| | 241 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1912) May 9, 1912  | | | | Published: | 1912 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | In response to the call of the 2nd instant, for a meeting
of the Board of Visitors for this date, the following members
appeared, the Rector, and Visitors Harmon, Craddock, and Norton. University of Virginia,
May 9th, 1912. In accordance with the authorization of the Trustees
of the Phelps-Stokes Fund, referred to in my letter of January
31st, 1912, I beg to enclose herewith our check for $6,250.00,
being payment of the balance of the Endowment Fund to create
a Fellowship for the study of the negro, under the terms
and conditions outlined in my letter of January 31st,
1912. The Board of Visitors of your Institution should,
in session, by resolution, designate such officers of the
Institution as they may elect, to make demands, monthly,
in the corporate name of the Institution upon the Auditor
of Public Accounts for the payments of the several funds
appropriated to your Institution. Copy of the resolution
adopted by the Board in session, should be duly certified
to this office, so that I may, on and after June 1st, 1912,
draw warrants on the Treasury payable to the Institution
in its corporate name, which warrants will be mailed direct
from this office to such officer of the Institutions as the
resolution may direct. The resolution can be so drawn
as to have force and effect until changed by similar resolution
adopted by that Board. Believing that there is room and demand for a second
drug store at the University of Virginia, we have decided
to make the following offer, | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 242 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1912) June 11, 1912 | | | | Published: | 1912 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | At the regular annual meeting of the Board of Visitors
on above date, at 8:30 P.M., The University of Virginia now holds a balance of
$42,500.00 upon the L. P. Stearnes loan which matures
in the following manner: I have the honor to inform you
that in accordance with your recommendation and in conformity
with the rules of the Carnegie Foundation, retiring allowances
have been voted to the following officers in the University
of Virginia, to be paid in the ordinary way through the
University. I have great pleasure in acknowledging
receipt of your communication of May 10, 1912, informing
me that in conformity with the rules of the Carnegie
Foundation, retiring allowances had been voted to the
following officers in the University of Virginia to be
paid in the ordinary way through the University: Milton
Wylie Humphreys, $2050.00, Isaac Kimber Moran, $1460.00,
Ormond Stone, $2050.00. I have notified these gentlemen
of the action of the Foundation and beg to express to
you for them their very great obligations. When their
resignations are received by the Rector and Visitors, I
shall give you due notice. I am in receipt of a communication
from the Secretary of the Carnegie Foundation for
the Advancement of Teaching, which contains this statement,
"I have the honor to inform you that, in accordance
with your recommendation and in conformity with the rules
of the Carnegie Foundation, a retiring allowance has been
voted to Milton Wylie Humphreys, to be paid in the ordinary
way through the University. This retiring allowance amounts
to $2050.00. The allowance of Prof. Humphreys will become
effective on September 15, 1912." To you as President, and through you
to the Rector and Visitors I hereby tender my resignation
as Professor of Greek in the University of Virginia, to take
effect September fifteenth, 1912. I am in receipt of a communication
from the Secretary of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement
of Teaching which contains this statement, "I have the
honor to inform you that, in accordance with your recommendation
and in conformity with the rules of the Carnegie Foundation,
a retiring allowance has been voted to Ormond Stone,
to be paid in the ordinary way through the University. This
retiring allowance amounts to $2050.00. The allowance of
Professor Stone will become effective on September 15,
1912." Having been granted, in accordance
with your recent letter, at my request, a retiring allowance
by the Carnegie Foundation, I beg that you will kindly
transmit to the Rector and Visitors my resignation as Professor
of Astronomy, to take effect September 15th, next. In doing
so I desire to express to you and the Faculty, as well as to
the Rector and Visitors my sincere thanks for the many
courtesies I have received during the thirty happy years
I have spent at this University. May I also express the pleasure
I have enjoyed in watching the growing spirit of progress
which during these years has gradually infused
the life of the University, especially during the eight
eventful years in which you have been its leader. I wish
also to express my pleasure in noting the growing realization
of the duty of the University constantly to readjust itself
in order that it may with ever increasing efficiency contribute
to the higher life of the people. In the firm
belief that this spirit and this realization will continue
to grow with the passing years, I lay down my work here with
pride that I have been privileged for so long a time to be
