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1Author:  Bouldin Powhatan 1830-1907Add
 Title:  Home reminiscences of John Randolph  
 Published:  2006 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: JOHN RANDOLPH was the most remarkable character that this country has ever produced; indeed, it is doubted whether there ever lived in any country a man so brilliant and at the same time so eccentric. A great deal has been written concerning him, and yet the public curiosity has been by no means satisfied. We purpose to add our contribution, which is composed in a great measure of the recollections of his old constituents and neighbors. But, before entering upon our proper task of home reminiscences, let us give an outline of our subject, reserving future chapters for the completion of the picture. If it should meet your view I will preach the funeral of your servant Billy at 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the second Sabbath in September. Such of your black people as may attend the meeting at Mossingford on that day may reach your house by that time, and the meeting will be closed in time for them to reach their homes by night. "Indeed, my attention had been, in some measure, distracted by the scene of distress which my house has exhibited for some time past. Mr. Curd breathed his last on Thursday morning, half past three o'clock, after a most severe illness, which lasted sixteen days. I insisted on his coming up here, where he had every possible aid, that the best medical aid, and most assiduous nursing could afford him. During the last week of his sickness I was never absent from the house but twice, about an hour each time, for air and exercise; I sat up with him, and gave him almost all of his medicines, with my own hand, and saw that every possible attention was paid to him. This is to me an unspeakable comfort, and it pleased God to support me under this trying scene, by granting me better health than I had experienced for seven years. On Thursday evening I followed him to the grave; and soon after, the effects of the fatigue and distress of mind that I had suffered, prostrated my strength and spirits, and I became ill. Three successive nights of watching were too much for my system to endure; I was with him, when he died without a groan or a change of feature." I understand several expressions have escaped you, in their nature personal and highly injurious to my reputation. The exceptionable language imputed to you may be briefly and substantially comprised in the following statements: That you have avowed the opinion that I was a rogue—that you have ascribed to me the infernal disposition to commit murder to prevent the exposition of my sinister designs, and through me have stigmatized those citizen soldiers who compose the military corps of our country. No person can be more sensible of the pernicious tendency of such cruel and undeserved reflections in their application to public men, or private individuals than yourself; nor is any man more competent to determine the just reparation to which they establish a fair claim. Under these impressions I have no hesitation to appeal to your justice, your magnanimity and your gallantry, to prescribe the manner of redress, being persuaded your decision will comport with the feelings of a man of honor—that you will be found equally prompt to assert a right or repair a wrong. I transmit this letter through the post-office, and shall expect your answer by such a channel as you may deem proper. Several months ago I was informed of your having said that you were acquainted with what had passed in the grand jury room at Richmond last spring, and that you declared a determination to challenge me. I am to consider your letter of the last night by mail as the execution of that avowed purpose, and through the same channel I return you my answer. Whatever may have been the expressions used by me in regard to your character, they were the result of deliberate opinion, founded on the most authoritative evidence, the greater part of which my country imposed upon me, to weigh and decide upon; they were such as to my knowledge and to yours have been delivered by the first men in the Union, and probably by a full moiety of the American people. Infirm as your health is, your country has made another call upon you for your services. I have no right to ask, nor do I enquire whether you will accept of this highly honorable appointment. As a friend I have a right to say your country has no further claims upon you, and that you ought to consult your own comfort and happiness. I cannot express to you how deeply I am penetrated by your note which Peyton has this moment handed to me. The office of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia will soon become vacant, and I am anxious that the place should be filled by one of the most capable and distinguished of our fellow-citizens. By the last mail I received, under Mr. Van Buren's cover, your letter, submitting to my acceptance the mission to Russia. 