| | 1 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | 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 |
| 2 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1920) February 19, 1920 | | | | Published: | 1920 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | At the adjourned meeting set for this date there were
present Rector R. Tate Irvine, and Visitors Hatton, Norton
and Michie. As there was not a quorum present, no business
was transacted. A special meeting of the Board of Visitors was held on
this date at 8 o'clock P. M. with the following members
present: the Rector, R. Tate Irvine, and Visitors E. L.
Greever, Harris Hart, Goodrich Hatton, Geo. R. B. Michie and
Alexander F. Robertson. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 3 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1920) April 21, 1920 | | | | Published: | 1920 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The Board met on this date in special session. There
were present Visitors Dillard, Duke, Greever, Hart, Hatton,
Oliver, Robertson, Scott and Walker, and President Alderman. At a meeting of the Executive Committee of
the Board of Trustees of the Protestant Episcopal Education
Society in Virginia held this day, it was resolved
that in consideration of the conditions brought about
by the war and by the high cost of living, we petition
the Board of Visitors of the University that we be allowed
to increase the value of the Skinner Scholarships temporarily
from $250.00 to $350.00 | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 5 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1920) June 14, 1920 | | | | Published: | 1920 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The annual meeting of the Rector and Visitors was held on
this date at 10 a.m. with Rector Bryan, and Visitors, Duke,
Hart, Hatton, Dillard, Scott, Oliver, Walker and Robertson
present. The supreme Council of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity
most gratefully accept the privilege of petitioning your
Honorable Board for the privilege of offering the use of
Room 31, West Range, the birth-place of our beloved Fraternity,
as a scholarship to deserving members of its organization. The Committee on Buildings and Grounds, to which
was referred the application of the Beta Theta Pi for
permission to erect a fraternity house on the grounds
of the University, recommends that the fraternity be
given an option until January 1, 1921 on the lot in the
rear of the Kappa Sigma House and fronting on Rugby Road,
for the erection of such house. The exact bounds of said
lot to be hereafter determined by the Rector and Visitors,
and the terms and conditions upon which said lot is to
be held and the building erected to be in accordance
with those heretofore determined by the Rector and Visitors
in other like cases. In case the lot be desired
by the fraternity, then the details shall be arranged and
embodied in proper documents to be duly executed by the
parties. The Committee on Buildings and Grounds unanimously
recommends that the application of Prof. C. M. Sparrow,
as set forth in his letter of June 7, 1920 to the President,
be rejected, and the Committee is unable to make
any recommendation which will provide for the remodeling
or repairing of the property at this time. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 6 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1920) November 10, 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. There were present Rector
Bryan, and Visitors Dillard, Duke, Hart, Hatton, Oliver, Robertson,
Scott and Walker. It was my privilege to report to the Board of
Visitors at their fall meeting on November 10, your
handsome additional gift of $24,000 for a pipe organ
for the amphitheatre and for such changes in the
amphitheatre as the installation of the organ made
necessary. I am instructed by the Rector and Visitors
to communicate to you the expression of their profound
appreciation of your renewed and far-seeing generosity
and good will to the University. They cherish profoundly
your good service to the institution, and beg
me to assure you that they will do all in their power
to see that your wise gifts are thoughtfully and rightly
used for the education of our youth. May I be permitted
to add the expression of my own deep gratitude and personal
affection and esteem. I am authorized by the Rector and Visitors of the
University of Virginia to communicate to you the expression
of their profound gratitude for your generosity and wisdom
in the establishment of the Louis Bennett Scholarship
in Law. The Visitors begged me to assure you that they
will take care that the scholarship is duly founded and
rightly administered in the interest of securing for
worthy young men proper instruction in the great subject.
in which your husband achieved distinction. The scholarship
will appear in our catalogue as the Louis Bennett
Scholarship in Law, and we will take pains to acquaint
you from year to year of the incumbent of the scholarship. I am instructed by the Rector and
Visitors to communicate to you an expression of their
appreciation and gratitude for the gift of the library
of your husband, the late Professor William Harry Heck.
