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1Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes (1913) May 20, 1913  
 Published:  1913 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: At the annual meeting of the Board of Visitors, called for the consideration of the Financial Budget for 1913-1914. The Committee on Entrance Building having made the foregoing report, it was After the annual report of the Department of Engineering had been made and forwarded to the President, it was learned that Mr. J. S. Lapham, a graduate of this University in Mechanical Engineering, desired an appointment on our teaching staff. Mr. Lapham is a young man of unusual ability; and, if his application had been received earlier, he would undoubtedly have been engaged. It is not often that any school has the opportunity of securing the services of a man so eminently fitted by capacity, training, and character to make a useful and accomplished University teacher. The department is already committed to the young men nominated in our report as instructors for 1913-1914, and cannot in good faith, cancel any one of the nominations. On the other hand, the opportunity is one which cannot be postponed; unless Mr. Lapham comes to us, he will go into business with his father, and such permanent changes will have to be made in the details of that business as will prevent him from accepting a position with us in the future. As you are already aware, I have recently sent to the Trustees of the Carnegie Foundation a formal application for retirement, feeling that after forty years of full professional work and twenty-five years of active service at this University, the time has come when it is wise for me to take advantage of the provisions of the Foundation, I. We recommend that the sites on Carr's Hill for fraternity houses, be at present restricted to four, and that the northernmost site be located on a line passing through the centre of the president's residence and the centre of the president's stable, and at least as far distant from the president's house as is the location of the "Delta Tau Delta" house. Prof. Newcomb who is planning the plants for the sewage purification, as directed by the State Board of Health, indicates that we will have to acquire land to furnish a sufficient fall to carry off the effluent from the filter beds.
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