Today’s “Babe of the Day” is close to the Heart of Dixie and is important to more than one of our regular posters – the University of Virginia!

From the University of Virginia’s online history:

“Jefferson set to work on building plans that would mirror his philosophical vision. For Jefferson, the college experience should take place within an ‘academical village,’ a place where shared learning infused daily life. Plans were developed for ten Pavilions—stately faculty homes with living quarters upstairs and classrooms downstairs—attached to two rows of student rooms and connected by an inward-facing colonnade. Each Pavilion was identified with a subject to be studied and inhabited by the professor who taught that subject.”

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