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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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Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1818) May 11, 1818 | | | | Published: | 1818 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-ModEngl | | | | Description: | At a regular meeting of the Visitors of the Central College on
11th. May 1818, at which Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John H. Cocke,
& Joseph C. Cabell, were present, it was agreed, that it being uncertain
whether Thomas Cooper would accept the Professorship of Chemistry, in
the event of his not doing so, it would be expedient to procure a Professor
of Mathematicks. It was also agreed to allow the Proctor of the
College the sum of two hundred dollars for the present year. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1819) February 26, 1819 | | | | Published: | 1819 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-ModEngl | | | | Description: | We The subscribers, Visitors of the Central College, having been
specially called to meet on the 26th. day of Feb. 1819, and authorised
by the act of the legislature, now in session, for establishing the
University of Virginia, to continue the exercise of our former functions,
and to fulfill the duties of our successors, Visitors of the
sd University, until their first actual meeting, have unanimously
agreed on the following opinions & proceedings. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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