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B. APPENDIX B.

A very large proportion of the authorities for the five volumes of this
history have consisted of a mass of original materials of a very miscellaneous,
not to say, fugitive, character; and in weighing the credibility
of their statements at the first reading, it was not easy, or even
possible, to detect the shades of inaccuracy that sometimes marked them.

The following explanations, changes, modifications, and additions,—the
fruits of further investigation,—are suggested in order to impart greater
clearness or greater correctness to the text of the first four volumes.
In volume I, on page 2, line 4, "civic," as being more exact, should be
substituted for "executive;" on page 4, line 17, "these men" for "them;"
and on page 137, line 7, "Braidwood," for "Broadwood." Substitute
"spot" for "site" on page 171, line 1; "larger" for "large;" on page 248,
line 10; "unexceptionable" for "unexceptional" on page 275, line 24;
and also in volume II on page 55, line 19, and on page 150, line 24; and;
in volume I, "doctorate" for "doctrinate" on page 332, line 11, and
"Winthrop" for "William," on page 362, line 29. The quarried stone
referred to on page 256, line 7, of the same volume was suitable for
Tuscan capitals and bases, and was so used by Gorman. Substitute
"practicable" for "practical," on page 113, line 11 in volume II. The
name of Edwin Conway was omitted in the list of hotel-keepers given
on page 222 in same volume. The fixed salary, namely, one thousand
dollars, of the professors was not included in the sum of $2,250 mentioned
in line 4 of page 99 of volume III. This referred only to the
fees. In stating on page 194, in volume III, that Chapman Johnson was
of "obscure parentage," we did not intend to convey the impression
that he was of "obscure family." The family, in a previous generation,
had occupied an excellent social position, but the social status of
his parents had been seriously lowered through extreme impoverishment.
Substitute in same volume "1856" for "1866" on page 219, line 15; and
"calculate" for "celebrate" on page 275, line 12. It should be "Maddock,"
not "Maddox," in preface of volume III. The new system of academic
degrees was adopted at the meeting of the Board of Visitors, held in
December, 1891, and not at the meeting held in December, 1893. See
page 396, line 13, in volume III. The Beta Theta Pi should be added
to the list of fraternities mentioned in the note to page 96 in volume
IV. McGuire, referred to on page 138, line 30, of the same volume, was
not then a "recent graduate," and Greenway, referred to on page 145,
line 4, had been a member of the football team earlier than 1894. It

was John P. Poe, not Johnson Poe, who served as football coach. See
volume IV, pages 144, 345. W. Gordon McCabe was of a somewhat remoter
descent than grandson of the signer of the Declaration of Independence.
See page 221 in same volume. It was not the "three
years," but the "three Rs" which limited the primary education in 1894.
See volume IV, page 237, line 34. Substitute "autumn" for "spring" on
page 145, line 1 in same volume, and "runs" for "games" on page 351,
line 25. The Delta Kappa Epsilon Chapter obtained permission, in 1900,
to build a brick home as mentioned on page 336 in volume IV, but the
structure was not completed until a much later date, owing to the delay
in collecting the fund to cover the cost. It is stated in Corks and Curls
for 1921 that the Phi Kappa Sigma Chapter, and not the Delta Kappa
Epsilon Chapter was the first to be established at the University of
Virginia. Professor James M. Garnett, in his History of Eta Chapter,
D. K. E., affirms that this was the first fraternity chapter to be founded
at the University of Virginia, and that it was followed by Phi Kappa
Psi and the Phi Kappa Sigma, in succession.