VIRGINIA, UNIVERSITY OF. An undenomi national institution of higher learning at Char lottesville, Va., four miles from Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, its founder. It was chartered in 1819 and opened in 1825. The group of college buildings, planned by Jefferson and ereeted under his persona] supervision, together with the recent, additions made to harmonize with arid complete his designs, constitute one of the most characteristic and artistic pieces of academic architecture in America. The quad rangle is about 1000 feet long and 300 feet wide. The dominant structure is the Rotunda, set cen trally at the northern end, and modeled from the Roman Pantheon. It is now devoted to the uni versity library. The courses of instruction are comprised in five departments: academic, engi neering, law, medicine, and agriculture, compris ing in all 22 schools, of which each affords an independent course under professors who are re sponsible only to the board of visitors, appointed by the Governor. The courses are purely elec
tive. The degrees of bachelor of arts, law, and science, master of arts, doctor of philosophy, medicine, and law, civil, mechanical, Min ing, and electrical engineer are conferred only upon ex amination after residence. No honorary degrees are given. Qualified persons may be licensed by the faculty to farm classes for private instruc tion in any Achool of the university. The uni versity had in 1903 a student attendance of 019, 57 instructors, and a library of 45,500 vol umes. In the same year its endowment was $375,550, with an income of $151.5.15, and its grounds and buildings were valued at $1,250,000.