| | 261 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1919) May 1, 1919  | | | | Published: | 1919 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | At a called meeting of the Rector and Visitors held on
this date at 8 o'clock there were present the Rector, R. Tate
Irvine, and Visitors John Stewart Bryan, H. D. Dillard, Harris
Hart, Goodrich Hatton, G. R. B. Michie, and Alexander F. Robertson. I am sending you be registered mail (fully insured,
for $102,000), a United States Certificate of Indebtedness
No. 647 for $100,000. dated January 2, and due June 3, 1919,
the interest of which amounts to $1,873.97 and my cheque
for $48,126.03 and including the cheque for $5,000. that
I handed you in Charlottesville makes a total of $155,000. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your
letter of March 14th. I have also received, by registered
mail, the United States Certificate of Indebtedness No.
647 for $100,000. dated January 2, and due June 3, 1919,
the interest of which amounts to $1,873.97. I have also
received your check for $48,126.03. I have previously received
from your hands a check for $5,000. The total of
all these receipts, as you state in your letter, is $155,000. As the parents of the late Farrell Dabney Minor,
Jr., who graduated from the Law School of the University
of Virginia in June, 1911, and who died in France on
August 29, 1918 from wounds received in battle, it is
our desire to erect some usefull and enduring memorial
which will permanently associate his name with the University
of Virginia, - his, as well as his father's, Alma
Mater. This motive springs not alone from the promptings
of parental affection for the memory of an only son, -
and an only child, - but from the wish to give some
outward expression to the love and loyalty that he
cherished for the University. I have this day received your letter of
the 28th inst., with the enclosure, giving so moving and
interesting an account of the life and service of your son,
Farrell Dabney Minor, Jr. I have read with the greatest
interest and approval the communication in which you give
to the University of Virginia the sum of $10,000 to be
known as the Farrell Dabney Minor, Jr., donation, and to
be used for the general purpose of the enrichment of the
Law Library through the purchase of books and other
accessories. I note, of course, the conditions of the
use of the fund set forth so clearly by you, the wisdom
of which I sincerely subscribe to. I can, in advance,
accept for the Rector and Visitors this noble gift, and can,
in advance, assure you of their profound gratification and
appreciation of the great service you have done to the
University and of their pride that so brave and noble
a youth shall be here commemorated. My wife and I appreciate your kind letter
of the 31st ult. I have written my kinsman, Prof. R. C.
Minor, consenting to the publication of the sketch. Responding to your request for the expression of a
further opinion in connection with the matter of the
Oliver H. Payne bequest to the University, in view of
supposed new evidence, I beg to submit as follows: Whereas Oliver H. Payne, late of the City of
New York, died on the 27th day of June, 1917, leaving a
Last Will and Testament dated the 7th day of September,
1915, and the same was thereafter duly admitted to probate
by the Surrogate's Court of the County of New York,
and letters testamentary thereon were issued out of said
court to the Executors named in said Will; and It was my intention and understanding
in making the gift of $155,000. for the establishment of
a School of Fine Arts, that $5,000. or as much thereof
as might be necessary, should be used outright for the
purchase of equipping the School of Art and Architecture. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 262 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1919) June 10, 1919 | | | | Published: | 1919 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The annual meeting of the Rector and Visitors was held
on this date with Visitors John Stewart Bryan, Goodrich Hatton.
Harding Walker, Geo. R. B. Michie, Judge J. K. M. Norton,
Alex. F. Robertson present. The Rector being absent, Mr.
