| 261 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | 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 |
262 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | 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 |
263 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | 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
until this morning. | | Similar Items: | Find |
267 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1918) May 15, 1918 | | | Published: | 1918 | | | 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 9:30 o'clock A. M., with the following members present:
The Rector, Mr. Irvine, and Visitors Bryan, Hatton, Michie,
Walker, Dillard, Robertson and Hart, and President Alderman. Concerning the proposition of the C. & A. Ry.
Co. for connecting with the University plant, we recommend
the following: Under date of May 28, a communication
was received from the Office of the Surgeon General of
the Army requesting all medical schools which can possibly
do so to begin the session 1918-1919 for fourth year medical
students not later than July 1, so that the Class of
1919 may be graduated by the end of February or early
in March 1919. This measure is to help meet the extraordinary
demand for medical officers for the Army which
is sure to come within the next year or so. I am empowered and directed by
the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia
to convey to you the deep appreciation and gratitude
of the University for the commemorative tablet in honor
of James Rogers McConnell, an old student of this
Institution who gave his life for France. This tablet
shall be set up in a conspicuous place upon the walls
of this University, and shall serve as a tie to bind together
in everlasting affection and memory the two great
nations now struggling to protect the freedom of mankind
against a menace of tyranny and oppression. I would like to submit for your
approval and that of the Board assembled, the enclosed
plan of an endowment fund to be raised in the future
for the Medical School of the University, and in beloved
commemoration of the late Richard Henry Whitehead.
The plan is that of the Graduating Class in
Medicine, with a view to extending it to the alumni and
also the future classes in Medicine. In recognition of our great indebtedness to the University
of Virginia for our training in Medicine, and in beloved
commemoration of Richard Henry Whitehead, we, the undersigned,
do hereby pledge ourselves to give at some time
to the Medical School one thousand dollars each, or as
much as our financial status shall allow, toward the
establishment of an endowment fund to be called by the
above title. | | Similar Items: | Find |
268 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1918) November 26, 1918 | | | Published: | 1918 | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | Description: | A call meeting of the Rector and Visitors was held
on this date at 8 o'clock in the evening with the following
members present: The Rector, R. T. Irvine, and Visitors
Goodrich Hatton, Judge J. K. M. Norton, C. Harding Walker,
G. R. B. Michie, and John Stewart Bryan, and President
Alderman. On behalf of the Beverley Club of Staunton, Va.,
of which he was a charter member and its first President,
in 1890, I have the pleasure of presenting to the
University of Virginia an oil portrait of Mr. Armistead
C. Gordon, the University's late Rector. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your
communication of the 19th inst. informing me of the
purpose of the Beverley Club, of Staunton, to present
to the University of Virginia an oil portrait of the
University's late Rector, Hon. Armistead C. Gordon. I
note also the request that this portrait be hung on the
walls of the Colonnade Club. As an Alumnus of the University may I ask your
kind assistance in placing in the proper hands a small
contribution to the Permanent Endowment Fund of the
Institution. I enclose for this purpose a Liberty Bond
for five hundred dollars and shall be greatly obliged to
you for your compliance with my request. The fall meeting of the Rector and
Visitors of the University occurred here on November
26th. I had the honor of presenting your letter of
last July, in which you so generously and graciously
give to the permanent endowment fund of the University
the Libert Bond # 665635. The Rector and Visitors
directed me to extend to you their very grateful thanks
and appreciation of this splendid action, and to assure
you of their purpose to use this money in the permanent
endowment of the University for the best interests of
the Institution. I must again express my appreciation
of the peculiarly handsome way in which you have done
this good deed. The will of Elizabeth B. White, who died in
Baltimore on November 13th, 1917, provides in paragraph
three of item number one that the sum of Five Thousand
Dollars be given to the University of Virginia for the
establishment of scholarships to be known as the ELIZABETH
B. GARRETT SCHOLARSHIPS. Be it Resolved by the Rector and Visitors of the University
of Virginia, THAT the legacy of Elizabeth B.
White of $5000 to found the Elizabeth B. Garrett Scholarships
at the University of Virginia be and the same is
hereby gratefully accepted upon the terms and conditions
as set forth in her will. From: Edwin A. Alderman, President, University of Virginia: From: Edwin A. Alderman, President, University of Virginia; Major Frederick Waugh Smith notified his brother, Col.
Thomas Smith, and the University of Virginia that he intended
to contest the will on the grounds of the uncertainty of its
provisions, but at the same time he made a proposition of compromise. On November 18th, 1910 you kindly granted permission
to the Charlottesville and Albemarle Railway
Company, of Charlottesville, Virginia, a corporation duly
chartered under the laws of the State of Virginia, to lay
its track along the terrace west of what is known as Rugby
Road, from the Ivy Road on the South to the C. & O. overhead
bridge on the North, distance of 1050 feet: to be laid
under the general supervision and direction of the President
and Superintendent of Grounds and Buildings of the
University of Virginia, and the Chairman of the Executive
Committee of our Board, with the condition that the track
and works of the company be removed at their own expense
on 60 days notice from the Board, at the pleasure of the
Board. This is to advise you that my recent examination
of your accounts for the fiscal year ended June 30th,
1918, disclosed no irregularities of any kind, but on
the other hand, your records were found to be correct. | | Similar Items: | Find |
269 | 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 |
270 | 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 |
271 | 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 |
272 | 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 |
273 | 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 |
274 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1920) January 12, 1920 | | | Published: | 1920 | | | 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
this date at 8 o'clock P. M. with the following members
present: the Rector, R. Tate Irvine, and Visitors John
Stewart Bryan, E. L. Greever, Harris Hart, Goodrich Hatton,
Geo. R. B. Michie, J. K. M. Norton, Alexander F. Robertson,
and C. Harding Walker. I had word a few days ago from Mr.
