| | 22 | 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 |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1915) December 28, 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 of Visitors was held on this
date at 8 o'clock to consider the needs of the University
which should be presented to the Legislature at its approaching
session, the question of establishing at the University a
college for women co-ordinate therewith, and such other matters
as may be presented. Re Wilson Estate. THIS CONTRACT made this 7th day of October, 1915, by
and between the City of Charlottesville, hereinafter called
the City, of the first part, and the Rector and Visitors
of the University of Virginia, hereinafter called the
University, of the second part THIS agreement made and entered into by the City
of Charlottesville, a corporation hereinafter called the
City, party of the first part, and the Rector and Visitors
of the University of Virginia, a corporation, hereinafter
called the University, party of the second part. THIS AGREEMENT, made and entered into by the Board
of Supervisorr of Albemarle County, hereinafter called
the Board, parties of the first part, and the Rector and
Visitors of the University of Virginia, a corporation,
hereinafter called the University, party of the second
part. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 29 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1916) April 18, 1916 | | | | Published: | 1916 | | | | 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 8:00
P. M., and was continued to April 19th at 10:30 A. M., with the
following members present: Rector Gordon, Visitors Hatton,
Turnbull, Craddock, Michie, Lewis, Norton and Irvine. I am turning to you again as one turns to a
strong and trusted friend whose kindness and good will have been
the source of strength and comfort to me and to the University
in the past. The gifts which you have hitherto so generously
given have been devoted, as you know, to the purpose of inaugurating
a beautiful and satisfactory grounds and road system
throughout the University, including gateways and such road
building as tend to make the Institution more beautiful and modern
in appearance. This is a unique and distinguished form of benefaction
to the University which no one else has thought of, much
less attempted. We have made, I think, economical and successful
use of your last gift of $10,000, and the roads put down
are wonderful in their detail and in their effect. They are,
however, quite expensive. The soil basis here is stiff red
clay, and nothing will conquer it for all time except the best
and most enduring form of Travia road. It is really a great
macadam tied and made solid by the use of tar. It is such a road
as you find in the finest roads in the north. This road now
extends from the western gateway almost to the Fry's Spring
road where we hope to put another gateway. It branches off towards
the gardens and the Lawn. It covers nearly all of the
East Range road. As a matter of fact, however, the work cannot
be completed by that gift. In order to make the situation what
it ought to be, and worthy of the beginning, made possible
by your beneficience, I estimate that the sum of $15,000 will
be necessary. This, of course, might extend over a number
of years. I am wondering if it would be possible for you to
make us another gift of $10,000 for 1916-'17, which would
enable us to come very near completing the scheme in mind.
As I have indicated, it need not be given in one sum, or it
might be given in any set of payments that suit your convenience,
but if we had the knowledge of it, we could go about
consummating the work we have set our hands to under your
great generosity. I think the standard of dignity would
then be insured here for all time. A new gateway somewhat in
harmony with the one at the front entrance would also then be
placed at the Southern entrance where the new Chemical Laboratory
is to go which will make the main highway of the University
handsomely cared for. I am very glad to learn that your system
of roads is progressing so well, and I would like to complete
the work as you have outlined it in your letter, in memory of
Mr. Senff. The new wing of the hospital, made possible
by your beneficence is about completed. It is the handsomest
thing in its way in the whole University and makes of the
hospital a really efficient and powerful agency in our life.
I want to put a tablet on the inner walls simply recording the
facts of its gift by you, and adding any name or memorial
tribute that you would care to have on it. Would you mind
telling me just what you would like to have it called, and
any wording of the tablet that might suggest itself to you.
I want to send you a photograph of the building as soon as the
builder's debris is removed from about it. I have your letter of March 24th, and I shall
be very glad to give you ten thousand dollars more in order
to equip the Hospital. I hope you won't think me impudent or bold, or
lacking in delicacy if I bring this matter to your attention. I cannot see the slightest bit of impropriety
in your writing me of your need of $5,000. in order
to equip the new laboratory for "immediate and effective use."
