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1Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes (1911) November 14, 1911  
 Published:  1911 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: At a meeting of the Board of Visitors on above dates in the office of the President, East Lawn, I have the honor to inform you that I have accepted a position as research Chemist with the Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station, and I herewith hand you my resignation as Professor of Chemistry, in the University of Virginia, to take effect at the beginning of the next collegiate year. I beg to acknowledge with very profound and sincere regret your communication of the 19th, inst., tendering your resignation as Professor of Chemistry, in the University of Virginia. I wish for you in your new position as research chemist with the Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station every opportunity for the advancement of your chosen field of work. You have served this University, permit me to say, with ability and distinction during your brief period of work here. You have made friends of your colleagues and friends of your pupils, and all of us feel, no one more than myself, that in losing you we are sustaining a genuine loss both in the direction of scientific power and personality. I appreciate the motives that have moved you to this decision, and while I deeply regret that the result is your separation from the work here, I can only wish for you in this new field the abundant measure of success you have achieved here. The trustees of the Peabody Education Fund at a meeting held in New York on November 1, (1911) adopted the following: The University of Virginia will undertake to maintain a Department of Education upon which not less than $10,000.00 a year will be expended for maintenance per annum, provided the Peabody Education Fund will donate the sum of $40,000.00 to the Rector and Visitors of the University for the purpose of erecting a suitable building for the home of this department. The University already has in hand funds amounting to $7,000.00 a year that could be used legitimately for this purpose. It would be necessary for it, in order to carry out this proposition, to increase this amount by the sum of $3,000.00. This it hopes to be able to do in the next six months. It is, therefore, suggested that that amount of time, at least, be allowed the University of Virginia in which to meet the conditions of this proposition. I have the honor to inform you that the Executive Committee of the Foundation at its meeting on June 8 voted to admit the University of Virginia to the list of accepted institutions of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. I beg to acknowledge with very great pleasure and satisfaction the receipt of your communication of June 9th, wherein you inform me that the Executive Committee of the Foundation at its meeting on June 8th, voted to admit the University of Virginia to the list of accepted Institutions of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. I am gratified at this action of the Foundation, not solely because it secures against want the old age of men who have given their lives to an unlucrative but noble profession, but in a higher sense because such action signalizes the accomplishment by this University of a great undertaking which it set out to bring to pass nearly seven years ago. It now occupies a consistent and logical relation to the system of secondary education with which it is allied, and it has also concluded legislation by which it occupies consistent and logical relation in its graduate school, to the college and higher institutions. Such action of the Foundation is an added testimony to the fact that standards of admission established have been administered with integrity and good sense. I wish to express to the Foundation assurances of our belief that the Foundation has helped powerfully in enabling this University, and other Universities in this country to establish and maintain such standards as to unify the whole educational process. I too hope that the relations between the Foundation and the University may be one of material help and service in all educational development. We are forwarding to you today via Adams Express thirty notes of $1,000.00 each, made by J. W. Hough and Abner S. Pope, payable to the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. All of these notes bear interest from Jan. 1, 1911 to Jan. 1, 1913, at the rate of three per cent per annum, and after that date, at the rate of six per cent per annum. The notes are as follows: I am very anxious to get your advice and co-Operation in connection with the expenditure of the income of the Phelps-Stokes Fund of which I am one of the Trustees. This Fund, which amounts to about a million dollars, was left by my Aunt, Miss Caroline Phelps Stokes, with the understanding that the income should be used for various educational purposes, but more particularly for advancing the cause of negro education in the South. I have had several conferences with out mutual friend, Dr. Dillard, and I wish your specific opinion regarding the plan that we have had under favorable discussion for creating fellowships, endowed we will say at $10,000. each, at two or three representative state universities in the South, such as the University of Virginia, and the University of Georgia. The Fellowship to be awarded by the proper university authorities to graduate students whose time would