Herbert W. Jackson, of the Virginia Trust Company, of
the clause in the will of your son, Peter P. Homes,
leaving $1,000 to the University of Virginia to be used
as a scholarship in the Law School. Personally, I
want to assure you of the great pride and happiness I
have in this action of your find boy whom we all remember
here with pleasure and approval. It is an exhibition of
the finest spirit, and will, I am sure, stimulate and
hearten all of our alumni who remember with effection
their Alma Mater. I shall want to call the scholarship
the Homes Scholarship, and it will be permanent in our
academic life. At a recent meeting of the Executive
Committee of the General Athletic Association concerning
the employment of a permanent athletic coach, the following
motion was unanimously passed: | | Similar Items: | Find |
275 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1920) February 19, 1920 | | | Published: | 1920 | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | Description: | At the adjourned meeting set for this date there were
present Rector R. Tate Irvine, and Visitors Hatton, Norton
and Michie. As there was not a quorum present, no business
was transacted. A special meeting of the Board of Visitors was held on
this date at 8 o'clock P. M. with the following members
present: the Rector, R. Tate Irvine, and Visitors E. L.
Greever, Harris Hart, Goodrich Hatton, Geo. R. B. Michie and
Alexander F. Robertson. | | Similar Items: | Find |
276 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1920) April 21, 1920 | | | Published: | 1920 | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | Description: | The Board met on this date in special session. There
were present Visitors Dillard, Duke, Greever, Hart, Hatton,
Oliver, Robertson, Scott and Walker, and President Alderman. At a meeting of the Executive Committee of
the Board of Trustees of the Protestant Episcopal Education
Society in Virginia held this day, it was resolved
that in consideration of the conditions brought about
by the war and by the high cost of living, we petition
the Board of Visitors of the University that we be allowed
to increase the value of the Skinner Scholarships temporarily
from $250.00 to $350.00 | | Similar Items: | Find |
278 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1920) June 14, 1920 | | | Published: | 1920 | | | 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 at 10 a.m. with Rector Bryan, and Visitors, Duke,
Hart, Hatton, Dillard, Scott, Oliver, Walker and Robertson
present. The supreme Council of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity
most gratefully accept the privilege of petitioning your
Honorable Board for the privilege of offering the use of
Room 31, West Range, the birth-place of our beloved Fraternity,
as a scholarship to deserving members of its organization. The Committee on Buildings and Grounds, to which
was referred the application of the Beta Theta Pi for
permission to erect a fraternity house on the grounds
of the University, recommends that the fraternity be
given an option until January 1, 1921 on the lot in the
rear of the Kappa Sigma House and fronting on Rugby Road,
for the erection of such house. The exact bounds of said
lot to be hereafter determined by the Rector and Visitors,
and the terms and conditions upon which said lot is to
be held and the building erected to be in accordance
with those heretofore determined by the Rector and Visitors
in other like cases. In case the lot be desired
by the fraternity, then the details shall be arranged and
embodied in proper documents to be duly executed by the
parties. The Committee on Buildings and Grounds unanimously
recommends that the application of Prof. C. M. Sparrow,
as set forth in his letter of June 7, 1920 to the President,
be rejected, and the Committee is unable to make
any recommendation which will provide for the remodeling
or repairing of the property at this time. | | Similar Items: | Find |
279 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1920) November 10, 1920 | | | Published: | 1920 | | | 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 this date at 8 o'clock p.m. There were present Rector
Bryan, and Visitors Dillard, Duke, Hart, Hatton, Oliver, Robertson,
Scott and Walker. It was my privilege to report to the Board of
Visitors at their fall meeting on November 10, your
handsome additional gift of $24,000 for a pipe organ
for the amphitheatre and for such changes in the
amphitheatre as the installation of the organ made
necessary. I am instructed by the Rector and Visitors
to communicate to you the expression of their profound
appreciation of your renewed and far-seeing generosity
and good will to the University. They cherish profoundly
your good service to the institution, and beg
me to assure you that they will do all in their power
to see that your wise gifts are thoughtfully and rightly
used for the education of our youth. May I be permitted
to add the expression of my own deep gratitude and personal
affection and esteem. I am authorized by the Rector and Visitors of the
University of Virginia to communicate to you the expression
of their profound gratitude for your generosity and wisdom
in the establishment of the Louis Bennett Scholarship
in Law. The Visitors begged me to assure you that they
will take care that the scholarship is duly founded and
rightly administered in the interest of securing for
worthy young men proper instruction in the great subject.
in which your husband achieved distinction. The scholarship
will appear in our catalogue as the Louis Bennett
Scholarship in Law, and we will take pains to acquaint
you from year to year of the incumbent of the scholarship. I am instructed by the Rector and
Visitors to communicate to you an expression of their
appreciation and gratitude for the gift of the library
of your husband, the late Professor William Harry Heck.
They begged me to assure you that this library will be
duly preserved in honor of a devoted teacher and scholar
long in the service of the University. | | Similar Items: | Find |
280 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1921) February 14, 1921 | | | Published: | 1921 | | | 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 with the following members present: the Rector, John
Stewart Bryan, and Visitors W. R. Duke, Goodrich Hatton, Walter
T. Oliver, Alex. F. Robertson, Frederic W. Scott, and President
Alderman. We enclose you herewith a copy of the will of
the late Reverend Randolph H. McKim, this company having
been appointed executor of the decessed's estate by the
Probate Court of the District of Columbia. I have examined the accounts of the University
of Virginia, as carried in the Bursar's office, for the
fiscal year ended June 30, 1920, and found them to be
correct. | | Similar Items: | Find |
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