Hatton was elected to preside. President Alderman, who was
unable to be present, requested Dean Page to act in his place
and present the docket. I beg to advise that final settlement has been
made between the War Department and the University of
Virginia covering contracts for Section A and Section B
of the Students' Army Training Corps as follows: I am requested by the Albemarle
Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, to
advise you that the scholarship now standing in its
name was, on June the fifth, named by the Chapter in
honor of Lieutenant Robert Hancock Wood, Jr., Aviator
U. S. A. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 263 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1919) October 14, 1919 | | | | Published: | 1919 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Pursuant to a call by the Rector, a special meeting
of the Board of Visitors was held on this date at 8 o'clock
p.m., with the following members present: Rector R. Tate
Irvine, and Visitors H. D. Dillard, E. Lee Greever, Harris
Hart, Geo. R. B. Michie, Alex. F. Robertson, and C. Harding
Walker. From: President of the University of Virginia, The Committee on Buildings and Grounds reports
that after conference with the Superintendent of
Buildings and Grounds and the Bursar, the Superintendent
is authorized to lease to the University Shop, Inc., the
center store and the store adjoining it on the east for
the term of three years next following August 1, 1919 at
$125 per month, payable at the end of each month during
the term. The President announced that Emeritus Professor Francis
H. Smith had reached his ninetieth birthday on this date and
that he was receiving from all sections of the State telegrams
and messages of respect and good wishes. The President
was authorized to prepare and send to Professor Smith on behalf
of the Board a resolution of respect in honor of this
his ninetieth birthday. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 264 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1919) November 21, 1919 | | | | Published: | 1919 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | A special meeting of the Rector and Visitors was held
on the above date at 10 o'clock A. M. in the office of the
President. There were present R. Tate Irvine, Rector, and
Visitors Harris Hart, Goodrich Hatton, Geo. R. B. Michis,
Alexander F. Robertson, C. Harding Walker, and the President. The special committee appointed at the meeting
of the Rector and Visitors October 14, 1919, to consider
the question of increase of salaries of the
professors, associate professors, adjunct professors and
administrative officers met on this date at 8 o'clock
P.M. in the office of the President. There were present
the President, and Messrs. Irvine, Hart, Walker and
Michie. Visitors Robertson and Hatton were present by
invitation of the committee. The professors of the University of Virginia, in
special conference assembled, desire to call your attention
to the following facts, too well known to require
argument: I beg to acknowledge the receipt of a preamble and
resolutions presented to me on November 3rd and again
signed on November 5th by a committee representing a conference
of the gentlemen of the faculties of the University.
I need hardly say that I am in enthusiastic accord
with the general purport of these resolutions both as regards
the substantial increase of salaries and the
policy of not attempting further new expansion in the
University until a just and adequate salary arrangement
for the present staff is attained. The purpose to bring
about this increase is the most steadfast purpose in my
mind, and has been all along for twelve years as I have
seen the staff increase from twenty-eight to seventy-eight
by process of promotion rather than succession,
and particularly since last April when with then no certainty
of surplus funds I recommended and the Board added some
$8000 to be appropriated for salary increases. I shall,
therefore, both as your colleague and as a member of a
committee appointed by the Board for the purpose, give to
these resolutions my most earnest and sympathetic consideration,
and I shall take pains to see that the committee
of the Board and the Board itself see and consider
them. I confess to some disquiet and some unhappiness
in the matter. Naturally, I would desire not only to
support but to lead in a movement to grant a petition
containing so much of justice and signed by so many
thoughtful and unselfish men. I am determined whether
the Legislature grants the request contained in the
budget or any part of it or none of it, to recommend with
insistence that a new salary basis of 25% increase be
entered upon here this year effective for the current
session, and it is my judgment that the Rector and Visitors
also hold this purpose quite definitely, though,
of course, I have no authority to forecast their action.
With me the necessity for such action is a matter of
supreme educational policy. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 265 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1920) January 12, 1920 | | | | Published: | 1920 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | A special meeting of the Rector and Visitors was held on
this date at 8 o'clock P. M. with the following members
present: the Rector, R. Tate Irvine, and Visitors John
Stewart Bryan, E. L. Greever, Harris Hart, Goodrich Hatton,
Geo. R. B. Michie, J. K. M. Norton, Alexander F. Robertson,
and C. Harding Walker. I had word a few days ago from Mr.
Herbert W. Jackson, of the Virginia Trust Company, of
the clause in the will of your son, Peter P. Homes,
leaving $1,000 to the University of Virginia to be used
as a scholarship in the Law School. Personally, I
want to assure you of the great pride and happiness I
have in this action of your find boy whom we all remember
here with pleasure and approval. It is an exhibition of
the finest spirit, and will, I am sure, stimulate and
hearten all of our alumni who remember with effection
their Alma Mater. I shall want to call the scholarship
the Homes Scholarship, and it will be permanent in our
academic life. At a recent meeting of the Executive
Committee of the General Athletic Association concerning
the employment of a permanent athletic coach, the following
motion was unanimously passed: | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 266 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1920) February 19, 1920 | | | | Published: | 1920 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | At the adjourned meeting set for this date there were
present Rector R. Tate Irvine, and Visitors Hatton, Norton
and Michie. As there was not a quorum present, no business
was transacted. A special meeting of the Board of Visitors was held on
this date at 8 o'clock P. M. with the following members
present: the Rector, R. Tate Irvine, and Visitors E. L.
