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1Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsAdd
 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.
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