| | 1 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1910) March 26, 1910  | | | | Published: | 1910 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | At a meeting of the Board of Visitors of the University
of Virginia, at 2:00 P. M. on above date, in the President's
Office, In pursuance of our conversation, I have the honor to
request that I be granted a leave of absence from the University
of Virginia for the remainder of the current session, so
that I may spend this period in Europe. I would not make this
request if I believed that my absence would be detrimental to
the University of Virginia. I have been fortunate in procuring
the consent of Dr. George A. Wauchope, of the University
of South Carolina, to fill my chair during my absence. Dr.
Wauchope is a Virginian, a graduate of Washington and Lee
University, and a Doctor of Philosophy of Johns Hopkins
University, and aprofessor of most successful experience. He
is a man of culture and refinement, an excellent writer,
and I am sure will prove an inspiration to the classes I
leave in his charge. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your communication of
the 13th, inst., requesting a leave of absence from the University
for the remainder of the present session, and stating
that you have secured the consent of Dr. George A. Wauchope
to serve in your stead. I am enclosing a correspondence between
Dr. Kent and myself which explains itself. I am sending the
correspondence to you with the request that you signify your
approval or disapproval of the request contained in Dr. Kent's
letter and approved by me, in order that I may inform Dr. Kent
and officially inform Dr. Wauchope. There is no question of
money involved in the transaction,- - that is to say, Dr.
Kent's salary will go on, and he will compensate Dr. Wauchope
for his services out of his (Dr. Kent's) salary, the University
budget arrangement remaining undisturbed. The essential
point, of course, is the essential fitness of Dr. Wauchope.
He is, from all accounts, a very valuable and interesting man.
His services will be from February until June, and I do not
believe any harm will come to the character of our teaching,
and some good from the interchange. I believe much good will
come to the Department from Dr. Kent's residence in Europe for
this period. It is a sort of Sabbatical year arrangement,
without cost to the Institution, that I heartily approve of. Upon application of Dr. Charles W. Kent, I have recommended
to the Rector and Visitors of the University that he
be given a vacation for the remainder of the session. As
you are aware, it is his purpose to spend this vacation
abroad. Dr. Kent, in making the application to me, recommended
most enthusiastically your name as a suitable incumbent
for the Chair for the remainder of the session of 1910. I have to report that about 12:30 o'clock on the morning
of the 8th of February, fire was discovered in the basement
of the Chapel. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 2 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1910) May 6, 1910 | | | | Published: | 1910 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | At the annual meeting of the Board of Visitors of the
University of Virginia, on May 6th, in the President's Office, The undersigned respectfully reports that pursuant to the
resolution of the Visitors at the June meeting, 1909, providing
for the transfer to the Alumni Board of Trustees of the University
of Virginia Endowment Fund, as in said resolution set
forth, on March 30, 1910, after having had a previous meeting
with Mr. Eppa Hunton, Jr., the Treasurer of said Alumni Board
of Trustees in Richmond, in order to arrange the various details
for the proper transfer of those of said securities which
were registered, the undersigned receipted to the Virginia Trust
Company for the following named and described bonds, and turned
the same over to said Hunton as Treasurer of said Alumni Board
of Trustees of the University of Virginia Endowment Fund taking
his receipts therefor in the words and figures following: viz.- Received of the Rector and Visitors of the University of
Virginia through the Honorable Armistead C. Gordon, Rector,
the bond with all unmatured coupons thereto attached. Received of the Rector and Visitors of the University of
Virginia, through the Honorable Armistead C. Gordon, Rector
all of the above listed securities with all of the unmatured
coupons thereto attached. The Executive Committee of the local chapter of Phi Beta
Kappa requests that, unless you yourself see some reason for
not doing so, you will submit to the Board of Visitors, their
request that the Chapter be granted the use of one of the rooms
of the University, and would suggest as suitable for the purpose,
the unoccupied room on East Range in the building in which
Dr. B. W. Green now resides. We desire this room to keep in it
the records, library, photographs, and other property of the
Chapter, and for the use of the officers of the Chapter in the
discharge of their duties. I enclose herewith a formal contract prepared by Messrs.