1. Resolved, That while we retain a grateful sense of the many services rendered by Andrew Jackson, Esq., to the United States, we owe it to our country and to our posterity to make our solemn protest against many of the doctrines of his late proclamation. There was an unusually numerous collection of people at Charlotte Court-house to-day, it being expected that the subject of the proclamation would be taken into consideration, and hoped that Mr. Randolph might be there. Though in a state of the most extreme feebleness, he made his appearance last night, and to day at twelve o'clock was lifted to his seat on the bench. He rose and spoke a few minutes, but soon sat down exhausted, and continued to speak sitting, though sometimes for a moment the excitement of his feelings brought him to his feet. He ended his speech by moving a set of resolutions, of which a copy is subjoined. I confirm to my brother Beverly the slaves I gave him, and for which I have a reconveyance. Codicil to this my will, made the 5th day of December, 1821. I revoke the bequest to T. B. Dudley, and bequeath the same to my executor, to whom also I give in fee simple all my lots and houses in Farmville, and every other species of property whatever that I die possessed of, saving the aforesaid specifications in my will. The codicil of 1826. The Codicil of 1828. In the will above recited, I give to my said ex'or, Wm. Leigh, the refusal of the land above Owen's (now Clark's) ferry road, at a price that I then thought very moderate, but which a change in the times has rendered too high to answer my friendly intentions towards my said executor in giving him that refusal. I do, therefore, so far, but so far only, modify 14 my said will as to reduce that price 50 per cent.; in other words, one-half, at which he may take all the land above the ferry road that I inherited from my father, all that I bought of the late John Daniel, deceased, and of Tom Beaseley, Charles Beaseley, and others of that name and family, this last being the land that Gabriel Beaseley used to have in possession, and whereon Beverley Tucker lived, and which I hold by deed from him and his wife, of record in Charlotte county court. As lawyers and courts of law are extremely addicted to making wills for dead men, which they never made when living, it is my will and desire that no person who shall set aside, or attempt to set aside, the will above referred to, shall ever inherit, possess or enjoy any part of my estate, real or personal. Codicil of 1831. The will of January 31st. 1832. I received my dear papa's affectionate epistle, and was sorry to find that he thought himself neglected. I assure you, my dear sir, that there has scarcely a fortnight elapsed since uncle's absence without my writing to you, and I would have paid dearly for you to have received them. I sent them by the post, and indeed no other opportunity except by Capt. Crozier, and I did not neglect that. Be well assured, my dear sir, our expenses since our arrival here have been enormous and by far greater than our estate, especially loaded as it is with debt, can bear; however, I flatter myself, my dear papa, that upon looking over the accounts you will find that my share is, by comparison trifling, and hope that by the wise admonitions of so affectionate a parent, and one who has our welfare and interest so much at heart, we may be able to shun the rock of prodigality, upon which so many people continually split, and by which the unhappy victim is reduced, not only to poverty, but also to despair and all the horrors attending it. I received last night your letter of the 17th instant, covering a draft on the treasury for $104.27, for which accept my hearty thanks. I wish I could thank you also for your news concerning the conjectured "marriage between a reverend divine and one who has been long considered among the immaculate votaries of Diana." I can easily guess at the name of the former; but there are really so many ancient maids in your town, of desperate expectations in the matrimonial lottery, that it is no easy task to tell what person in particular comes under the above denomination. I have been so unwell as to be incapable of carrying this to the post office until to-day. Yesterday we had a most violent snow storm, which lasted from 10 o'clock A. M. till two this morning, during which time it snowed incessantly. Uncle T. is not come. No news of my trunk, at which I am very uneasy. I wrote to Mr. Campbell by Capt. Dangerfield to learn by what vessel it was sent, but have received no answer. There is no such thing in this city as Blackstone in 4to. The house has come, as yet, to no determination respecting Mr. Madison's resolutions. They will not pass, thanks to our absent delegates; nay, were they to go through the H. of R. the S. would reject them, as there is no senator from Maryland and but one from Georgia. Thus are the interests of the Southern States basely betrayed by the indolence of some and the villainy of others of her statesmen,—Messrs. G—r, H—n and L—e generally voting with the paper men. I was mistaken, my dear sir, when I said Uncle Tucker had not arrived in town. He got here the day before yesterday, and did not know where to find me. In my way to the post office this morning, I was told of his arrival, and flew to see him. He looks as well as I ever saw him, and was quite cheerful—made a number of affectionate enquiries concerning you and your family, my brother and his wife and little boy. He cannot go through Virginia in his way to Charleston. I pressed him very warmly to do it, but you know his resolutions when once taken are unalterable. I gave you in a former letter a full account of our friends in Bermuda. My uncle says that they complain much of your neglecting to write to them. He seemed much hurt at the circumstance. You cannot think how rejoiced I was to see him look so well and cheerful. It has quite revived my spirits. He stays in this city a week or ten days, when he returns to New York, where he will remain five or six weeks before he goes to Charleston. If you write him, which I suppose you will unquestionably