| | 241 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1921) May 31, 1921  | | | | Published: | 1921 | | | | 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 which were present the Rector John Stewart Bryan,
and Visitors Dillard, Duke, Greever, Hatton, Robertson and Scott. Confirming the following telegram which I sent to you
under date of May 31st, 1921, - Please pardon my delay in making formal answer to your
telegram of May 31st, but I have been in the midst of Centennial,
and this is the morning after. In pursuance of our conference, I beg you
will convey to the Rector and Visitors my purpose, if it be
in accord with their wishes, to give the sum of $200,000
for the establishment and maintenance within the University
of Virginia of a School or Department of Commerce and Finance,
utilizing as far as possible the basis of such School or
Department now in existence. The purpose of this school
or department shall be to give such training for the career
of business as will give our youth knowledge and skill in
that field, and will inculcate in them those habits of economy
and integrity upon which our whole economic life depends.
The conditions I deem it wise to put upon this gift are the
following:- I had the honor to transmit your communication
of May 30th, to the Rector and Visitors at their annual
meeting on May 31st, 1921. The farseeing gift which it
announces was accepted by them unanimously and with deep
appreciation of the wisdom of the purpose for which the
endowment is intended. I was directed by them to express to
you their apprediation and gratitude for this new manifestation
of your wisdon and beneficence. They begged me to
assure you that they were accepting this gift mindful of all
the conditions named by you which they consider wise and helpful
conditions. It will be their purpose to carry out your
wishes rigidly and to seek by all just means to develop the
great new department which this endowment makes possible in
the life of the University. I need not assure you of my
own personal appreciation of the greatness and wisdom of your
services to this institution in its effort to serve the youth
of this and other generations. The Committee appointed by the Board of Visitors of
the University of Virginia to investigate and report upon
a site and plans for the proposed new gymnasium met at the
president's office at 3 P. M., April 30th, the following
gentlemen being present: Dr. Alderman, Dr. Lambeth, Mr.
Robertson, Mr. Duke and Mr. Michie. Mr. Bryan and Dr. Warren
were unable to attend. Dr. Lambeth was asked to act as
chairman of the committee and Mr. Michie as secretary. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 242 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1921) June 23, 1921 | | | | Published: | 1921 | | | | 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 with the following members present: Rector John
Stewart Bryan and Visitors Dillard, Duke, Greever, Hatton,
Oliver, Scott and Walker and President Alderman. I was directed at a meeting of the Rector and Visitors
of the University, held on Thursday, June 23rd, to communicate
to you an expression of their very high appreciation of
your valuable services in connection with the building,
management, and successful development of the Cafeteria
at the University. They requested me to say that they are
not unindful of your long services in this field, extending
over a number of years, and that they are particularly
struck with the excellence of your management this year
exhibiting so handsome a surplus. In substantial appreciation
of this fact, they are offering you an honorarium
which the Secretary of the Board of Visitors will duly
communicate to you. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 243 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1921) October 4, 1921 | | | | Published: | 1921 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Pursuant to the call of the Governor of Virginia, made under
the terms and provisions of the Act of the Legislature of Virginia
creating a Commission on Medical Education in Virginia, there
was this day held a joint meeting of the Rector and Visitors
of the University of Virginia and the Chairman and Board of
Visitors of the Medical College of Virginia, to consider the
recommendations of the Commission on Medical Education in
Virginia, as set out in its report to the Governor and to the
Board of the respective institutions, and to endeavor to agree
upon a plan of consolidation. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 244 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1921) November 29, 1921 | | | | Published: | 1921 | | | | 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 which were present the Rector, John Stewart Bryan,
H. D. Dillard, W. R, Duke, E. L. Greever, Walter T. Oliver, Alexander
F. Robertson, Fred W. Scott, C. Harding Walker and President
Alderman. In response to your invitation the undersigned members
of the Architectural Commission met at the University to
consider sites and recommend a site for the Gymnasium. The Architectural Commission has considered and studied
at length all phases of the gymnasium problem and now submits
these plans which, in our unanimous professional judgment,
are the most economical solution which meets all the
obligatory requirements. We submit an approximate estimate of
cost prepared by Mr. W. P. Thurston, the Richmond contractor,
in the sum of $259,000.00. On this basis we recommend
that the Board authorize the preparation of working
drawings and specifications on which bids for the work
may be secured. According to general plans and specifications of
the central heating system, prepared by myself and adopted
by the engineering faculty, construction will go
forward, as funds become available, in three sections.
The first section, to be installed for $60,000 now
available, comprises: ATTENTION Mr. Chas. Hancock On October 10th, 1921 the Common Council of the
City of Charlottesville appointed a committee composed of
J. R. Morris, Chairman; W. M. Forrest; City Mgr., Walter
Washabaugh and J. P. Greaver to make thorough investigation
of the water situation in Charlottesville, and to get up
plans and specifications for filter and aeration plant. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 246 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1922) April 26, 1922 | | | | Published: | 1922 | | | | 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, at eight
P. M. and continued on the following morning at nine-thirty.
There were present Visitors H. D. Dillard, W. R. Duke, Paul
Goodloe McIntire, Miss. Emily McVea, Walter T. Oliver, F. W.
