| | 1 | Author: | Bouldin
Powhatan
1830-1907 | Add | | | Title: | Home reminiscences of John Randolph  | | | | Published: | 2006 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | JOHN RANDOLPH was the most remarkable character
that this country has ever produced; indeed, it is
doubted whether there ever lived in any country a man
so brilliant and at the same time so eccentric. A great deal
has been written concerning him, and yet the public curiosity
has been by no means satisfied. We purpose to add our
contribution, which is composed in a great measure of the
recollections of his old constituents and neighbors. But,
before entering upon our proper task of home reminiscences,
let us give an outline of our subject, reserving future chapters
for the completion of the picture. If it should meet your view I will preach the funeral of
your servant Billy at 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the second Sabbath in
September. Such of your black people as may attend the meeting at
Mossingford on that day may reach your house by that time, and the meeting
will be closed in time for them to reach their homes by night. "Indeed, my attention had been, in some measure, distracted by the
scene of distress which my house has exhibited for some time past. Mr.
Curd breathed his last on Thursday morning, half past three o'clock, after
a most severe illness, which lasted sixteen days. I insisted on his coming
up here, where he had every possible aid, that the best medical aid, and
most assiduous nursing could afford him. During the last week of his
sickness I was never absent from the house but twice, about an hour each
time, for air and exercise; I sat up with him, and gave him almost all of
his medicines, with my own hand, and saw that every possible attention
was paid to him. This is to me an unspeakable comfort, and it pleased
God to support me under this trying scene, by granting me better health
than I had experienced for seven years. On Thursday evening I followed
him to the grave; and soon after, the effects of the fatigue and distress
of mind that I had suffered, prostrated my strength and spirits, and I
became ill. Three successive nights of watching were too much for my
system to endure; I was with him, when he died without a groan or a
change of feature." I understand several expressions have escaped you, in their
nature personal and highly injurious to my reputation. The exceptionable
language imputed to you may be briefly and substantially comprised
in the following statements: That you have avowed the opinion that I
was a rogue—that you have ascribed to me the infernal disposition to
commit murder to prevent the exposition of my sinister designs, and
through me have stigmatized those citizen soldiers who compose the
military corps of our country. No person can be more sensible of the
pernicious tendency of such cruel and undeserved reflections in their
application to public men, or private individuals than yourself; nor is any
man more competent to determine the just reparation to which they
establish a fair claim. Under these impressions I have no hesitation to
appeal to your justice, your magnanimity and your gallantry, to prescribe
the manner of redress, being persuaded your decision will comport with
the feelings of a man of honor—that you will be found equally prompt
to assert a right or repair a wrong. I transmit this letter through the
post-office, and shall expect your answer by such a channel as you may
deem proper. Several months ago I was informed of your having said that you
were acquainted with what had passed in the grand jury room at Richmond
last spring, and that you declared a determination to challenge me.
I am to consider your letter of the last night by mail as the execution of
that avowed purpose, and through the same channel I return you my
answer. Whatever may have been the expressions used by me in regard
to your character, they were the result of deliberate opinion, founded on
the most authoritative evidence, the greater part of which my country imposed
upon me, to weigh and decide upon; they were such as to my
knowledge and to yours have been delivered by the first men in the Union,
and probably by a full moiety of the American people. Infirm as your health is, your country has
made another call upon you for your services. I have no right to ask,
nor do I enquire whether you will accept of this highly honorable appointment.