do, you had better direct to New York. I shall write next post, till then, my dearest father, adieu. I must not forget to tell you that Dr. Bartlett, the spermaceti doctor, as Mr. Tudor used to call him, has turned privateersman, and commands a vessel out of Bermuda. Miss Betsy Gilchrist is to be married to a Lieut. Hicks of the British army, and Mr. Fibb, it is reported, is also to be married to another officer whose name I do not recollect. I see that you begin again to cease writing to me; and I hope that you will be so good as to send me a letter at least once a week, as you are so shortly to set out on your circuit, when I cannot expect to hear from you as often as when you are at home. The enclosed letter I wrote some time ago. I have every day been expecting an opportunity by which I could send it without subjecting you to the expense of postage, which perhaps I too often do. As the subject is an important one, I hope you will answer it as soon as you conveniently can. Your welcome letter of the 13th from Petersburg reached me yesterday. I waited for its receipt, that I might acknowledge that of its predecessor at the same time. I am sorry that I did so, for I wanted to know whether I could advantageously place my horse, Roanoke, in your neighborhood? I am sorry that you can't take filly; but I pledge, as the boys say, a place for her in your training stables next autumn, and another if you have it to spare. Could I get Bolling Graves, think you, to train for me? I mean next autumn of course, for his spring engagements are no doubt complete. There is some mistake about that rifle. It was never sent home. The last time I saw it it was in J. M. & D.'s compting room. Have I any other article there except the fir pole from Mont Blanc? Uncle Nat.* *Honorable Nathaniel Macon. is greatly mended, and I am satisfied that if the "wicked world cease from troubling," which they will not do in this world, I wish they may in the next, he would be well. He made a remark to me the other day, that forcibly reminded me of Gay's Shepherd and Philosopher—the best of all his fables, except "the Hare and many friends." It will not require your sagacity to make the application. "All animals," said he, "provide for their own offspring, and there the thing stops. The birds rear their young by their joint cares and labours. The cow suckles and takes care of her own calf, but she does not nurse or provide for that calf's calf." "The birds do not build nests for their young one's eggs, nor hatch them, nor feed the nestlings." Since the sailing of the last packet from Liverpool, I received via St. Petersburg your letter of the 21st of August—the only one that I have had the pleasure to get from you. This is no common-place address, for without profession or pretension such you have quietly and modestly proved yourself to be, while, like Darius, I have been This will be presented to you by my neighbor, Elisha E. Hundley, whose affairs take him to what, in old times, we used to call the Bear Grass Country.
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2Author:  Randolph John 1773-1833Add
 Title:  Letters of John Randolph, to a young relative  
 Published:  2006 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: I send you by the New Orleans mail, "letters written by the great Mr. Pitt, afterwards Earl of Chatham, to his nephew, when at college." You know my opinion of Lord Chatham: that he was at once the greatest practical statesman that ever lived, and the most transcendent orator. With all this, he was a truly good man, (indeed, he must have been, since virtue is essential to great excellence in laudable pursuits,) and the most elegant and polished gentleman of his time. We have examined the National School Manual, and pleased with the plan. From our knowledge of the various systems pursued in the country schools, many which, upon the change of teachers, serve rather to ard, than advance, the pupil, we do not hesitate to commend the Manual, as having not only a tendency uniformity and order, but also to save expense, the complaint of which is without parallel. Having examined the general plan of the 1st, 2d, and parts of the "National School Manual," and having also taken a cursory view of some of the details, I satisfied that it is a work of no common merit. I have examined with much care, and great satisfaction, the "National School Manual," compiled by M. R. Bartlett. The opinion I have formed of its merits, is of little importance, after the numerous and highly respectable testimonials to its value already in your possession. I have examined with care and a high degree of interest the work called the "National School Manual," by Mr. M. R. Bartlett, and am so well satisfied with its merits, and that it will eventually be adopted in all our common schools, to the exclusion of every other work of the kind now in use, that I feel authorized to exert my influence to have the work introduced forthwith into my school. "The `Outlines of History,' I consider an excellent class book of general history for the use of schools. The questions added by Mr. Frost, are a most valuable auxiliary for the teacher as well as the pupil. I shall use the Outlines' in my school, and cordially recommend it to parents and teachers. I have just received a copy of your edition of the `Outlines of History.' From a cursory perusal, I am disposed to give it a high rank as a school book. So well satisfied am I with the arrangement and execution of the work, that I intend to put it immediately into the lands of a class in my own school.
