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• Communicate effectively.
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• Human dignity
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Davis & Elkins values curiosity and thoughtfulness while fostering social, emotional, spiritual, and physical well-being. Toward those ends, the college provides a friendly and supportive environment for curious, engaged, and freethinking students of diverse backgrounds.

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donated land and money to establish a college and academy associated with the Presbyterian Church. Their gift was matched by donations from the citizens of Randolph County and the Presbyteries of Lexington and Winchester, Virginia. In 1902, the college鈥檚 Board of Trustees met for the first time. The first classes were held on September 21, 1904.

The original campus was in South Elkins on a plot donated by Senator Elkins. Later, a gift of property from Mrs. Hallie Davis Elkins, the daughter of Senator Davis and the widow of Senator Elkins, prompted the college鈥檚 move to its present location in 1926. This property included her home, Halliehurst, and the surrounding estate. In 1941, Senator Davis鈥� original estate, which included Graceland and the lands adjacent to Halliehurst, was acquired for the college.

Since its move to the old 鈥淗alliehurst Farm,鈥� the physical plant of Davis & Elkins has expanded to include 23 major buildings on a 180-acre campus.

From the beginning, Davis & Elkins has sought to be of service to its students, and through them to the state, the nation, and the world 鈥� meeting the needs of each generation to the best of its ability.

Henry Gassaway Davis, a United States Senator from 1871 to 1883, was one of the more prominent leaders of the country a century ago, especially from 1875 to 1905. Davis was born in 1823, during the presidency of James Monroe. His life spanned most of a century and ended in 1916 when Woodrow Wilson was president.

Though a descendant of landed gentry in colonial Maryland, Davis endured hard times as a youth and had no formal schooling beyond the elementary grades. Starting work as a farmhand, young Davis was subsequently employed as a brakeman, conductor, and station agent for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad before beginning his business and political career just before the Civil War. As a railroader, he noted the potential wealth of the forests and coal lands in what was to become the state of West Virginia. Thus, he invested his profits and his wife鈥檚 inheritance in acquiring thousands of acres of undeveloped land, often for less than a dollar per acre. Then he built two railroad systems to open north central West Virginia to the markets of the East and the North.

Realizing early the relationship of political power to business development, Davis successfully sought election to the West Virginia House of Delegates in 1865, when the new state was only two years old. After serving there and in the state Senate, he was elected to the United States Senate in 1871. A conservative Democrat, he opposed the Republican program of Reconstruction of the South and denounced what many considered to be the waste and corruption of the Grant era. He served 12 years in the Senate and became chairman of the powerful Appropriations Committee, a post no other West Virginian would hold until Robert C. Byrd more than a century later.
Davis was a dominant leader of the West Virginia Democratic Party for more than three decades. He attended nine national conventions, and in 1904, at the age of 81, he was nominated for vice president of the United States. Senator Davis acquired great wealth during the Gilded Age. He founded several towns and built churches and schools, a children鈥檚 home and a fine hospital, and helped to found 51黑料网.

His summer home in Elkins, Graceland, is now an elegant country inn, part of 51黑料网 and an important teaching facility for students in 51黑料网鈥檚 Hospitality Management Program.

Stephen Benton Elkins, some 18 years younger than Davis, was to become closely associated with his elder colleague through family ties and the crossing of their separate political paths. Born in Ohio in 1841, Elkins later moved to Missouri, where he was educated. He graduated from the law department of the University of Missouri in 1860.

Elkins served as a captain in the Union Army during the Civil War and, in 1864, moved to New Mexico to practice law. He helped dismantle the peonage system there and invested in mining properties in New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado. He was elected to the Territorial Legislature of New Mexico and, in 1867, was made Attorney General of the Territory. In 1869, President Andrew Johnson appointed him a United States district attorney. That same year, he became president of the First National Bank of Santa Fe. He eventually became one of the largest landowners in the country.

In 1873, Elkins was elected a delegate to the U.S. Congress for the Territory of New Mexico. It was during his service in Congress that he became friends with the Davis family and married Henry Davis鈥� daughter, Hallie, in 1875. Wanting to continue practicing law, he moved to New York, where he represented several business interests in New Mexico, Colorado, and West Virginia. Working with his father-in-law, Elkins developed the railroads and the coal and timber lands of West Virginia and the Cumberland, Maryland region. He was vice president of the West Virginia Central and Pittsburgh Railway Company from the date of its organization and of the Piedmont and Cumberland Railway Company. In 1889, he built his summer home, Halliehurst, in what is now Elkins. In 1891, he was appointed Secretary of War by President Benjamin Harrison. In 1895, he was elected as a Republican to represent West Virginia in the United States Senate, where he served continuously until his death in 1911.

