The foresight here is impressive. I can certainly understand the founder's reasoning behind requiring French to be taught; however, the prediction that we will have significant future interactions with a large Spanish-speaking population is truly impressive, especially when you consider that the university and its curriculum was chartered not long after the American Revolution.

Personally, I think there should be more language requirements at UVA, considering how useful a second language is. What do you think?

A few days ago, my physics professor (Professor Neu) was telling me that physics 101 is one of the oldest classes continuously taught here at UVA. In fact, it was even taught by TJ himself, with complete records on student's performances all the way back to the first class. I looked up the definition of natural philosophy, which is basically the philosophical study of the natural world and universe, and is generally considered a precursor to modern science. Its kind of amazing to think about how many times the curriculum must have changed in the last 200 years.

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In my opinion, this is one of the most important parts of the report. Here, the doctrine states that beneficial motives (morality and ambition) are far better regulators of the youth than fear. This lends itself to two things: first, it provides a foundation for the honor code, in which students use honor as a regulating factor. Second, by implying that students have innate good intentions, it provides for student self governance. A faculty-run governance won't necessarily engage with the student's morals and ambitions, and will lend itself to relying on punishment and fear as a corrective factor. By promoting a student governance, the founders help foster the ideal moral character of a uva student established previously in the report.

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I had no idea that the deciding factor for the location of UVa was based upon a proximity to a white population. This shows that there was no consideration on part of the founders that the black population would ever be included as University students. I added a link to the US Racial Dot Map, which shows one dot for every citizen on an interactive map, based on the census. If you look at it, UVa is near to a fairly prominent black community. Perhaps the university is no longer in the "central white population."

https://demographics.virginia.edu/DotMap/