| 242 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes ![](https://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/icons/default/i_tei.gif) | | | Published: | 1922 | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | Description: | The Board met on this date in special session, at eight
P. M. and continued on the following morning at nine-thirty.
There were present Visitors H. D. Dillard, W. R. Duke, Paul
Goodloe McIntire, Miss. Emily McVea, Walter T. Oliver, F. W.
Scott, C. Harding Walker, Lewis C. Williams and President
Alderman. On behalf of the donors, I have the privilege of
presenting to the Rector and Visitors a portrait of the first
President of the University of Virginia. It is the work of
Eugene Speicher, of New York, a noted artist and portrait painter.
The portrait is the joint gift of many alumni, members of the
faculty, and other friends of the President and of the University. I beg to acknowledge the receipt
of your kind letter, in which you announce the presentation
to the Rector and Visitors, by a joint group of alumni,
members of the faculty, and friends of the University and of
the President, a portrait of the first President of the University
of Virginia. Please find attached hereto a petition signed by
sixteen of your professors living north of the University
who request that we build a small waiting room at the end
of our car line on Rugby Road, near the Chesapeake & Ohio
Railway. My mother, sisters, brother and myself
are planning to make a contribution to the Centennial
Endowment Fund, which we wish to take the shape of a
memorial of some kind to my father, William H. White.
It is our wish that it be used in some way in connection
with the Law School. As we do not know how it could be
best used, we are desirous of an expression of an opinion
from you. The fund will be available early in May and will
be about $10,000.00. I have your letter of the 7th inst.,
and it is difficult for me to tell you how much pleasure
and satisfaction it would be for me and to this University
to have here this memorial to my dear friend, your father.
It so happened that we served together on the Board of
Visitors and the Alumni Board for over ten years, and I know
something of his devotion to the Institution. It is equally
pleasing to me that you contemplate something in connection
with the Law School. I am coming to Washington, unless I
am prevented by reasons not now foreseen, about the 21st
of April, and I shall let you know in advance of my coming.
Of course, I shall treat your communication as confidential. Please find enclosed the following
checks: The Trustees of the Austin Estate held for a number
of years a mortgage from the heirs of Elizabeth C. Blackbird.
A year ago last December the mortgage was paid off and we
executed a discharge of the same. The Carnegie Corporation has upon its books an
appropriation of One Hundred Thousand dollars ($1000,000)
to the University of Virginia on which it is at present paying
interest, all conditions in connection therewith having
been fulfilled by the University of Virginia. If satisfactory
to you, the Corporation will find it convenient to pay
this amount in cash on June thirtieth, together with the
regular quarterly payment of interest. I am sending you this
advance notice in order that you may make what arrangements
are necessary for the disposition of the funds. I have your communication of the 6th inst., informing
me that on June 30, the Corporation will find it
convenient to pay the amount of $100,000 to the University
of Virginia together with the regular quarterly payment of
interest. Confirming our conversation of this morning:The
Chi Phi Fraternity would like to lease for the purposes
of building a fraternity house, a plot of land on
Rugby Road between The Gymnasium and the Kappa Sigma house. Please refer to our letter of May 31st in which
we ask for a lease to a certain piece of land for the use of
the Chi Phi Fraternity:- | | Similar Items: | Find |
243 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes ![](https://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/icons/default/i_tei.gif) | | | Published: | 1922 | | | 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 following members present: I have made very careful study
of the cost of heating to the University from the new central
station with a view to making recommendation as to a fair
distribution of charges for heat. In reference to E. W. James Estate Income I wish to express however haltingly - my deep appreciation
of the generous kindness you have shown me during
my illness, - a kindness which has made my sickness much
more tolerable and my recovery more certain and complete. When our Board of School Trustees decided recently
to erect a school for the colored population of this place the
most suitable site was found to be on the land now owned by
Mr. John Armstrong Chaloner. We asked Mr. Chaloner to donate
ten acres of land for this purpose. Mr. Chaloner considered
the matter carefully and decided he wanted to doit because of
his love for the people of Roanoke Rapids and his desire to do
something for the colored people of this section. He explained,
however, that he had made a deed of this land to
the Universities of North Carolina and Virginia but that he
thought since he was to have the use of this land during his
lifetime that there would be no difficulty in conveying in fee
simple to our School Board. He suggested that we have our
lawyer investigate the case which has been done. Our attorney
advises that the most suitable way to convey this land is to
have a deed signed jointly by Mr. Chaloner and the proper
authorities from the two universities. I have just written
Dr. Chase to determine whether the University of North
Carolina would be willing to join with the University
of Virginia in making the deed. We asked for ten acres because
we thought that was the smallest part we could get
along with. Knowing your spirit and interest in the cause of
