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1Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsAdd
 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.
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