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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA RECORD
Vol. 1
Charlottesville, Va., November, 1907
No. 3
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Professor Hough's Courses in Physiology.
The following courses in physiology,
for students of medicine, are offered by
Professor Theodore Hough.
1. Physiological Chemistry. — Given
during the third term of the first year.
Fifteen hours weekly of lectures, recitations,
and laboratory work. Open only
to students who have had the courses in
chemistry given to medical students in
the first two terms of the first year by
Professors Mallet and Bird, or their equivalents.
The course is designed to make
the student acquainted with the composition
and reactions of the more important
compounds met with in the study of
the functions of the animal body, and is
prerequisite to the second year's work in
physiology. Abundant laboratory facilities
are provided.
2. The Physiology of the Animal
Body.—Given during the second year.
Four hours weekly of lectures and recitations
throughout the year; six hours
weekly of laboratory work during the
fall and winter terms. For admission to
this course, physiological chemistry and
histology are prerequisite. The course
covers the ground of the physiology of
the various functions of the animal body
—muscle, nerve, the central nervous system
and sense organs, circulation, respiration,
digestion, secretion, excretion,
and nutrition. The applications of physiology
to personal hygiene are discussed
in conferences.
Mr. Paul's Courses in Public Speaking.
The work offered this session by Mr. |
Chas. W. Paul, the new instructor in
Public Speaking and Debate, organizes a
new course and modifies an existing
course in the School of English Literature,
and also trains men from the Literary
Societies for several intercollegiate
contests.
The new course deals with the theory
and practice of Public Speaking. Its aim
is to prepare the student to express his
thoughts and feelings clearly and effectively
before an audience. No attempt
is made to give the more elaborate discipline
necessary for the public reader
and impersonator. In order that emphasis
may fall upon improvement in form,
speeches from the great orators are used
as material for drill work. At each lesson,
every member in the section is called
in turn before the class to render his lines
and receive suggestions for further progress.
The theory is not set forth by
lectures, but by comments upon the efforts
of the individual student and upon
the end sought by the author of the oration
under interpretation.
The regular English course in Argumentation,
if time permit, will be supplemented
by practical experience in
debating before the class and will deal
not only with logical structure and effective
tactics but also with manner of
delivery.
From the Literary Societies, by the
sifting process of preliminary trials, candidates
for three oratorical and three
debating contests are chosen. The successful
men will then be eligible to individual
instruction in daily rehearsals
until the final competition takes place.
Student Enrolment.
On Wednesday, October 23, the books
in the Registrar's office showed the following
figures in reference to the enrolment
of students in the several departments
of the University: In the Graduate
School, 30; in the Medical School, 103;
in the Department of Engineering, 109;
in the Law School, 217; in the College,
325: a total of 784. Deducting the names
of students who are enrolled in more than
one department, the total number of different
men in the University at the date
mentioned was 751. If the increase
thereafter is found in correspondence
with the increase after the same date last
year, the total enrolment for the session
will equal or exceed 800.
The Game with V. M. I.
On Saturday afternoon, October 19, the
cadet football team of the Virginia Military
Institute met the University team in
a game of unusual vigor, skill, and interest.
With the possible exception of the
famous contest with V. P. I. in 1905, it is
probable that no faster or greater game
was ever played on Lambeth Field. Virginia
won by one point, the score being
18 to 17.
Dissertations Submitted for the Degree
of Doctor of Philosophy of the
University of Virginia.
On Some Cases of Divided Circuits of
Lines in Force in a Magnetic Field. By
J. Hampden Chamberlayne Bagby. 8vo;
16 pages and 12 plates.
Bellavitis' Method of Equipollences.
By Samuel Marx Barton. 4to; 18 pages.
Syntax of the Verb in the Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle from 787-1001. By Hugh Mercer
Blain. 8vo; 11 pages.
On the True Formula for Permanganates.
By Charles M. Bradbury. 8vo; 34
pages.
On Southern Poetry Prior to 1860. By
Sidney Ernest Bradshaw. 8vo; 162
pages.
The Development of the Nature-Sense
in the German Lyric. By Arthur B.
Cooke. 8vo; 18 pages.
Definitive Determination of the Orbit of
Comet 1898, I. By Heber D. Curtis.
