in plain but neat attire, entered the room, and, bowing to the students, took his seat quietly in one corner. One of my friends privately gave me to understand that it was Mr. Jefferson. I was struck by his plain appearance and simple, unassuming manners. When Mr. Brockenbrough was done with the students he looked up and recognized Mr. Jefferson, who then came forward to greet him. We used to see him afterwards as he passed our room on the eastern range in his almost daily visits to the University. He was now in his eighty-third year, and this ride of eight or ten miles on horseback over a rough mountain road shows the deep interest with which he watched over this child of his old age, and why he preferred the more endearing title of Father to that of founder. This is also shown in the frequent intercourse which he kept up with the faculty and students. Two or three times a week the former, often with their families, dined with him by invitation, and once a week he had the students. He had a list of these, and through one of his grandsons, then a student in the University, four or five were invited to dine with him on the Sunday following. This day was selected because it did not interfere with the regular lectures. When he found that some of the students declined the invitation from relig. ious convictions, he ascertained how many there were of this class, and invited them on a week-day. Mr. Jefferson had a wonderful tact in interesting his youthful visitors, and making the most diffident feel at ease in his company. He knew from what county each student came, and being well acquainted with the most prominent men in every part of the State, he would draw out the student by asking questions concerning them, or about something remarkable in his neighborhood, thus making one feel that he was giving instead of receiving information; or he would ask about the studies of the students, and make remarks about them or the professors, for all of whom he had a high admiration. He was thus careful to pay attention to each individual student." Address of Hon. W. C. Rives on Life and Work of W. B. Rodgers, 1883. Address of Prof. Asaph Hall, U. S. Navy, on opening the Leander McCormick Observatory, 1885. This marks the inauguration of an astronomical observatory, which was one of Mr. Jefferson's favorite projects. Historical address, by Hugh Blair Grigsby, in 1868, on the occasion of unveiling the statue of Jefferson in the library. This address is still in manuscript, and is in the possession of Hon. E. Johnston The Student's Hand-Book of the University of Virginia, 1887-88. CHAPTER XV. WRITINGS OF THE FACULTY OF THE UNIVERSITY, 1825-1887. BY WILLIAM P. TRENT. The following lists are reasonably complete; in some cases proper materials have been wanting; in a few absolute completeness did not ap pear desirable. For reasons of convenience, a chronological order of arrangement has been preferred to an alphabetical. An asterisk (*) means that the professor was also an alumnus; a dagger (†) that the work was published during the author's connection with the University. As a personal examination of many of these works was impossible, the dates of publication were in some cases not to be obtained. GEORGE LONG (professor of ancient languages, 1825–28): Biographical Dictionary (1842–44); The Penny Cyclopædia (1833–46); Was general editor of the Bibliotheca Classica. Published An Analysis of Herodotus; A Classical Atlas; Editions of Cæsar's Gallic War and Sallust; Geographical Treatises on England, Wales, and America; The Decline of the Roman Republic (5 vols., 1864–74). Select Lives from Plutarch; Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius; Epictetus. Contributed to Dr. Smith's Classical Dictionary. THOMAS HEWETT KEY (professor of mathematics, 1825-27): Published A Latin Grammar (1843-46); Philological Essays (1868); Language in its Origin aud Development (1874). Besides many contributions to philological journals. A Latin Dictionary (1883); compiled from papers left by him. CHARLES BONNYCASTLE (professor of natural philosophy and of mathematics, 1825-40): Published a Treatise on Inductive Geometry. GEORGE TUCKER (professor of moral philosophy, 1825-45): Published Letters on the Roanoke Navigation (1811); Essays on the subjects of Taste, Moral and National Policy (1822); The Valley of the Shenandoah. A novel (2 vols., 1824); A Voyage to the Moon. A satirical romance (1827); +The Principles of Rent, Wages, and Profits (1837); +Life of Thomas Jefferson (2 vols., 1837); †The Theory of Money and Banks Investigated (1839); The Progress of the United States in Fifty Years, 1790-1840 (1843); Political Economy for the People (1859); Essays, Moral and Philosophical (1860). ROBLEY DUNGLISON (professor of medicine, 1825–33): Published about twenty volumes, among the most valuable of which are his +Human Physiology (1832); +Medical Dictionary (1833); Therapeutics and Materia Medica. JOHN TAYLOE LOMAX (professor of law, 1826-30): Published A Digest of the Law of Real Property (3 vols., 1839); The Law of Executors and Administrators (2 vols., 1841). *GESSNER HARRISON (professor of ancient languages, 1828-59): Published +A Latin Grammar (printed for class use in 1839; published 1852); JOHN A. G. DAVIS (professor of law, 1830-40): Published a Treatise on Criminal Law (1838). WILLIAM B. ROGERS (professor of natural philosophy, 1835–53): Was director of geological surveys in Virginia from 1835 to 1841, and wrote much in connection therewith; he also published— Strength of Materials (1848); +Elements of Mechanical Philosophy (1852); Geology of the Virginias (posthumous) and many scientific papers. JAMES L. CABELL (professor of surgery, 1837-): Published +Testimony of Modern Science to the Unity of Mankind (1857); +Syllabus of Lectures on Physiology and Surgery (1859), and the following papers: On the Treatment of Acute Pneumonia, etc. (1867); on the Architecture of the Animal Kingdom (1868); on Chronic Pneumonia in Relation to Tuberculosis (1868); on the Cell Doctrine-a Review of Clémenceau's Essay on the Genesis of the Anatomical Elements (1863); on Thermal Baths of High Temperature (1871); on the Ventilation of School-Rooms and the Diseases Incidental to the School as such-four papers (1872); on Drainage for Health, with Special Reference to the Medical Topography of Virginia (1875); on Water Supply in Relation to Health (1876); on the Etiology of Enteric Fever (1877); on a Proposed System of International Inspections and Notification of Infectious Diseases-a paper read before the International Conference at Washington in 1880; on Rise and Progress of International Hygiene (1881); on Sanitary Conditions in Surgery (1882); Annual Reports of the National Board of Health for 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882, and 1883, and several reviews in Bledsoe's Southern Review and in Gaillard's Medical Journal. HENRY HOWARD (professor of practice of medicine, 1839-67): Published Outlines of Medical Jurisprudence. J. J. SYLVESTER (professor of mathematics, 1840–41): Has published a great number of contributions to mathematical and scientific journals and transactions of societies; Sylvester's Theorem, in Connection with "Newton's Rule" in Regard to the Number of Positive, of Negative, and of Imaginary Roots of an Equation, Philosophical Transactions (1864); London Mathematical Society Publications, Philosophical Magazine for 1866. From 1877 to 1882 Professor Sylvester contributed 30 articles and notes to the American Journal of Mathematics, of which he was editor; also 22 articles and notes to the Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences de l'Institut de France; also to the proceedings of the Royal Society, London, a paper "On the Limits to the Order and Degree of the Fundamental Invariants of Binary Quantics" (1878); also to the Messenger of Mathematics, London, 4 papers; to the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine, 4 papers; and to the Journal für reine und angewandte Mathematik, Berlin, 6 papers. H. ST. G. TUCKER (professor of law, 1841–45): Published Commentaries on the Laws of Virginia (2 vols., 1836-37); + Lectures on Constitutional Law (1843); + Lectures on Natural Law and Government (1844). ROBERT E. ROGERS (professor of chemistry, 1842-52): Edited with his brother (Prof. James B. Rogers) Turner's Chemistry, with Additious (1846). Edited the American reprint of Lehmann's Physiological Chemistry (1855), and took part with his brothers in geological publications. EDWARD H. COURTENAY (professor of mathematics, 1842-53): A translation of Boucharlat's Mechanics (1836); Treatise on the Differential and Integral Calculus-published posthumously (1855). M. SCHELE DE VERE (professor of modern languages, 1844-): Published + Outlines of Comparative Philology (1853); + Stray Leaves from the Book of Nature (1856); + Studies in English (1867); + Grammar of the Spanish Language; + Grammar of the French Language (1867); The Great Empress, a novel (1869); † Americanisms (1871); The English of the New World, (1873) etc., and various philological papers. WILLIAM H. MCGUFFEY (professor of moral philosophy, 1845–73) : + Published his well-known Readers and other school-books. *JOHN B. MINOR (professor of common law, 1845-) : + Has published his valuable Institutes (4 volumes); + Synopsis of Criminal Law; + History of the University of Virginia, in the Old Dominion Magazine (186970. Incomplete). |