Letter from Professor Price,
UVA The following excerpt is from
a letter written by Prof Thomas R Price, M. A., LL. D., Prof
of Greek in the University of VA and sometime Prof of English
in Columbia, of NYC, indicates the high standing of Edgar Healey
Rowe in the University of VA: UNIVERSITY, VA., 2
February, 1880
My dear Rowe:
It was a grief to me to learn that you had made up your mind
not to return to us. I shall miss you from your place in my
class, and, as I had hoped, in my list of graduates. But I do
not doubt that you have acted wisely; and your education is
already ample for you to make of yourself whatever you wish
to become. If, as you propose, you go into the Church, your
excellent English style, accurate and simple, will be your best
outfit: and your knowledge of Greek, and, as I believe, of Latin,
will enable you to carry on your professional studies to any
extent, and to become a distinct force in giving to our somewhat
narrow and degraded forms of religion a wider, truer and nobler
development. One man now who is capable of dealing with the
sacred texts of Christianity and with the early records of the
primitive Church, as an accurate and scholarly interpreter of
what they mean, is worth an hundred who in their blind ignorance
go on narrowing and degrading the faith into erroneous perversions
Thos R Price