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3Author:  Dabney Richard Heath 1860-1947Add
 Title:  John Randolph  
 Published:  2006 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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4Author:  Becker Carl Lotus 1873-1945Add
 Title:  The Declaration of independence  
 Published:  2006 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: It is often forgotten that the document which we know as the Declaration of Independence is not the official act by which the Continental Congress voted in favor of separation from Great Britain. June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee, on behalf of the Virginia delegation, submitted to the Continental Congress three resolutions, of which the first declared that "these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved."1 1Journals of Congress (Ford ed.), V, 424. This resolution, which may conveniently be called the Resolution of Independence, was finally voted by the Continental Congress on the 2 of July, 1776.2 2Ibid., 507. Strictly speaking, this was the official declaration of independence; and if we were a nation of antiquaries we should no doubt find an incongruity in celebrating the anniversary of our independence on the 4 of July.
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5Author:  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 was held on this date at 8 o'clock, with the following members present: Messrs. Armistead C. Gordon, Goodrich Hatton, Wm. H. White, G. R. B. Michie, and Dr. W. F. Drewry, John W. Craddock, R. C. Stearnes and R. Tate Irvine. In connection with the recent examination of the accounts of the University of Virginia, as recorded in the office of the Bursar, will state that the examination disclosed no irregularities of any character.
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6Author:  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 Rector and Visitors was held on this date at 8 o'clock in the President's Office, with the following present: Hon. Armistead C. Gordon, Rector, John W. Craddock, Goodrich Hatton, Geo. R. B. Michie, J. K. M. Norton, R. C. Stearnes, Robert Turnbull and President Alderman. Referring to your recent conversation with Mr. D. C. Ogg, Train Master, with reference to the proposed plan of having the University deed to the C. & O. Fail-way Company the land on which the University's coal trestle and track are located, and the proposed agreement between the University and the Railway Company to maintain the coal trestle and track hereafter on a basis of an equal division of the cost thereof, it being understood that the Railway Company shall have the privilege of making deliveries to outside parties on the said track and trestle; as requested by you, we are attaching blue print showing the location of the track and trestle and the property lines at this point. Referring to your communication of the 16th of September, 1916, addressed to Mr. Armistead C. Gordon, Rector of the University of Virginia, in re- the plan proposed by you to have the University deed to your company the land on which the University's coal trestle and track are located, I am directed by the Board of Visitors to advise you that the matter was brought to their attention, and after a full discussion, they were unable to accede to your proposition.
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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: 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.
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8Author:  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 special meeting of the Board was held on this date at 8 o'clock P. M. There were present Visitors R. T. Irvine, J. K. M. Norton, G. Hatton, C. Harding Walker, Alex. F. Robertson and H. Dalton Dillard, and President Alderman.
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9Author:  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: 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.
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10Author:  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: 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.
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11Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsAdd
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1924 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: A special meeting of the Rector and Visitors was held on this date with the Rector, C. Harding Walker, and Visitors Dillard, Hall, Hull, Scott, Rinehart, and Williams, and President Alderman present. That for andin consideration of One Dollar ($1.00) cash in hand paid, receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, and of the covenants and agreements herein contained, which areto be mutually paid, kept and performed, it is agreed that the personal representative of the said Walter H. Taylor, deceased, shall deliver to and deposit with the Virginia Trust Company, as Trustee, the Thirty-seven Hundred and Twenty- one Dollars and Ninety-eight Cents ($3721.98) in full discharge and satisfaction ofany obligation on the part of the said Walter H. Taylor, his heirs and assigns, with respect to the Thirty-seven Hundred and Twenty-one Dollars and Ninety-eight Cents ($3721.98) security above mentioned; to be held by the said Trustee for and during the life or lives of either or both of the said Frances R. Curd or Helen Wood Rogers, as security for the payment of the monthly annuity of Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) each, to the parties of the first part, or the survivor during her life as provided in said will, with the right on the part of the said Trustee to invest and reinvest the same; to collect any increase thereof, interest, or return therefrom, and to pay the same, but not the principal thereof, to the University of Virginia so long as the obligation on the part of the University of Virginia to pay the annuities above mentioned are faithfully kept and performed in accordance with the terms of said will of Edward W. James, deceased; and at the death of both of the said annuitants-Frances R. Curd and Helen Wood Rogers- to pay over to the University of Virginia, free and clear of any charge or obligation whatsoever, the principal of said Thirty-seven Hundred and Twenty-one Dollars and Ninety-eight Cents ($3721.98) so held as security, together with any interest which may accrue thereon remaining unpaid.
