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History of the University of Virginia, 1819-1919;

the lengthened shadow of one man,
Bruce, Philip Alexander (1856-1933)
  
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HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA 1819–1919
  
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PREFACE
 I. 
I. Method of Treatment
 II. 
II. Foreword to Volumes I and II
  
AUTHORITIES FOR VOLUMES I AND II
  
TABLE OF CONTENTS Volume I

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

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HISTORY
OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
1819–1919
The Lengthened Shadow of One Man

BY

PHILIP ALEXANDER BRUCE, LL.B., LL.D.


AUTHOR OF
"Economic, Institutional, and Social Histories of Virginia in the
Seventeenth Century;" "Plantation Negro as a Freeman;"
"Rise of the New South;" "Life of General Robert E.
Lee;" "Brave Deeds of Confederate Soldiers;"
"Short History of United States," etc.

Centennial Edition
Volume I

NEW YORK

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY


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COPYRIGHT 1920
By THE GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

Set up and printed. Published, November, 1920
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