On the contrary, I am very glad you did write me and I cheerfully
subscribe the $5,000. and will send it when you let me
know it is needed. You may be sure I was deeply touched and more
so than I could give owrds to by your expressed willingness
to increase your gift for equipment to $10,000, if it were
needed. In any event, of course, this equipment money will not
be vitally needed until early next spring, when it will be necessary
to make the building ready for use. In venturing to ask
you for the additional gift for the equipment of the building,
I naturally put the sum at the minimum, because I felt you
had done so much that I had no right to suggest anything except
a mimimum request; and, too, we are so accustomed to doing things
here on the mimimum basis that I felt that was all I dare present
to you. The extra $5,000 would, however, be of immense value
to us in adding real fullness and power to our equipment, both
in certain external phases as to approach and in certain internal
machinery and equipment. We will spend nothing, of course,
for mere frills. I have not mentioned the matter to any of my
faculty, save to talk with them a little about their needs.
They do not yet know of your gift of $5,000. I find that they
feel that in Industrial Chemistry more money for equipment is
needed than could possibly be covered by the sum of $5,000, which
could only cover the needs of General Chemistry. I am happy at receiving your letter of the
10th inst., and am well pleased that you return home feeling
rested. My heart was deeply touched by your swift
and generous accession to the suggestion born of your own purpose
but coming from me in the second instance. There was long
and grateful applause and deep appreciation of your action.
The Board has not yet met to make formal acceptance of the
gifts. They meet on the 18th of April. I know you know without
words from me how deeply it all strengthens my mind and purpose. About a year ago, I wrote regarding
the establishment of a Scholarship in the University,
by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, the
scholarship being a tribute of our loyalty and gratitude to our
President, Mrs. William Ruffin Cox of Richmond, Virginia. I shall take great pleasure in reporting
to the Rector and Visitors, at their spring meeting, on April
18, the very generous action of the National Society of The
Colonial Dames of America offering to establish at this University,
as a tribute of their loyalty and gratitude to their former
President, Mrs. William Ruffin Cox, of Richmond, Va., a scholarship
in American History. I am quite sure that the Rector and
Visitors will agree with me that this is a beautiful action
on the part of the Society, and will accept this thoughtful
gift with gratitude and appreciation. I take note of your
statement that the work should be not only in American History
but cover American Colonial History, and that wherever possible
it should be given to a student from one of the schools maintained
for the education of the youth of the mountain regions of the
Southern States. I have a magnificent portrait of J. L. M.
Curry, painted in Madrid by the Elder Madrazzo, when he was
President of the Royal Academy. It is a work of art and appropriately
and exquisitely framed in carved apple-wood. I find
it too large for my house. It would give me pleasure to present
it to the University of Virginia, thinking it might be hung in the
hall used for the Curry School of Pedagogy. I remain, Your letter received today, informing me
of your purpose to present to the University a portrait of Dr.
Curry gives me great delight and satisfaction. I have wanted
a portrait of him ever since the completion of our splendid
building which houses the Curry School of Education. There is
a perfect place for its hanging, and the whole matter gives me
very great pleasure. The Curry School of Education is growing
in power and influence, and is just at the threshold of its
usefulness. I venture to predict that it will be in the end
one of the most permanent memorials to Dr. Curry's fame that
could have been conceived of. It will be an inspiration to
the young men to have knowledge of his face and form. At the request of Mr. J. M. Carlisle,
Surviving Trustee of the late Mary W. Curry, I am shipping
to you tomorrow, March 8th, by Adams Express, charges prepaid,
and addressed as above, one box containing the portrait of the
late Dr. J. L. M. Curry, painted by Mrazo. The portrait is
insured for the sum of $5,000, and a valuation of $400 is placed
upon the box with the express company, according with Mr. Carlisle's
request. In reply to Miss Worrell's letter of Nov.
26th, will say that the work on the monument to Dr. Green,
is well done. The family is very grateful to you for this
gift to his memory. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 30 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1916) June 12, 1916 | | | | Published: | 1916 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The regular annual meeting of the Rector and Visitors
was held on this date at 8:00 o'clock in the evening, with
the following members present: The Rector, Armistead C.
