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Virginia Vignettes
Hollins and Mary Baldwin colleges.
Yet the preeminent institution of higher learning in the state was the deliberately nonsectarian University of Virginia, chartered by the assembly in 1819 at the behest of*its founder, Thomas Jefferson, to whom it owed everything: its setting, architecture, library, curriculum, and professors. The assembly created another public institution in 1839: Virginia Military Institute, the first state military college in the country.
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