This is really surprising for me to read. I didn't know that foreign languages were even regarded by white people in this time. Whenever i think about this time period, I think about racism. From the stories I heard about the white male students who attended this university, many were horrible people and I don't think they could have ever appreciated the Spanish language and culture like many of us can these days.

I find this insane to be true, but not at the same time. In our current time period, it's insane that the founders of UVA wanted it to be central to the white population of the whole state. However, back then this was to be expected. White was the superior race and of course, the founders wanted the rich white kids to come to UVA in order to set its repuration as a prestigious university. In a way, this is still true for UVA. The school is still seen as really prestigious and filled with preppy white students due to its lack of diversity and overwhelming population of white students.