JEFFERSON'S UNIVERSITY GLIMPSES OF THE PAST Hope dies, love withers, memory fails and fades, Will speak to us of One we used to know. --James Lindsay Gordon, in Arcade Echoes. EDITORS: JOHN S. PATTON SALLIE J. DOSWELL LEWIS D. CRENSHAW Copyrighted 1915 John S. Patton, Sallie J. Doswell, Lewis D. Crenshaw The Michie Company, Printers Copies of this book, at $1.00 postpaid, may ز FOREWORD A great master of phrases once described a university "as a place which attracts the affections of the young by its fame, wins the judgment of the middle-aged by its beauty, and rivets the memory of the old by its associations. The purpose of the authors of "Jefferson's University" has been to set forth this ancient foundation in such fashion as to accomplish this threefold purpose. It is an inspiring story, and I hope the recital will bring pleasure and high memories to those who know the place, and incentive to those who are reaching up to its wide spaces. EDWIN A. ALDERMAN. 307153 THE I IN THE BEGINNING HE University of Virginia grew out of the thinking and dreaming of one man. The story of its building, after fifty years of yearning, brings into view another personality—a young Virginian lately returned from French and Italian universities to engage in some work that would be a tribute of service to his people. The opportunity at hand for a great achievement, the right men were thus met; Thomas Jefferson to whom the vision had come, to guide and direct, and Joseph Carrington Cabell to enter the arena-the senate of Virginia-and champion and win statutory tangibleness for the noble enterprise. THE EARLY PROFESSORS In the telling of the story, Albemarle Academy would call for a passing thought, though it never existed, and Central College would require a word, though its academe never resounded with student voices. The first professors would afford an interesting hour, especially those who had come over sea when ocean voyaging was attended with danger and discomfort-Blaettermann, from "33 Castle street, Holborn," to quote Mr. Jefferson, "a German who was acquainted with our countrymen Ticknor and Preston, and was highly recommended by them;" George Long, the Oxford graduate, "a small, delicate-looking blonde man," charming enough to catch a Virginia widow; and three others-Thomas Hewitt Key, Charles Bonnycastle and Robley Dunglison-who came over in the same vessel, the |