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Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1817) October 7, 1817  | | | | Published: | 1817 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-ModEngl | | | | Description: | On information of the amount of the subscriptions to the Central
College, known to be made, and others understood to be so, the board
resolves, that the Pavilion now erecting be completed as heretofore
directed, with the 20. dormitories attached to it, and that two other
pavilions be contracted for and executed the next year with the same
number of dormitories to each, that one of these be appropriated to
the professor of languages, Belles Lettres, Rhetoric, Oratory, history
& Geography, one other to the professor of chemistry, zoology, botany,
anatomy, and the 3d. until otherwise wanted for a boarding house, to be
kept by some French family of good character, wherein it is proposed
that the boarders shall be permitted to speak French only, with a view
to their becoming familiarised to conversation in that language. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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