VIRGINIA, UNIVERSITY OF, CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA
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Definitions of VIRGINIA, UNIVERSITY OF, CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA
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Was chartered in 1819 and opened in 1824. Its organization, plan of government and system of instruction are due to Thomas Jefferson, who planned it after the model of European universities, and by the original ideas upon which he founded it made it for a time the most influential school in America. It early developed the elective system. The department of medicine was founded in 1827, that of law in 1851. The university has prospered since the Civil War.
By John Franklin Jameson
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