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Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1892) December 8, 1892  | | | | Published: | 1892 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | At a meeting of the Rector and Visitors called by the
Rector and held at the University on the 8th day of December
1892 in pursuance of notice. Dr W. C. N. Randolph, Rector of the University of Va, Charlottesville,
Va: I am in receipt of your letter of Nov. 6th and concur
with you and my brother Charles Kent in your opinion, that
the fund in memory of my husband shall be devoted to establishing
the "Linden Kent Chair of English Literature". I,
therefore authorize you to say to the Board of Visitors,
that I am prepared to pay them on the 1st of January `93'
or later, as the Board prefers, the sum of three thousand
dollars, annually for the support of the chair and to further
secure this payment, by bequeathing to the Rector and
Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, at Charlottesville
Va, the sum of Sixty thousand dollars, for the
endowment of the Chair of English Literature, to be known
as the "Linden Kent Chair of English Literature". The Board met in pursuance of adjournment on yesterday. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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