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Washington's Birthday.

Lectures were suspended from 12 till 2
on February 22, and the teachers and students,
with a number of other persons,
assembled in Madison Hall where Dr.
Albert Shaw, editor of the American Review
of Reviews, delivered an address
fitting to the occasion. The speaker referred
to a former visit to the University,
when he spoke upon the occasion of a
Jefferson birthday celebration; and remarked
that one can hardly come to Virginia
at all without finding the day worthy
of celebration on account of some
great man or his deeds. The address
centered chiefly about the year 1808—
just a hundred years past—and the end
that year of the importation of slaves.
The far-reaching significance of this event
was pointed out, and the relation of
Washington and Jefferson to the great
questions at issue was shown in a masterly
way.