Transcribe Venable, Charles Scott. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1876-03-23)

is the model after which all the leading institutions of the South are shaped and which they will endeavor to rival in their Courses and equipments.

  I am satisfied that with the

first dawning of business confidence and financial prosperity in the Country, the alumni of the University and other patriotic Virginians will enable us to secure a building proportionate to the magnitude and importance of the gifts. Every year finds in the State more thorough recognition of Mr Jefferson's idea in founding the Uni= veracity of Virginia which was that our higher Culture was