connected with an institution possessed of such splendid
traditions, and (what is more important) inspired by such
noble ambition to serve. With sincere personal esteem, I have the honor to inform you that the
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has this
day notified me that a retiring allowance has been voted to
Isaac Kimber Moran to be paid in the ordinary way through
the University. This retiring allowance will become effective
on October 1, 1912. The amount accorded to you is $1460.00. It has been known to you for some months
past that I have had in contemplation the relinquishment
of the offices with which the University has so long honored
me. I hereby tender to you my resignation as Bursar
of the University of Virginia, and also as Secretary to
the Board of Visitors, to take effect on October 1st, 1912. I respectfully request that I be permitted to occupy
my present residence on University grounds, for the year from
October 1st, 1912 to October 1st, 1913, at the same rental
I am now paying; viz. $200.00 per annum. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 245 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1912) December 16, 1912 | | | | Published: | 1912 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | At a called meeting of the Board of Visitors on above
date, Were hereby make application through you to the Rector
and Visitors of the University, that the house formerly
occupied by Professor J. W. Mallet be assigned to us,
jointly, when it shall be given up by Mrs. Mallet. I beg to recommend that we carry out the suggestion
made by Messrs. Coolidge and Bacon at their recent visit
to the University. I have only by a slow process
reached this conclusion. It was made to us some four
years ago by Mr. Brown, the landscape man for the Government
grounds and buildings at Washington. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 247 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1913) May 20, 1913 | | | | Published: | 1913 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | At the annual meeting of the Board of Visitors, called
for the consideration of the Financial Budget for 1913-1914. The Committee on Entrance Building having made the foregoing
report, it was After the annual report of the Department of Engineering
had been made and forwarded to the President, it was
learned that Mr. J. S. Lapham, a graduate of this University
in Mechanical Engineering, desired an appointment on our
teaching staff. Mr. Lapham is a young man of unusual ability;
and, if his application had been received earlier, he would
undoubtedly have been engaged. It is not often that any
school has the opportunity of securing the services of a
man so eminently fitted by capacity, training, and character
to make a useful and accomplished University teacher. The
department is already committed to the young men nominated in
our report as instructors for 1913-1914, and cannot in good
faith, cancel any one of the nominations. On the other
hand, the opportunity is one which cannot be postponed; unless
Mr. Lapham comes to us, he will go into business with his
father, and such permanent changes will have to be made in
the details of that business as will prevent him from
accepting a position with us in the future. As you are already aware, I have recently sent to the
Trustees of the Carnegie Foundation a formal application
for retirement, feeling that after forty years of full
professional work and twenty-five years of active service
at this University, the time has come when it is wise for me
to take advantage of the provisions of the Foundation, I. We recommend that the sites on Carr's Hill for
fraternity houses, be at present restricted to four, and
that the northernmost site be located on a line passing
through the centre of the president's residence and the
centre of the president's stable, and at least as far
distant from the president's house as is the location of
the "Delta Tau Delta" house. Prof. Newcomb who is planning the plants for the
sewage purification, as directed by the State Board of Health,
indicates that we will have to acquire land to furnish a
sufficient fall to carry off the effluent from the filter
beds. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 248 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1913) June 16, 1913 | | | | Published: | 1913 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | At the annual meeting of the Board of Visitors on above
date, in the office of the President, East Lawn. I have already advised you by letter of the
matter of this supplementary report, but at the suggestion
of Dean Page, I am now putting the matter in such form that
it may be laid before the Visitors at their meeting to be
held within the next few days. As you have not acted officially
in the matter, and as there is not now time to transmit
this report to you for action, the purpose of bringing it
before the Visitors at this meeting is not for action thereon,
but in the hope that they may refer it to you, or to yourself
and the Executive Committee, for suchaction as youmay
deem wise—and thus secure earlier action than would otherwise
be possible. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 249 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1913) October 27, 1913 | | | | Published: | 1913 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | At a called meeting of the Board of Visitors in the