education I feel that you will understand our position and
that there will be little difficulty in getting the proper
acceptance of this arrangement. | | Similar Items: | Find |
244 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes ![](https://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/icons/default/i_tei.gif) | | | Published: | 1922 | | | 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 following members present: Replying further to your letter of the 3d inst.,
with which you enclosed copy of resolution of the Board of
Visitors passed at its meeting of October 17th, 1922, with
reference to distribution of income from E. W. James Estate,
together with a copy of your report to the Rector and Visitors
presented by you, as I understand it, at their meeting
of October 17th, allow me to say that after further consideration
of this matter, I agree entirely in conclusion reached
by you in this very clear and explicit report. | | Similar Items: | Find |
245 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes ![](https://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/icons/default/i_tei.gif) | | | Published: | 1923 | | | 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 eight o'clock P. M., with adjournment to the
President's home the following morning at ten o'clock that
certain matters might be considered with him, he not being able
to leave his home on account of recent illness. A committee appointed by you to investigate
and report upon the pressures in the University
water main met today with Mr. Bennet, City Manager, and
Messrs. Williamson and Carroll, Engineers. This is to certify that THE RECTOR AND VISITORS OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, a corporation under the laws of the
State of Virginia, is indebted to the Alumni Board of
Trustees of the University of Virginia Endowment Fund in the
sum of EIGHTY-TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS ($82,000.00), payable six
months after date when payment thereof shall be demanded in
writing by the said Alumni Board of Trustees of the University
Endowment Fund. | | Similar Items: | Find |
246 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes ![](https://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/icons/default/i_tei.gif) | | | Published: | 1923 | | | 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 8 o'clock P. M., with the following members
present: Visitors Dillard, Duke, Greaver, Hart, McIntire,
McVea, Oliver and Scott, and President Alderman. It is a pleasure to report the completion
of the first two units of the new heating plant and
the successful operation of the same through its first heating
season. There are now installed about 75 000 square feet of
radiation surface, approximately 72% of the entire heating load
for all permanent buildings south of Ivy Road. This agreement is entered into this the 11th day of June
1923 between The Rector and Visitors of the University
of Virginia, of Charlottesville, Va., and the Department
of Game and Inland Fisheries - Witnesseth - that for
and in consideration of the sum of one dollar and the
provisions of Chapter 93, Acts of the General Assembly
of Virginia, 1922, an Act for the establishment of State
Game Sanctuaries in this State, the said The Rector and
Visitors of the University of Virginia assigns to the
Department of Game and Inland Fisheries certain land described
as follows: | | Similar Items: | Find |
248 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes ![](https://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/icons/default/i_tei.gif) | | | Published: | 1923 | | | 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 present:
The Rector, Rev. C. Harding Walker, Visitors Duke, McIntire,
McVea, Oliver, Scott and Williams, and President Alderman. RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE WHITEHEAD SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE I have thought for sometime that I wanted
to do something for my Alma Mater - the University of
Virginia - to which I owe so much; but when the drive was
on for the University I had been in the Army for more than
two years with my personal and family expenses more than three
times what my income was and I was not certain about the
future. | | Similar Items: | Find |
249 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes ![](https://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/icons/default/i_tei.gif) | | | 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, at 8 o'clock p.m., with the following present:
The Rector C. Harding Walker, Visitors Dillard, Duke, McVea,
Oliver and Scott, and President Alderman. The Committee on Saturday, October
13th had interviews with Dr. Hancock and Dr. Lambeth
and saw both heating plants. The Committee is of the
opinion that it would be well for them to be under one
head and as Dr. Hancock has resigned, advise that Dr. Lambeth
be placed in charge of all heating plants. I have the honor herewith to report
on the work of the expedition sent to California
by the Leander of McCormick Observatory to make observations
on the total eclipse of the sun on September
10, 1923. Your letter of the eleventh was duly
received. I went over this morning to see Mr. Bradford
about the transfer of the portrait of Jefferson in the
Colonnade Club to Jefferson Hall. With the assistance of
the janitor there, I hung the picture where Sully's
Jefferson formerly hung. The Jefferson Society has now in its possession
a portrait of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Sully purchased
some seventy years ago by the Society for the sum of
approximately five hundred dollars. | | Similar Items: | Find |
250 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes ![](https://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/icons/default/i_tei.gif) | | | 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 Rector, C. Harding Walker; Visitors H. D.