As a friend I have a right to say your country has no further
claims upon you, and that you ought to consult your own comfort and
happiness. I cannot express to you how deeply I am penetrated by your note
which Peyton has this moment handed to me. The office of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
to Russia will soon become vacant, and I am anxious that the
place should be filled by one of the most capable and distinguished
of our fellow-citizens. By the last mail I received, under Mr. Van Buren's cover, your
letter, submitting to my acceptance the mission to Russia. 1. Resolved, That while we retain a grateful sense of the many services
rendered by Andrew Jackson, Esq., to the United States, we owe it to our
country and to our posterity to make our solemn protest against many of
the doctrines of his late proclamation. There was an unusually numerous collection of people at Charlotte
Court-house to-day, it being expected that the subject of the proclamation
would be taken into consideration, and hoped that Mr. Randolph might
be there. Though in a state of the most extreme feebleness, he made his
appearance last night, and to day at twelve o'clock was lifted to his seat
on the bench. He rose and spoke a few minutes, but soon sat down exhausted,
and continued to speak sitting, though sometimes for a moment
the excitement of his feelings brought him to his feet. He ended his
speech by moving a set of resolutions, of which a copy is subjoined. I confirm to my brother Beverly the slaves I gave him, and for which I
have a reconveyance. Codicil to this my will, made the 5th day of December, 1821. I revoke
the bequest to T. B. Dudley, and bequeath the same to my executor,
to whom also I give in fee simple all my lots and houses in Farmville,
and every other species of property whatever that I die possessed of,
saving the aforesaid specifications in my will. The codicil of 1826. The Codicil of 1828. In the will above recited, I give to my said ex'or, Wm. Leigh, the
refusal of the land above Owen's (now Clark's) ferry road, at a price that
I then thought very moderate, but which a change in the times has rendered
too high to answer my friendly intentions towards my said executor
in giving him that refusal. I do, therefore, so far, but so far only, modify
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my said will as to reduce that price 50 per cent.; in other words, one-half,
at which he may take all the land above the ferry road that I inherited
from my father, all that I bought of the late John Daniel, deceased,
and of Tom Beaseley, Charles Beaseley, and others of that name
and family, this last being the land that Gabriel Beaseley used to have in
possession, and whereon Beverley Tucker lived, and which I hold by
deed from him and his wife, of record in Charlotte county court. As lawyers and courts of law are extremely addicted to making wills
for dead men, which they never made when living, it is my will and desire
that no person who shall set aside, or attempt to set aside, the will
above referred to, shall ever inherit, possess or enjoy any part of my estate,
real or personal. Codicil of 1831. The will of January 31st. 1832. I received my dear papa's affectionate epistle, and was sorry to find that
he thought himself neglected. I assure you, my dear sir, that there has
scarcely a fortnight elapsed since uncle's absence without my writing to
you, and I would have paid dearly for you to have received them. I sent
them by the post, and indeed no other opportunity except by Capt. Crozier,
and I did not neglect that. Be well assured, my dear sir, our expenses
since our arrival here have been enormous and by far greater than our
estate, especially loaded as it is with debt, can bear; however, I flatter myself,
my dear papa, that upon looking over the accounts you will find that
my share is, by comparison trifling, and hope that by the wise admonitions
of so affectionate a parent, and one who has our welfare and interest so
much at heart, we may be able to shun the rock of prodigality, upon which
so many people continually split, and by which the unhappy victim is
reduced, not only to poverty, but also to despair and all the horrors attending
it. I received last night your letter of the 17th instant,
covering a draft on the treasury for $104.27, for which accept my hearty
thanks. I wish I could thank you also for your news concerning the
conjectured "marriage between a reverend divine and one who has been
long considered among the immaculate votaries of Diana." I can easily
guess at the name of the former; but there are really so many ancient
maids in your town, of desperate expectations in the matrimonial lottery,
that it is no easy task to tell what person in particular comes under the
above denomination. I have been so unwell as to be incapable of carrying this to the post
office until to-day. Yesterday we had a most violent snow storm, which
lasted from 10 o'clock A. M. till two this morning, during which time it
snowed incessantly. Uncle T. is not come. No news of my trunk, at
which I am very uneasy. I wrote to Mr. Campbell by Capt. Dangerfield
to learn by what vessel it was sent, but have received no answer. There
is no such thing in this city as Blackstone in 4to. The house has come,
as yet, to no determination respecting Mr. Madison's resolutions. They
will not pass, thanks to our absent delegates; nay, were they to go
through the H. of R. the S. would reject them, as there is no senator from
Maryland and but one from Georgia. Thus are the interests of the Southern
States basely betrayed by the indolence of some and the villainy of
others of her statesmen,—Messrs. G—r, H—n and L—e generally voting
with the paper men. I was mistaken, my dear sir, when I said Uncle Tucker had not arrived
in town. He got here the day before yesterday, and did not know where
to find me. In my way to the post office this morning, I was told of his
arrival, and flew to see him. He looks as well as I ever saw him, and
was quite cheerful—made a number of affectionate enquiries concerning
you and your family, my brother and his wife and little boy. He cannot
go through Virginia in his way to Charleston. I pressed him very warmly
to do it, but you know his resolutions when once taken are unalterable.
