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History of the University of Virginia, 1819-1919;

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume I

   
                   
INTRODUCTORY  PAGE 
The Impress of Jefferson 
I.—Father of the University; II.—Political Principles; III.—
Religious Views; IV.—Love of Science; V.—Taste for Architecture. 
FIRST PERIOD 
The Struggle for a University  45 
I.—Jefferson's Faith in Education; II.—Three Foreign
Schemes; III.—Bill of 1779; IV.—Jefferson's Schemes of Popular
Education; V.—Educational Measures Adopted. 
SECOND PERIOD 
Germination: Academy and College  95 
I.—Jefferson's Preference for University Site; II.—History of
the University Region; III.—Early Social Life; IV.—Origin
of Albemarle Academy; V.—Acts of Albemarle Academy Trustees;
VI.—Academy Converted into College; VII.—Jefferson's
Foresight for the College; VIII.—Joseph C. Cabell; IX.—John
Hartwell Cocke; X.—Site of College Selected; XI.—The Subscription
List; XII.—The Plan for the Buildings; XIII.—The
Actual Building; XIV.—The First Professors Elected; XV.—
Fight Against Cooper; XVI.—The Bill for Conversion. 
THIRD PERIOD 
The Building of the University  209 
I.—Rockfish Gap Commission; II.—The Report; III.—Struggle
for the University Site; IV.—The First Board of Visitors;
V.—Course of Construction; VI.—Men Who Built the University;
VII.—How Materials Were Procured; VIII.—The
Building of the Rotunda; IX.—Additions to Main Buildings;
X.—Cost of Buildings; XI.—The Fight for Appropriations;
XII.—Fight for Appropriations, continued; XIII.—Removal of
William and Mary College; XIV.—System of Education;
XV.—Plans for Filling the Chairs; XVI.—Francis Walker
Gilmer; XVII.—The Mission to England; XVIII.—The Mission
to England, continued. 



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