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1Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 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.
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2Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 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.
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3Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 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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4Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes (1911) May 9, 1911  
 Published:  1911 
 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, called for the consideration of the "Financial Budget" for 1911-1912, I hereby tender to you and through you to the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, my resignation as Professor of Secondary Education, and as Professor of Psychology, and as Director of the Summer School at the University of Virginia. I should like for this resignation to take effect at the end of the scholastic year, June 14, 1911. I think it advisable to continue my connection with the Summer School until its close, July 29th, and with respect to that phase of my work this resignation should not become operative until July 29th. It may be that I cannot be present every day during the Summer School, but if agreeable I shall be present as often as possible. By the Eleventh Article of his last will and Testament the Hon. Lambert Tree, Deceased, of this city, bequeathed to your institution the sum of $5,000.00 to be invested in perpetuity for the benefit of your library. To be used in the purchase of books, or such other ways as may be deemed best for said library. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your communication of the 29th, inst., containing a check for $4,854.61, being the bequest of the Hon. Lambert Tree, deceased, to the University of Virginia, less the inheritance tax of the State of Illinois of $145.39. I also acknowledge receipt of the copy of article XI of the will of Lambert Tree, deceased, setting forth the purpose for which this bequest shall be used. The University of Virginia will in due time express proper gratitude through its Rector and Visitors for this bequest.
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5Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes (1911) May 30, 1911  
 Published:  1911 
 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 on above date in the Presidents' Office. The following statement was presented by the President, and ordered to be placed on record as follows: I beg to submit to you the following reports from the Faculty of the Department of Graduate Studies of the University of Virginia and the Faculty of the College of the University of Virginia, the two comprising the Academic Department of the Institution. I submit these reports with my entire approval and endorsement. They are the result of patient study of specially appointed committees of these faculties extending over a period of two years. They have been carefully considered and discussed by the Faculties themselves in utmost detail. In some cases they have been held up for months with a view of obtaining the best information on all subjects connected with the curriculum and the methods of teaching in modern colleges. They have passed the Facilties of the Department of Graduate Studies and of the College with practical unanimity. The report of the Faculty of the Graduate Department is unanimous, and the report from the Faculty of the College comes to you with only one dissenting vote. The fundamental purpose in these proposed modifications is to increase the power, to elevate the standards, and to place on a surer pedagogic basis all instruction given at the University of Virginia.
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6Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes (1911) November 14, 1911  
 Published:  1911 
 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 on above dates in the office of the President, East Lawn, I have the honor to inform you that I have accepted a position as research Chemist with the Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station, and I herewith hand you my resignation as Professor of Chemistry, in the University of Virginia, to take effect at the beginning of the next collegiate year. I beg to acknowledge with very profound and sincere regret your communication of the 19th, inst., tendering your resignation as Professor of Chemistry, in the University of Virginia. I wish for you in your new position as research chemist with the Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station every opportunity for the advancement of your chosen field of work. You have served this University, permit me to say, with ability and distinction during your brief period of work here. You have made friends of your colleagues and friends of your pupils, and all of us feel, no one more than myself, that in losing you we are sustaining a genuine loss both in the direction of scientific power and personality. I appreciate the motives that have moved you to this decision, and while I deeply regret that the result is your separation from the work here, I can only wish for you in this new field the abundant measure of success you have achieved here. The trustees of the Peabody Education Fund at a meeting held in New York on November 1, (1911) adopted the following: The University of Virginia will undertake to maintain a Department of Education upon which not less than $10,000.00 a year will be expended for maintenance per annum, provided the Peabody Education Fund will donate the sum of $40,000.00 to the Rector and Visitors of the University for the purpose of erecting a suitable building for the home of this department. The University already has in hand funds amounting to $7,000.00 a year that could be used legitimately for this purpose. It would be necessary for it, in order to carry out this proposition, to increase this amount by the sum of $3,000.00. This it hopes to be able to do in the next six months. It is, therefore, suggested that that amount of time, at least, be allowed the University of Virginia in which to meet the conditions of this proposition. I have the honor to inform you that the Executive Committee of the Foundation at its meeting on June 8 voted to admit the University of Virginia to the list of accepted institutions of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. I beg to acknowledge with very great pleasure and satisfaction the receipt of your communication of June 9th, wherein you inform me that the Executive Committee of the Foundation at its meeting on June 8th, voted to admit the University of Virginia to the list of accepted Institutions of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. I am gratified at this action of the Foundation, not solely because it secures against want the old age of men who have given their lives to an unlucrative but noble profession, but in a higher sense because such action signalizes the accomplishment by this University of a great undertaking which it set out to bring to pass nearly seven years ago. It now occupies a consistent and logical relation to the system of secondary education with which it is allied, and it has also concluded legislation by which it occupies consistent and logical relation in its graduate school, to the college and higher institutions. Such action of the Foundation is an added testimony to the fact that standards of admission established have been administered with integrity and good sense. I wish to express to the Foundation assurances of our belief that the Foundation has helped powerfully in enabling this University, and other Universities in this country to establish and maintain such standards as to unify the whole educational process. I too hope that the relations between the Foundation and the University may be one of material help and service in all educational development. We are forwarding to you today via Adams Express thirty notes of $1,000.00 each, made by J. W. Hough and Abner S. Pope, payable to the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. All of these notes bear interest from Jan. 1, 1911 to Jan. 1, 1913, at the rate of three per cent per annum, and after that date, at the rate of six per cent per annum. The notes are as follows: I am very anxious to get your advice and co-Operation in connection with the expenditure of the income of the Phelps-Stokes Fund of which I am one of the Trustees. This Fund, which amounts to about a million dollars, was left by my Aunt, Miss Caroline Phelps Stokes, with the understanding that the income should be used for various educational purposes, but more particularly for advancing the cause of negro education in the South. I have had several conferences with out mutual friend, Dr. Dillard, and I wish your specific opinion regarding the plan that we have had under favorable discussion for creating fellowships, endowed we will say at $10,000. each, at two or three representative state universities in the South, such as the University of Virginia, and the University of Georgia. The Fellowship to be awarded by the proper university authorities to graduate students whose time would be devoted to studies on some phase of the negro problem. The administration of the Fund, the selection of incumbents, etc., to be entirely in the hands of the University authorities. I was greatly interested to have your letter of the 29th, ult., and have been giving the matter of your suggestion very grave thought. I have felt for many years that a fundamental thing to do in this tangled problem is to cause it to be scientifically approached by the scholarship of the South. The thing to do is to take it out of the nervous system of our people and their emotions and to get it set up before them as a great human problem, economic in nature, scientific in character, to be acted upon as the result of broad, wise, sympathetic study. The time ought to come when our best scholars will take pride in making contributions, however minute, toward the handling of the great question. I have no doubt that an endowed foundation of the character suggested by you would be most acceptable to the authorities of this University. I am a bit troubled about just the right suggestion to make to you in regard to your definite proposition for the creating of fellowships endowed at approximately $10,000, and having for their primary purpose the securing ultimately of a small group of trained men who shall giv their life to the study and improvement of the negro conditions. Let me explain a bit. I established here, at Tulane University, and at the University of North Carolina the first Professorship of Economics: Sociological subjects were not being taught in Southern institutions. Even Political Science, as a scientific subject, has no independent status. We