History of the University of Virginia, 1819-1919: The Lengthened Shadow of One Man, Volume I / Philip Alexander Bruce

Bruce, Philip Alexander . History of the University of Virginia, 1819-1919: The Lengthened Shadow of One Man, Volume I / Philip Alexander Bruce
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Front Matter

Chapter 1 INTRODUCTORY THE IMPRESS OF JEFFERSON

Section 1 I. Father of the University

Section 2 II. Political Principles

Section 3 III. Religious Views

Section 4 IV. Love of Science

Section 5 V. Taste for Architecture

Chapter 2 FIRST PERIOD STRUGGLE FOR A UNIVERSITY

Section 1 I. Jefferson's Faith in Education

Section 2 II. Three Foreign Schemes

Section 3 III. Bill of 1779

Section 4 IV. Jefferson's Schemes of Popular Education

Section 5 V. Educational Measures Adopted

Chapter 3 SECOND PERIOD GERMINATION - ACADEMY AND COLLEGE

Section 1 I. Jefferson's Preference for University Site

Section 2 II. History of the University Region

Section 3 III. Early Social Life

Section 4 IV. Origin of Albemarle Academy

Section 5 V. Acts of the Albemarle Academy Trustees

Section 6 VI. The Academy Converted into a College

Section 7 VII. Jefferson's Foresight for the College

Section 8 VIII. Joseph C. Cabell

Section 9 IX. John Hartwell Cocke

Section 10 X. Site of the College Selected

Section 11 XI. The Subscription List

Section 12 XII. Plan for the Buildings

Section 13 XIII. The Actual Building

Section 14 XIV. The First Professors Elected

Section 15 XV. Fight Against Cooper

Section 16 XVI. The Bill for Conversion

Chapter 4 THIRD PERIOD THE BUILDING OF THE UNIVERSITY

Section 1 I. Rockfish Gap Commission

Section 2 II. The Report

Section 3 III. Struggle for the University Site

Section 4 IV. The First Board of Visitors

Section 5 V. Course of Construction

Section 6 VI. Men Who Built the University

Section 7 VII. How Materials Were Procured

Section 8 VIII. The Building of the Rotunda

Section 9 IX. Additions to Main Building

Section 10 X. Cost of Buildings

Section 11 XI. The Tight for Appropriations

Section 12 XII. Fight for Appropriations, Continued

Section 13 XIII. Removal of William and Mary College

Section 14 XIV. System of Education

Section 15 XV. Plans for Filling the Chairs

Section 16 XVI. Francis Walker Gilmer

Section 17 XVII. The Mission to England

Section 18 XVIII. The Mission to England, Continued