- Nov 2017
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to prescribe their duties & the course of education, in conformity with the law: to establish rules for the government & discipline of the students not contrary to the laws of the land: to regulate the tuition fees, & the rent of the dormitories they occupy: to prescribe & control the duties & proceedings of all officers, servants & others with respect to the buildings, lands, appurtenances & other property & interests of the university: to draw from the literary fund such monies as are by law charged on it for this institution: and in general to direct & do all matters & things which, not being inconsistent with the laws of the land, to them shall seem most expedient for promoting the purposes of the said institution;
Even when the university was being created the founders believed that it was important for students to have some voice. This is being continued with our student self governance.
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It was the degree of centrality to the white population of the state which alone then constituted the important point of comparison between these places:
This line highlights how the founders of our University thought. They took into consideration race and believed where the majority of the white population was located was a much better environment to create a university. Statements written like this need to be addressed more when the guides or any teaching entity address the founding of our University because I do believe many are unaware of how the founders specifically chose the location of our school and it is important information to know.
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- Sep 2017
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Medicine, when fully taught, is usually subdivided into several professorships, but this cannot well be without the accessory of an hospital, where the student can have the benefit of attending clinical lectures & of assisting at operations of surgery
It is very interesting that they mentioned a school of medicine should eventually be incorporated into the University because we now have a leading medical program at UVA with a hospital super close to campus. It is very interesting that those planning the University 200 years ago had such foresight to think of this.
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Education generates habits of application, order and the love of virtue; and controuls, by the force of habit, any innate obliquities in our moral organization. We should be far too from the discouraging persuasion, that man is fixed, by the law of his nature, at a given point: that his improvement is a chimæra, and the hope delusive of rendering ourselves wiser, happier or better than our forefathers were
This portion of the document is very important to see what our University originally thought education should provide. The founding of this university was to educate those to such an extent that we led better lives then even those who founded our own country. These are very high standard for the university education system as a whole.
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