Dillard, M. Carter Hall, D. D. Hull, Jr., Harris Hart, Paul
G. McIntire, Hollis Rinehart, Fred W. Scott and Lewis G.
Williams, and President Alderman present. This is to certify that THE RECTOR AND VISITORS OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, a corporation under the laws
of the State of Virginia, is indebted to the Alumni Board
of Trustees of the University of Virginia Endowment Fund
in the sum of | | Similar Items: | Find |
253 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes ![](https://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/icons/default/i_tei.gif) | | | Published: | 1925 | | | 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 9:30 a.m. with the Rector, C. Harding Walker,
Visitors Hall, Hart, Hull, McIntire, Rinehart, Scott and
Williams, and President Alderman Present. I am today sending to Governor
Trinkle my formal resignation as a member of the
Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia.
I cannot refrain from writing at the same time to
express to you and the other members of the Board
my heartfelt appreciation of the delightful way in
which you welcomed me and made me so completely one
of yourselves. I value more than I can tell you
the association in so high a duty with men like those
on our Board. The meetings have been a pleasure and
a privilege. RESOLVED, That the Rector and Visitors having
learned with regret, of Dr. Emilie W. McVea's ill
health and resignation, deeply sensible of the loss
to the Board, and appreciating her many kindnesses
and courtesies, have appointed the undersigned committee
to express their sincere hope that she will speedily
recover her health. At the forty-ninth meeting of the
State Board of Health Committee for Blue Ridge Sanatorium,
held at Blue Ridge Sanatorium, Charlottesville,
Virginia, February 4, 1925; the following resolution
was adopted: | | Similar Items: | Find |
255 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes ![](https://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/icons/default/i_tei.gif) | | | Published: | 1926 | | | 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 9:30 a.m. with the following members present:
B. F. Buchanan, M. Carter Hall, Harris Hart, D. D.
Hull, Paul G. McIntire, Mrs. B. B. Munford, Hollis Rinehart,
Lewis C. Williams and C. Harding Walker, Messrs.
Buchanan, McIntire, Williams and Walker, and Mrs. Munford
having been appointed by the Governor for the term beginning
March 1st, 1926, presented qualifications for the office
of Visitor of the University. | | Similar Items: | Find |
256 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes ![](https://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/icons/default/i_tei.gif) | | | Published: | 1926 | | | 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 a.m., with the following members
present: Hart, Hull, McIntire, Rinehart, Scott, Williams,
Walker and President Alderman. It is my sad duty to announce to the faculty and students
of the University the death of Professor Charles
Hancockk in the fifty-seventh year of his age. The Committee appointed to select and recommend
sites for fraternity houses met today and after viewing
the locations, make the following recommendation: At a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial
held on May 24, 1926, the following resolution was passed
on behalf of the University of Virginia: I have this day received your communication of
June 3rd containing the resolution of the Board of
Trustees of the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial,
wherein a sum not to exceed $137,500 was appropriated
to the University of Virginia toward its program of
research in the Social Sciences. I shall present
this resolution to the Rector and Visitors of the
University at their meeting on June 14th, and shall
at that time convey their expression, as the Governing
Body of the University, of their deep appreciation of
this action. In the meantime, I can perhaps personally
assure you of my own profound sense of obligation
to you for the patient thought you have given to the
matter, and I assure you that I shall want to carry
out the work which this money is intended to promote,
with the very highest desire to have the exact thing
that the Board intends to get done in our American
life. At a meeting of the committee representing
the Richmond Alumni of the University, it was unanimously
voted to offer to the University the support of a Research
Professor in the School of History. We expect to raise
$4,000 a year for five years for the support of this Chair.
