. Review of reviews and world's work. MONTICKLLO, .J , NEAll til A 454 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY RE^IEIV OF REVIEWS, that range. TTith arguments more ingeniousthan convincing, he established its healtlifulnessby producing an imposing list of octogenariansthen resident near his home, and proved itscentrality by diagrams and cardboard its competitors, Staunton and Lexing-ton, the site of Central College readily won. The report of this commission was made theoccasion of another legislative battle, but theUniversity of Virginia was duly chartered, witht
. Review of reviews and world's work. MONTICKLLO, .J , NEAll til A 454 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY RE^IEIV OF REVIEWS, that range. TTith arguments more ingeniousthan convincing, he established its healtlifulnessby producing an imposing list of octogenariansthen resident near his home, and proved itscentrality by diagrams and cardboard its competitors, Staunton and Lexing-ton, the site of Central College readily won. The report of this commission was made theoccasion of another legislative battle, but theUniversity of Virginia was duly chartered, withthe site of Central College named as its location,on January 25, 1819. This, then, is the natalday of the university, but Jeffersons hope tosee it opened in May was delusively years were yet to pass before its doors werethrown open. AN ARCHITECTURAL TRIUMPH. In the meantime, the plans of Jefferson for itsgrounds and buildino-s were under THE BUILDINGS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, AS ERECTED IN ACCORDANCEWITH JEFFERSONS PLANS. (From an old print.) In his own home, pronounced by a competentjudge to be the best extant specimen of Amei-i-can colonial architecture, he had shown his ar-tistic taste, but the people of his day were hardlyprepared to value rightly the educational in-fluenc( of classic models or appreciate the expend-iture of funds upon what seemed to them solavish a scale. Madison, in a letter to Jefferson,said, One of the most popular objections to theinstitution, I find, is the expense added by whatis called the ornamental style of amount of censure could have prevented thiscareful attention to every architectural detail ;for these plans, drawn largely by himself, werealmost as dear to Jefferson as his idea of auniversity. How favorably these buildings im-pressed an intelligent visitor well acquaintedwith university buildings in this country and Europe may be gathered from one of Ticknors
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