| | 1 | Author: | Becker
Carl Lotus
1873-1945 | Add | | | Title: | The Declaration of independence  | | | | Published: | 2006 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | It is often forgotten that the document which
we know as the Declaration of Independence is
not the official act by which the Continental
Congress voted in favor of separation from Great
Britain. June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee, on
behalf of the Virginia delegation, submitted to
the Continental Congress three resolutions, of
which the first declared that "these United
Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free
and independent States, that they are absolved
from all allegiance to the British Crown, and
that all political connection between them and
the State of Great Britain is, and ought to
be, totally dissolved."1
1Journals of Congress (Ford ed.), V, 424.
This resolution, which
may conveniently be called the Resolution of
Independence, was finally voted by the Continental
Congress on the 2 of July, 1776.2
2Ibid., 507.
Strictly
speaking, this was the official declaration of independence;
and if we were a nation of antiquaries
we should no doubt find an incongruity
in celebrating the anniversary of our independence
on the 4 of July. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 2 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1915 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | 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 |
| 3 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1916 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | 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 |
| 4 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1917 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | 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 |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1924 | | | | 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 this date with the Rector, C. Harding Walker, and Visitors
Dillard, Hall, Hull, Scott, Rinehart, and Williams, and
President Alderman present. That for andin consideration of One Dollar ($1.00)
cash in hand paid, receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, and
of the covenants and agreements herein contained, which areto
be mutually paid, kept and performed, it is agreed that the
personal representative of the said Walter H. Taylor, deceased,
shall deliver to and deposit with the Virginia Trust
Company, as Trustee, the Thirty-seven Hundred and Twenty- one
Dollars and Ninety-eight Cents ($3721.98) in full discharge
and satisfaction ofany obligation on the part of the said
Walter H. Taylor, his heirs and assigns, with respect to the
Thirty-seven Hundred and Twenty-one Dollars and Ninety-eight
Cents ($3721.98) security above mentioned; to be held by the
said Trustee for and during the life or lives of either or
both of the said Frances R. Curd or Helen Wood Rogers, as
security for the payment of the monthly annuity of Twenty-five
Dollars ($25.00) each, to the parties of the first part, or
the survivor during her life as provided in said will, with
the right on the part of the said Trustee to invest and reinvest
the same; to collect any increase thereof, interest,
or return therefrom, and to pay the same, but not the principal
thereof, to the University of Virginia so long as the obligation
on the part of the University of Virginia to pay the
annuities above mentioned are faithfully kept and performed
in accordance with the terms of said will of Edward W. James,
deceased; and at the death of both of the said annuitants-Frances
R. Curd and Helen Wood Rogers- to pay over to the
University of Virginia, free and clear of any charge or obligation
whatsoever, the principal of said Thirty-seven Hundred
and Twenty-one Dollars and Ninety-eight Cents ($3721.98)
so held as security, together with any interest which may
accrue thereon remaining unpaid. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 9 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1925 | | | | 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 this date at 9 a.m., with the following members present:
the Rector, C. Harding Walker, and Visitors, Hall, Hart,
Hull, McIntire, Rinehart, Williams and Hatcher. The announcement that you had declined the offer of
the Chancellorship of the University of Georgia, because
of a resolve to devote your future to the service of
the University of Virginia, came to her alumni as a
message of high courage and imperishable faith. The
twenty-one years during which you have directed the
policies and energized the activities of our Alma Mater
have been years of stirring achievement. Her gain in
endowments, in student attendance, in academic authority,
in scientific equipment, in teaching power, in public
usefulness and in popular esteem have been magnificent
and in large measure your personal work. They have
won for you the sympathy, support, the admiration,
the confidence and the loyalty of all our alumni. Yet
their allegiance has still a deeper root. You came
to this University in a momentous hour. You were our
first president and the great mass of our then graduates
knew the virtues of the older regime and were unconcious
of the ineradicable infirmities which lay
hidden beneath them. In a few loyal and devoted spirits
a certain fear awoke for the noble tradition of the
school, for its high standards, for its law of liberty
both in learning and in teaching, for the gracious fraternity
of intramural life. It has been your high
mission to dispel such fears, to lift all that was worthy
in the spirit and tradition of the University of
Virginia to a higher plane of authority and power, and
by the depth of your understanding and the comprehension
of your sympathy to beget for her a future which
shall be the rich inheritor of her past. In you
she has found both a bond of peace and the righteousness
of her academic life. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 11 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1927 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | Description: | A called meeting of the Board was held on the
above date at 8 o'clock P. M., being continued at 9:30
A. M. November 12th. Your Committee, directed at the June, 1927,
meeting to effect a settlement with the City of
Charlottesville of certain questions which have arisen
as to the University's use of water from the City's
Reservoirs, and the of payment therefor, respectfully
report— On behalf of the Chairman of the Finance Committee,
I beg to submit the following report on sale of land in
Colorado and Kansas bequeathed to the University by Miss
Este Coffinberry for the establishment of the John W.
Richard Lectureship in Religion. Report of Building Committee. At the meeting of the Board of Visitors held in
April, 1927, a resolution was adopted directing the
Attorney for the University to make settlement with the
Estate of Graham F. Blandy, and with Mrs. Blandy, of certain
accounts due to said Estate and to Mrs. Blandy by the
University for work done upon the Blandy Experimental
Farm by Mrs. Blandy's laborers and by the Estate of
Graham F. Blandy, and for materials furnished by Mrs.