be devoted to studies on some phase of the negro problem. The administration of the Fund, the selection of incumbents, etc., to be entirely in the hands of the University authorities. I was greatly interested to have your letter of the 29th, ult., and have been giving the matter of your suggestion very grave thought. I have felt for many years that a fundamental thing to do in this tangled problem is to cause it to be scientifically approached by the scholarship of the South. The thing to do is to take it out of the nervous system of our people and their emotions and to get it set up before them as a great human problem, economic in nature, scientific in character, to be acted upon as the result of broad, wise, sympathetic study. The time ought to come when our best scholars will take pride in making contributions, however minute, toward the handling of the great question. I have no doubt that an endowed foundation of the character suggested by you would be most acceptable to the authorities of this University. I am a bit troubled about just the right suggestion to make to you in regard to your definite proposition for the creating of fellowships endowed at approximately $10,000, and having for their primary purpose the securing ultimately of a small group of trained men who shall giv their life to the study and improvement of the negro conditions. Let me explain a bit. I established here, at Tulane University, and at the University of North Carolina the first Professorship of Economics: Sociological subjects were not being taught in Southern institutions. Even Political Science, as a scientific subject, has no independent status. We now have a very strong department of Economics, and temporarily, a very able lecturer in Political Science. Our full Professor of Economics, as you may know, is on the Tariff Board, and his place is supplied by a veryable fellow from Wisconsin. We have two full professors in the Department of Education, and these departments make it a point to emphasize the sociological aspects of education. There is, however, no Professor of Sociology. It, of course, is as yet an undefined and somewhat empiric science, but there is a tremendous current of interest among our men in the big questions affecting social betterment, the improvement of rural life, the imporvement of industrial life, the better governing of cities, questions of public health and sanitation, and foremost among them, supreme in its importance, stands, of course, the negro problem with all of its implications. The ideal need here is a professorship in that great field, giving to the negro problem its right place as the chief subject of scientific study by our analytic minded scholars. This, of course, means a good deal of money. The next in order would be, it seems to me, a lectureship demanding much less money, but devoted almost exclusively to the study of the negro problem and the social betterment question, to giving information to the young men, to giving the proper bent to their minds, to stimulating their interest, to developing in them right methods of approach to such a subject. It seems to me such a lectureship logically precedes the establishment of a fellowship. Out of such lectureship and its activities would come such interest as to arouse young men inside or outside of the University to strive for a prize to be offered by us in the form of a fellowship or scholarship. W the sum you mentioned, $500.00 a year would be yielded as income. If $400.00 of this could be given to a man who would come here and make, say, a dozen lectures and meet men in semina ways; and then, if $100.00 could be made as a prize for the best bit of research work in small fields at first-I mean small as to area-the matter could get itself tried out, though on somewhat too meager a basis. I hesitate for a moment, though I hate to seem to hesitate a second in such a matter to establish an independent Fellowship in such a subject when there is back of it no clear instruction or stimulation in the great field which the Fellowship would cover. My fear about it is simply that the work itself would not get justice. The work would not yield its best results. You may be sure I want this opportunity here. Would it be possible to consider the proposition to increase the sume just a bit so as to make the Lectureship and the Fellowship co-existent? If such could be done it seems to me a new era would be brought about in our best institutions in their attitude toward this matter. Last year one of our professors gave a course of talks on the negro, based on Weatherford's book. It was astonishing the interest taken in the matter, the book being used as a text-book. I heartily wish I could talk with you about this matter, or with my friend, Dillard. Instruction in such a matter is not only not unwise, but most needed and would be welcome. I would never want to see such a fellowship established here, unless I saw fruitful results issuing out of it. I do not want it to become a mere academic thing that in time would lose its edge and become a mere formal prize. I hope you will not reach any definite conclusion in the matter until in some way we can talk it out, for it is a big question and incapable of just solution by interchange of letters. I have the honor to inform you that at a meeting of the Trustees of the Phelps-Stokes Fund held at the office of Anson Phelps Stokes, 100 William St., New York City, Wednesday, November 15, 1911, the following vote was passed:
