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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UVA is unique among publics for the combination of its founders, its architecture, its age, its quality education, including its professional schools, and its strong connections with Ivies. [/quote]

What "connections with Ivies"?  It's a state school.[/quote]

Wasn’t there some informal connection between UVA & Princeton? Woodrow Wilson & all that? Something about Princeton being the farthest south of the prestigious Northeastern colleges, & therefore being more inclined than the others to deal with UVA? [/quote]

uh. no. Wilson attended UVA for law. Want to try that assertion again with facts?[/quote]

He dropped out of UVA law, because it was un-intellectual. Actually, UVA exclusively taught law during the 1870-1880s, a practice that continued well into the 1920s. Basically, UVA was a trade school for the southern elite.

Johns Hopkins, on the other hand, offered a true intellectual atmosphere, one which Wilson quickly accepted a took a PhD in American History ( focusing on law).

Believe or not, most historians of law are more proficient in the law than actual lawyers. [b]Lawyers are more or less greasy, sweaty, pompous sophists.

UVA is still like this. Most professors are nobody’s in terms of academic profile or intelligent. The only two nationally competitive departments are for dumb rich people, business and law. To be clear, business is always for dumb people, even Harvard Business School[/b].[/quote]

Thank you for your nuanced dissection of American higher education. In a world in which so many people resort to broad generalizations, it’s refreshing to find someone who can deal with the gray areas.

However, I think Wilson dropped out of UVA law for health reasons but studied it on his own & passed the bar. He apparently gave up on law after finding PRACTICING it (not studying it) to be unfulfilling. [/quote]

Wilson was fundamentally a scholar, an intelligent progressive. I can’t think of a more idiosyncratic juxtaposition than lawyers and intelligent progressives.
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Progressive?  He opposed women's suffeage until he was forced to go along and imposed segregation in the executive branch.[/quote]

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