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Board of Visitors | Add | | | 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
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