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2Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes (1911) November 14, 1911  
 Published:  1911 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: At a meeting of the Board of Visitors on above dates in the office of the President, East Lawn, I have the honor to inform you that I have accepted a position as research Chemist with the Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station, and I herewith hand you my resignation as Professor of Chemistry, in the University of Virginia, to take effect at the beginning of the next collegiate year. I beg to acknowledge with very profound and sincere regret your communication of the 19th, inst., tendering your resignation as Professor of Chemistry, in the University of Virginia. I wish for you in your new position as research chemist with the Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station every opportunity for the advancement of your chosen field of work. You have served this University, permit me to say, with ability and distinction during your brief period of work here. You have made friends of your colleagues and friends of your pupils, and all of us feel, no one more than myself, that in losing you we are sustaining a genuine loss both in the direction of scientific power and personality. I appreciate the motives that have moved you to this decision, and while I deeply regret that the result is your separation from the work here, I can only wish for you in this new field the abundant measure of success you have achieved here. The trustees of the Peabody Education Fund at a meeting held in New York on November 1, (1911) adopted the following: The University of Virginia will undertake to maintain a Department of Education upon which not less than $10,000.00 a year will be expended for maintenance per annum, provided the Peabody Education Fund will donate the sum of $40,000.00 to the Rector and Visitors of the University for the purpose of erecting a suitable building for the home of this department. The University already has in hand funds amounting to $7,000.00 a year that could be used legitimately for this purpose. It would be necessary for it, in order to carry out this proposition, to increase this amount by the sum of $3,000.00. This it hopes to be able to do in the next six months. It is, therefore, suggested that that amount of time, at least, be allowed the University of Virginia in which to meet the conditions of this proposition. I have the honor to inform you that the Executive Committee of the Foundation at its meeting on June 8 voted to admit the University of Virginia to the list of accepted institutions of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. I beg to acknowledge with very great pleasure and satisfaction the receipt of your communication of June 9th, wherein you inform me that the Executive Committee of the Foundation at its meeting on June 8th, voted to admit the University of Virginia to the list of accepted Institutions of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. I am gratified at this action of the Foundation, not solely because it secures against want the old age of men who have given their lives to an unlucrative but noble profession, but in a higher sense because such action signalizes the accomplishment by this University of a great undertaking which it set out to bring to pass nearly seven years ago. It now occupies a consistent and logical relation to the system of secondary education with which it is allied, and it has also concluded legislation by which it occupies consistent and logical relation in its graduate school, to the college and higher institutions. Such action of the Foundation is an added testimony to the fact that standards of admission established have been administered with integrity and good sense. I wish to express to the Foundation assurances of our belief that the Foundation has helped powerfully in enabling this University, and other Universities in this country to establish and maintain such standards as to unify the whole educational process. I too hope that the relations between the Foundation and the University may be one of material help and service in all educational development. We are forwarding to you today via Adams Express thirty notes of $1,000.00 each, made by J. W. Hough and Abner S. Pope, payable to the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. All of these notes bear interest from Jan. 1, 1911 to Jan. 1, 1913, at the rate of three per cent per annum, and after that date, at the rate of six per cent per annum. The notes are as follows: I am very anxious to get your advice and co-Operation in connection with the expenditure of the income of the Phelps-Stokes Fund of which I am one of the Trustees. This Fund, which amounts to about a million dollars, was left by my Aunt, Miss Caroline Phelps Stokes, with the understanding that the income should be used for various educational purposes, but more particularly for advancing the cause of negro education in the South. I have had several conferences with out mutual friend, Dr. Dillard, and I wish your specific opinion regarding the plan that we have had under favorable discussion for creating fellowships, endowed we will say at $10,000. each, at two or three representative state universities in the South, such as the University of Virginia, and the University of Georgia. The Fellowship to be awarded by the proper university authorities to graduate students whose time would be devoted to studies on some