Greever, Harris Hart, Goodrich Hatton, Geo. R. B. Michie and
Alexander F. Robertson. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 267 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1920) April 21, 1920 | | | | Published: | 1920 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The Board met on this date in special session. There
were present Visitors Dillard, Duke, Greever, Hart, Hatton,
Oliver, Robertson, Scott and Walker, and President Alderman. At a meeting of the Executive Committee of
the Board of Trustees of the Protestant Episcopal Education
Society in Virginia held this day, it was resolved
that in consideration of the conditions brought about
by the war and by the high cost of living, we petition
the Board of Visitors of the University that we be allowed
to increase the value of the Skinner Scholarships temporarily
from $250.00 to $350.00 | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 269 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1920) June 14, 1920 | | | | Published: | 1920 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The annual meeting of the Rector and Visitors was held on
this date at 10 a.m. with Rector Bryan, and Visitors, Duke,
Hart, Hatton, Dillard, Scott, Oliver, Walker and Robertson
present. The supreme Council of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity
most gratefully accept the privilege of petitioning your
Honorable Board for the privilege of offering the use of
Room 31, West Range, the birth-place of our beloved Fraternity,
as a scholarship to deserving members of its organization. The Committee on Buildings and Grounds, to which
was referred the application of the Beta Theta Pi for
permission to erect a fraternity house on the grounds
of the University, recommends that the fraternity be
given an option until January 1, 1921 on the lot in the
rear of the Kappa Sigma House and fronting on Rugby Road,
for the erection of such house. The exact bounds of said
lot to be hereafter determined by the Rector and Visitors,
and the terms and conditions upon which said lot is to
be held and the building erected to be in accordance
with those heretofore determined by the Rector and Visitors
in other like cases. In case the lot be desired
by the fraternity, then the details shall be arranged and
embodied in proper documents to be duly executed by the
parties. The Committee on Buildings and Grounds unanimously
recommends that the application of Prof. C. M. Sparrow,
as set forth in his letter of June 7, 1920 to the President,
be rejected, and the Committee is unable to make
any recommendation which will provide for the remodeling
or repairing of the property at this time. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 270 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1920) November 10, 1920 | | | | Published: | 1920 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | A special meeting of the Rector and Visitors was held
on this date at 8 o'clock p.m. There were present Rector
Bryan, and Visitors Dillard, Duke, Hart, Hatton, Oliver, Robertson,
Scott and Walker. It was my privilege to report to the Board of
Visitors at their fall meeting on November 10, your
handsome additional gift of $24,000 for a pipe organ
for the amphitheatre and for such changes in the
amphitheatre as the installation of the organ made
necessary. I am instructed by the Rector and Visitors
to communicate to you the expression of their profound
appreciation of your renewed and far-seeing generosity
and good will to the University. They cherish profoundly
your good service to the institution, and beg
me to assure you that they will do all in their power
to see that your wise gifts are thoughtfully and rightly
used for the education of our youth. May I be permitted
to add the expression of my own deep gratitude and personal
affection and esteem. I am authorized by the Rector and Visitors of the
University of Virginia to communicate to you the expression
of their profound gratitude for your generosity and wisdom
in the establishment of the Louis Bennett Scholarship
in Law. The Visitors begged me to assure you that they
will take care that the scholarship is duly founded and
rightly administered in the interest of securing for
worthy young men proper instruction in the great subject.
in which your husband achieved distinction. The scholarship
will appear in our catalogue as the Louis Bennett
Scholarship in Law, and we will take pains to acquaint
you from year to year of the incumbent of the scholarship. I am instructed by the Rector and
Visitors to communicate to you an expression of their
appreciation and gratitude for the gift of the library
of your husband, the late Professor William Harry Heck.
