The report as a whole is very exhaustive in laying out the details of the university, but the authors are well aware of the limits of their expertise. They are smart enough to realize that the faculty they hire are much more knowledgeable about their fields and the divisions between their departments, and will thus be far better equipped to address them and create the most efficient structure for the university.

This particular passage reminds us of the fact that the founding of this university was by no means certain even with the endorsement of Jefferson. This sentence and the paragraph as a whole are essentially appeals to the legislature concerning the value of education and the potential value of the university. This sentence is a disguised compliment towards the congressmen who will hopefully approve funding for the university the founders envision, emphasizing its value and assuring the readers that they are of course already demonstrably committed to the values of education. It's easy to imagine now that Jefferson waved his hand and the University came into being, but in reality it is a state school not only because Jefferson envisioned education serving the state but also because it never could have existed without funding from the legislature.

I think this sentence in particular demonstrates the ambition and hopefulness of the University founders. Anglo-Saxon language is to be emphasized because it forms the foundation of the language with which the future achievements of the University will be recorded for posterity. This sentence demonstrates the international reach the founders intended for both the university and the nation as a whole to have. At this time the United States was hardly a global power; European nations dominated every aspect of the world's power distribution, from education to commerce to the sciences. The sentiments set forth in this sentence and the report as a whole would have seemed impossibly ambitious at the time but are vindicated in the present. The founders new that the key to American success on the world stage was the success of American education. I think we owe a great deal of our current wealth and power to the foresight of these educational pioneers.

I had never read or heard the term "Fluxions," but it turns out it is the original term Newton used to describe what we now call "derivatives." His book Method of Fluxions published in 1736 is the foundation of Newtonian Calculus. According to Wikipedia, Liebniz's method of calculus, which was published earlier but possibly thought of later than Newton's, is more widespread which makes the use of the term "fluxions" interesting in this report. On the one hand, It wouldn't surprise me that the Anglo-American founders of the University would favor the Englishman's term of that of the Dutch, but I still am surprised this specific term was used in lieu of the more common "calculus."

This really stood out to me. I may be wrong, but it seems as if the administration of Washington College (currently Washington and Lee) proposed the absorption of the school into the new UVA school system. For a school that seems now to pride itself on its independence, it's funny to think that they very well could have ended up as part of the University.

This is a perfect example of the "pan-american" independence movement many of the founders envisioned for all of the western hemisphere. It is often forgotten that many Americans hoped that our revolution would inspire the other colonies in North and South America to revolt as well. Eventually most of them did, but not as soon as Jefferson or the rest of the founders expected. The line "with whom we shall possibly have great intercourse ere long" and the reference to "our Continents" shows their hopefulness for a free and allied America. It is no coincidence that for many years South American flags were flown alongside that of the United States on July 4th.