University of Virginia in "Elly" (Location)

The University of Virginia is located in Charlottesville. Elly tries to convince her racist grandmother - writing it out because of the old woman's deafness - that Paul de Montigny "is not a negro he went to Va. and Harvard" (218). The grandmother, already sure that Paul is black, doesn't believe her. But while he could have been both a Negro and a Harvard student, Elly is right that if he attended Virginia he couldn't have been clack: no African Americans were admitted to the University until several decades after the story takes place.