Scott, C. Harding Walker, Lewis C. Williams and President
Alderman. On behalf of the donors, I have the privilege of
presenting to the Rector and Visitors a portrait of the first
President of the University of Virginia. It is the work of
Eugene Speicher, of New York, a noted artist and portrait painter.
The portrait is the joint gift of many alumni, members of the
faculty, and other friends of the President and of the University. I beg to acknowledge the receipt
of your kind letter, in which you announce the presentation
to the Rector and Visitors, by a joint group of alumni,
members of the faculty, and friends of the University and of
the President, a portrait of the first President of the University
of Virginia. Please find attached hereto a petition signed by
sixteen of your professors living north of the University
who request that we build a small waiting room at the end
of our car line on Rugby Road, near the Chesapeake & Ohio
Railway. My mother, sisters, brother and myself
are planning to make a contribution to the Centennial
Endowment Fund, which we wish to take the shape of a
memorial of some kind to my father, William H. White.
It is our wish that it be used in some way in connection
with the Law School. As we do not know how it could be
best used, we are desirous of an expression of an opinion
from you. The fund will be available early in May and will
be about $10,000.00. I have your letter of the 7th inst.,
and it is difficult for me to tell you how much pleasure
and satisfaction it would be for me and to this University
to have here this memorial to my dear friend, your father.
It so happened that we served together on the Board of
Visitors and the Alumni Board for over ten years, and I know
something of his devotion to the Institution. It is equally
pleasing to me that you contemplate something in connection
with the Law School. I am coming to Washington, unless I
am prevented by reasons not now foreseen, about the 21st
of April, and I shall let you know in advance of my coming.
Of course, I shall treat your communication as confidential. Please find enclosed the following
checks: The Trustees of the Austin Estate held for a number
of years a mortgage from the heirs of Elizabeth C. Blackbird.
A year ago last December the mortgage was paid off and we
executed a discharge of the same. The Carnegie Corporation has upon its books an
appropriation of One Hundred Thousand dollars ($1000,000)
to the University of Virginia on which it is at present paying
interest, all conditions in connection therewith having
been fulfilled by the University of Virginia. If satisfactory
to you, the Corporation will find it convenient to pay
this amount in cash on June thirtieth, together with the
regular quarterly payment of interest. I am sending you this
advance notice in order that you may make what arrangements
are necessary for the disposition of the funds. I have your communication of the 6th inst., informing
me that on June 30, the Corporation will find it
convenient to pay the amount of $100,000 to the University
of Virginia together with the regular quarterly payment of
interest. Confirming our conversation of this morning:The
Chi Phi Fraternity would like to lease for the purposes
of building a fraternity house, a plot of land on
Rugby Road between The Gymnasium and the Kappa Sigma house. Please refer to our letter of May 31st in which
we ask for a lease to a certain piece of land for the use of
the Chi Phi Fraternity:- | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 247 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1922) October 17, 1922 | | | | Published: | 1922 | | | | 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 with the following members present: I have made very careful study
of the cost of heating to the University from the new central
station with a view to making recommendation as to a fair
distribution of charges for heat. In reference to E. W. James Estate Income I wish to express however haltingly - my deep appreciation
of the generous kindness you have shown me during
my illness, - a kindness which has made my sickness much
more tolerable and my recovery more certain and complete. When our Board of School Trustees decided recently
to erect a school for the colored population of this place the
most suitable site was found to be on the land now owned by
Mr. John Armstrong Chaloner. We asked Mr. Chaloner to donate
ten acres of land for this purpose. Mr. Chaloner considered
the matter carefully and decided he wanted to doit because of
his love for the people of Roanoke Rapids and his desire to do
something for the colored people of this section. He explained,
however, that he had made a deed of this land to
the Universities of North Carolina and Virginia but that he
thought since he was to have the use of this land during his
lifetime that there would be no difficulty in conveying in fee
simple to our School Board. He suggested that we have our
lawyer investigate the case which has been done. Our attorney
advises that the most suitable way to convey this land is to
have a deed signed jointly by Mr. Chaloner and the proper
authorities from the two universities. I have just written
Dr. Chase to determine whether the University of North
Carolina would be willing to join with the University
of Virginia in making the deed. We asked for ten acres because
we thought that was the smallest part we could get
along with. Knowing your spirit and interest in the cause of
education I feel that you will understand our position and
that there will be little difficulty in getting the proper
acceptance of this arrangement. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 248 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1922) November 29, 1922 | | | | Published: | 1922 | | | | 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 with the following members present: Replying further to your letter of the 3d inst.,
with which you enclosed copy of resolution of the Board of
Visitors passed at its meeting of October 17th, 1922, with
reference to distribution of income from E. W. James Estate,
together with a copy of your report to the Rector and Visitors
presented by you, as I understand it, at their meeting
of October 17th, allow me to say that after further consideration
of this matter, I agree entirely in conclusion reached
by you in this very clear and explicit report. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 249 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1923) April 17, 1923 | | | | Published: | 1923 | | | | 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 eight o'clock P. M., with adjournment to the
President's home the following morning at ten o'clock that
certain matters might be considered with him, he not being able