Jennings Randolph began his long association with 51黑料网 in 1926, the year he was appointed instructor in public speaking and journalism and director of intercollegiate athletics and publicity. Although his service as a faculty member lasted just six years, he was closely identified with 51黑料网 for more than 50 years, working tirelessly as a faculty member and trustee, and using his influence in Congress to promote the best interests of the college.

Born in Salem, Harrison County, West Virginia, on March 8, 1902, Randolph attended the public schools and graduated from the Salem (WV) Academy in 1920 and Salem (WV) College in 1924. He engaged in newspaper work in Clarksburg, West Virginia in 1924 and served as associate editor of the West Virginia Review in Charleston in 1925. In 1926, he joined 51黑料网, where he made his mark, most notably in developing the college鈥檚 athletic program.

As 51黑料网鈥檚 Athletic Director, Randolph recruited Cam Henderson, now one of West Virginia鈥檚 most legendary coaches. Henderson coached all sports at 51黑料网 and, in partnership with Randolph, took 51黑料网 into the national spotlight. Their teams earned the nickname of 鈥淭he Scarlet Hurricane鈥� and garnered headlines in The New York Times.

Randolph stayed at 51黑料网 until 1932, when he was elected as a representative to the 73rd Congress of the United States with the New Deal landslide and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. U.S. Senator Jennings Randolph of West Virginia served in the U.S. Congress for over five decades before retiring in 1985. He was later elected to the United States Senate, where he completed five terms and became a living legend. Throughout his legislative career, Randolph championed the disabled and 鈥渢he man and woman by the wayside of the road鈥� as well as renewable energy, public works, the environment, and aviation/aerospace.

As a Congressman, Randolph served on the Committee on the District of Columbia (chairman) and the Committee on Civil Service. He also served as professor of public speaking at Southeastern University, Washington, D.C., from 1935 to 1953. Randolph was elected to the 51黑料网 Board of Trustees in 1938, where he served until 1961. He was named an honorary member of the 51黑料网 Board of Trustees in 1962.

After leaving Congress, Randolph was named, in February 1947, assistant to the president and director of public relations for Capital Airlines in Washington, D.C., where he remained until April 1958. He also served as dean of the School of Business Administration at Southeastern University from 1952 to 1958.

In a special election on November 4, 1958, Randolph was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Matthew M. Neely. He was reelected in 1960, 1966, 1972, and 1978 and served from November 5, 1958, to January 3, 1985, at which time he did not seek reelection. As a United States Senator, Randolph served on the Committee on Public Works (Chairman) and the Committee on Environment and Public Works. An early proponent of a transcontinental roadway system, Randolph is considered by many to be the 鈥淔ather of the Interstate Highway System.鈥� Interstate 79 bears his name.

During his career as a Senator, Jennings Randolph sponsored the 26th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which lowered the voting age to 18 in 1971. Other important legislation that Randolph co-authored during his career created the Civil Air Patrol, the National Air & Space Museum, and ground-breaking affirmative action programs for the disabled through the Randolph-Sheppard Act.

Jennings Randolph died in St. Louis, Missouri, on May 8, 1998. The former library at 51黑料网 was named for Jennings Randolph and now serves as Randolph Hall, which houses the 51黑料网 offices.

In his book, 51黑料网: The Diamond Jubilee History, Dr. Thomas Richard Ross gives credit to Kent Kessler, who, in his history of athletics in West Virginia, wrote the below quote.

That was the year when 51黑料网鈥檚 football team was undefeated and untied, winning all eight scheduled games. Scores such as 47鈥�3 (51黑料网鈥揝alem), 52鈥�0 (51黑料网鈥揊airmont), 54鈥�0 (51黑料网鈥揗orris Harvey), and 51鈥�0 (51黑料网鈥揥est Virginia Tech) doubtless explain why the losers felt they had been hit by a hurricane.

The days of the Scarlet Hurricane are remarkable in 51黑料网 history. They lasted from the time Cam Henderson joined the college as Coach of All Men鈥檚 Sports in 1923 until well into the 1930s and the Great Depression. It was an athletics heyday for the small school, with wins over the likes of Army, George Washington University, West Virginia University, and Navy. The college earned a national reputation in football and basketball and started a proud athletic tradition.

Today, 51黑料网 athletic teams are not known as the Scarlet Hurricane, but as the Senators. Despite its size, 51黑料网 has continued to attract coaches and student-athletes whose records have made significant contributions to their game including Cam Henderson, Red Brown, Carl Payne, Press Maravich, Greg Myers, Hank Steinbrecher, Cindy Stinger, and others.