office of the President, East Lawn, on above date, In accordance with the agreement at the
conference between Dr. P. H. Whitehead, Dean of the Medical
Department of the University of Virginia, Dr. Stuart McGuire,
Dean of the Medical College of Virginia, and myself,
in this city on Thursday evening last, the Executive Committee
of the Medical College of Virginia yesterday appointed a
committee of five to confer with a similar committee to be
appointed by the Board of Visitors of the University of
Virginia to discuss plans looking to the union of the
medical schools in this state. The committee consists of— On September 1, 1913, I, as Chairman of
the Commons Committee, entered into a contract with Charles
Jaimes Leasing the University Commons for the period of
one year. The terms of this agreement are exactly the
same as authorized by the Rector and Board of Visitors in
the spring of 1912, except that in lieu of a surety bond
guaranteeing the safe return of the University's property,
I accepted a $50.00 a month deposit with the Bursar of the
University. It was impossible for Mr. Jaimes to secure
the bond required, and I substituted this cash deposit
because I believed that the University's interests were
amply safeguarded thereby, and on account of the limited
time, it was impossible for me to wait for authority from
the Board. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 251 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1913) December 10, 1913 | | | | Published: | 1913 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The Board of Visitors met at 8:15 o'clock P. M., on
above date, with the following members present:- As a Codicil to my last will and testament, I provide
that so far as my personal chattels are concerned, both
such as I hold jointly with my sister, and such as I
have in my sole right, she (my sister Fanny) shall have
the free use, control and disposition of them without
being held in any manner accountable therefor; but this
provision does not apply, and must not be held applicable
to the bonds, stocks, and scrip, which I hold and own
either jointly with her or separately, but all such bonds
stocks and scrip must be held as subject exclusively to
the provisions of my will of December 8th, 1877, to which
this is a codicil. Witness my hand this 19th February
1881. Mr. Eppa Hunton, Jr., has placed before the
Executive Committee of the Medical College of Virginia,
with the Medical Department of the University of Virginia,
as adopted by your Board. In accordance with our conversation,
I beg that you will request the Board to vote me one
hundred dollars, with which to construct a dark room,
which is to be placed in the basement of the Observatory. At a meeting of the Committee on Entrance Building,
there were present Messrs. Lambeth, Michie, Newcomb,
Forrest. The following resolutions were presented by
Mr. Forrest. Moved and seconded by Messrs. Michie and
Newcomb that they be adopted. Carried. The Board of Visitors met on this date at 10:15
o'clock in Madison Hall to hear the advocates and opponents
of the Woman's Co-ordinate College matter, with the following
members present; Messrs. Gordon, Flood, White, Norton
Drewry, Oliver, Irvine, Craddock, Michie and Stearnes.
Also Dr. J. M. Page, Acting President. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 253 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1914) January 29, 1914 | | | | Published: | 1914 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | A called meeting of the Board of Visitors was
held on this date, with the following members present:
Rector Gordon, Judge Norton, John W. Craddock, Ceo. R. B.
Michie and R. C. Stearnes. Having learned through Dr. Booker of Balitmore
that Dr. W. P. Morgan was on the point of bestowing his
library upon some institution, Dr. Harry T. Marshall
conveyed to me, as Chairman of the Library Committee, this
information. After an exchange of letters with Dr. Morgan
Dr. Marshall and myself visited him at his home, 315
Monument Street, Baltimore—with the result that he
presented to us his entire collection of books, claiming
the right to reserve some of the books for his own use
as long as he should live. At the solicitation of Dr. William D. Booker of
Baltimore and Dr. Harry T. Marshall of the University of
Virginia, I offer my library to the University of Virginia,
according to the terms agreed upon by yourself and At the meeting of our Library Committee
yesterday afternoon I read them your letter of December
12, in which you state that at the solicitation of Dr.
William D. Booker, of Baltimore, and Dr. Harry T.
Marshall, of the University of Virginia, you offer your
library to the University of Virginia, according to the
terms agreed upon by yourself and me as Chairman of
the Library Committee. (re-Estate Frances L. Wilson, deceased.) | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 255 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1914) March 28, 1914 | | | | Published: | 1914 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The Board of Visitors met on this date at 11:30
o'clock, with the following present: Rector Gordon, and
Visitors Michie, Drewry, Oliver, Stearnes and Hatton. I had some correspondence with you about
a year ago relative to the Estate of Robert P. Doremus.
