| | 261 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | 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 |
| 262 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1926) April 27, 1926 | | | | Published: | 1926 | | | | 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 9:30 a.m. with the following members present:
B. F. Buchanan, M. Carter Hall, Harris Hart, D. D.
Hull, Paul G. McIntire, Mrs. B. B. Munford, Hollis Rinehart,
Lewis C. Williams and C. Harding Walker, Messrs.
Buchanan, McIntire, Williams and Walker, and Mrs. Munford
having been appointed by the Governor for the term beginning
March 1st, 1926, presented qualifications for the office
of Visitor of the University. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 263 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1926) June 14, 1926 | | | | Published: | 1926 | | | | 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 10 a.m., with the following members
present: Hart, Hull, McIntire, Rinehart, Scott, Williams,
Walker and President Alderman. It is my sad duty to announce to the faculty and students
of the University the death of Professor Charles
Hancockk in the fifty-seventh year of his age. The Committee appointed to select and recommend
sites for fraternity houses met today and after viewing
the locations, make the following recommendation: At a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial
held on May 24, 1926, the following resolution was passed
on behalf of the University of Virginia: I have this day received your communication of
June 3rd containing the resolution of the Board of
Trustees of the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial,
wherein a sum not to exceed $137,500 was appropriated
to the University of Virginia toward its program of
research in the Social Sciences. I shall present
this resolution to the Rector and Visitors of the
University at their meeting on June 14th, and shall
at that time convey their expression, as the Governing
Body of the University, of their deep appreciation of
this action. In the meantime, I can perhaps personally
assure you of my own profound sense of obligation
to you for the patient thought you have given to the
matter, and I assure you that I shall want to carry
out the work which this money is intended to promote,
with the very highest desire to have the exact thing
that the Board intends to get done in our American
life. At a meeting of the committee representing
the Richmond Alumni of the University, it was unanimously
voted to offer to the University the support of a Research
Professor in the School of History. We expect to raise
$4,000 a year for five years for the support of this Chair.
We decided to specify history because we feel that it will
make a stronger appeal to the Alumni. We will be in a
position later in the summer to arrange the details necessary
to establishing this Chair with the authorities of
the University. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 266 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1927) March 1, 1927 | | | | Published: | 1927 | | | | 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 p.m., with Messrs. Walker, Hull, Williams,
Mrs. Munford and President Alderman present. Your committee on the New Medical Buildings
recommends to the President that the Rector and
Visitors of the University of Virginia authorize
their Buildings Committee to enter into an agreement
to carry forward the construction of the Central
Heating Plant for the New Medical Building in accordance
with the proposals submitted by Mr. J. A. Almirall,
hereto attached. The proposals include one boiler
for the University and a building for the whole former
plant to inclose another boiler and electrical
equipment for lighting the University, therefor the
University is to pay $35,000 and the Medical Building
Fund is to pay $50,000. The Medical Building Fund
will loan $35,000 to the University to be repaid later. At the meeting which the writer had with you
yesterday morning, relative to the installation of
new boiler at Central Power Plant, he left with you
the two letters dated February 9th and February 11th
which had previously been written concerning this
subject. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 267 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1927) April 22, 1927 | | | | Published: | 1927 | | | | 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 p.m., lasting until 11:30 p.m.,
when adjournment was had to the morning of April 23rd
at 9 o'clock. After due deliveration and careful study, supplemented
by a personal interview with several agricultural
experts at V. P. I., the committee on "Blandy Experimental
Farm" is of the opinion that the tentative educational program
submitted below is practical, and furthermore, that it
will (1) comply with the will of the donor, (2) be a service
to the people of the State, and (3) will not conflict with
the work which is now being done at the Virginia Polytechnic
Institute. In light of these facts then, the following
recommendations are made: I beg to advise that, pursuant to instructions
given me at the March 1st meeting of the Board, I
called on Bentley W. Warren and Irvin McD. Garfield,
trustees of the Estate of Arthur W. Austin, on April
11th and received from them the corpus of the estate
consisting of the following: | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 268 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1927) June 13, 1927 | | | | Published: | 1927 | | | | 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 10 o'clock A. M., lasting until 6 P. M.,
with intermission for lunch, followed by a session on
the morning of the 14th which convened at 10 o'clock. I beg to report that the John Alexander
Muir bequest has been received and delivered to
the State-Planters Bank & Trust Company, of
Richmond, Va., in accordance with resolution adopted
at the meeting of the Board April 22, and that
formal contract for the care of same, similar to
those now in existence with the Virginia Trust
Company and the Peoples National Bank, has been
executed. The estate was forwarded by the First
National Bank of Alexandria, Va., Trustees, to their
respresentative in Richmond, being delivered to
the depository upon official receipt for same. The schedule of proposed salary increases for
certain members of the teaching staff and other employees
of the University of Virginia for the session
1927-28, as approved by the Rector and Visitors of
the University on April 22nd, 1927, has been received. You have submitted to me a copy of your letter
to the Rector and Visitors, under date of April 22nd,
in which you report having received certain securities
and monies to be held by the University under will
of Arthur W. Austin, deceased. The undersigned Committee, appointed at the meeting
of the Board on April 22nd to investigate the charges
preferred by the Rev. George Floyd Rogers against Prof.