They begged me to assure you that this library will be
duly preserved in honor of a devoted teacher and scholar
long in the service of the University. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 271 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1921) February 14, 1921 | | | | Published: | 1921 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | A special meeting of the Board of Visitors was held on this
date with the following members present: the Rector, John
Stewart Bryan, and Visitors W. R. Duke, Goodrich Hatton, Walter
T. Oliver, Alex. F. Robertson, Frederic W. Scott, and President
Alderman. We enclose you herewith a copy of the will of
the late Reverend Randolph H. McKim, this company having
been appointed executor of the decessed's estate by the
Probate Court of the District of Columbia. I have examined the accounts of the University
of Virginia, as carried in the Bursar's office, for the
fiscal year ended June 30, 1920, and found them to be
correct. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 272 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1921) April 20, 1921 | | | | Published: | 1921 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | A called meeting of the Rector and Visitors was held on this
date a 8 o'clock P. M., at which were present the Rector, John
Stewart Bryan, and Visitors E. L. Greever, Harris Hart, Goodrich
Hatton, Walter T. Oliver, Alex. F. Robertson and C. Harding
Walker, and President Alderman. On the approach of the Centennial Celebration,
and on the Founder's birthday, I desire to enter upon
the execution of a long-cherished design to present
to my Alma Mater a library of international law.
I would begin the collection this year, and would from
time to time add to it, making a final contribution,
including probably a part of my own library, under my
will or such indications as my family would carry out. It was my honnor and pleasure to make
known to the Rector and Visitors of the University, at
their meeting on April 20, 1921, your letter setting
forth your gift - the John Bassett Moore Library of
International Law - to the University of Virginia. I
was directed by the Board to express to you their
gratitude and appreciation of this splendid service to
the University. The Board is largely composed of
members of the legal profession, and you may imagine their
pleasure and satisfaction at the thought of such new
strength will be added to that side of our University
life. I was also instructed to say that your letter
will be spread upon the minutes and that all of the
conditions will be faithfully adhered to. The General Education Board is holding its
mid-winter meeting on February 24th, in New York City. I
have just had a visit from the fiscal agent of that Board.
I am convinced that the sum of $50,000 may be obtained
through that Board from the sum given by Mr. Rockefeller
some years ago for salary increases in American colleges.
Certain sums have already been granted to the University
of North Carolina, William and Mary, and the University of
Alabama, under just the same circumstances. I could not
bring the matter before the Board at the other meeting because
I had not then had the visit of the representative of the
Board here. It is necessary for the General Board to know
that I am speaking by authority of the governing body, or
they would not feel inclined to make any gifts to a State
institution without fore-knowledge that it would be acceptable.
Mr. Carruthers will explain any details connected with
the situation. I am hoping to have a wire from you by
Wednesday night, Hotel Wolcott, 31st Street, New York, authorizing
me to present the inclosed application. It was
specifically stated that action indicating the purpose to make
this application by the Executive Committee would be sufficient. On behalf of the Rector and Visitors
of the University of Virginia, I am submitting, through you,
to the General Education Board, an application for an
appropriation of $50,000, to be applied to salary increases
of the instructional staff in the University during the
academic years 1921-22, 1922-23, 1923-24. It is desired
to use the sum asked for both to relieve the present salary
situation as regards increases already made and to make such
further increases as would tend to stabilize justly the
present salary schedule and to afford relief to those manifestly
underpaid. The University expects to obtain the necessary
funds within the time mentioned to take the place
of this grant in order that they may guarantee the permanence
of the increased scale and to increase it in so far as that
may appear resonable and helpful to the institution. Pursuant to our conversation in Mr. Scott's
office last Wednesday, the following is the estimate of the
epxenses of the Endowment Fund campaign which I was to
supply you. You will understand of course, that it is very
difficult to make a close estimate, because we much be
ready to meet conditions as they arise, which may call for
additional and unforeseen expense: | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 274 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1921) May 31, 1921 | | | | Published: | 1921 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | A special meeting of the Rector and Visitors was held on
this date at which were present the Rector John Stewart Bryan,
and Visitors Dillard, Duke, Greever, Hatton, Robertson and Scott. Confirming the following telegram which I sent to you
under date of May 31st, 1921, - Please pardon my delay in making formal answer to your
telegram of May 31st, but I have been in the midst of Centennial,
and this is the morning after. In pursuance of our conference, I beg you
will convey to the Rector and Visitors my purpose, if it be
in accord with their wishes, to give the sum of $200,000
for the establishment and maintenance within the University
of Virginia of a School or Department of Commerce and Finance,
utilizing as far as possible the basis of such School or
Department now in existence. The purpose of this school
or department shall be to give such training for the career
of business as will give our youth knowledge and skill in
that field, and will inculcate in them those habits of economy
and integrity upon which our whole economic life depends.
