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Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1920) January 12, 1920  | | | | Published: | 1920 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | A special meeting of the Rector and Visitors was held on
this date at 8 o'clock P. M. with the following members
present: the Rector, R. Tate Irvine, and Visitors John
Stewart Bryan, E. L. Greever, Harris Hart, Goodrich Hatton,
Geo. R. B. Michie, J. K. M. Norton, Alexander F. Robertson,
and C. Harding Walker. I had word a few days ago from Mr.
Herbert W. Jackson, of the Virginia Trust Company, of
the clause in the will of your son, Peter P. Homes,
leaving $1,000 to the University of Virginia to be used
as a scholarship in the Law School. Personally, I
want to assure you of the great pride and happiness I
have in this action of your find boy whom we all remember
here with pleasure and approval. It is an exhibition of
the finest spirit, and will, I am sure, stimulate and
hearten all of our alumni who remember with effection
their Alma Mater. I shall want to call the scholarship
the Homes Scholarship, and it will be permanent in our
academic life. At a recent meeting of the Executive
Committee of the General Athletic Association concerning
the employment of a permanent athletic coach, the following
motion was unanimously passed: | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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