University of Virginia - Corks and Curls Yearbook (Charlottesville, VA)

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N Wu A a .----3 3 : I :m. nnx' m1:m:mu:m:usrn: m ,, ,., 2. 3 i Lvl- WI :37: w -r a '3?! 7179931 Tuww-SIW F'b' ,y, r-E: ;:.. f t ': 5-1 :. 4 W v re a :- l: E: m gm; -. WWW 'o - s - -- :--.. - -: w !IIJA,;-:;; lllyll'g l 5:32- i: A urge E E EV I ' I .: Wgagg- .wa t g i E :E E 5 i E g - :1; ll'l liltibrhi : E l E ii: : z - . E E E 5': ; i l '1: I -l' 1: Ealk 3.33.; gi :Lraii-zi Inga ...... .. -. -5... E .z: 3 ?HE: The Jefferson Literary Society: Its Centennial LTHOUCH it dates from the first half of the first session of the Univ versity the Jefferson was not the first founded student literary society. That distinction belonged to the Patrick Henry Society which embraced in its membership nearly all of the 122 students of that time. Its meetings Were occasions of tumult and not of legitimate literary and Oratorical effort and display. The Jefferson Society was the child of a secession impulse, the protest of dignity and reason which sixteen members of the Patrick Henry led against the disorder and defeated aims of that society. The first session of the University openelelarch 7, 1825. The Jefferv son Society was inaugurated July 14, 1825, in room 7, West Lawn, by the sixteen seceders from the Patrick Henry Society. Only seven of the Lawn pavilions were occupied as residences in that early day and their incumbents, all foreigners except Professor Tucker and Professor Emmet, had been resi- dent only a few months. The leaders in the creation of the Jefferson were Edgar Mason, of Charles County, Maryland, John H. Lee, of Fauquier County, Virginia, and William C. Minor, of Fredericksburg, Virginia, who drafted the constitution. At first the meetings were secret and held weekly-on iilVlonolay evening at early candlelightthith Edgar Mason as iimoolerator. The earliest ses- sions were held in Pavilion I, occupied by John Patten Emmet, nephew of the Irish patriot, then in the houses of other professors and in Hotel F at the east end of West Range, until it finally acquired Hotel D, the present Jeffer- son Literary Society Hall. All of the founders were born during Mr. Jeffersonk incumbency of the Presidency of the United States, the first decade of democracy triumphant in America, and may safely be counted as his disciples. They elected the great leader to honorary membership and fol- lowed with his fellow patriots and co- workers, Madison, Monroe, and La- fayette, who accepted the proffered honor with expressions of pleasure. JEFFERSON HALL ll9l