Universities

The first project of a university in America was made by the Virginia Company in 1619, when it made a grant of 10,000 acres of land for a university at Henrico. But the highest edycational establishments of the colonial period were no more than colleges, and gre more fitly treated under that title. Washington greatly desired the establishment of a national university, and left funds for that purpose,! but his plan was never realized. The first true university, in the sense in which that term was used in Europe, was the University of Virginia, chartered in 1819 and opened in 1825. Since then several types of university have developed in the United States, viz., that which js a university in the sense of consisting of an aggregation of several schools, academic and profe ional, ¢. g., Harvard; the State universities, of which the University of Michigan was the first to attain eminence; and that which is occupied with advanced or post-graduate instruction primarily, such as Johns Hopkins and Clark Universities. ° University Extension. This movement was introduced into the United States in 1890 by the American Society for the Extension of University Teaching, founded in Philadelphia by Provost William Pepper, of the University of Pennsylvania. During 1891-92 over sixty lecture centers were established in various towns. A seminary for training University Extension lecturers was opened at Philadelphia in October, 1892. More than 100 colleges now participate in thé movement. The movement has spread widely and has flourishing lecture centers in New England and the West. —_ Upland, the original name of Chester, Pa. It was settled by the Swedes in 1645, and im 1682 po e ed a mixed population of Swedes, Dutch and English.; mS es Upshur, Abel P. (1790-1844), was a member of the Virginia Legislature from 1824 to 1826, a Judge of the General Court of Virginia from 1826 to 1841, and a member of the State Constitutional Convention in 1829. He was Secretary of the Navy in Tyler’s Cabinet from 1841 to 1843, and Secretary of State from 1843 to 1844, when he was killed on board the ‘‘ Princeton.”” He wrote an important exposition of the State-rights theory of the Constitution. 322