I gave you in a former letter a full account of our friends in Bermuda.
My uncle says that they complain much of your neglecting to write to
them. He seemed much hurt at the circumstance. You cannot think
how rejoiced I was to see him look so well and cheerful. It has quite
revived my spirits. He stays in this city a week or ten days, when he
returns to New York, where he will remain five or six weeks before he
goes to Charleston. If you write him, which I suppose you will unquestionably
do, you had better direct to New York. I shall write next post,
till then, my dearest father, adieu. I must not forget to tell you that Dr.
Bartlett, the spermaceti doctor, as Mr. Tudor used to call him, has turned
privateersman, and commands a vessel out of Bermuda. Miss Betsy Gilchrist
is to be married to a Lieut. Hicks of the British army, and Mr.
Fibb, it is reported, is also to be married to another officer whose name I
do not recollect. I see that you begin again to cease writing to me;
and I hope that you will be so good as to send me a letter at least once a
week, as you are so shortly to set out on your circuit, when I cannot expect
to hear from you as often as when you are at home. The enclosed
letter I wrote some time ago. I have every day been expecting an opportunity
by which I could send it without subjecting you to the expense
of postage, which perhaps I too often do. As the subject is an important
one, I hope you will answer it as soon as you conveniently can. Your welcome letter of the 13th from Petersburg reached me yesterday.
I waited for its receipt, that I might acknowledge that of its predecessor
at the same time. I am sorry that I did so, for I wanted to know whether
I could advantageously place my horse, Roanoke, in your neighborhood?
I am sorry that you can't take filly; but I pledge, as the boys say,
a place for her in your training stables next autumn, and another if you
have it to spare. Could I get Bolling Graves, think you, to train for me?
I mean next autumn of course, for his spring engagements are no doubt
complete. There is some mistake about that rifle. It was never sent
home. The last time I saw it it was in J. M. & D.'s compting room.
Have I any other article there except the fir pole from Mont Blanc?
Uncle Nat.*
*Honorable Nathaniel Macon.
is greatly mended, and I am satisfied that if the "wicked
world cease from troubling," which they will not do in this world, I wish
they may in the next, he would be well. He made a remark to me the
other day, that forcibly reminded me of Gay's Shepherd and Philosopher—the
best of all his fables, except "the Hare and many friends." It
will not require your sagacity to make the application. "All animals,"
said he, "provide for their own offspring, and there the thing stops. The
birds rear their young by their joint cares and labours. The cow suckles
and takes care of her own calf, but she does not nurse or provide for that
calf's calf." "The birds do not build nests for their young one's eggs, nor
hatch them, nor feed the nestlings." Since the sailing of the last packet from Liverpool, I received
via St. Petersburg your letter of the 21st of August—the only one
that I have had the pleasure to get from you. This is no common-place address, for without profession
or pretension such you have quietly and modestly proved yourself to
be, while, like Darius, I have been This will be presented to you by my neighbor, Elisha E.
Hundley, whose affairs take him to what, in old times, we used to call
the Bear Grass Country. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 2 | Author: | Randolph
John
1773-1833 | Add | | | Title: | Letters of John Randolph, to a young relative | | | | Published: | 2006 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | I send you by the New Orleans mail, "letters written
by the great Mr. Pitt, afterwards Earl of Chatham, to
his nephew, when at college." You know my opinion of
Lord Chatham: that he was at once the greatest practical
statesman that ever lived, and the most transcendent orator.