We decided to specify history because we feel that it will
make a stronger appeal to the Alumni. We will be in a
position later in the summer to arrange the details necessary
to establishing this Chair with the authorities of
the University. | | Similar Items: | Find |
258 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes ![](https://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/icons/default/i_tei.gif) | | | Published: | 1927 | | | 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 p.m., with Messrs. Walker, Hull, Williams,
Mrs. Munford and President Alderman present. Your committee on the New Medical Buildings
recommends to the President that the Rector and
Visitors of the University of Virginia authorize
their Buildings Committee to enter into an agreement
to carry forward the construction of the Central
Heating Plant for the New Medical Building in accordance
with the proposals submitted by Mr. J. A. Almirall,
hereto attached. The proposals include one boiler
for the University and a building for the whole former
plant to inclose another boiler and electrical
equipment for lighting the University, therefor the
University is to pay $35,000 and the Medical Building
Fund is to pay $50,000. The Medical Building Fund
will loan $35,000 to the University to be repaid later. At the meeting which the writer had with you
yesterday morning, relative to the installation of
new boiler at Central Power Plant, he left with you
the two letters dated February 9th and February 11th
which had previously been written concerning this
subject. | | Similar Items: | Find |
259 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes ![](https://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/icons/default/i_tei.gif) | | | Published: | 1927 | | | 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 p.m., lasting until 11:30 p.m.,
when adjournment was had to the morning of April 23rd
at 9 o'clock. After due deliveration and careful study, supplemented
by a personal interview with several agricultural
experts at V. P. I., the committee on "Blandy Experimental
Farm" is of the opinion that the tentative educational program
submitted below is practical, and furthermore, that it
will (1) comply with the will of the donor, (2) be a service
to the people of the State, and (3) will not conflict with
the work which is now being done at the Virginia Polytechnic
Institute. In light of these facts then, the following
recommendations are made: I beg to advise that, pursuant to instructions
given me at the March 1st meeting of the Board, I
called on Bentley W. Warren and Irvin McD. Garfield,
trustees of the Estate of Arthur W. Austin, on April
11th and received from them the corpus of the estate
consisting of the following: | | Similar Items: | Find |
260 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes ![](https://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/icons/default/i_tei.gif) | | | Published: | 1927 | | | 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 14th which convened at 10 o'clock. I beg to report that the John Alexander
Muir bequest has been received and delivered to
the State-Planters Bank & Trust Company, of
Richmond, Va., in accordance with resolution adopted
at the meeting of the Board April 22, and that
formal contract for the care of same, similar to
those now in existence with the Virginia Trust
Company and the Peoples National Bank, has been
executed. The estate was forwarded by the First
National Bank of Alexandria, Va., Trustees, to their
respresentative in Richmond, being delivered to
the depository upon official receipt for same. The schedule of proposed salary increases for
certain members of the teaching staff and other employees
of the University of Virginia for the session
1927-28, as approved by the Rector and Visitors of
the University on April 22nd, 1927, has been received. You have submitted to me a copy of your letter
to the Rector and Visitors, under date of April 22nd,
in which you report having received certain securities
and monies to be held by the University under will
of Arthur W. Austin, deceased. The undersigned Committee, appointed at the meeting
of the Board on April 22nd to investigate the charges
preferred by the Rev. George Floyd Rogers against Prof.
William E. Knight, begs leave to report as follows: | | Similar Items: | Find |
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