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Loading... Thomas Jefferson: A Character Sketchby Edward Sylvester Ellis
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Excerpt: ...and (3) a State University, as roof and spire of the whole edifice. He did not succeed in realizing the whole of his scheme, but he did finally succeed in inducing the Legislature to pass an act in the year 1819 by which the State accepted the gift of Central College (a corporation based upon private subscriptions due to Jeffersons efforts), and converted it into the University of Virginia. This action was taken on the report of a commission previously appointed, which had met at Rockfish Gap, in the Blue Ridge Mountains No library descriptions found. |
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