now have a very strong department of Economics, and temporarily, a very able lecturer in Political Science. Our full Professor of Economics, as you may know, is on the Tariff Board, and his place is supplied by a veryable fellow from Wisconsin. We have two full professors in the Department of Education, and these departments make it a point to emphasize the sociological aspects of education. There is, however, no Professor of Sociology. It, of course, is as yet an undefined and somewhat empiric science, but there is a tremendous current of interest among our men in the big questions affecting social betterment, the improvement of rural life, the imporvement of industrial life, the better governing of cities, questions of public health and sanitation, and foremost among them, supreme in its importance, stands, of course, the negro problem with all of its implications. The ideal need here is a professorship in that great field, giving to the negro problem its right place as the chief subject of scientific study by our analytic minded scholars. This, of course, means a good deal of money. The next in order would be, it seems to me, a lectureship demanding much less money, but devoted almost exclusively to the study of the negro problem and the social betterment question, to giving information to the young men, to giving the proper bent to their minds, to stimulating their interest, to developing in them right methods of approach to such a subject. It seems to me such a lectureship logically precedes the establishment of a fellowship. Out of such lectureship and its activities would come such interest as to arouse young men inside or outside of the University to strive for a prize to be offered by us in the form of a fellowship or scholarship. W the sum you mentioned, $500.00 a year would be yielded as income. If $400.00 of this could be given to a man who would come here and make, say, a dozen lectures and meet men in semina ways; and then, if $100.00 could be made as a prize for the best bit of research work in small fields at first-I mean small as to area-the matter could get itself tried out, though on somewhat too meager a basis. I hesitate for a moment, though I hate to seem to hesitate a second in such a matter to establish an independent Fellowship in such a subject when there is back of it no clear instruction or stimulation in the great field which the Fellowship would cover. My fear about it is simply that the work itself would not get justice. The work would not yield its best results. You may be sure I want this opportunity here. Would it be possible to consider the proposition to increase the sume just a bit so as to make the Lectureship and the Fellowship co-existent? If such could be done it seems to me a new era would be brought about in our best institutions in their attitude toward this matter. Last year one of our professors gave a course of talks on the negro, based on Weatherford's book. It was astonishing the interest taken in the matter, the book being used as a text-book. I heartily wish I could talk with you about this matter, or with my friend, Dillard. Instruction in such a matter is not only not unwise, but most needed and would be welcome. I would never want to see such a fellowship established here, unless I saw fruitful results issuing out of it. I do not want it to become a mere academic thing that in time would lose its edge and become a mere formal prize. I hope you will not reach any definite conclusion in the matter until in some way we can talk it out, for it is a big question and incapable of just solution by interchange of letters. I have the honor to inform you that at a meeting of the Trustees of the Phelps-Stokes Fund held at the office of Anson Phelps Stokes, 100 William St., New York City, Wednesday, November 15, 1911, the following vote was passed:
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7Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes (1912) January 24, 1912  
 Published:  1912 
 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 held at the City of Richmond, this 24th day of January 1912.
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8Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes (1912) May 9, 1912  
 Published:  1912 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: In response to the call of the 2nd instant, for a meeting of the Board of Visitors for this date, the following members appeared, the Rector, and Visitors Harmon, Craddock, and Norton. University of Virginia, May 9th, 1912. In accordance with the authorization of the Trustees of the Phelps-Stokes Fund, referred to in my letter of January 31st, 1912, I beg to enclose herewith our check for $6,250.00, being payment of the balance of the Endowment Fund to create a Fellowship for the study of the negro, under the terms and conditions outlined in my letter of January 31st, 1912. The Board of Visitors of your Institution should, in session, by resolution, designate such officers of the Institution as they may elect, to make demands, monthly, in the corporate name of the Institution upon the Auditor of Public Accounts for the payments of the several funds appropriated to your Institution. Copy of the resolution adopted by the Board in session, should be duly certified to this office, so that I may, on and after June 1st, 1912, draw warrants on the Treasury payable to the Institution in its corporate name, which warrants will be mailed direct from this office to such officer of the Institutions as the resolution may direct. The resolution can be so drawn as to have force and effect until changed by similar resolution adopted by that Board. Believing that there is room and demand for a second drug store at the University of Virginia, we have decided to make the following offer,