The Executors are now filing their account. I recently took the liberty of
suggesting to Mrs. Chas. H. Senff of 16 East 79th Street,
New York City, that a great opportunity existed at the
University to do a good service by building a gateway to
our new entrance, which would commemorate both her
husband and in a large sense, the Honor System at that
institution. We the undersigned residents east of the
University, beg permission to enter the University grounds
near the Coal Bin. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 257 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1914) October 1, 1914 | | | | Published: | 1914 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | A meeting of the Rector and Visitors was held on this
date at 12 m., with the following members, Rector Gordon,
and Visitors White, Hatton, Chinn, Michie, Drewry and Oliver. A recent audit of the books of the University of
Virginia, made by this office, shows the books to have been
correctly kept, and that all entries in same are sustained
by vouchers properly filed. The period covered by the examination
was from July 1st, 1913 to July 1st, 1914. I am glad
to report that the service here is painstaking and
satisfactory to this office. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 258 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1915) March 9, 1915 | | | | Published: | 1915 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Pursuant to call of the Rector, the Board met on this
date at three o'clock in the Administration Building. After consideration of the petition
of the University Cemetery Endowment Association, and the
estimate of the costs of the proposed addition, by the
Superintendent of Grounds and Buildings, the Executive
Committee recommends the passage of the following resolutions: Some time after the return
of President Alderman, the Bursar, at the suggestion of the
President, consulted the Chairman of the Executive Committee,
as to what compensation the Dean of the University should
receive. Since July, Dr. Page had been receiving the
regular salary of a full professor, $3,300.00 and a house;
$350.00 as Dean, and $1,500 as acting President during
Dr. Alderman's absence,—a total of $5150.00 and a house.
After Dr. Alderman's return the Bursar was uncertain of his
authority to continue paying Dr. Page as acting president.
He asked advice of the President, who referred him to the
Chairman of the Executive Committee. The latter corresponded
with the other members of the committee, but it was decided
to defer action until the meeting of the Board of Visitors.
Since November the 1st, the payment of the salary of $1500.00
as acting president has been discontinued. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 259 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1915) April 30, 1915 | | | | Published: | 1915 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Pursuant to call of the Rector, the Board met on this date at 2 o'cl
p.m., with the following members present: Armistead C. Gordon, Recto
Goodrich Hatton, J. W. Craddock, G.R.B. Michie and Dr. W. F. Drewry.
President Alderman was also in attendance. The President announced
the following gifts to the University: I am writing for my Aunt to enclose
her check for Ten Thousand Dollars. She would like this
gift to be a continuation of her former gift for the
gate to be used for the improvement of the roads,
and in memory of Mr. Senff. I am very, very sorry that you cannot be with
me on Founder's Day, but I shall count most confidently on
having you in my home as my guest to see this place before many
months have gone by. Mr. Langhorne, of course, will want
you, but you must be with me for some portion of your time
here. I have just received and read with great
happiness and satisfaction your letter of March 23. I feel
sure that I can with entire propriety and satisfaction
treat the arrangement you suggest as a donation of $50,000,
and will be most happy so to do. It would be difficult for
me to tell you how much real strength and helpfulness you
are giving to the University of Virginia by this gift, supplying,
as it will undoubtedly do, a need so urgent and acute
that I have been at my wit's end to know what to do to care
for it. I am very glad to learn by your letter of
March 27th that my proposition to make the donation of
$50,000. in the form of a check for $25,000. and my note
for the same amount due and payable on or before January 5th,
1916, is satisfactory to you. About the 7th or 8th of April
I will send the check and note on to you. In the meantime I
will be glad if you will write me whether the whole of the gift
will likely be used for a single building and what part, if
any, will be used for laboratory equipment. I am, of course,
greatly pleased at the thought of being helpful to the University
at a time when its need is urgent. I note by your letter of March 31st that the
whole of my gift to the University will be applied to a laboratory
for chemistry. This is entirely agreeable to me and I
think now I shall, within two or three days, send you my check
for $50,000. instead of a check for $25,000. and a note for the
same amount. In compliance with my recent promise to
you I take pleasure in enclosing herewith my check # 66,
on Guaranty Trust Co. of New York, to your order, for $50,000.