Blandy and by said Estate to the Experimental Farm in
the operation and maintenance of said Farm from March
25, th, 1926, the date of Mr. Blandy's death to August
1st, 1926, the date when the University took possession
of the property. Said resolution directs the Attorney
to make settlement of this account, providing the total
of said account did not exceed the sum of $1600.00. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 12 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1928 | | | | 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 at
10 o'clock A. M., lasting until 6 P. M., with intermission for lunch, followed by a
session on the morning of the 12th which convened at 9:30 o'clock. At a meeting of the members of the Board of Trustees
of the International Education Board held May 25, 1928, the officers
presented your letter of February 2, 1928, in which, on behalf of
the trustees of the University of Virginia, you request the Board's
cooperation in strengthening and stimulating research in the physical
and biological sciences. It was observed that in addition to sums
now available, annual sums approximating $45,000 would be required
eventually to carry out your program of development in chemistry,
physics and biology, and that there was reasonable assurance that beginning
with the fiscal year July 1, 1930, the authorities of the
University would be in position to provide annually increasing sums
for this purpose, so that within a period of from five to seven years
the University would be able to assume the increased annual expenditure
of $45,000. RESOLVED, That the locations selected for the proposed
dormitories on the western slope of Monroe Hill and for
the academic building on the site of the Mallet House, be
and are hereby approved, subject to minor changes in
location. The largest single maturing investment included above, was an item of
$103,600 School & College 6% Certificates which were called for payment by the
State of Virginia at par on January 1, 1928. $100,000 of these were held in the
Corcoran Fund. To replace this large investment at a time when high grade bonds
were selling at prices which returned lower yields than for many years past, of
course, worked a hardship upon the University. It was necessary to accept a
lower return in order to obtain anywhere nearly commensurate safety. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 13 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1928 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | Description: | A special meeting of the Board of Visitors was held on this date at
8 o'clock P. M., with the Rector, Hon. C. Harding Walker, Visitors D. D. Hull, Jr.,
Harris Hart, Lewis C. Williams, Paul G. McIntire, Hollis Rinehart, Fred W. Scott,
A. C. Carson, and Mrs. M. C. B. Munford, and President Alderman, present. On October 13th, I wrote you with reference to the Blandy
estate, and stated that the final settlement of this estate shows the
corpus of the trust fund set aside by the will of Graham F. Blandy,
deceased, from which his widow is to receive the income during her lifetime,
and which passes to the University at her death, amounts to $971,486.12. I beg to enclose herewith copy of final decree which has been
entered in the Circuit Court of Clarke County in the Chancery Cause of
Georgette H. Blandy v. The Rector and Visitors of the University of
Virginia. You will observe that this decree finally determines the fact
that the University of Virginia has complied with all the conditions
specified in the will of Graham F. Blandy as conditions precedent to the
vesting of title in The Rector and Visitors of the University in the land
devised to the University by the will of Graham F. Blandy, deceased. The dormitories and academic building have been let to contract
as follows: | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 14 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1929 | | | | 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 this
date at 8 o'clock P. M., with the following members present: The Rector, C.
Harding Walker, and Visitors Buchanan, Carson, Hull, McIntire, Munford, Rinehart,
Scott, and Williams, and President Alderman. At the annual meeting of your body on Jule 11th, 1928, following the
presentation of resolutions from the professorial staff concerning an increase in
the salary schedule "a Committee consisting of Messrs. Hull, Buchanan and Carson
was appointed to study the whole question of the salary scale, and report to the
Rector and Visitors." Upon the urgent request of said Committee the Rector consented
to serve as a member of the Committee. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 15 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1929 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | Description: | A special meeting of the Board was held in Richmond, Virginia, on this
date for the purpose of presenting to his Excellency, Governor Harry F. Byrd, the action
of the meeting of the Board on February 1st, at which time a resolution was adopted
increasing the salary scale of the members of the faculty of the University of Virginia,
subject to the approval of the Governor. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 16 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1929 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | Description: | A special meeting of the Board as held on this date at 8 o'clock P. M.
Present, the Rector, C. Harding Walker, and Visitors Buchanan, Carson, McIntire,
Munford, Scott, Rinehart, and Williams. At the request of the Governor the members of the Board met
with him at his office Saturday, April 27th at noon for the purpose of
conferring on the proposed scale of salaries for the academic faculty
and members of other faculties not previously approved by the Governor,
as adopted at a meeting of your Board February 1, 1929. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 17 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1929 | | | | 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 at 9 o'clock
a.m. There were present the Rector, C. Harding Walker, and Visitors Carson, Hart, Hull,
McIntire, Munford, Rinehart, Scott and Williams. We, the members of the teaching staff of professorial
rank, informally assembled, take this means of expressing to
you our sincere thanks for your cooperation in securing the
adoption of the new salary scale for all ranks of teachers of
this University. I have the honor to transmit to you herewith the report
of the Committee on Award of DuPont Scholarships for 1929-30. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 18 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1929 | | | | 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 this date at
8 o'clock P. M. There were present the Rector, C. Harding Walker, and Visitors
Buchanan, Carson, Hull, McIntire, Munford, Rinehart and Scott. Since I do not concur with the majority of my fellow members
on the Board in the adoption of the pending resolution dealing with
proposals looking to the establishment of a College of Liberal Arts for
Women, it appears to be incumbent on me to set out, as briefly as may be,
my own views on a matter of such vital import to the welfare of both the
University and the State. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 20 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1929 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | Description: | A conference of the Rector and Visitors was held at the residence of Mr.
Lewis C. Williams, Richmond, Va., for the purpose of considering the suggestion of Governor
Byrd that the School for the Blind to be located at Charlottesville, adjoining the property
of the University of Virginia, be erected under the supervision of the Rector and Visitors
and that the school be developed and operated by them. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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