With all this, he was a truly good man, (indeed, he must
have been, since virtue is essential to great excellence in
laudable pursuits,) and the most elegant and polished gentleman
of his time. We have examined the National School Manual, and
pleased with the plan. From our knowledge of the
various systems pursued in the country schools, many
which, upon the change of teachers, serve rather to
ard, than advance, the pupil, we do not hesitate to
commend the Manual, as having not only a tendency
uniformity and order, but also to save expense, the
complaint of which is without parallel. Having examined the general plan of the 1st, 2d, and
parts of the "National School Manual," and having
also taken a cursory view of some of the details, I
satisfied that it is a work of no common merit. I have examined with much care, and great satisfaction,
the "National School Manual," compiled by
M. R. Bartlett. The opinion I have formed of its merits,
is of little importance, after the numerous and highly
respectable testimonials to its value already in your
possession. I have examined with care and a high degree of interest
the work called the "National School Manual,"
by Mr. M. R. Bartlett, and am so well satisfied with its
merits, and that it will eventually be adopted in all our
common schools, to the exclusion of every other work
of the kind now in use, that I feel authorized to exert
my influence to have the work introduced forthwith
into my school. "The `Outlines of History,' I consider an excellent
class book of general history for the use of schools. The
questions added by Mr. Frost, are a most valuable auxiliary
for the teacher as well as the pupil. I shall use the
Outlines' in my school, and cordially recommend it to
parents and teachers. I have just received a copy of your edition
of the `Outlines of History.' From a cursory perusal, I
am disposed to give it a high rank as a school book. So
well satisfied am I with the arrangement and execution
of the work, that I intend to put it immediately into the
lands of a class in my own school. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 4 | Author: | Becker
Carl Lotus
1873-1945 | Add | | | Title: | The Declaration of independence | | | | Published: | 2006 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | It is often forgotten that the document which
we know as the Declaration of Independence is
not the official act by which the Continental
Congress voted in favor of separation from Great
Britain. June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee, on
behalf of the Virginia delegation, submitted to
the Continental Congress three resolutions, of
which the first declared that "these United
Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free
and independent States, that they are absolved
from all allegiance to the British Crown, and
that all political connection between them and
the State of Great Britain is, and ought to
be, totally dissolved."1
1Journals of Congress (Ford ed.), V, 424.
This resolution, which
may conveniently be called the Resolution of
Independence, was finally voted by the Continental
Congress on the 2 of July, 1776.2
2Ibid., 507.
Strictly
speaking, this was the official declaration of independence;
and if we were a nation of antiquaries
we should no doubt find an incongruity
in celebrating the anniversary of our independence
on the 4 of July. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 5 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1915 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | Description: | A called meeting of the Board was held on this date
at 8 o'clock, with the following members present: Messrs.
Armistead C. Gordon, Goodrich Hatton, Wm. H. White, G. R. B.
Michie, and Dr. W. F. Drewry, John W. Craddock, R. C. Stearnes
and R. Tate Irvine. In connection with the recent examination
of the accounts of the University of Virginia, as recorded
in the office of the Bursar, will state that
the examination disclosed no irregularities of any
character. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 6 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1916 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | Description: | A called meeting of the Rector and Visitors was held on
