. Review of reviews and world's work. —for, although not a jiro-fessional author, he knows how to wield Ins pen.—and, above all, those who have been charmed bythe good sense, hearty humor, and sympatheticqualities that mark his eloquence, have grounds for their belief in his future that transcendformal reasons, and are perhaps more convincingbecause more contagious. At the approachinginauguration ceremonies these friends and ad-mirers of the new president will join with chosenalumni of the University of Virginia to expresstheir confidence in the man, in tlie institution,and in the future of ed
. Review of reviews and world's work. —for, although not a jiro-fessional author, he knows how to wield Ins pen.—and, above all, those who have been charmed bythe good sense, hearty humor, and sympatheticqualities that mark his eloquence, have grounds for their belief in his future that transcendformal reasons, and are perhaps more convincingbecause more contagious. At the approachinginauguration ceremonies these friends and ad-mirers of the new president will join with chosenalumni of the University of Virginia to expresstheir confidence in the man, in tlie institution,and in the future of education in the South andin the nation. President Alderman has theopportunity of extending the limits of the uni-versitys woik while preserving that traditionof faithful, single-hearted labor in the pursuitof knowledge which has been the crowningglory of the institution founded by the mostalert-minded of all our Presidents. It is a greatopportunity, which, if seized, will give us a na-tional university of modern type in the THE CAMPUS OP THE UNIVERSITY OP VIRGINIA, CHARLOTTESVILLE, LOOKING SOUTHWARD FROM THE ROTUNDA. THOMAS JEFFERSONS UNIVERSITY. BY PROFESSOR CHARLES W. KENT.(Of the University of Virginia.) THE recital of this story of tlie University ofVirginia, by happy accident, is begun onMarch 7, on the eightieth anniversary of its con-tinuous existence. The span is more than thethreescore-and-ten of promised human life, butnot longer than that allotted many a living man,who overlaps the entire history of this institu-tion. For an institution, then, it is still young,—in that period of lusty youth just enteringupon its maturer development. Yet the story ofthis brief existence, however marred in the tell-ing, is not in itself uneventful or uninteresting. .Jeffersons early plans. Preceding ihe day of its formal opening,March 7, 1825, t lere was a period of more thanforty years during which the project for highereducation was in the heart of the universitysgreat
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