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12Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsAdd
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1925 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: A special meeting of the Rector and Visitors was held on this date at 9 a.m., with the following members present: the Rector, C. Harding Walker, and Visitors, Hall, Hart, Hull, McIntire, Rinehart, Williams and Hatcher. The announcement that you had declined the offer of the Chancellorship of the University of Georgia, because of a resolve to devote your future to the service of the University of Virginia, came to her alumni as a message of high courage and imperishable faith. The twenty-one years during which you have directed the policies and energized the activities of our Alma Mater have been years of stirring achievement. Her gain in endowments, in student attendance, in academic authority, in scientific equipment, in teaching power, in public usefulness and in popular esteem have been magnificent and in large measure your personal work. They have won for you the sympathy, support, the admiration, the confidence and the loyalty of all our alumni. Yet their allegiance has still a deeper root. You came to this University in a momentous hour. You were our first president and the great mass of our then graduates knew the virtues of the older regime and were unconcious of the ineradicable infirmities which lay hidden beneath them. In a few loyal and devoted spirits a certain fear awoke for the noble tradition of the school, for its high standards, for its law of liberty both in learning and in teaching, for the gracious fraternity of intramural life. It has been your high mission to dispel such fears, to lift all that was worthy in the spirit and tradition of the University of Virginia to a higher plane of authority and power, and by the depth of your understanding and the comprehension of your sympathy to beget for her a future which shall be the rich inheritor of her past. In you she has found both a bond of peace and the righteousness of her academic life.
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13Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsAdd
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 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 8 p.m. There were present Visitors Buchanan, Hall, Hart, Scott, and the Rector C. H. Walker, and President Alderman. The Committee appointed to study conditions relating to the Blandy Experimental Farm wishes to report the following:-
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14Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsAdd
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1927 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: A called meeting of the Board was held on the above date at 8 o'clock P. M., being continued at 9:30 A. M. November 12th. Your Committee, directed at the June, 1927, meeting to effect a settlement with the City of Charlottesville of certain questions which have arisen as to the University's use of water from the City's Reservoirs, and the of payment therefor, respectfully report— On behalf of the Chairman of the Finance Committee, I beg to submit the following report on sale of land in Colorado and Kansas bequeathed to the University by Miss Este Coffinberry for the establishment of the John W. Richard Lectureship in Religion. Report of Building Committee. At the meeting of the Board of Visitors held in April, 1927, a resolution was adopted directing the Attorney for the University to make settlement with the Estate of Graham F. Blandy, and with Mrs. Blandy, of certain accounts due to said Estate and to Mrs. Blandy by the University for work done upon the Blandy Experimental Farm by Mrs. Blandy's laborers and by the Estate of Graham F. Blandy, and for materials furnished by Mrs. Blandy and by said Estate to the Experimental Farm in the operation and maintenance of said Farm from March 25, th, 1926, the date of Mr. Blandy's death to August 1st, 1926, the date when the University took possession of the property. Said resolution directs the Attorney to make settlement of this account, providing the total of said account did not exceed the sum of $1600.00.
