| | 1 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | 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 |
| 2 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1817) October 8, 1817 | | | | Published: | 1817 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-ModEngl | | | | Description: | Certain letters from Doctor Thos. Cooper to Th: Jefferson, dated
Sep. 17. & 19. received since the meeting of yesterday being communicated
to the board of Visitors, and taken into consideration with his
former letter of Sep. 16. they are of opinion that it will be for the
interest of the College to modify the terms of agreement which might
be generally proper, so as to accomodate them to the particular circumstances
of Doctor Cooper and to reconcile his interests to an acceptance
of the professorship before proposed to him. They therefore
resolve | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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