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- 1825 – The following notice appeared in the Virginia Gazette: "The Proctor of the University of Virginia, has given public notice, that the institution will be open on the first Monday in March, without fail. The dormitories already finished are sufficient to accommodate 220 students, and boarding-houses of the first character have been amply provided." Arthur Spicer Brockenbrough was the first Proctor of the University of Virginia, (1817-1828). Virginia's earliest newspaper, the Virginia Gazette, was first published in Williamsburg in 1736.