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LECTURE FOUNDATIONS.

The Barbour-Page Lecture Foundation.—The University of Virginia is
indebted for the establishment of the Barbour-Page Foundation to the wisdom
and generosity of Mrs. Thomas Nelson Page, of Washington, D. C. In 1907
Mrs. Page donated to the University the sum of twenty-two thousand dollars,
the annual income of which is used in securing each session the delivery at the
University of a series of not less than three lectures by some distinguished man
of letters or of science. The conditions of the foundation require that the
Barbour-Page lectures for each session be not less than three in number; that
they be delivered by a specialist in some branch of literature, science, or art;
that the lecturer present in the series of lectures some fresh aspect or aspects
of the department of thought in which he is a specialist; and that the entire
series delivered each session shall possess such unity that the lectures may be
published by the foundation in book form.

The Japanese Exchange Professorship.—In 1911 there was founded an
exchange professorship between the United States and Japan for the promotion
of a better mutual understanding between the two nations. Sharing in this
foundation are the following American universities: Yale University, Columbia
University, the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Virginia, the
University of Illinois, the University of Minnesota. By the terms of the
foundation, each of the above universities will be visited every other session by
a professor from some one of the imperial educational institutions of Japan,
who will give a short course of lectures, treating some aspect or aspects of
Japanese life. In the alternate years the six American universities forming
the foundation will send a similar representative to Japan.

The Southern Exchange Lectureship.—In 1914 an exchange lectureship
was established by Vanderbilt University, the University of North Carolina,
the University of South Carolina, and the University of Virginia. Under the
terms of this lectureship, each university will send a lecturer to, and will be
visited by a lecturer from, one of the other universities participating in the
foundation. Each lecturer will lecture before the classes in the subject in which
he is a specialist, and will in addition deliver one or more public addresses.