phase of the negro problem. The administration of the Fund, the selection of incumbents, etc., to be entirely in the hands of the University authorities. I was greatly interested to have your letter of the 29th, ult., and have been giving the matter of your suggestion very grave thought. I have felt for many years that a fundamental thing to do in this tangled problem is to cause it to be scientifically approached by the scholarship of the South. The thing to do is to take it out of the nervous system of our people and their emotions and to get it set up before them as a great human problem, economic in nature, scientific in character, to be acted upon as the result of broad, wise, sympathetic study. The time ought to come when our best scholars will take pride in making contributions, however minute, toward the handling of the great question. I have no doubt that an endowed foundation of the character suggested by you would be most acceptable to the authorities of this University. I am a bit troubled about just the right suggestion to make to you in regard to your definite proposition for the creating of fellowships endowed at approximately $10,000, and having for their primary purpose the securing ultimately of a small group of trained men who shall giv their life to the study and improvement of the negro conditions. Let me explain a bit. I established here, at Tulane University, and at the University of North Carolina the first Professorship of Economics: Sociological subjects were not being taught in Southern institutions. Even Political Science, as a scientific subject, has no independent status. We now have a very strong department of Economics, and temporarily, a very able lecturer in Political Science. Our full Professor of Economics, as you may know, is on the Tariff Board, and his place is supplied by a veryable fellow from Wisconsin. We have two full professors in the Department of Education, and these departments make it a point to emphasize the sociological aspects of education. There is, however, no Professor of Sociology. It, of course, is as yet an undefined and somewhat empiric science, but there is a tremendous current of interest among our men in the big questions affecting social betterment, the improvement of rural life, the imporvement of industrial life, the better governing of cities, questions of public health and sanitation, and foremost among them, supreme in its importance, stands, of course, the negro problem with all of its implications. The ideal need here is a professorship in that great field, giving to the negro problem its right place as the chief subject of scientific study by our analytic minded scholars. This, of course, means a good deal of money. The next in order would be, it seems to me, a lectureship demanding much less money, but devoted almost exclusively to the study of the negro problem and the social betterment question, to giving information to the young men, to giving the proper bent to their minds, to stimulating their interest, to developing in them right methods of approach to such a subject. It seems to me such a lectureship logically precedes the establishment of a fellowship. Out of such lectureship and its activities would come such interest as to arouse young men inside or outside of the University to strive for a prize to be offered by us in the form of a fellowship or scholarship. W the sum you mentioned, $500.00 a year would be yielded as income. If $400.00 of this could be given to a man who would come here and make, say, a dozen lectures and meet men in semina ways; and then, if $100.00 could be made as a prize for the best bit of research work in small fields at first-I mean small as to area-the matter could get itself tried out, though on somewhat too meager a basis. I hesitate for a moment, though I hate to seem to hesitate a second in such a matter to establish an independent Fellowship in such a subject when there is back of it no clear instruction or stimulation in the great field which the Fellowship would cover. My fear about it is simply that the work itself would not get justice. The work would not yield its best results. You may be sure I want this opportunity here. Would it be possible to consider the proposition to increase the sume just a bit so as to make the Lectureship and the Fellowship co-existent? If such could be done it seems to me a new era would be brought about in our best institutions in their attitude toward this matter. Last year one of our professors gave a course of talks on the negro, based on Weatherford's book. It was astonishing the interest taken in the matter, the book being used as a text-book. I heartily wish I could talk with you about this matter, or with my friend, Dillard. Instruction in such a matter is not only not unwise, but most needed and would be welcome. I would never want to see such a fellowship established here, unless I saw fruitful results issuing out of it. I do not want it to become a mere academic thing that in time would lose its edge and become a mere formal prize. I hope you will not reach any definite conclusion in the matter until in some way we can talk it out, for it is a big question and incapable of just solution by interchange of letters. I have the honor to inform you that at a meeting of the Trustees of the Phelps-Stokes Fund held at the office of Anson Phelps Stokes, 100 William St., New York City, Wednesday, November 15, 1911, the following vote was passed:
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