| | 21 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1917) November 27, 1917  | | | | Published: | 1917 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 24 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1917) March 23, 1917 | | | | Published: | 1917 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | 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.) | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 25 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1917) April 19, 1917 | | | | Published: | 1917 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | 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: | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 26 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1917) May 31, 1917 | | | | Published: | 1917 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 27 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1917) September 28, 1917 | | | | Published: | 1917 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 28 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1917) November 27, 1917 | | | | Published: | 1917 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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