| | 9 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes  | | | | Published: | 1919 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | 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 |
| 10 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1919 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | 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 |
| 11 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1919 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | 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 |
| 12 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1919 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | Description: | A called meeting of the Pector and Visitors was held
on this date at 8 o'clock in the evening. There were
present the Rector, R. Tate Irvine, and Visitors Goodrich Hatton,
C. Harding Walker, John Stewart Bryan, George R. B. Michie,
and Alexander F. Robertson. The minutes of the previous
meeting, copies of which had been mailed to the several
Visitors, were approved. At a meeting of the General Faculty held February
8, 1919, the following resolution was unanimously adopted:
(Resolved, That the General Faculty recommends to the
Rector and Board of Visitors that one or more units of the
R. O. T. C. be established at the University of Virginia.) If the State Board of Health will establish and maintain
a Tuberculosis Sanatorium sufficiently close to the Medical
School of the University of Virginia for effective cooperation,
and if the State Board of Health will permit the Medical
Director of the Sanatorium to teach the problems of tuberculosis
to the students and nurses of the medical department of the
University, and for this purpose use such patients in the sanatorium
as may seem suitable to the Medical Director; the Medical
School of the University will on its part affiliate with the
sanatorium, and promote the work of the sanatorium in so far
as such promotion and affiliation is compatible with the other
objects and duties of the Medical School and the University
Hospital. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 13 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1919 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | 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 |
| 14 | Author: | Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 | Add | | | Title: | A Personal Record | | | | Published: | 1919 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | BOOKS may be written in all sorts of
places. Verbal inspiration may enter
the berth of a mariner on board a ship
frozen fast in a river in the middle of a town;
and since saints are supposed to look benignantly on humble believers, I indulge in the
pleasant fancy that the shade of old Flaubert
—who imagined himself to be (among other
things) a descendant of Vikings—might have
hovered with amused interest over the docks
of a 2,000-ton steamer called the Adowa, on
board of which, gripped by the inclement winter
alongside a quay in Rouen, the tenth chapter
of "Almayer's Folly" was begun. With interest, I say, for was not the kind Norman giant
with enormous mustaches and a thundering
voice the last of the Romantics? Was he not,
in his unworldly, almost ascetic, devotion to
his art, a sort of literary, saint-like hermit? | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 15 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1919) March 4, 1919 | | | | Published: | 1919 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | A called meeting of the Pector and Visitors was held
on this date at 8 o'clock in the evening. There were
present the Rector, R. Tate Irvine, and Visitors Goodrich Hatton,
C. Harding Walker, John Stewart Bryan, George R. B. Michie,
and Alexander F. Robertson. The minutes of the previous
meeting, copies of which had been mailed to the several
Visitors, were approved. At a meeting of the General Faculty held February
8, 1919, the following resolution was unanimously adopted:
(Resolved, That the General Faculty recommends to the
Rector and Board of Visitors that one or more units of the
R. O. T. C. be established at the University of Virginia.) If the State Board of Health will establish and maintain
a Tuberculosis Sanatorium sufficiently close to the Medical
School of the University of Virginia for effective cooperation,
and if the State Board of Health will permit the Medical
Director of the Sanatorium to teach the problems of tuberculosis
to the students and nurses of the medical department of the
University, and for this purpose use such patients in the sanatorium
as may seem suitable to the Medical Director; the Medical
School of the University will on its part affiliate with the
sanatorium, and promote the work of the sanatorium in so far
as such promotion and affiliation is compatible with the other
objects and duties of the Medical School and the University
Hospital. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1919) March 4, 1919 | | | | Published: | 1919 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | A called meeting of the Pector and Visitors was held
on this date at 8 o'clock in the evening. There were
present the Rector, R. Tate Irvine, and Visitors Goodrich Hatton,
C. Harding Walker, John Stewart Bryan, George R. B. Michie,
and Alexander F. Robertson. The minutes of the previous
meeting, copies of which had been mailed to the several
Visitors, were approved. At a meeting of the General Faculty held February
8, 1919, the following resolution was unanimously adopted:
(Resolved, That the General Faculty recommends to the
Rector and Board of Visitors that one or more units of the
R. O. T. C. be established at the University of Virginia.) If the State Board of Health will establish and maintain
a Tuberculosis Sanatorium sufficiently close to the Medical
School of the University of Virginia for effective cooperation,
and if the State Board of Health will permit the Medical
Director of the Sanatorium to teach the problems of tuberculosis
to the students and nurses of the medical department of the
University, and for this purpose use such patients in the sanatorium
as may seem suitable to the Medical Director; the Medical
School of the University will on its part affiliate with the
sanatorium, and promote the work of the sanatorium in so far
as such promotion and affiliation is compatible with the other
objects and duties of the Medical School and the University
Hospital. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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