This is a gift outright to the University of Virginia. I
understand it is your purpose to use the proceeds of this
check towards the erection of a building for a chemical
laboratory. In the purpose for which the donation is to be
used, in the fact that the donation is to the University
of Virginia, in the certainty that a large part of such
benefits as will come from the gift will go to the South,
my most earnest desires are fully met and under such conditions
I feel it a privilege to be able to make the donation. My
original plan was to make this gift on the occasion of your
return to the University last fall from your long illness but
the War interfered with my intentions. Your unselfish spirit
will, I know, excuse the delay. As Secretary of the Board of Trustees under the
deed of the late Samuel Miller I am directed to say that at
a meeting of the Board held this morning Mr. Ivey F. Lewis,
of the University of Missouri was unanimously nominated
to the Board of Visitors to fill the Chair made vacant by
the resignation of Professor Albert H. Tuttle in the School
established under the provisions of the deed of Samuel Miller.
I am directed by the Board to request you to lay this nomination
before the Board of Visitors of the University of
Virginia for their action. RESOLVED: That this Board will at its June, 1915 meeting
make appropriation of the fund at its disposal, and in making
the nomination for the Chair made vacant by the resignation of
Professor Albert H. Tuttle it is the sense of this Board that
the Department of which the newly nominated Professor is to be
the head if elected by the Board of Visitors - should be reorganized
by the latter Board so as to carry out as far as
practicable with the fund available, the purposes of Mr. Miller,
and that this Board will hereafter proceed to appropriate the
entire net income of the Miller Fund to the support of the department
of which the new professor is to be the head. Some eight years ago, I notified the University that
in drafting my will I had inserted a clause bequeathing it
the sum of thirty thousand (30,000) dollars; the purpose of
the gift being the erection of a teaching building on the
grounds of the University; and that I had made this bequest
in response to a feeling of deep gratitude to the University
for the inestimable service it did for me during my student
days of long ago. I have your letter of April 3rd and thank you
for the kind expressions, &c. By an instrument in writing purporting to be a deed,
and dated May 10th, 1912, John Armstrong Chaloner states that
thereby he conveys certain real estate situated at Roanoke
Rapids, Halifax County, North Carolina, to the University
of Virginia, and the University of North Carolina, jointly,
reserving to himself a life estate therein; and this instrument
is recorded in the Clerk's Office of Albemarle
County, Virginia, in Deed Book 150, page 136. The regular annual meeting of the Board of Visitors
was held on this date with the following present: Armistead
C. Gordon, Rector, Goodrich Hatton, R. Tate Irvine, John W.
Craddock, Wm. H. White, G. B. R. Michie, Dr. W. F. Drewry,
Walter Tansill Oliver and Dr. Frank W. Lewis. I want to donate one thousand dollars to the
University because of my loyalty to her, and for what
she stands and has done - not that that sum is the measure
of my estimate of her worth or my admiration. I learn from the Bursar that the new schedule
of fees in Engineering announced in the catalogue will
have to receive your formal approval and be validated
by action of the Board of Visitors before it is put
into force. A special Committee of three appointed by the
Executive Committee of the General Alumni Association
to consider, with power to act, the question of financing
the Secretary of the Alumni Association and his office,
begs leave to announce to the Board of Visitors that it
has decided to recommend to the Alumni Association that
it guarantee the sum of $2500.00 yearly for three years,
which with the $1500.00 a year appropriated by the Board
of Visitors for the same purpose and which we assume will
be continued, will make $4000.00 a year, the sum estimated
sufficient to conduct this important work. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 260 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1915) November 3, 1915 | | | | Published: | 1915 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | A called meeting of the Board was held on this date
at 8 o'clock, with the following members present: Messrs.
Armistead C. Gordon, Goodrich Hatton, Wm. H. White, G. R. B.
Michie, and Dr. W. F. Drewry, John W. Craddock, R. C. Stearnes
and R. Tate Irvine. In connection with the recent examination
of the accounts of the University of Virginia, as recorded
in the office of the Bursar, will state that
the examination disclosed no irregularities of any
character. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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