I imagine that such private education would be expensive. Thus eligibility for education at the University of Virginia is further limited to the wealthy. Class elitism in higher education is an explicit part of this document.

This is an interesting line. Is this simply stating that students should learn and understand basic sociology and apply it to their own lives? Or that they must be socialized, to be trained for obedience to authority and to perpetuate the society that educates them?

A map of the railways of western and central Virginia. I found it helpful to actually see each location mentioned in the text in relation to one another. Charlottesville is just west of the relative center of the map, Staunton is just north of due west of Charlottesville, and Lexington is just off the map, southwest of Staunton. This helps visualize the board's decision in choosing Albermarle county as the demographic center of the state: Charlottesville is far closer to the much denser eastern part of the state. It should also be noted that the wealthier, upper class-to whom the university was designed to serve-is also going to be located in the population-dense east, also making Charlottesville the ideal choice in the board's eyes.

What does this mean? Does the healthiness of the site refer to the general prevalence (or lack there of) of infectious diseases or parasites (i.e. malaria)? Does the fertility of the county refer to the fertility of the local farmland, to supply the university's professors and students with sufficient food? Or does it refer to health and fertility in a more metaphorical sense, as in the well-being of the local community and populace?