 The West Lawn in snow, 1914. The Lawn is a large, terraced grassy court at the historic center of Thomas Jefferson's academical village at the University of Virginia. Its most famous building is The Rotunda, which sits at the north end of the site, opposite Old Cabell Hall. Interspersed and parallel between them are 10 Pavilions, where faculty reside in the upper two floors and teach on the first, as well as 54 Lawn rooms, where carefully selected undergraduates reside in their final year. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (750x615, 193 KB) Date of Photo: February 1914. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (750x615, 193 KB) Date of Photo: February 1914. ...
1914 (MCMXIV) is a common year starting on Thursday. ...
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Jeffersons Rotunda, University of Virginia. ...
There are a total of 206 columns surrounding the Lawn – 16 on The Rotunda, 38 on the Pavilions, 152 on the walkways.
Being chosen for residence in one of the Lawn rooms is considered prestigious. All undergraduate students who will graduate at the end of their year of residency are eligible to apply to live in one of the 47 rooms open to the general student body. Applications – which vary from year to year, but generally include a résumé, personal statement and responses to several questions – are reviewed by a reading committee and the top vote-getters are offered Lawn residency, with several alternates also given notice of potential residency. Five of the remaining seven rooms are "endowed" by organizations on Grounds: the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society (room 7; founded there on July 14, 1825), Trigon Engineering Society (room 17; founded there in 1924), Residence Staff (room 26), the Honor Committee (room 37) and the Kappa Sigma fraternity (room 46; founded there on December 10, 1869). These groups have their own selection process for choosing who will live in their Lawn room although the Vice President for Student Affairs renders final approval. The Gus Blagden "Good Guy" room (15) resident is chosen from a host of nominees and does not necessarily belong to any particular group. Residency in the John K. Crispell memorial pre-med room (2) is usually granted to an outstanding pre-med student from among the group of 47 offered regular Lawn residency. The Jefferson Literary and Debating Society is the oldest continually existing collegiate debating society in North America. ...
July 14 is the 195th day (196th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 170 days remaining. ...
1825 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
December 10 is the 344th day (345th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1869 (MDCCCLXIX) is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ...
Residence in the pavilions is also desirable. However, only nine of the pavilions have faculty residents, as Pavilion VII is the Colonade Club. The University's Board of Visitors has final approval over which faculty members may live in a pavilion. Pavilion residency is typically offered as a three- or five-year contract with the option to renew. Pavilion residents are expected to interact with their younger "Lawnie" neighbors, as Jefferson intended. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (750x609, 106 KB) Date of Photo: Monday, May 28, 1917. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (750x609, 106 KB) Date of Photo: Monday, May 28, 1917. ...
Jeffersons Rotunda, University of Virginia. ...
World War I, also known as the First World War, and (before 1939) the Great War, the War of the Nations, and the War to End All Wars, was a world conflict lasting from August 1914 to the final Armistice (cessation of hostilities) on November 11, 1918. ...
A WWII-era poster encouraged American women to volunteer for the Red Cross as part of the war effort. ...
1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ...
The University has recently begun celebrating winter with the "Lighting of the Lawn". Early each December since 2001, some 22,000 small white lightbulbs are draped around the various buildings of the Lawn and lit up at once with great ceremony, immediately following the reading of a student-composed holiday-themed poem. The lights are turned on each nightfall until the end of the semester, usually about two weeks later. Thousands of students turn out for the opening event. Look up December in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
In the near future, the Lawn will change considerably. The McIntire School of Commerce will move to a new building adjoining Rouss Hall, home of the College's Economics department. At this time, Monroe Hall (current home of the McIntire School) will become part of the College. New Cabell Hall will be torn down, and in its place will be a technology-equipped classroom space that will straddle both sides of Jefferson Park Avenue; the Lawn will extend to the space across and "above" the street – where today there is a faculty parking lot. This South Lawn Project is expected to be completed sometime after 2010. The McIntire School of Commerce is the University of Virginias undergraduate business school. ...
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