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9Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes (1912) June 11, 1912  
 Published:  1912 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: At the regular annual meeting of the Board of Visitors on above date, at 8:30 P.M., The University of Virginia now holds a balance of $42,500.00 upon the L. P. Stearnes loan which matures in the following manner: I have the honor to inform you that in accordance with your recommendation and in conformity with the rules of the Carnegie Foundation, retiring allowances have been voted to the following officers in the University of Virginia, to be paid in the ordinary way through the University. I have great pleasure in acknowledging receipt of your communication of May 10, 1912, informing me that in conformity with the rules of the Carnegie Foundation, retiring allowances had been voted to the following officers in the University of Virginia to be paid in the ordinary way through the University: Milton Wylie Humphreys, $2050.00, Isaac Kimber Moran, $1460.00, Ormond Stone, $2050.00. I have notified these gentlemen of the action of the Foundation and beg to express to you for them their very great obligations. When their resignations are received by the Rector and Visitors, I shall give you due notice. I am in receipt of a communication from the Secretary of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, which contains this statement, "I have the honor to inform you that, in accordance with your recommendation and in conformity with the rules of the Carnegie Foundation, a retiring allowance has been voted to Milton Wylie Humphreys, to be paid in the ordinary way through the University. This retiring allowance amounts to $2050.00. The allowance of Prof. Humphreys will become effective on September 15, 1912." To you as President, and through you to the Rector and Visitors I hereby tender my resignation as Professor of Greek in the University of Virginia, to take effect September fifteenth, 1912. I am in receipt of a communication from the Secretary of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching which contains this statement, "I have the honor to inform you that, in accordance with your recommendation and in conformity with the rules of the Carnegie Foundation, a retiring allowance has been voted to Ormond Stone, to be paid in the ordinary way through the University. This retiring allowance amounts to $2050.00. The allowance of Professor Stone will become effective on September 15, 1912." Having been granted, in accordance with your recent letter, at my request, a retiring allowance by the Carnegie Foundation, I beg that you will kindly transmit to the Rector and Visitors my resignation as Professor of Astronomy, to take effect September 15th, next. In doing so I desire to express to you and the Faculty, as well as to the Rector and Visitors my sincere thanks for the many courtesies I have received during the thirty happy years I have spent at this University. May I also express the pleasure I have enjoyed in watching the growing spirit of progress which during these years has gradually infused       the life of the University, especially during the eight eventful years in which you have been its leader. I wish also to express my pleasure in noting the growing realization of the duty of the University constantly to readjust itself in order that it may with ever increasing efficiency contribute to the higher life of the people. In the firm belief that this spirit and this realization will continue to grow with the passing years, I lay down my work here with pride that I have been privileged for so long a time to be connected with an institution possessed of such splendid traditions, and (what is more important) inspired by such noble ambition to serve. With sincere personal esteem, I have the honor to inform you that the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has this day notified me that a retiring allowance has been voted to Isaac Kimber Moran to be paid in the ordinary way through the University. This retiring allowance will become effective on October 1, 1912. The amount accorded to you is $1460.00. It has been known to you for some months past that I have had in contemplation the relinquishment of the offices with which the University has so long honored me. I hereby tender to you my resignation as Bursar of the University of Virginia, and also as Secretary to the Board of Visitors, to take effect on October 1st, 1912. I respectfully request that I be permitted to occupy my present residence on University grounds, for the year from October 1st, 1912 to October 1st, 1913, at the same rental I am now paying; viz. $200.00 per annum.
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10Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes (1912) June 29, 1912  
 Published:  1912 
 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 on above date,
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11Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes (1912) November 12, 1912  
 Published:  1912 
 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 on above date.
