Word: ancestored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University as an overseer and as a generous giver, due mention will doubtless be made of his gift of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory. This gift did more than testify to his love for the University it testified to an abiding respect and admiration for the interest of his great ancestor, President Jefferson, in university education: it is one of the most hopeful things in this world that a descendant strives to perfect the work of his forbears. President Jefferson's love for the University of Virginia, may be said to have been instrumental in the establishment of the Jefferson Physical...