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8730. UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, Aim of.—

Our aim [is] the securing to our
country a full and perpetual institution for all
the useful sciences; one which will restore us
to our former station in the confederacy. * * * Patience and perseverance on our part will secure
the blessed end. If we shrink, it is gone
forever.—
To General Breckenridge. Washington ed. vii, 239.
(M. 1822)