William E. Knight, begs leave to report as follows: | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 269 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1927) November 11, 1927 | | | | Published: | 1927 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | A called meeting of the Board was held on the
above date at 8 o'clock P. M., being continued at 9:30
A. M. November 12th. Your Committee, directed at the June, 1927,
meeting to effect a settlement with the City of
Charlottesville of certain questions which have arisen
as to the University's use of water from the City's
Reservoirs, and the of payment therefor, respectfully
report— On behalf of the Chairman of the Finance Committee,
I beg to submit the following report on sale of land in
Colorado and Kansas bequeathed to the University by Miss
Este Coffinberry for the establishment of the John W.
Richard Lectureship in Religion. Report of Building Committee. At the meeting of the Board of Visitors held in
April, 1927, a resolution was adopted directing the
Attorney for the University to make settlement with the
Estate of Graham F. Blandy, and with Mrs. Blandy, of certain
accounts due to said Estate and to Mrs. Blandy by the
University for work done upon the Blandy Experimental
Farm by Mrs. Blandy's laborers and by the Estate of
Graham F. Blandy, and for materials furnished by Mrs.
Blandy and by said Estate to the Experimental Farm in
the operation and maintenance of said Farm from March
25, th, 1926, the date of Mr. Blandy's death to August
1st, 1926, the date when the University took possession
of the property. Said resolution directs the Attorney
to make settlement of this account, providing the total
of said account did not exceed the sum of $1600.00. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 270 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1928) January 13, 1928 | | | | Published: | 1928 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | A called meeting of the Rector and Visitors was held
on this date at 8 o'clock P. M. with Visitors Buchanan,
Hall, Hart, Rinehart, Hull, Williams and McIntire, the
Rector, C. Harding Walker, and President Alderman present. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 271 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1928) April 25, 1928 | | | | Published: | 1928 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | A called meeting of the Rector and Visitors was held
on this date at 8:00 P. M., being continued on the
morning of the 26th at 10 o'clock, with the following
members present: Visitors A. C. Carson, Hart, Hull, McIntire,
Rinehart, Scott and Williams, and the Rector C.