The conditions I deem it wise to put upon this gift are the
following:- I had the honor to transmit your communication
of May 30th, to the Rector and Visitors at their annual
meeting on May 31st, 1921. The farseeing gift which it
announces was accepted by them unanimously and with deep
appreciation of the wisdom of the purpose for which the
endowment is intended. I was directed by them to express to
you their apprediation and gratitude for this new manifestation
of your wisdon and beneficence. They begged me to
assure you that they were accepting this gift mindful of all
the conditions named by you which they consider wise and helpful
conditions. It will be their purpose to carry out your
wishes rigidly and to seek by all just means to develop the
great new department which this endowment makes possible in
the life of the University. I need not assure you of my
own personal appreciation of the greatness and wisdom of your
services to this institution in its effort to serve the youth
of this and other generations. The Committee appointed by the Board of Visitors of
the University of Virginia to investigate and report upon
a site and plans for the proposed new gymnasium met at the
president's office at 3 P. M., April 30th, the following
gentlemen being present: Dr. Alderman, Dr. Lambeth, Mr.
Robertson, Mr. Duke and Mr. Michie. Mr. Bryan and Dr. Warren
were unable to attend. Dr. Lambeth was asked to act as
chairman of the committee and Mr. Michie as secretary. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 275 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1921) June 23, 1921 | | | | Published: | 1921 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | A special meeting of the Rector and Visitors was held on
this date with the following members present: Rector John
Stewart Bryan and Visitors Dillard, Duke, Greever, Hatton,
Oliver, Scott and Walker and President Alderman. I was directed at a meeting of the Rector and Visitors
of the University, held on Thursday, June 23rd, to communicate
to you an expression of their very high appreciation of
your valuable services in connection with the building,
management, and successful development of the Cafeteria
at the University. They requested me to say that they are
not unindful of your long services in this field, extending
over a number of years, and that they are particularly
struck with the excellence of your management this year
exhibiting so handsome a surplus. In substantial appreciation
of this fact, they are offering you an honorarium
which the Secretary of the Board of Visitors will duly
communicate to you. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 276 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1921) October 4, 1921 | | | | Published: | 1921 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Pursuant to the call of the Governor of Virginia, made under
the terms and provisions of the Act of the Legislature of Virginia
creating a Commission on Medical Education in Virginia, there
was this day held a joint meeting of the Rector and Visitors
of the University of Virginia and the Chairman and Board of
Visitors of the Medical College of Virginia, to consider the
recommendations of the Commission on Medical Education in
Virginia, as set out in its report to the Governor and to the
Board of the respective institutions, and to endeavor to agree
upon a plan of consolidation. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 277 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1921) November 29, 1921 | | | | Published: | 1921 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | A special meeting of the Rector and Visitors was held on
this date at which were present the Rector, John Stewart Bryan,
H. D. Dillard, W. R, Duke, E. L. Greever, Walter T. Oliver, Alexander
F. Robertson, Fred W. Scott, C. Harding Walker and President
Alderman. In response to your invitation the undersigned members
of the Architectural Commission met at the University to
consider sites and recommend a site for the Gymnasium. The Architectural Commission has considered and studied
at length all phases of the gymnasium problem and now submits
these plans which, in our unanimous professional judgment,
are the most economical solution which meets all the
obligatory requirements. We submit an approximate estimate of
cost prepared by Mr. W. P. Thurston, the Richmond contractor,
in the sum of $259,000.00. On this basis we recommend
that the Board authorize the preparation of working
drawings and specifications on which bids for the work
may be secured. According to general plans and specifications of
the central heating system, prepared by myself and adopted
by the engineering faculty, construction will go
forward, as funds become available, in three sections.
The first section, to be installed for $60,000 now
available, comprises: ATTENTION Mr. Chas. Hancock On October 10th, 1921 the Common Council of the
City of Charlottesville appointed a committee composed of
J. R. Morris, Chairman; W. M. Forrest; City Mgr., Walter
Washabaugh and J. P. Greaver to make thorough investigation
of the water situation in Charlottesville, and to get up
plans and specifications for filter and aeration plant. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 279 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1922) April 26, 1922 | | | | Published: | 1922 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The Board met on this date in special session, at eight
P. M. and continued on the following morning at nine-thirty.
There were present Visitors H. D. Dillard, W. R. Duke, Paul
Goodloe McIntire, Miss. Emily McVea, Walter T. Oliver, F. W.