4to; 35 pages.
The Style of Adenet le Roi Studied in
Berte and Cleomades. By George Diuguid
Davidson. 8vo; 88 pages.
The Determination of the Character of
the Subjunctive Clauses with Adjective
and Substantive Predicates and Phrases.
By George Hutcheson Denny. 8vo; 57
pages.
On Indirect Discourse in Thucydides.
By Albert B. Dinwiddie. 8vo; 38 pages.
The Subjunctive Mood in the English
Version of Bede's Ecclesiastical History.
By William Harrison Faulkner. 8vo; 56
pages.
The Literary History of the German
Baptists in America. By John Samuel
Flory.
Observations on the Language of Chaucer's
Hous of Fame. By Harry Clinton
Ford. 8vo; 91 pages.
Notes on the Geology of the Monticello
Area. By William Alexander Lambeth.
8vo; 22 pages and 1 plate.
Indicative Apodoses with Subjunctive
Protases in the Unreal Conditional Sentences
of Livy and Tacitus. By Charles
M. Long. 8vo; 52 pages.
The Great Inequality of Jupiter and
Saturn. By Edgar Odell Lovett. 4to;
15 pages.
An Example in Periodic Orbits. By
James Park McCallie. 4to; 11 pages.
On Pronouns in Oratio Obliqua and
Kindred Constructions. By Thomas
Benton McCartney. 8vo; 50 pages.
Southern Oratory, 1829-60. By Joseph
Moore McConnell.
Negroes and Their Treatment in Virginia
in 1865-1867. By John P. McConnell.
Platinum Ore Analysis. By William
Joseph Martin. 8vo; 31 pages.
On Some New Compounds of Urea
with Acids and Salts. By Jack Percival
Montgomery. 8vo; 27 pages.
Substances Formed by the Interaction
of Some Aliphatic Primary Monamines
and of Ethylene-Diamine with the Salts
of Certain Metals. By Charles James
Moore. 8vo; 26 pages.
The Orbit of Enceladus. By Herbert
R. Morgan.
Dissertation on Indirect Discourse in
Antiphon, Andocides, and Lysias. By
James H. Moss. 8vo; 36 pages.
Virginia Literature. By Carol Montgomery
Newman. 8vo; 69 pages.
Observations on the Interrogative Sentence
in Plautus and Terence. By William
Howard Perkinson. 8vo; 47 pages.
A Treatise on Temporal and Modal
Significance in the Latin Indirect Discourse.
By Robert S. Radford. 8vo;
60 pages.
Singular Points in the Approximate
Development of the Perturbative Function.
By Frank Walker Reed.
On the Transformation Group p, q, r,
xp, yp, zr, x2p, y6q, z2r. By Hillery L.
Roberts. 4to; 47 pages.
Four Southern Magazines. By Edward
Reinhold Rogers. 8vo; 137 pages.
On Latin Conditional Sentences of Unreality
in Indirect Discourse Proper. By
Otis Burgess Sears. 8vo; 31 pages.
On Anglo-Saxon Versification from the
Standpoint of Modern English Versification.
By Edwin Boinest Setzler. 8vo;
87 pages.
The Bacterial Flora of the Charlottesville
and University of Virginia Water
Supply. By Lyman Skeen. 8vo; 14
pages and 2 plates-
A New Mode of Measuring Self-Induction.
By Henry Louis Smith. [Never
printed.]
Textual Notes for the Tales of Edgar
Allan Poe. By Robert Armistead Stewart.
8vo; 301 pages.
The Group of Two, Three and Four
Parameters of Space and their Differential
Invariants. By William Beverly
Stone.
The German Element of the Shenandoah
Valley of Virginia. By John Walter
Wayland. 8vo; 283 pages.
On the Geometry of the Transformation
Group p, q, r, xq, yp, zr, xp—yq,
z2r. By John E. Williams. 4to; 8
pages.
[Most of the foregoing facts will be
incorporated in an article now being prepared
for the Alumni Bulletin, in which
will be given a short biographical sketch
of each author, together with certain,
facts of interest regarding the Ph. D.
degree of the University of Virginia.]
Session of the Visitors.