Harding Walker, and President Alderman. All members present
at the morning session except Mr. Hull. For a number of years it has been the policy of the
University to pay the salaries of its administrative
officers and members of the teaching staff, above the grade
of instructor, on a yearly basis in monthly installments
on the first of each month. This practice arose from
the payment of salaries to its professors in large part
from the fees from their respective students, being made
in quarterly payments. Later this was changed to five
payments per session and, finally, to monthly payments
in advance when students' fees were no longer allocated
to professors' stipends. This policy of payments in
advance was also justified by reason of the fact that the
State's appropriation to the University was received in
monthly allotments on the first of each month for the
current month. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 272 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1928) June 11, 1928 | | | | Published: | 1928 | | | | 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
10 o'clock A. M., lasting until 6 P. M., with intermission for lunch, followed by a
session on the morning of the 12th which convened at 9:30 o'clock. At a meeting of the members of the Board of Trustees
of the International Education Board held May 25, 1928, the officers
presented your letter of February 2, 1928, in which, on behalf of
the trustees of the University of Virginia, you request the Board's
cooperation in strengthening and stimulating research in the physical
and biological sciences. It was observed that in addition to sums
now available, annual sums approximating $45,000 would be required
eventually to carry out your program of development in chemistry,
physics and biology, and that there was reasonable assurance that beginning
with the fiscal year July 1, 1930, the authorities of the
University would be in position to provide annually increasing sums
for this purpose, so that within a period of from five to seven years
the University would be able to assume the increased annual expenditure
of $45,000. RESOLVED, That the locations selected for the proposed
dormitories on the western slope of Monroe Hill and for
the academic building on the site of the Mallet House, be
and are hereby approved, subject to minor changes in
location. The largest single maturing investment included above, was an item of
$103,600 School & College 6% Certificates which were called for payment by the
State of Virginia at par on January 1, 1928. $100,000 of these were held in the
Corcoran Fund. To replace this large investment at a time when high grade bonds
were selling at prices which returned lower yields than for many years past, of
course, worked a hardship upon the University. It was necessary to accept a
lower return in order to obtain anywhere nearly commensurate safety. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 273 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1928) November 2, 1928 | | | | Published: | 1928 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | A special meeting of the Board of Visitors was held on this date at
8 o'clock P. M., with the Rector, Hon. C. Harding Walker, Visitors D. D. Hull, Jr.,
Harris Hart, Lewis C. Williams, Paul G. McIntire, Hollis Rinehart, Fred W. Scott,
A. C. Carson, and Mrs. M. C. B. Munford, and President Alderman, present. On October 13th, I wrote you with reference to the Blandy
estate, and stated that the final settlement of this estate shows the
corpus of the trust fund set aside by the will of Graham F. Blandy,
deceased, from which his widow is to receive the income during her lifetime,
and which passes to the University at her death, amounts to $971,486.12. I beg to enclose herewith copy of final decree which has been
entered in the Circuit Court of Clarke County in the Chancery Cause of
Georgette H. Blandy v. The Rector and Visitors of the University of
Virginia. You will observe that this decree finally determines the fact
that the University of Virginia has complied with all the conditions
specified in the will of Graham F. Blandy as conditions precedent to the
vesting of title in The Rector and Visitors of the University in the land
devised to the University by the will of Graham F. Blandy, deceased. The dormitories and academic building have been let to contract
as follows: | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 274 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1929) February 1, 1929 | | | | Published: | 1929 | | | | 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 members present: The Rector, C.
Harding Walker, and Visitors Buchanan, Carson, Hull, McIntire, Munford, Rinehart,
Scott, and Williams, and President Alderman. At the annual meeting of your body on Jule 11th, 1928, following the
presentation of resolutions from the professorial staff concerning an increase in
the salary schedule "a Committee consisting of Messrs. Hull, Buchanan and Carson
was appointed to study the whole question of the salary scale, and report to the
Rector and Visitors." Upon the urgent request of said Committee the Rector consented
to serve as a member of the Committee. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 276 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1929) April 30, 1929 | | | | Published: | 1929 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | A special meeting of the Board as held on this date at 8 o'clock P. M.
Present, the Rector, C. Harding Walker, and Visitors Buchanan, Carson, McIntire,
Munford, Scott, Rinehart, and Williams. At the request of the Governor the members of the Board met
with him at his office Saturday, April 27th at noon for the purpose of
conferring on the proposed scale of salaries for the academic faculty
and members of other faculties not previously approved by the Governor,
as adopted at a meeting of your Board February 1, 1929. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 277 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1929) June 10, 1929 | | | | Published: | 1929 | | | | 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 o'clock
a.m. There were present the Rector, C. Harding Walker, and Visitors Carson, Hart, Hull,
McIntire, Munford, Rinehart, Scott and Williams. We, the members of the teaching staff of professorial
rank, informally assembled, take this means of expressing to
you our sincere thanks for your cooperation in securing the
adoption of the new salary scale for all ranks of teachers of
this University. I have the honor to transmit to you herewith the report
of the Committee on Award of DuPont Scholarships for 1929-30. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 278 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1929) November 8, 1929 | | | | Published: | 1929 | | | | 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. There were present the Rector, C. Harding Walker, and Visitors
Buchanan, Carson, Hull, McIntire, Munford, Rinehart and Scott. Since I do not concur with the majority of my fellow members
on the Board in the adoption of the pending resolution dealing with
proposals looking to the establishment of a College of Liberal Arts for
Women, it appears to be incumbent on me to set out, as briefly as may be,
my own views on a matter of such vital import to the welfare of both the
University and the State. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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