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12Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes (1912) December 16, 1912  
 Published:  1912 
 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 on above date, Were hereby make application through you to the Rector and Visitors of the University, that the house formerly occupied by Professor J. W. Mallet be assigned to us, jointly, when it shall be given up by Mrs. Mallet. I beg to recommend that we carry out the suggestion made by Messrs. Coolidge and Bacon at their recent visit to the University. I have only by a slow process reached this conclusion. It was made to us some four years ago by Mr. Brown, the landscape man for the Government grounds and buildings at Washington.
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13Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes (1913) February 10, 1913  
 Published:  1913 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: At a called meeting of the Rector and Visitors on above date in the President's Office, East Lawn, I respectfully request that, in the event of the Bursar electing not to occupy the house now occupied by Mr. Moran, at such time as the latter shall cease to occupy it, I be granted the privilege of renting it on the same terms on which Mr. Moran now occupies it.
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14Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes (1913) May 20, 1913  
 Published:  1913 
 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, called for the consideration of the Financial Budget for 1913-1914. The Committee on Entrance Building having made the foregoing report, it was After the annual report of the Department of Engineering had been made and forwarded to the President, it was learned that Mr. J. S. Lapham, a graduate of this University in Mechanical Engineering, desired an appointment on our teaching staff. Mr. Lapham is a young man of unusual ability; and, if his application had been received earlier, he would undoubtedly have been engaged. It is not often that any school has the opportunity of securing the services of a man so eminently fitted by capacity, training, and character to make a useful and accomplished University teacher. The department is already committed to the young men nominated in our report as instructors for 1913-1914, and cannot in good faith, cancel any one of the nominations. On the other hand, the opportunity is one which cannot be postponed; unless Mr. Lapham comes to us, he will go into business with his father, and such permanent changes will have to be made in the details of that business as will prevent him from accepting a position with us in the future. As you are already aware, I have recently sent to the Trustees of the Carnegie Foundation a formal application for retirement, feeling that after forty years of full professional work and twenty-five years of active service at this University, the time has come when it is wise for me to take advantage of the provisions of the Foundation, I. We recommend that the sites on Carr's Hill for fraternity houses, be at present restricted to four, and that the northernmost site be located on a line passing through the centre of the president's residence and the centre of the president's stable, and at least as far distant from the president's house as is the location of the "Delta Tau Delta" house. Prof. Newcomb who is planning the plants for the sewage purification, as directed by the State Board of Health, indicates that we will have to acquire land to furnish a sufficient fall to carry off the effluent from the filter beds.
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15Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes (1913) June 16, 1913  
 Published:  1913 
 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 on above date, in the office of the President, East Lawn. I have already advised you by letter of the matter of this supplementary report, but at the suggestion of Dean Page, I am now putting the matter in such form that it may be laid before the Visitors at their meeting to be held within the next few days. As you have not acted officially in the matter, and as there is not now time to transmit this report to you for action, the purpose of bringing it before the Visitors at this meeting is not for action thereon, but in the hope that they may refer it to you, or to yourself and the Executive Committee, for suchaction as youmay deem wise—and thus secure earlier action than would otherwise be possible.
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16Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes (1913) October 27, 1913  
 Published:  1913 
 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 in the office of the President, East Lawn, on above date, In accordance with the agreement at the conference between Dr. P. H. Whitehead, Dean of the Medical Department of the University of Virginia, Dr. Stuart McGuire, Dean of the Medical College of Virginia, and myself, in this city on Thursday evening last, the Executive Committee of the Medical College of Virginia yesterday appointed a committee of five to confer with a similar committee to be appointed by the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia to discuss plans looking to the union of the medical schools in this state. The committee consists of— On September 1, 1913, I, as Chairman of the Commons Committee, entered into a contract with Charles Jaimes Leasing the University Commons for the period of one year. The terms of this agreement are exactly the same as authorized by the Rector and Board of Visitors in the spring of 1912, except that in lieu of a surety bond guaranteeing the safe return of the University's property, I accepted a $50.00 a month deposit with the Bursar of the University. It was impossible for Mr. Jaimes to secure the bond required, and I substituted this cash deposit because I believed that the University's interests were amply safeguarded thereby, and on account of the limited time, it was impossible for me to wait for authority from the Board.
