University of Virginia Library

THE WILLIAM H. WHITE FOUNDATION

This Foundation was established in 1922 by a gift of $10,000 by Mrs.
Emma Gray White, widow, Mrs. Emma Gray Trigg, daughter, and W. H.
Landon White and William H. White, Jr., sons, of the late William H.
White, a distinguished alumnus and for many years a Visitor of the University.
The conditions require that the income be used in securing each session
the delivery before the University Law School of a series of lectures,
preferably not less than three in number, by a jurist or publicist, who is
specially distinguished in some branch of jurisprudence, domestic, international,
or foreign; and that the lecturer present some fresh or unfamiliar
aspect of his subject. Each series of lectures shall possess such unity that
they may be published in book form; and the copyright thereof shall vest
in the Foundation.

The first lectures under the William H. White Foundation were delivered
during the session of 1923-24 by Dean Roscoe Pound of the Harvard
Law School, upon the subject of "Codification." For the session of 1924-25,
the lecturer was the Hon. Newton D. Baker, of Cleveland, Ohio, and his
subject "Progress and the Constitution."