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History of the University of Virginia, 1819-1919; The Lengthened Shadow of One Man, Volume I

  
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PREFACE
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I. Method of Treatment
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II. Foreword to Volumes I and II
  
AUTHORITIES FOR VOLUMES I AND II
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
  
VOLUME I

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INTRODUCTORY THE IMPRESS OF JEFFERSON
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I. Father of the University
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II. Political Principles
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III. Religious Views
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IV. Love of Science
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V. Taste for Architecture
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FIRST PERIOD STRUGGLE FOR A UNIVERSITY
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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
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V. Educational Measures Adopted
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SECOND PERIOD GERMINATION -ACADEMY AND COLLEGE
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I. Jefferson's Preference for University Site
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II. History of the University Region
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III. Early Social Life
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IV. Origin of Albemarle Academy
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V. Acts of the Albemarle Academy Trustees
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VI. The Academy Converted into a College
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VII. Jefferson's Foresight for the College
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VIII. Joseph C. Cabell
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IX. John Hartwell Cocke
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X. Site of the College Selected
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XI. The Subscription List
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XII. Plan for the Buildings
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XIII. The Actual Building
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XIV. The First Professors Elected
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XV. Fight Against Cooper
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XVI. The Bill for Conversion
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THIRD PERIOD THE BUILDING OF THE UNIVERSITY
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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
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V. Course of Construction
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VI. Men Who Built the University
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VII. How Materials Were Procured
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VIII. The Building of the Rotunda
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IX. Additions to Main Building
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X. Cost of Buildings
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XI. The Tight 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
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XV. Plans for Filling the Chairs
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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
Centennial Edition
VOLUME I

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.

NEW YORK

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

COPYRIGHT 1920
By THE GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Of The
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
— Set up and printed. Published, November, 1920
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