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1Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsAdd
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1915 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 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.
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2Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsAdd
 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 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.
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3Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsAdd
 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 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.
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4Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsAdd
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1916 
 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 8:00 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.
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5Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsAdd
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1917 
 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 with the following members present: Armistead C. Gordon, Rector, and Visitors Craddock, Irvine, Michie, Hatton and Norton.
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6Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsAdd
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1917 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 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.)
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7Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsAdd
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1917 
 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 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:
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8Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsAdd
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1917 
 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 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.
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9Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsAdd
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1917 
 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 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.
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10Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsAdd
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1917 
 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 Oclock P. M. There were present Rector Gordon and Visitors Craddock, Michie, Irvine, Stearnes, Turnbull and Walker, and President Alderman.
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11Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsAdd
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1918 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: The Board met on this date in special session, pursuant to call of the Rector. There were present Rector Irvine and Visitors Hatton, Michie, Norton, Robertson and Bryan.
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12Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsAdd
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1918 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 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.
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13Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsAdd
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1918 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 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.
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14Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsAdd
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1919 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: At a called meeting of the Rector and Visitors held on this date at 8 o'clock there were present the Rector, R. Tate Irvine, and Visitors John Stewart Bryan, H. D. Dillard, Harris Hart, Goodrich Hatton, G. R. B. Michie, and Alexander F. Robertson. I am sending you be registered mail (fully insured, for $102,000), a United States Certificate of Indebtedness No. 647 for $100,000. dated January 2, and due June 3, 1919, the interest of which amounts to $1,873.97 and my cheque for $48,126.03 and including the cheque for $5,000. that I handed you in Charlottesville makes a total of $155,000. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of March 14th. I have also received, by registered mail, the United States Certificate of Indebtedness No. 647 for $100,000. dated January 2, and due June 3, 1919, the interest of which amounts to $1,873.97. I have also received your check for $48,126.03. I have previously received from your hands a check for $5,000. The total of all these receipts, as you state in your letter, is $155,000. As the parents of the late Farrell Dabney Minor, Jr., who graduated from the Law School of the University of Virginia in June, 1911, and who died in France on August 29, 1918 from wounds received in battle, it is our desire to erect some usefull and enduring memorial which will permanently associate his name with the University of Virginia, - his, as well as his father's, Alma Mater. This motive springs not alone from the promptings of parental affection for the memory of an only son, - and an only child, - but from the wish to give some outward expression to the love and loyalty that he cherished for the University. I have this day received your letter of the 28th inst., with the enclosure, giving so moving and interesting an account of the life and service of your son, Farrell Dabney Minor, Jr. I have read with the greatest interest and approval the communication in which you give to the University of Virginia the sum of $10,000 to be known as the Farrell Dabney Minor, Jr., donation, and to be used for the general purpose of the enrichment of the Law Library through the purchase of books and other accessories. I note, of course, the conditions of the use of the fund set forth so clearly by you, the wisdom of which I sincerely subscribe to. I can, in advance, accept for the Rector and Visitors this noble gift, and can, in advance, assure you of their profound gratification and appreciation of the great service you have done to the University and of their pride that so brave and noble a youth shall be here commemorated. My wife and I appreciate your kind letter of the 31st ult. I have written my kinsman, Prof. R. C. Minor, consenting to the publication of the sketch. Responding to your request for the expression of a further opinion in connection with the matter of the Oliver H. Payne bequest to the University, in view of supposed new evidence, I beg to submit as follows: Whereas Oliver H. Payne, late of the City of New York, died on the 27th day of June, 1917, leaving a Last Will and Testament dated the 7th day of September, 1915, and the same was thereafter duly admitted to probate by the Surrogate's Court of the County of New York, and letters testamentary thereon were issued out of said court to the Executors named in said Will; and It was my intention and understanding in making the gift of $155,000. for the establishment of a School of Fine Arts, that $5,000. or as much thereof as might be necessary, should be used outright for the purchase of equipping the School of Art and Architecture.
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15Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsAdd
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1919 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: The annual meeting of the Rector and Visitors was held on this date with Visitors John Stewart Bryan, Goodrich Hatton. Harding Walker, Geo. R. B. Michie, Judge J. K. M. Norton, Alex. F. Robertson present. The Rector being absent, Mr. Hatton was elected to preside. President Alderman, who was unable to be present, requested Dean Page to act in his place and present the docket. I beg to advise that final settlement has been made between the War Department and the University of Virginia covering contracts for Section A and Section B of the Students' Army Training Corps as follows: I am requested by the Albemarle Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, to advise you that the scholarship now standing in its name was, on June the fifth, named by the Chapter in honor of Lieutenant Robert Hancock Wood, Jr., Aviator U. S. A.
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16Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsAdd
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1919 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: Pursuant to a call by the Rector, a special meeting of the Board of Visitors was held on this date at 8 o'clock p.m., with the following members present: Rector R. Tate Irvine, and Visitors H. D. Dillard, E. Lee Greever, Harris Hart, Geo. R. B. Michie, Alex. F. Robertson, and C. Harding Walker. From: President of the University of Virginia, The Committee on Buildings and Grounds reports that after conference with the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds and the Bursar, the Superintendent is authorized to lease to the University Shop, Inc., the center store and the store adjoining it on the east for the term of three years next following August 1, 1919 at $125 per month, payable at the end of each month during the term. The President announced that Emeritus Professor Francis H. Smith had reached his ninetieth birthday on this date and that he was receiving from all sections of the State telegrams and messages of respect and good wishes. The President was authorized to prepare and send to Professor Smith on behalf of the Board a resolution of respect in honor of this his ninetieth birthday.
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17Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsAdd
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1920 
 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, 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:
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18Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsAdd
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1920 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 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.
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19Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsAdd
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1920 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 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
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20Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsAdd
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1920 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: Pursuant to the call of the Rector, the Board met in special session on the above date with the following present: Rector Bryan, and Visitors Dillard, Duke, Oliver, Robertson, Scott, Walker and President Alderman.
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