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5.45.80.218:valid:Content Nonsensical, Duplicate Survey, High Vulgarity, High Grammatical Error, Probably Admissions, Content Useless, Malicious Intent/Faked, SPAM, :1
5.45.80.218:valid:Content Nonsensical, Duplicate Survey, High Vulgarity, High Grammati

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In as much as education is concerned at Hampden-Sydney College, the qualities and benefits of such are limited due to the school's historical lack of funding, and students seem to spend four years in an attempt to actually learn, while faculty struggles to successfully teach. Each department has remarkable scholars and academics, but likewise you will find faculty and staff who appear entirely self-absorbed, career-minded, or outrightly malicious towards their students. While hard work is at times required, the curriculum often seemed to defy reason… the lecture hall is more reminiscent of an elementary school classroom - and professors, administrators, and students are all too willing to involve themselves in their respective personal lives like so many children running about during recess. But, this no doubt is due to the isolated, pretentious, and even unimpressive environs of "the Hill." Hampden-Sydney is not a "has-been" of a bygone, genteel era…

For sure, there is a small number of people "on the Hill" that qualify as gentlemen, but mostly the sort you will find at that school are gentlemen in appearance only; actual sincerity and intelligence is of secondary priority to rather such base and servile qualities as assimilation, cowardice, and slander. But, it is indeed truthful when it is said that not everyone is cut out for Hampden-Sydney. During my time there, and as each year passed, it became more clearly understood that the Honor Court and other such institutions are relatively recent inventions, and often used as tools for social control, as opposed to instruments of character building or anything related to genteel notions of honor. At all times the school will snuff out and pave over any real kind of History or legacy that is inconvenient, or worse - fiscally detrimental.

These observations can be made at and about any school, especially those as small and limited in scope as Hampden-Sydney. Thus it is difficult to see that the school is outstanding in anything other than its peculiar and fragile existence. It is the type of place you love to hate, yet it can be truly said that only those who attended can appreciate the good, bad, and ugly things to be found. Ultimately, the gates at the entrance on College Road shouldn't read "enter as boys, leave as men," but rather "abandon all hope, ye who enter."