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17Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes (1913) November 11, 1913  
 Published:  1913 
 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 on above date, in the office of the President, East Lawn, Joint meeting of the Committees from the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, and the Medical College of Virginia. I respectfully ask that you permit me to use the land between the Cemetery branch and Mrs. Towles' line, for the purposes of pasture and gardening. At present, it is swamp land grown up in rushes and brush. It will be greatly improved by use; and of course, can be surrendered immediately on demand of the University.
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18Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes (1913) December 10, 1913  
 Published:  1913 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: The Board of Visitors met at 8:15 o'clock P. M., on above date, with the following members present:- As a Codicil to my last will and testament, I provide that so far as my personal chattels are concerned, both such as I hold jointly with my sister, and such as I have in my sole right, she (my sister Fanny) shall have the free use, control and disposition of them without being held in any manner accountable therefor; but this provision does not apply, and must not be held applicable to the bonds, stocks, and scrip, which I hold and own either jointly with her or separately, but all such bonds stocks and scrip must be held as subject exclusively to the provisions of my will of December 8th, 1877, to which this is a codicil. Witness my hand this 19th February 1881. Mr. Eppa Hunton, Jr., has placed before the Executive Committee of the Medical College of Virginia, with the Medical Department of the University of Virginia, as adopted by your Board. In accordance with our conversation, I beg that you will request the Board to vote me one hundred dollars, with which to construct a dark room, which is to be placed in the basement of the Observatory. At a meeting of the Committee on Entrance Building, there were present Messrs. Lambeth, Michie, Newcomb, Forrest. The following resolutions were presented by Mr. Forrest. Moved and seconded by Messrs. Michie and Newcomb that they be adopted. Carried. The Board of Visitors met on this date at 10:15 o'clock in Madison Hall to hear the advocates and opponents of the Woman's Co-ordinate College matter, with the following members present; Messrs. Gordon, Flood, White, Norton Drewry, Oliver, Irvine, Craddock, Michie and Stearnes. Also Dr. J. M. Page, Acting President.
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19Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes (1914) January 5, 1914  
 Published:  1914 
 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 on above date, in the office of the President, East Lawn. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your communication of the 13th inst., with the two inclosures from the Secretary of your Board of Visitors. Your letter of the 13th inst., addressed to Dr. S. C. Mitchell, President Medical College of Virginia, was submitted to the Executive Committee of the Medical College of Virginia at its meeting on yesterday.
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20Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes (1914) January 29, 1914  
 Published:  1914 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: A called meeting of the Board of Visitors was held on this date, with the following members present: Rector Gordon, Judge Norton, John W. Craddock, Ceo. R. B. Michie and R. C. Stearnes. Having learned through Dr. Booker of Balitmore that Dr. W. P. Morgan was on the point of bestowing his library upon some institution, Dr. Harry T. Marshall conveyed to me, as Chairman of the Library Committee, this information. After an exchange of letters with Dr. Morgan Dr. Marshall and myself visited him at his home, 315 Monument Street, Baltimore—with the result that he presented to us his entire collection of books, claiming the right to reserve some of the books for his own use as long as he should live. At the solicitation of Dr. William D. Booker of Baltimore and Dr. Harry T. Marshall of the University of Virginia, I offer my library to the University of Virginia, according to the terms agreed upon by yourself and At the meeting of our Library Committee yesterday afternoon I read them your letter of December 12, in which you state that at the solicitation of Dr. William D. Booker, of Baltimore, and Dr. Harry T. Marshall, of the University of Virginia, you offer your library to the University of Virginia, according to the terms agreed upon by yourself and me as Chairman of the Library Committee. (re-Estate Frances L. Wilson, deceased.)
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