this date at 8 o'clock in the President's Office, with the
following present: Hon. Armistead C. Gordon, Rector, John
W. Craddock, Goodrich Hatton, Geo. R. B. Michie, J. K. M. Norton,
R. C. Stearnes, Robert Turnbull and President Alderman. Referring to your recent conversation with Mr.
D. C. Ogg, Train Master, with reference to the proposed
plan of having the University deed to the C. & O. Fail-way
Company the land on which the University's coal
trestle and track are located, and the proposed agreement
between the University and the Railway Company to
maintain the coal trestle and track hereafter on a basis
of an equal division of the cost thereof, it being understood
that the Railway Company shall have the privilege
of making deliveries to outside parties on the said
track and trestle; as requested by you, we are attaching
blue print showing the location of the track and trestle
and the property lines at this point. Referring to your communication of the 16th of September,
1916, addressed to Mr. Armistead C. Gordon, Rector of the
University of Virginia, in re- the plan proposed by you to have
the University deed to your company the land on which the
University's coal trestle and track are located, I am directed
by the Board of Visitors to advise you that the matter was
brought to their attention, and after a full discussion, they
were unable to accede to your proposition. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 7 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1917 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | 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 |
| 9 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1919 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | Description: | A called meeting of the Pector and Visitors was held
on this date at 8 o'clock in the evening. There were
present the Rector, R. Tate Irvine, and Visitors Goodrich Hatton,
C. Harding Walker, John Stewart Bryan, George R. B. Michie,
and Alexander F. Robertson. The minutes of the previous
meeting, copies of which had been mailed to the several
Visitors, were approved. At a meeting of the General Faculty held February
8, 1919, the following resolution was unanimously adopted:
(Resolved, That the General Faculty recommends to the
Rector and Board of Visitors that one or more units of the
R. O. T. C. be established at the University of Virginia.) If the State Board of Health will establish and maintain
a Tuberculosis Sanatorium sufficiently close to the Medical
School of the University of Virginia for effective cooperation,
and if the State Board of Health will permit the Medical
Director of the Sanatorium to teach the problems of tuberculosis
to the students and nurses of the medical department of the
University, and for this purpose use such patients in the sanatorium
as may seem suitable to the Medical Director; the Medical
School of the University will on its part affiliate with the
sanatorium, and promote the work of the sanatorium in so far
as such promotion and affiliation is compatible with the other
objects and duties of the Medical School and the University
Hospital. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 10 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1919 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | Description: | A special meeting of the Rector and Visitors was held
on the above date at 10 o'clock A. M. in the office of the
President. There were present R. Tate Irvine, Rector, and
Visitors Harris Hart, Goodrich Hatton, Geo. R. B. Michis,
Alexander F. Robertson, C. Harding Walker, and the President. The special committee appointed at the meeting
of the Rector and Visitors October 14, 1919, to consider
the question of increase of salaries of the
professors, associate professors, adjunct professors and
administrative officers met on this date at 8 o'clock
P.M. in the office of the President. There were present
the President, and Messrs. Irvine, Hart, Walker and
Michie. Visitors Robertson and Hatton were present by
invitation of the committee. The professors of the University of Virginia, in
special conference assembled, desire to call your attention
to the following facts, too well known to require
argument: I beg to acknowledge the receipt of a preamble and
resolutions presented to me on November 3rd and again
signed on November 5th by a committee representing a conference
of the gentlemen of the faculties of the University.
I need hardly say that I am in enthusiastic accord
with the general purport of these resolutions both as regards
the substantial increase of salaries and the
policy of not attempting further new expansion in the
University until a just and adequate salary arrangement
for the present staff is attained. The purpose to bring
about this increase is the most steadfast purpose in my
mind, and has been all along for twelve years as I have
seen the staff increase from twenty-eight to seventy-eight
by process of promotion rather than succession,
and particularly since last April when with then no certainty
of surplus funds I recommended and the Board added some
$8000 to be appropriated for salary increases. I shall,
therefore, both as your colleague and as a member of a
committee appointed by the Board for the purpose, give to
these resolutions my most earnest and sympathetic consideration,
and I shall take pains to see that the committee
of the Board and the Board itself see and consider
them. I confess to some disquiet and some unhappiness
in the matter. Naturally, I would desire not only to
support but to lead in a movement to grant a petition
containing so much of justice and signed by so many
thoughtful and unselfish men. I am determined whether
the Legislature grants the request contained in the
budget or any part of it or none of it, to recommend with
insistence that a new salary basis of 25% increase be
entered upon here this year effective for the current
session, and it is my judgment that the Rector and Visitors
also hold this purpose quite definitely, though,
of course, I have no authority to forecast their action.
