This is interesting to note. At the conception of the University, there were to only be ten professors for each of the sciences. It was likely that they did not anticipate the university growing as much as it did. The size now is enormous in comparison to when it first opened 200 years ago. We certainly have more than ten professors for each of the sciences now to match the number of students attending the university. Here is the UVA website about the number of employees now: http://www.virginia.edu/facts

This plan would have been useful when the University was just beginning. It would ensure that the people who put the plan for the University would definitely meet and discuss what they wanted about the University. The meetings would have helped promote growth at the University's start.

The Commissioners of this report seemed to have a lot of faith in the idea that they could "remedy" the deed after its author had passed away. If the University has actually been placed in Lexington, I wonder if the deed would have held up and if they would have gotten what they thought they were going to.

This is quite interesting. Whey did they have to meet, by law, in a tavern in the Rockfish gap on the Blue Ridge Mountains? Speculating, this could have been to ensure that there were no discussions in a government setting of making a public university. It must have been interesting to have written the draft for the creation of the university in such a place. The impact that the location had on the writers' ideas may have been minuscule, but it would still be interesting to know what impact it did have.