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15Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsAdd
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1928 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: The annual meeting of the Rector and Visitors was held on this date at 10 o'clock A. M., lasting until 6 P. M., with intermission for lunch, followed by a session on the morning of the 12th which convened at 9:30 o'clock. At a meeting of the members of the Board of Trustees of the International Education Board held May 25, 1928, the officers presented your letter of February 2, 1928, in which, on behalf of the trustees of the University of Virginia, you request the Board's cooperation in strengthening and stimulating research in the physical and biological sciences. It was observed that in addition to sums now available, annual sums approximating $45,000 would be required eventually to carry out your program of development in chemistry, physics and biology, and that there was reasonable assurance that beginning with the fiscal year July 1, 1930, the authorities of the University would be in position to provide annually increasing sums for this purpose, so that within a period of from five to seven years the University would be able to assume the increased annual expenditure of $45,000. RESOLVED, That the locations selected for the proposed dormitories on the western slope of Monroe Hill and for the academic building on the site of the Mallet House, be and are hereby approved, subject to minor changes in location. The largest single maturing investment included above, was an item of $103,600 School & College 6% Certificates which were called for payment by the State of Virginia at par on January 1, 1928. $100,000 of these were held in the Corcoran Fund. To replace this large investment at a time when high grade bonds were selling at prices which returned lower yields than for many years past, of course, worked a hardship upon the University. It was necessary to accept a lower return in order to obtain anywhere nearly commensurate safety.
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16Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsAdd
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1928 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: A special meeting of the Board of Visitors was held on this date at 8 o'clock P. M., with the Rector, Hon. C. Harding Walker, Visitors D. D. Hull, Jr., Harris Hart, Lewis C. Williams, Paul G. McIntire, Hollis Rinehart, Fred W. Scott, A. C. Carson, and Mrs. M. C. B. Munford, and President Alderman, present. On October 13th, I wrote you with reference to the Blandy estate, and stated that the final settlement of this estate shows the corpus of the trust fund set aside by the will of Graham F. Blandy, deceased, from which his widow is to receive the income during her lifetime, and which passes to the University at her death, amounts to $971,486.12. I beg to enclose herewith copy of final decree which has been entered in the Circuit Court of Clarke County in the Chancery Cause of Georgette H. Blandy v. The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. You will observe that this decree finally determines the fact that the University of Virginia has complied with all the conditions specified in the will of Graham F. Blandy as conditions precedent to the vesting of title in The Rector and Visitors of the University in the land devised to the University by the will of Graham F. Blandy, deceased. The dormitories and academic building have been let to contract as follows:
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17Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsAdd
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1929 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: A special meeting of the Rector and Visitors was held on this date at 8 o'clock P. M., with the following members present: The Rector, C. Harding Walker, and Visitors Buchanan, Carson, Hull, McIntire, Munford, Rinehart, Scott, and Williams, and President Alderman. At the annual meeting of your body on Jule 11th, 1928, following the presentation of resolutions from the professorial staff concerning an increase in the salary schedule "a Committee consisting of Messrs. Hull, Buchanan and Carson was appointed to study the whole question of the salary scale, and report to the Rector and Visitors." Upon the urgent request of said Committee the Rector consented to serve as a member of the Committee.
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18Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsAdd
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1929 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: A special meeting of the Board was held in Richmond, Virginia, on this date for the purpose of presenting to his Excellency, Governor Harry F. Byrd, the action of the meeting of the Board on February 1st, at which time a resolution was adopted increasing the salary scale of the members of the faculty of the University of Virginia, subject to the approval of the Governor.
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19Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsAdd
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1929 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: A special meeting of the Board as held on this date at 8 o'clock P. M. Present, the Rector, C. Harding Walker, and Visitors Buchanan, Carson, McIntire, Munford, Scott, Rinehart, and Williams. At the request of the Governor the members of the Board met with him at his office Saturday, April 27th at noon for the purpose of conferring on the proposed scale of salaries for the academic faculty and members of other faculties not previously approved by the Governor, as adopted at a meeting of your Board February 1, 1929.
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20Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsAdd
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1929 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: The annual meeting of the Rector and Visitors was held on this date at 9 o'clock a.m. There were present the Rector, C. Harding Walker, and Visitors Carson, Hart, Hull, McIntire, Munford, Rinehart, Scott and Williams. We, the members of the teaching staff of professorial rank, informally assembled, take this means of expressing to you our sincere thanks for your cooperation in securing the adoption of the new salary scale for all ranks of teachers of this University. I have the honor to transmit to you herewith the report of the Committee on Award of DuPont Scholarships for 1929-30.
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