Scott, C. Harding Walker, Lewis C. Williams and President
Alderman. On behalf of the donors, I have the privilege of
presenting to the Rector and Visitors a portrait of the first
President of the University of Virginia. It is the work of
Eugene Speicher, of New York, a noted artist and portrait painter.
The portrait is the joint gift of many alumni, members of the
faculty, and other friends of the President and of the University. I beg to acknowledge the receipt
of your kind letter, in which you announce the presentation
to the Rector and Visitors, by a joint group of alumni,
members of the faculty, and friends of the University and of
the President, a portrait of the first President of the University
of Virginia. Please find attached hereto a petition signed by
sixteen of your professors living north of the University
who request that we build a small waiting room at the end
of our car line on Rugby Road, near the Chesapeake & Ohio
Railway. My mother, sisters, brother and myself
are planning to make a contribution to the Centennial
Endowment Fund, which we wish to take the shape of a
memorial of some kind to my father, William H. White.
It is our wish that it be used in some way in connection
with the Law School. As we do not know how it could be
best used, we are desirous of an expression of an opinion
from you. The fund will be available early in May and will
be about $10,000.00. I have your letter of the 7th inst.,
and it is difficult for me to tell you how much pleasure
and satisfaction it would be for me and to this University
to have here this memorial to my dear friend, your father.
It so happened that we served together on the Board of
Visitors and the Alumni Board for over ten years, and I know
something of his devotion to the Institution. It is equally
pleasing to me that you contemplate something in connection
with the Law School. I am coming to Washington, unless I
am prevented by reasons not now foreseen, about the 21st
of April, and I shall let you know in advance of my coming.
Of course, I shall treat your communication as confidential. Please find enclosed the following
checks: The Trustees of the Austin Estate held for a number
of years a mortgage from the heirs of Elizabeth C. Blackbird.
A year ago last December the mortgage was paid off and we
executed a discharge of the same. The Carnegie Corporation has upon its books an
appropriation of One Hundred Thousand dollars ($1000,000)
to the University of Virginia on which it is at present paying
interest, all conditions in connection therewith having
been fulfilled by the University of Virginia. If satisfactory
to you, the Corporation will find it convenient to pay
this amount in cash on June thirtieth, together with the
regular quarterly payment of interest. I am sending you this
advance notice in order that you may make what arrangements
are necessary for the disposition of the funds. I have your communication of the 6th inst., informing
me that on June 30, the Corporation will find it
convenient to pay the amount of $100,000 to the University
of Virginia together with the regular quarterly payment of
interest. Confirming our conversation of this morning:The
Chi Phi Fraternity would like to lease for the purposes
of building a fraternity house, a plot of land on
Rugby Road between The Gymnasium and the Kappa Sigma house. Please refer to our letter of May 31st in which
we ask for a lease to a certain piece of land for the use of
the Chi Phi Fraternity:- | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1922) October 17, 1922 | | | | Published: | 1922 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | A special meeting of the Rector and Visitors was held
on this date with the following members present: I have made very careful study
of the cost of heating to the University from the new central
station with a view to making recommendation as to a fair
distribution of charges for heat. In reference to E. W. James Estate Income I wish to express however haltingly - my deep appreciation
of the generous kindness you have shown me during
my illness, - a kindness which has made my sickness much
more tolerable and my recovery more certain and complete. When our Board of School Trustees decided recently
to erect a school for the colored population of this place the
most suitable site was found to be on the land now owned by
Mr. John Armstrong Chaloner. We asked Mr. Chaloner to donate
ten acres of land for this purpose. Mr. Chaloner considered
the matter carefully and decided he wanted to doit because of
his love for the people of Roanoke Rapids and his desire to do
something for the colored people of this section. He explained,
however, that he had made a deed of this land to
the Universities of North Carolina and Virginia but that he
thought since he was to have the use of this land during his
lifetime that there would be no difficulty in conveying in fee
simple to our School Board. He suggested that we have our
lawyer investigate the case which has been done. Our attorney
advises that the most suitable way to convey this land is to
have a deed signed jointly by Mr. Chaloner and the proper
authorities from the two universities. I have just written
Dr. Chase to determine whether the University of North
Carolina would be willing to join with the University
of Virginia in making the deed. We asked for ten acres because
we thought that was the smallest part we could get
along with. Knowing your spirit and interest in the cause of
education I feel that you will understand our position and
that there will be little difficulty in getting the proper
acceptance of this arrangement. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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