Gordon, and Messrs. Norton, Michie, Craddock, Lewis, Hatton,
Irvine, White and Stearnes, and President Alderman. After receiving the information which has been given
me to-day, in conference with yourself and Mr. Richards, in
the matter of the substitution of administrator of the estate
of Miss Mary Amelia Smith, deceased, in the place and stead
of Thomas Smith, removed, I feel that the interest of the
University of Virginia will be promoted by the appointment
of Mr. Walter H. Robertson, in accordance with the plan which
you and Mr. Richards outlined. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 31 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1916) October 19, 1916 | | | | Published: | 1916 | | | | 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 at 8 o'clock in the President's Office, with the
following present: Hon. Armistead C. Gordon, Rector, John
W. Craddock, Goodrich Hatton, Geo. R. B. Michie, J. K. M. Norton,
R. C. Stearnes, Robert Turnbull and President Alderman. Referring to your recent conversation with Mr.
D. C. Ogg, Train Master, with reference to the proposed
plan of having the University deed to the C. & O. Fail-way
Company the land on which the University's coal
trestle and track are located, and the proposed agreement
between the University and the Railway Company to
maintain the coal trestle and track hereafter on a basis
of an equal division of the cost thereof, it being understood
that the Railway Company shall have the privilege
of making deliveries to outside parties on the said
track and trestle; as requested by you, we are attaching
blue print showing the location of the track and trestle
and the property lines at this point. Referring to your communication of the 16th of September,
1916, addressed to Mr. Armistead C. Gordon, Rector of the
University of Virginia, in re- the plan proposed by you to have
the University deed to your company the land on which the
University's coal trestle and track are located, I am directed
by the Board of Visitors to advise you that the matter was
brought to their attention, and after a full discussion, they
were unable to accede to your proposition. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 33 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1917) March 23, 1917 | | | | Published: | 1917 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | An adjourned meeting of the Rector and Visitors was held
on this date at 8 o'clock p. m., with the following present:
The Rector, Armistead C. Gordon, Visitors, Craddock, Hatton,
Irvine, Lewis, Michie, Stearnes and Turnbull, and President
Alderman. Miss Mary Amelia Smith of Warrenton, Virginia,
by her last will and testament, recorded February 24th, 1913,
in Will Book 47 at page 34 in Fauquier County Clerk's Office,
Virginia, left all of her property of every kind and description
for life to the brothers that survived her, of which
there were only two, namely: Fred W. Smith and Col. Thomas
Smith, and at their death all of said property both real and
personal, was to go to the University of Virginia. Shortly
after Miss Mary Amelia Smith's death, her brother, one of the
above mentioned survivors, returned from South Africa and
immediately began to take steps to break the will of sister
Mary Amelia Smith, and thereby prevent University of Virginia
from having any of her property. The effect of this provision is a two-fold one, (1)
to create such a trust in the University, with reference
to such `public animals, arms, uniforms, and equipment,'
as is not contemplated by the organic law of the
University, and for the assumption and execution of which
there is no authority in the University, either express
or implied: (2) the requirement that the University
shall give "a bond in the value of the property issued
for the care and safe-keeping thereof, and for its
return when required," is in contravention of Section
1556 of the Code of Virginia, vol. 1, page 828, which
provides that "it shall not be lawful for the Rector
and Board of Visitors of the University to contract
any debt whatever on account of said University, without
the consent of the Legislature previously obtained."
(Act 1883-1884, page 544.) | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 34 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1917) April 19, 1917 | | | | Published: | 1917 | | | | 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 at 8 P. M., and concluded on the morning of the
20th, with the following members present: In accordance with a resolution of the Rector and
Visitors of the University of Virginia, I am hereby making
application for the establishment, at this University, of one
or more units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, Senior
Division, in accordance with the provision of an Act of Congress
entitled an "Act for making further and more effectual
provision for the national defense and for other purposes". Special orders,
No. 75. Recommendations of the Committee on Rules and Courses
for the College regarding academic credit for the proposed
course in military training. Your special Committee consisting of the Rector, Mr.
