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21Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1907 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: At a called meeting of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, in the President's Office, Tuesday, May 21st, 1907, At a recent meeting the Board of Governors of the Colonnade Club of the University adopted a resolution requesting the President of the Club to petition the Board of Visitors for a reduction in the rent of Pavilion VII., West Lawn. The rent as fixed by the Board at their last meeting is $150.00, and we now beg the Board to consider reducing this to the nominal rental of $50.00.
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22Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1907 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: The Board of Visitors met in annual session in the President's Office, University of Virginia, on above date, I enclose herewith, for transmission to the Rector and Board of Visitors, at their coming meeting, my resignation as professor of Physiology and Therapeutics in the University of Virginia. After seventeen years of unbroken service in the University of Virginia, I now tender to you my resignation as professor of Physiology and Therapeutics, to take effect at the end of this session. My reasons for this step are that I have been offered, and have accepted, the Presidency of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, at Blacksburg, Virginia. I beg to acknowledge with profound regret the receipt of your communication to the Board of Visitors, tendering your resignation as Professor of Physiology and Therapeutics at this University, to take effect at the end of the session. I shall transmit this communication to the Visitors of the University to be acted upon by them at their approaching meeting, on June 10th.
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23Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1907 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: At a called meeting of the Board of Visitors on above date, in the President's Office, East Lawn,
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24Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1907 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: At a called meeting of the Board of Visitors, University of Virginia, in the President's Office, East Lawn,
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25Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1908 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: At a called meeting of the Board of Visitors on above date in the President's Office, East Lawn, Enclosed please find copy of my letter to The Virginia Trust Co. of this State, which you will please file as my report on the loan of $12,000.00 to Messrs. A. W. Mosby and H. E. DeWitt. I am sending you herewith, for the account of the Rec- tor and Visitors of the University of Virginia: The Virginia Trust Company insists upon its charge of $150.00 for its services with the loan of bonds to the National Exchange Bank. Mr. Gilliam, President of the Bank, took the position, in which I concurred, that $50.00 was a fair amount for his bank to pay for this service, and, while I feel that the charge of the Virginia Trust Company is somewhat excessive, inasmuch as they have declined to reduce it, I have authorized them to charge the account of the University of Virginia with $100.00, in settlement of balance on this transaction.
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26Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1908 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: At the meeting of the Board of Visitors called for this date, there being present only the Rector, and Visitors Craddock and Harmon, an informal conference was held with the President, and adjournment made subject to call of the Rector. University of Virginia, April 10th, 1908. As you know from my reports to you of earlier date, I have for some time felt the coming on of age, and the inevitable necessity for laying down the responsibility of my pleasant duties in the service of the University. I beg to acknowledge with sincere regret your communication of March 16th, putting into my hands, for transmission to the Visitors, your resignation of the Professorship of Chemistry in the University of Virginia. I shall present to the Visitors, at their approaching meeting, your formal letter of resignation, with the request that they take such action as they may deem fit and proper. It is with great regret that I feel compelled, by the pressure of age, and resulting loss of health and strength, to give up work in the service of the University of Virginia May I ask you to tender to the Rector and Board of Visitors of the University, my resignation as Professor of Pathology, to take effect September 15th, 1908, and also convey to them my regret at being "compelled" by the insistence of the call to a similar chair in my alma mater, the University of Wisconsin, to leave the Medical school at this period in its development. I send herewith the copyright of the "Geology of Virginia" for the department of Geology of the University of Virginia, for its use without limitation as to time or other considerations. I beg to acknowledge the receipt of the copyright to the "Geology of Virginia" for the Department of Geology in the University of Virginia. I beg to renew our very sincere appreciation of your great kindness and generosity. I believe that the William Barton Rogers Chair of Geology here, since the establishment of the State Survey at the University, is destined to carry out in a noble way the original plans so splendidly laid out by your husband. I now make my third and final report, acting under decree in this cause of January 4th, 1908. This report embraces a full and detailed account of the Receipts, Disbursements, and Transactions of the Norfolk Bank for Savings and Trusts, Adm. c. t. a., of Edward W. James, deceased.
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27Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1908 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: At the annual meeting of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, at 10 00 A. M. on above date, in the President's Office, Referring to the resolution adopted at the meeting of the Board held the 10th of April, wherein it was provided that the Finance Committee should sell the "Stump Haul Fishery" in Princess Anne Co., (the same being a part of the Estate of Mr. James), provided the sum of Fifty Thousand Dollars could be obtained therefor, Please accept my resignation as Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Virginia, effective Sept. 15th, 1908. I am directed by the Miller Board of Trustees of the University of Virginia to transmit to you to be laid before your Board, the following resolutions of the Miller Board of Trustees of the Agricultural School of the University of Virginia, adopted at their meeting held on Saturday, June 13th, 1908:-
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28Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1908 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: At a called meeting of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, at 2.00 o'clock P. M., on above date in the President's Office, East Lawn, The President having presented the letter of Mr. Lile in behalf of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity, the following was adopted -
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29Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1909 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: At a meeting of Board of Visitors of the University, at 2:00 P. M., on above date in the President's Office, East Lawn, Learning from our honored President that you would probably meet at the University very soon for the transaction of important business, I take advantage of the opportunity to bring a personal matter of high importance to myself before you. I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 18th inst., forwarding your letter of resignation as Professor of Teutonic Languages in the University of Virginia. I have communicated your letter to the Rector and Visitors of the University and they have commissioned me to express their profound regret at your decision. I believe you will understand how keenly and genuinely I share with the Visitors this sentiment of regret.
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30Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1909 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: At a called meeting of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, on May 8th, in the President's Office, East Lawn,
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31Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1909 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: At the June meeting of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, at 10:30 A. M. on above date, in the President's Office, I hereby ask my application for the Degree of Master of Arts be changed to the following form:
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32Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1909 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: At a called meeting of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia at 2:00 o'clock P. M., on above date, in the President's Office, Your Committee on Commons Hall begs to submit the following report covering the operations of Commons from the inauguration of this enterprise on September 1, 1908 to December 1, 1909, together with plans for balance of the current session.
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33Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1910 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 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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34Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1910 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 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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35Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1910 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 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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36Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1911 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 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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37Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1911 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 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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38Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1911 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 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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39Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1912 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 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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40Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1912 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 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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