University Of Virginia

Author : Susan Tyler Hitchcock
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813919029
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The University of Virginia written by Susan Tyler Hitchcock and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive treatment of Mr. Jefferson's favorite institution, with an updated section on entering the twenty-first century. In the nearly two centuries since the first building's completion in Thomas Jefferson's academical village, programs and facilities at the University of Virginia have been continually expanded and updated. The four years since the first publication of The University of Virginia: A Pictorial History have been no exception to that tradition: science and technology, athletics, public service, international programs, business, and the arts are just a few of the current growth areas at Mr. Jefferson's university. When the Board of Visitors approved a new master plan for growth and development in 1999--and the capital campaign of 2000 supported its ambitious outline with a $1.4 billion purse--they set in motion massive upgrades at the university. A South Lawn complex and "groundswalk" to reconnect the sprawling areas of the university, a new special collections library, expanded.

Author : Philip Mills Herrington
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813939461
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Law School at the University of Virginia written by Philip Mills Herrington and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a masterwork of Thomas Jefferson, the "Academical Village" at the heart of the University of Virginia has long attracted the attention of visitors and scholars alike. Yet today Jefferson’s original structures make up only a small fraction of a campus comprising over 1,600 acres. The Law School at the University of Virginia traces the history of one of the eight original schools of the University to study the development of the University Grounds over nearly two hundred years. In this book, Philip Mills Herrington relates the remarkable story of how the Law School and the University have used architecture to reconcile a desire for progress with a veneration for the past. In addition to providing a fascinating history of one of the oldest and most influential law schools in the United States, Herrington offers a valuable case study of the ways in which American universities have constructed, altered, and enhanced the built environment in response to the ever-changing demands of higher education and campus life.

Author : Harry Y. Gamble
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813944066
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God on the Grounds written by Harry Y. Gamble and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free-thinking Thomas Jefferson established the University of Virginia as a secular institution and stipulated that the University should not provide any instruction in religion. Yet over the course of the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth, religion came to have a prominent place in the University, which today maintains the largest department of religious studies of any public university in America. Given his intentions, how did Jefferson's university undergo such remarkable transformations? In God on the Grounds, esteemed religious studies scholar Harry Gamble offers the first history of religion’s remarkably large role—both in practice and in study—at UVA. Jefferson’s own reputation as a religious skeptic and infidel was a heavy liability to the University, which was widely regarded as injurious to the faith and morals of its students. Consequently, the faculty and Board of Visitors were eager throughout the nineteenth century to make the University more religious. Gamble narrates the early, rapid, and ongoing introduction of religion into the University’s life through the piety of professors, the creation of the chaplaincy, the growth of the YMCA, the multiplication of religious services and meetings, the building of a chapel, and the establishment of a Bible lectureship and a School of Biblical History and Literature. He then looks at how—only in the mid-twentieth century—the University began to retreat from its religious entanglements and reclaim its secular character as a public institution. A vital contribution to the institutional history of UVA, God on the Grounds sheds light on the history of higher education in the United States, American religious history, and the development of religious studies as an academic discipline.

Author : University of Virginia
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Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The University of Virginia Record written by University of Virginia and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : University of Virginia
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Total Pages : 9 pages
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Download or read book Some Facts about the University of Virginia written by University of Virginia and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 50 pages
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Download or read book University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va written by and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : University of Virginia
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Total Pages : 304 pages
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Download or read book The Centennial of the University of Virginia, 1819-1921 written by University of Virginia and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1 pages
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Download or read book University of Virginia written by University of Virginia and published by . This book was released on 193? with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : University of Virginia
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Total Pages : 14 pages
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Download or read book Some Facts about the University of Virginia written by University of Virginia and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : University of Virginia
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Total Pages : 40 pages
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Download or read book A Sketch of the History of the University of Virginia written by University of Virginia and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: