id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 37636 Smith, William Robert Lee Charles Lewis Cocke, Founder of Hollins College .txt text/plain 32277 1937 73 In the library at Hollins College is a life-size portrait of a great The spring of 1846 is come; the six years of work in Richmond College co-educational school, in which Mr. Cocke had labored for six prosperous That was a high day, in the summer of 1855, when Hollins Institute flung Long years after, Mr. Cocke bent his efforts towards the erection of Virginia, Hollins was named the foremost Institution for girls, the best school men how Hollins was financed in the old days. thousands of other old Hollins girls, I know what a great loss the and years following, gave a wonderful impetus to girls' schools in "Dr. Cocke was a great educator. The building of Hollins Institute was not the achievement of one man. until the school took the name of Hollins Institute. When the Institution passed from the Trustees to Mr. Cocke, it became ./cache/37636.txt ./txt/37636.txt