie Anne Farnham, The Education of the Southern Belle: Higher Education and Student Socialization in the Antebellum South (New York and London: New York Univ. Press, 1994), 121. 16. For a full treatment of higher education and southern women, see ibid. For broader treatments of women’s roles in southern society and culture, see Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women in the Old South (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1988); and Catherine Clinton, The Plantation Mistress: Woman’s World in the Old South (New York: Pantheon, 1982). 1. it’s all academic 1. “Alvarus Pelagius on the Faults of Scholars,” in University Records and Life in the Middle Ages, edited by Lynn Thorndyke (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1944; reprint, New York: W. W. Norton, 1975), 173. notes to pages 5–11 120 2. B. C. Lee to Mother, November 11, 1859, B. C. Lee Letter, AU. 3. George Little to John Little, November 26, 1859, and January 13, 1860, Little Family Papers, UA. 4. L. Ray Drinkwater, “Honor and Student Misconduct in Southern Antebellum Colleges,” Southern Humanities Review 27 (fall 1993): 338 n. 88. 5. Quoted in...