On October 15, at 2 p. m., the Board of
Visitors held their regular fall meeting
at the University. Those present were
Messrs. A. C. Gordon, rector; B. F. Buchanan,
J. W. Craddock, Daniel Harmon,
Eppa Hunton, Jr., R. W. Moore, and J.
K. M. Norton. Much routine business
was disposed of; and, under a special
head, the chair of Economic Geology
recently established was by unanimous
vote designated the "William Barton
Rogers Chair of Economic Geology," in
recognition of the eminent and devoted
service to the University and the State
of the late Professor William B. Rogers.
The recent retirement from active
teaching of Professor Francis H. Smith,
after fifty-seven years of continuous service,
has been attended by various fitting
expressions of the esteem in which the
venerable educator is held by all who
have know him as either teacher or friend.
Not the least nor the least fitting among
these expressions was the presentation,
within the past month or two, of a handsome
loving cup by the members of his
classes of last year—his last classes.
A Statement of Growth.
The University has just issued a 24-page
illustrated circular under the title,
"A Statement of Accomplishment and of
Recent Growth." After a brief historical
review of past achievement, an orderly
presentation of conditions now obtaining
is given under the captions of finance,
equipment, instructors, departments, and
other heads. In a final summary it is
two years ago, the percentage of increase
in power and efficiency in four fundamental
phases of the University's work
has been according to the following rates;
In total available income, over 27 per
cent.; in numerical strength of teaching
staff, about 100 per cent.; in total attendance,
about 11 per cent.; and in the
total number of courses offered, about 20
per cent.
Worth While to Read.
Two articles of more than usual merit
and interest appear in the October number
of the Alumni Bulletin: "Luke as a
Model in the Choice of a Life Work," by
Rev. Dr. W. W. Moore, of Richmond;
and "The Academic Degrees and the
University Standard," by Prof. R. H.
Dabney, Dean of the Department of
Graduate Studies, University of Virginia.
Dr. Moore's production was delivered at
the University on the 9th of last June as
the annual baccalaureate sermon; but
the article by Prof. Dabney was written
specially for the Bulletin, in view of the
interest that is now being so widely
aroused in reference to the University
elective system of studies. From the
standpoint of vital interest and historical
value, it would be difficult to determine
which of these articles make the stronger
appeal to the educated man.
The University and the Public Schools.
The intimate relationship that exists
between the University and the public
school system of Virginia is being recognized
and realized more fully to-day than
ever before; and special, systematic efforts
are being made by the University
faculty to aid the district inspectors,
county superintendents, and high-school
principals all over the State in the general
uplifting movement in educational
work. President Alderman and Professors
Ormond Stone, Chas. W. Kent, Bruce
R. Payne, and W. H. Heck, as well as
others at the University, are giving as
much as possible of their time to visiting
different portions of the State for the purpose
of making public addresses and
taking part in personal conferences.
Comings and Goings of the Faculty.
On October 18 President Alderman delivered
an address on "Educational
Achievements in the South in the Past
Quarter of a Century", before the Connecticut
State Teachers' Association at
Hartford; and on October 26 he spoke at
Jamestown on the Philosophy of Democracy
and the Mission of the Common
School.
Prof. Ormond Stone addressed the
Clarke County Teachers' Association at
Berryville, Va., October 18, upon the
"Value of the Teachers' Association,"
and assisted in measures for the reorganization
and greater development of the
Association of Clarke County.
On October 6 Dr. Chas. W. Kent delivered
an address before the Y. M. C. A.
of Warrenton, Va.
The new college dining hall (refectory)
is being rapidly pushed towards
completion. The roof is now on, the
columns of the front portico are in place,
and the building is gradually assuming
the finished outlines that make it harmonize
fully with the surrounding architecture.
The Hertz Library.
About ten years ago, through the
thoughtful generosity of several alumni,
a collection of some 12,000 books and
pamphlets, the library of the eminent
Prof. Dr. Martin Hertz of Breslau, was
purchased and donated to the University
library. Up to this time the collection
has been of little service for want of classification;
but now steps are being taken
towards an orderly arrangement and
cataloguing of the volumes, many of
which are exceedingly rare and valuable.
The subjects especially treated of are
Latin and Greek philology, Latin and
Greek literature, Roman law, and ancient
history.
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