With me the necessity for such action is a matter of
supreme educational policy. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 11 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1924 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | Description: | A special meeting of the Rector and Visitors was held
on this date with the Rector, C. Harding Walker, and Visitors
Dillard, Hall, Hull, Scott, Rinehart, and Williams, and
President Alderman present. That for andin consideration of One Dollar ($1.00)
cash in hand paid, receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, and
of the covenants and agreements herein contained, which areto
be mutually paid, kept and performed, it is agreed that the
personal representative of the said Walter H. Taylor, deceased,
shall deliver to and deposit with the Virginia Trust
Company, as Trustee, the Thirty-seven Hundred and Twenty- one
Dollars and Ninety-eight Cents ($3721.98) in full discharge
and satisfaction ofany obligation on the part of the said
Walter H. Taylor, his heirs and assigns, with respect to the
Thirty-seven Hundred and Twenty-one Dollars and Ninety-eight
Cents ($3721.98) security above mentioned; to be held by the
said Trustee for and during the life or lives of either or
both of the said Frances R. Curd or Helen Wood Rogers, as
security for the payment of the monthly annuity of Twenty-five
Dollars ($25.00) each, to the parties of the first part, or
the survivor during her life as provided in said will, with
the right on the part of the said Trustee to invest and reinvest
the same; to collect any increase thereof, interest,
or return therefrom, and to pay the same, but not the principal
thereof, to the University of Virginia so long as the obligation
on the part of the University of Virginia to pay the
annuities above mentioned are faithfully kept and performed
in accordance with the terms of said will of Edward W. James,
deceased; and at the death of both of the said annuitants-Frances
R. Curd and Helen Wood Rogers- to pay over to the
University of Virginia, free and clear of any charge or obligation
whatsoever, the principal of said Thirty-seven Hundred
and Twenty-one Dollars and Ninety-eight Cents ($3721.98)
so held as security, together with any interest which may
accrue thereon remaining unpaid. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 12 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1925 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | Description: | A special meeting of the Rector and Visitors was held
on this date at 9 a.m., with the following members present:
the Rector, C. Harding Walker, and Visitors, Hall, Hart,
Hull, McIntire, Rinehart, Williams and Hatcher. The announcement that you had declined the offer of
the Chancellorship of the University of Georgia, because
of a resolve to devote your future to the service of
the University of Virginia, came to her alumni as a
message of high courage and imperishable faith. The
twenty-one years during which you have directed the
policies and energized the activities of our Alma Mater
have been years of stirring achievement. Her gain in
endowments, in student attendance, in academic authority,
in scientific equipment, in teaching power, in public
usefulness and in popular esteem have been magnificent
and in large measure your personal work. They have
won for you the sympathy, support, the admiration,
the confidence and the loyalty of all our alumni. Yet
their allegiance has still a deeper root. You came
to this University in a momentous hour. You were our
first president and the great mass of our then graduates
knew the virtues of the older regime and were unconcious
of the ineradicable infirmities which lay
hidden beneath them. In a few loyal and devoted spirits
a certain fear awoke for the noble tradition of the
school, for its high standards, for its law of liberty
both in learning and in teaching, for the gracious fraternity
of intramural life. It has been your high
mission to dispel such fears, to lift all that was worthy
in the spirit and tradition of the University of
Virginia to a higher plane of authority and power, and
by the depth of your understanding and the comprehension
of your sympathy to beget for her a future which
shall be the rich inheritor of her past. In you
she has found both a bond of peace and the righteousness
of her academic life. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 14 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1927 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | Description: | A called meeting of the Board was held on the
above date at 8 o'clock P. M., being continued at 9:30
A. M. November 12th. Your Committee, directed at the June, 1927,
meeting to effect a settlement with the City of
Charlottesville of certain questions which have arisen
as to the University's use of water from the City's
Reservoirs, and the of payment therefor, respectfully
report— On behalf of the Chairman of the Finance Committee,
I beg to submit the following report on sale of land in
Colorado and Kansas bequeathed to the University by Miss
Este Coffinberry for the establishment of the John W.
Richard Lectureship in Religion. Report of Building Committee. At the meeting of the Board of Visitors held in
April, 1927, a resolution was adopted directing the
Attorney for the University to make settlement with the
Estate of Graham F. Blandy, and with Mrs. Blandy, of certain
accounts due to said Estate and to Mrs. Blandy by the
University for work done upon the Blandy Experimental
Farm by Mrs. Blandy's laborers and by the Estate of
Graham F. Blandy, and for materials furnished by Mrs.