Michie and the President, appointed at the March 23rd meeting
of the Board to consider and pass upon certain items
on the docket for said meeting which were not considered,
owing to lack of time, met on this date to consider such
items, and beg to report to you thereon, as follows: | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 35 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1917) May 31, 1917 | | | | Published: | 1917 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The regular annual meeting of the Rector and Visitors
was held on this date at 10:30 A. M., with the following members
present: Rector Gordon and Visitors Hatton, Irvine,
Michie and White. Mr. Turnbull did not arrive until 5:30 P. M.,
just at the close of the meeting. President Alderman was present.
Reading of the minutes of the last meeting was dispensed
with. I have been advised by the Bursar
that the rule of the Board of Visitors, which has been in
operation for some years, granting an automatic increase
of ten per cent in the salary of those professors who have
served for a term of six years has been suspended for the
coming year. The committee appointed to consider ways
and means for teaching Chemistry next session reported
to you that part of the new chemical laboratory would have
to be furnished if the lectures in Chemistry and the courses
in Analytical Chemistry are to be given at all. The makeshift
adopted since the fire was an utterly impossible situation,
and we are deprived of this by the closing of Peabody
Hall next year. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 36 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1917) September 28, 1917 | | | | Published: | 1917 | | | | 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 at 10:30 A. M., with the following members
present: The Rector, Armistead C. Gordon, Goodrich Hatton,
Judge Norton, Wm. H. White, G. R. B. Michie, John W. Craddock,
R. Tate Irvine, Robert Turnbull, and President Alderman. I beg to report to your Board through you,
that in June last the two committees of the Miller
Board and the Board of Visitors of the University
met at the Board of Visitors' House, and agreed
that the status of the buildings on the grounds
known as the "Mallet House", continue unchanged. Concerning the increased cost of labor and mechanics The Executors under the will of Colonel
Payne are informed by Mr. Fuller that in or about
the month of July, 1917, at the Colonel's country
place at West Park, Colonel Payne told Mr. Fuller
that in his will he had made a legacy of $250,000.
to the University of Virginia, but that he had decided
to give that sum presently, instead of waiting
until death. Mr. Fuller further states that the next
day Colonel Payne gave to you his check for $250,000.
for the benefit of the University and said to you
substantially what he had said to Mr. Fuller about the
provision in his will and about his subsequent decision
to make the gift presently. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 37 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1917) November 27, 1917 | | | | Published: | 1917 | | | | 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 at 10:3- o'clock, with the following present: Rector
Gordon and Visitors Craddock, Michie, Turnbull, Hatton and
Walker, and President Alderman. I hereby lay before you, in the discharge
of my duty as President of the University, a portion of
an address made on November 20th at Sweet Briar College
by Professor Leon R. Whipple, Adjunct Professor of
Journalism in this University, and certain letters showing
that it was the deliberate purpose of Professor
Whipple, in his capacity as a professor of this University,
to conduct a far-reaching propaganda for the promulgation
of the sentiments therein expressed. I enclose an advance story on an
address I shall make at Sweet Briar College tonight.
I think it may be of interest in your territory as a
Sweet Briar event, and also because of the larger
interests involved. I hope you will find room for at
least some of this as these principles cannot be too
often enunciated. I response to your recent request
to the Faculty of the University for changes in, or additions
to, the list of subjects to be offered as free extension
lectures, I desire to ask for the following
changes: You are asked to dismiss me from the Faculty
of the University of Virginia for uttering, publicly,
the truth as revealed to my conscience. I am charged
with acts that are declared not in accord with the purposes
of this nation in the present war, and therefore,
I can no longer be of service in this public institution,
and am unfit to teach the youth who come to seek truth. Following my telegram twenty-fourth, Mrs. White wishes
Dr. Alderman and the Board of Visitors to know that
the newspaper account of Whipple's utterances have been
read to Mr. White, and also Senator Martin's comments
upon same. Mr. White heartily endorses the matter. Greatly regret engagement here prevents my attending
Board meeting tomorrow. Assuming object is to consider
Whipple, not wishing to condemn without hearing,
but based on correctness of reports, my voice is for
summary dismissal. Jefferson's University is not fit
soil for seeds of treason. I have just received notice from Mr. Carruthers
of a meeting of the Board called for to-morrow, Tuesday.
Mr. Carruthers wired me Saturday, but I was out of town
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