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Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1910) November 18, 1910  | | | | Published: | 1910 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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