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.
