It is very interesting that Thomas Jefferson's university had so many military oriented studies because Thomas Jefferson actually spoke many times about the dangers of a very large standing army and didn't strongly support a large centralized military (this was his Jeffersonian ideology but he totally ended up doing the opposite of this during his presidency).

Rather than this being seen as a racist thing or a something along those lines this should be seen as the commissioners simply wanting the university to be built in the middle of the college-eligible people living in the state. They wanted UVA to be equally far from all people who are eligible to go to college, which were white males. They weren't saying central to the white population in order to be forwardly racist they just wanted it to be equally accessible to all people that were able to go to college at the time.

This makes sense because white men were the only ones who were expected to attend college. This phrase "it's centrality to the white population of the whole state" is synonymous with the phrase "it's centrality to the college-eligible population of the state". Of course they would want a state university to be accessible, distance-wise, to all college-eligible people.

It is very interesting that there are these military-oriented classes offered and that there is so much emphasis put on them. It is interesting because military knowledge was not one of the purposes of the University stated earlier in this report. Also, does the projectiles class mean what it sounds like? Is it the study of calculating the path of a cannon or something? Seems very interesting. Maybe these types of classes had such an emphasis on them because the US had recent memory of war such as the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the Barbary Wars.