Moon and Fife, relative to the removal of the track, &c., by
the Street Car Company. It has been executed by the Company,
and I have signed it as Chairman of the Executive Committee.
When this Company began the work, I was under the impression
that the Committee, composed of yourself, Dr. Lambeth, and
myself, had power to act in the matter; but it seems that the
power was vested in you gentlemen and the Executive Committee.
I will be glad if you will have this paper properly executed
at the meeting of the Board called for Saturday. I regret to
say it will be impossible for me to attend the meeting, as I
shall be out of town. On the 10th day of April 1908, the Board of Visitors of
the University of Virginia adopted a resolution that the petition
of the Charlottesville and Albemarle Railway Company
for change of the location of its line be referred to you
gentlemen with authority to act. I enclose herewith a paper from Mr. L. T. Hanckel, President
of the Street Railway Company, making application for
permission to change the location and grade of the street-car
track as it passes over the lands of the University. The undersigned respectfully requests your honorable
body to permit it to change the location of its Street Car
Line running through the premises of the University of Virginia.
It is desired to change the location of its railway
line from its present one to a point lying north of the trestle
and south of the light and heating plant of the University
of Virginia,- the new line to be located at such point and
along such curves and grades as will be agreeable to and approved
by your body. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 3 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1910) November 18, 1910 | | | | Published: | 1910 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | At a called meeting of the Board of Visitors, of
the University of Virginia, at 2:30 P. M., on above date,
in the office of the President, East Lawn. I received a copy of passages from the Records of
the University of Virginia, having to do with the establishment,
of the University Observatory by Mr. Leander McCormick and the
endowment of the professorship and working fund in connection
therewith. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your communication
of June 11th, containing a presentation of the conditions
under which the McCormick Observatory was established at the
University of Virginia, and making certain suggestions as to
the future use of the observatory and the future conduct
of the astronomical work at the University. I had hoped
to be able to present that matter to the Board at their
June meeting, but by reason of circumstances beyond my control,
that meeting was not held, and it is not possible
to bring the matter before them before the early fall.
Your letter and all the facts must be brought before them and
a clear decision reached. The great majority of the Board
are men who have taken up service on the Board since these
matters were handled, and it will be necessary for them to
go back over the records and make a study of the situation
themselves. I wish to acknowledge receipt of your letter of
June 20th which has been forwarded to me. Please accept thanks for yours of the
3d. According to the records of the Board of Visitors of the
University, the duties of the Professor of Astronomy were to
be two-fold: 1st. To teach theoretical and practical astronomy:
2nd. To spend any remaining time in the use of the telescope. Enclosed please find a copy of the above mentioned
trust, the original of which is recorded and filed in the
clerk's office of the Albemarle Co., court, also an order
on the Albemarle Nat. Bank for the two bonds mentioned in
said document, the interest from which is to be devoted to
the scholarship. I have the honor to report that at their meeting of Nov. 7
last, the Academic Faculty approved the attached outline of a
proposal course in Public Speaking. By resolution the Faculty
recommended that the proposed course be approved by the
President and Visitors and the the course be given
the value of one elective at large, when offered for the
Baccalaureate Degree. The Charlottesville and Albemarle Railway
Company of Charlottesville, Virginia, a corporation
duly chartered under the laws of the State of Virginia, respectfully
requests that your Honorable Board will grant
it the right to locate and operate an electric railway line
upon and through the property of the University of Virginia,
along the terrace West of what is known as "Rugby Road", and
between said Road and the walk immediately East of the Fayerweather
Gymnasium. Said line to begin at the Ivy Turnpike
Road, and run in a North-westerly direction to the C. & O.
Railway overhead bridge on the Rugby Road: said line to be
located and constructed under the general supervision and
direction of the President and the Superintendent of Grounds
and Buildings of the University of Virginia, and the Chairman
of the Executive Committee of your Board; and that an order
be entered on the minutes of your Board authorizing the said
line to be located on an through the property of the University
of Virginia, subject to the aforesaid provision. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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