Proceedings of the Board of Visitors December 1826 J. M. At a meeting of the visitors of the University of Virginia, held at the University on Tuesday, December 5th 1826, at which were present James Madison Rector, James Monroe, John H. Cocke, and Joseph C. Cabell. The board being occupied in...

One of the enactments of the University of Virginia, directs that, “as soon as any student shall have matriculated, it shall be the duty of the Proctor to address a letter to his parent or guardian and send it by mail; informing him of the regulations of the University relative to the...

On the 5th. of this month, three men were seen together at Charlottesville (county of Albemarle) each of whom alone is calculated to attract the eager gaze of their Fellow-Citizens—We mean, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe, two of them, ex-presidents, and the last the present...

The whole college has been put in great consternation...

At a meeting of the Faculty of the University of Virginia on the 20th day of December 1826 The Chairman Presented to the Faculty a letter from the Proctor giving information that certain Hotel keepers had during the last Session been in the habit of playing at games of chance with the Students in...

Although old statues adorn the Hall on all sides Edmund Drummond, never heard of any Hotel keeper playing with students at Cards—last session before last not last session saw he thinks a hotel keeper drinking in dormitory with students— Chapman—Has heard that students have played with Hotel...

It is with regret that I have to intrude myself upon you at your present meeting, but I conceive it to be a duty I owe to this Institution and to myself, to report to you in some way, the situation of the Tenement I occupy: The cellar to my Hotel is five feet below the surface of the earth;...

The Undersigned have the honor to request the attention of the Visiters to the following subject:—their late lamented Rector having stated to one of the undersigned, than that any Professor, who wished, might have a Smokehouse; and two of the Faculty having been furnished with them, at the...

The difficulties we labour under are such as obliges us, however reluctantly to call your attention to the inconvenience of our situation. We are unable from the profits small profits of our houses to erect several conveniencies that are indispensible. We thefrefore ask of you either to build us...

I have been called by On by the professors for smoke houses, wood yards &c, but from the present state of the funds it is evident nothing can be done for them, with respect to their houses and enclosures is it not intended by the Visitors that they should keep them in order at their...