They begged me to assure you that this library will be
duly preserved in honor of a devoted teacher and scholar
long in the service of the University. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 7 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | 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 |
| 8 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1920) February 19, 1920 | | | | Published: | 1920 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | At the adjourned meeting set for this date there were
present Rector R. Tate Irvine, and Visitors Hatton, Norton
and Michie. As there was not a quorum present, no business
was transacted. A special meeting of the Board of Visitors was held on
this date at 8 o'clock P. M. with the following members
present: the Rector, R. Tate Irvine, and Visitors E. L.
Greever, Harris Hart, Goodrich Hatton, Geo. R. B. Michie and
Alexander F. Robertson. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 9 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1920) April 21, 1920 | | | | Published: | 1920 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The Board met on this date in special session. There
were present Visitors Dillard, Duke, Greever, Hart, Hatton,
Oliver, Robertson, Scott and Walker, and President Alderman. At a meeting of the Executive Committee of
the Board of Trustees of the Protestant Episcopal Education
Society in Virginia held this day, it was resolved
that in consideration of the conditions brought about
by the war and by the high cost of living, we petition
the Board of Visitors of the University that we be allowed
to increase the value of the Skinner Scholarships temporarily
from $250.00 to $350.00 | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 11 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1920) June 14, 1920 | | | | Published: | 1920 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The annual meeting of the Rector and Visitors was held on
this date at 10 a.m. with Rector Bryan, and Visitors, Duke,
Hart, Hatton, Dillard, Scott, Oliver, Walker and Robertson
present. The supreme Council of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity
most gratefully accept the privilege of petitioning your
Honorable Board for the privilege of offering the use of
Room 31, West Range, the birth-place of our beloved Fraternity,
as a scholarship to deserving members of its organization. The Committee on Buildings and Grounds, to which
was referred the application of the Beta Theta Pi for
permission to erect a fraternity house on the grounds
of the University, recommends that the fraternity be
given an option until January 1, 1921 on the lot in the
rear of the Kappa Sigma House and fronting on Rugby Road,
for the erection of such house. The exact bounds of said
lot to be hereafter determined by the Rector and Visitors,
and the terms and conditions upon which said lot is to
be held and the building erected to be in accordance
with those heretofore determined by the Rector and Visitors
in other like cases. In case the lot be desired
by the fraternity, then the details shall be arranged and
embodied in proper documents to be duly executed by the
parties. The Committee on Buildings and Grounds unanimously
recommends that the application of Prof. C. M. Sparrow,
as set forth in his letter of June 7, 1920 to the President,
be rejected, and the Committee is unable to make
any recommendation which will provide for the remodeling
or repairing of the property at this time. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 12 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1920) November 10, 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. There were present Rector
Bryan, and Visitors Dillard, Duke, Hart, Hatton, Oliver, Robertson,
Scott and Walker. It was my privilege to report to the Board of
Visitors at their fall meeting on November 10, your
handsome additional gift of $24,000 for a pipe organ
for the amphitheatre and for such changes in the
amphitheatre as the installation of the organ made
necessary. I am instructed by the Rector and Visitors
to communicate to you the expression of their profound
appreciation of your renewed and far-seeing generosity
and good will to the University. They cherish profoundly
your good service to the institution, and beg
me to assure you that they will do all in their power
to see that your wise gifts are thoughtfully and rightly
used for the education of our youth. May I be permitted
to add the expression of my own deep gratitude and personal
affection and esteem. I am authorized by the Rector and Visitors of the
University of Virginia to communicate to you the expression
of their profound gratitude for your generosity and wisdom
in the establishment of the Louis Bennett Scholarship
in Law. The Visitors begged me to assure you that they
will take care that the scholarship is duly founded and
rightly administered in the interest of securing for
worthy young men proper instruction in the great subject.
in which your husband achieved distinction. The scholarship
will appear in our catalogue as the Louis Bennett
Scholarship in Law, and we will take pains to acquaint
you from year to year of the incumbent of the scholarship. I am instructed by the Rector and
Visitors to communicate to you an expression of their
appreciation and gratitude for the gift of the library
of your husband, the late Professor William Harry Heck.
They begged me to assure you that this library will be
duly preserved in honor of a devoted teacher and scholar
long in the service of the University. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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