CONTENTS

Introduction

1. “Acts of Great Extravagance”

2. The Ugly Beginning

3. Building a University in Virginia

4. “Vicious Irregularities”

5. Tales of Horror

6. Scholars amid Scofflaws

7. “A Most Villainous Compound”

8. “Nervous Fever”

9. Riot

10. Diary of a College Boy

11. “Rebellion Rebellion!”

12. “His Only Motive Was to Have a Little Fun”

13. Caning, Whipping, Murder

14. Henry St. George Tucker and His “New” Old Strategy

15. “Critical and Perilous Situation”

16. A New Kind of University

A Note on Sources

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

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