to leave his home on account of recent illness. A committee appointed by you to investigate
and report upon the pressures in the University
water main met today with Mr. Bennet, City Manager, and
Messrs. Williamson and Carroll, Engineers. This is to certify that THE RECTOR AND VISITORS OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, a corporation under the laws of the
State of Virginia, is indebted to the Alumni Board of
Trustees of the University of Virginia Endowment Fund in the
sum of EIGHTY-TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS ($82,000.00), payable six
months after date when payment thereof shall be demanded in
writing by the said Alumni Board of Trustees of the University
Endowment Fund. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 250 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1923) June 11, 1923 | | | | Published: | 1923 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The regular annual meeting of the Rector and Visitors was
held on this date, at 8 o'clock P. M., with the following members
present: Visitors Dillard, Duke, Greaver, Hart, McIntire,
McVea, Oliver and Scott, and President Alderman. It is a pleasure to report the completion
of the first two units of the new heating plant and
the successful operation of the same through its first heating
season. There are now installed about 75 000 square feet of
radiation surface, approximately 72% of the entire heating load
for all permanent buildings south of Ivy Road. This agreement is entered into this the 11th day of June
1923 between The Rector and Visitors of the University
of Virginia, of Charlottesville, Va., and the Department
of Game and Inland Fisheries - Witnesseth - that for
and in consideration of the sum of one dollar and the
provisions of Chapter 93, Acts of the General Assembly
of Virginia, 1922, an Act for the establishment of State
Game Sanctuaries in this State, the said The Rector and
Visitors of the University of Virginia assigns to the
Department of Game and Inland Fisheries certain land described
as follows: | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 252 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1923) October 12, 1923 | | | | Published: | 1923 | | | | 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 present:
The Rector, Rev. C. Harding Walker, Visitors Duke, McIntire,
McVea, Oliver, Scott and Williams, and President Alderman. RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE WHITEHEAD SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE I have thought for sometime that I wanted
to do something for my Alma Mater - the University of
Virginia - to which I owe so much; but when the drive was
on for the University I had been in the Army for more than
two years with my personal and family expenses more than three
times what my income was and I was not certain about the
future. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 253 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1924) February 19, 1924 | | | | Published: | 1924 | | | | 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 present:
The Rector C. Harding Walker, Visitors Dillard, Duke, McVea,
Oliver and Scott, and President Alderman. The Committee on Saturday, October
13th had interviews with Dr. Hancock and Dr. Lambeth
and saw both heating plants. The Committee is of the
opinion that it would be well for them to be under one
head and as Dr. Hancock has resigned, advise that Dr. Lambeth
be placed in charge of all heating plants. I have the honor herewith to report
on the work of the expedition sent to California
by the Leander of McCormick Observatory to make observations
on the total eclipse of the sun on September
10, 1923. Your letter of the eleventh was duly
received. I went over this morning to see Mr. Bradford
about the transfer of the portrait of Jefferson in the
Colonnade Club to Jefferson Hall. With the assistance of
the janitor there, I hung the picture where Sully's
Jefferson formerly hung. The Jefferson Society has now in its possession
a portrait of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Sully purchased
some seventy years ago by the Society for the sum of
approximately five hundred dollars. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 254 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1924) April 16, 1924 | | | | Published: | 1924 | | | | 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 with Rector, C. Harding Walker; Visitors H. D.
Dillard, M. Carter Hall, D. D. Hull, Jr., Harris Hart, Paul
G. McIntire, Hollis Rinehart, Fred W. Scott and Lewis G.
Williams, and President Alderman present. This is to certify that THE RECTOR AND VISITORS OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, a corporation under the laws
of the State of Virginia, is indebted to the Alumni Board
of Trustees of the University of Virginia Endowment Fund
in the sum of | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 256 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1924) November 26, 1924 | | | | Published: | 1924 | | | | 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 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 |
| 258 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1925) June 15, 1925 | | | | Published: | 1925 | | | | 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 9:30 a.m. with the Rector, C. Harding Walker,
Visitors Hall, Hart, Hull, McIntire, Rinehart, Scott and
Williams, and President Alderman Present. I am today sending to Governor
Trinkle my formal resignation as a member of the
Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia.
I cannot refrain from writing at the same time to
express to you and the other members of the Board
my heartfelt appreciation of the delightful way in
which you welcomed me and made me so completely one
of yourselves. I value more than I can tell you
the association in so high a duty with men like those
on our Board. The meetings have been a pleasure and
a privilege. RESOLVED, That the Rector and Visitors having
learned with regret, of Dr. Emilie W. McVea's ill
health and resignation, deeply sensible of the loss
to the Board, and appreciating her many kindnesses
and courtesies, have appointed the undersigned committee
to express their sincere hope that she will speedily
recover her health. At the forty-ninth meeting of the
State Board of Health Committee for Blue Ridge Sanatorium,
held at Blue Ridge Sanatorium, Charlottesville,
Virginia, February 4, 1925; the following resolution
was adopted: | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 260 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1925) November 14, 1925 | | | | Published: | 1925 | | | | 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 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 |
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