Blandy and by said Estate to the Experimental Farm in
the operation and maintenance of said Farm from March
25, th, 1926, the date of Mr. Blandy's death to August
1st, 1926, the date when the University took possession
of the property. Said resolution directs the Attorney
to make settlement of this account, providing the total
of said account did not exceed the sum of $1600.00. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 15 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1928 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | Description: | The annual meeting of the Rector and Visitors was held on this date at
10 o'clock A. M., lasting until 6 P. M., with intermission for lunch, followed by a
session on the morning of the 12th which convened at 9:30 o'clock. At a meeting of the members of the Board of Trustees
of the International Education Board held May 25, 1928, the officers
presented your letter of February 2, 1928, in which, on behalf of
the trustees of the University of Virginia, you request the Board's
cooperation in strengthening and stimulating research in the physical
and biological sciences. It was observed that in addition to sums
now available, annual sums approximating $45,000 would be required
eventually to carry out your program of development in chemistry,
physics and biology, and that there was reasonable assurance that beginning
with the fiscal year July 1, 1930, the authorities of the
University would be in position to provide annually increasing sums
for this purpose, so that within a period of from five to seven years
the University would be able to assume the increased annual expenditure
of $45,000. RESOLVED, That the locations selected for the proposed
dormitories on the western slope of Monroe Hill and for
the academic building on the site of the Mallet House, be
and are hereby approved, subject to minor changes in
location. The largest single maturing investment included above, was an item of
$103,600 School & College 6% Certificates which were called for payment by the
State of Virginia at par on January 1, 1928. $100,000 of these were held in the
Corcoran Fund. To replace this large investment at a time when high grade bonds
were selling at prices which returned lower yields than for many years past, of
course, worked a hardship upon the University. It was necessary to accept a
lower return in order to obtain anywhere nearly commensurate safety. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 16 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1928 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | Description: | A special meeting of the Board of Visitors was held on this date at
8 o'clock P. M., with the Rector, Hon. C. Harding Walker, Visitors D. D. Hull, Jr.,
Harris Hart, Lewis C. Williams, Paul G. McIntire, Hollis Rinehart, Fred W. Scott,
A. C. Carson, and Mrs. M. C. B. Munford, and President Alderman, present. On October 13th, I wrote you with reference to the Blandy
estate, and stated that the final settlement of this estate shows the
corpus of the trust fund set aside by the will of Graham F. Blandy,
deceased, from which his widow is to receive the income during her lifetime,
and which passes to the University at her death, amounts to $971,486.12. I beg to enclose herewith copy of final decree which has been
entered in the Circuit Court of Clarke County in the Chancery Cause of
Georgette H. Blandy v. The Rector and Visitors of the University of
Virginia. You will observe that this decree finally determines the fact
that the University of Virginia has complied with all the conditions
specified in the will of Graham F. Blandy as conditions precedent to the
vesting of title in The Rector and Visitors of the University in the land
devised to the University by the will of Graham F. Blandy, deceased. The dormitories and academic building have been let to contract
as follows: | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 17 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1929 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | 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, C.
Harding Walker, and Visitors Buchanan, Carson, Hull, McIntire, Munford, Rinehart,
Scott, and Williams, and President Alderman. At the annual meeting of your body on Jule 11th, 1928, following the
presentation of resolutions from the professorial staff concerning an increase in
the salary schedule "a Committee consisting of Messrs. Hull, Buchanan and Carson
was appointed to study the whole question of the salary scale, and report to the
Rector and Visitors." Upon the urgent request of said Committee the Rector consented
to serve as a member of the Committee. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 18 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1929 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | Description: | A special meeting of the Board was held in Richmond, Virginia, on this
date for the purpose of presenting to his Excellency, Governor Harry F. Byrd, the action
of the meeting of the Board on February 1st, at which time a resolution was adopted
increasing the salary scale of the members of the faculty of the University of Virginia,
subject to the approval of the Governor. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 19 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1929 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | Description: | A special meeting of the Board as held on this date at 8 o'clock P. M.
Present, the Rector, C. Harding Walker, and Visitors Buchanan, Carson, McIntire,
Munford, Scott, Rinehart, and Williams. At the request of the Governor the members of the Board met
with him at his office Saturday, April 27th at noon for the purpose of
conferring on the proposed scale of salaries for the academic faculty
and members of other faculties not previously approved by the Governor,
as adopted at a meeting of your Board February 1, 1929. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 20 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1929 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | Description: | The annual meeting of the Rector and Visitors was held on this date at 9 o'clock
a.m. There were present the Rector, C. Harding Walker, and Visitors Carson, Hart, Hull,
McIntire, Munford, Rinehart, Scott and Williams. We, the members of the teaching staff of professorial
rank, informally assembled, take this means of expressing to
you our sincere thanks for your cooperation in securing the
adoption of the new salary scale for all ranks of teachers of
this University. I have the honor to transmit to you herewith the report
of the Committee on Award of DuPont Scholarships for 1929-30. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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