University of Virginia Library

TABLE OF CONTENTS

VOLUME I

INTRODUCTORY

• THE IMPRESS OF JEFFERSON..............................1
• 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; IIL-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; IL-The Report; III.-Struggle for the University Site; IV.-The First Board of Visitors; V Course of Construction; VI.-Men Who Built the University; VIL-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 Walter Gilmer; XVIL-The Mission to England; XVIII.-The Mission to England, continued.