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RESOLVED, That Prof. Robert N. Pease and Dr.
J. Edwin Wood, Jr., be granted leaves of absence,
without salary, for the year 1926-27.

It is my sad duty to announce to the faculty and students
of the University the death of Professor Charles
Hancockk in the fifty-seventh year of his age.

For nearly eighteen years Charles Hancock has been
Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the University
of Virginia. His death deprives the University of the
services of a sound scholar, a teacher of devotion and
excellence, and a high-minded gentleman, whose personality
and character enriched the life and will enrich the traditions
of the University. To know Professor Hancock
was to love him and to honor him. During a long period
of pain and suffering, he awaited death in the loftiest spirit
of Christian courage, thinking only of others and never
of himself. It is meet and proper that this University
should cherish his name and reverence his memory.

The funeral services for Professor Hancock will take
place at St. Paul's Memorial Church tomorrow, Thursday, at
eleven o'clock. I declare the suspension of all exercises of
the University from the hours of ten-thirty to one-thirty."

Upon the recommendation of the President the following
elections to, and promotions in, the faculty of the University
were unanimously approved:

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RESOLVED, by the Rector and Visitors of the
University of Virginia, That Mr. A. Lawrence Kocher
be and is hereby elected Professor of Art and
Architecture in the University of Virginia, at a
salary of $4,500, incumbency to begin with the
session of 1926-27. (Membership in Art Commission)

RESOLVED, by the Rector and Visitors of the
University of Virginia, That Dr. Floyd N. House be
and is hereby elected Professor of Sociology in the
University of Virginia, at a salary of $4,500, incumbency
to begin with the session 1926-27.

RESOLVED, by the Rector and Visitors of the
University of Virginia, That Mr. E. N. Betts be and
is hereby elected Acting Assistant Professor of
Biology in the University of Virginia, at a salary of
$1,500, for the session 1926-27.

RESOLVED, by the Rector and Visitors of the
University of Virginia, That Mr. Joseph Clifton Elgin
be and is hereby elected Acting Assistant Professor
of Chemistry in the University of Virginia, at a salary
of $1,800, for the year 1926-27, to take the place of
Prof. Robert N. Pease absent on leave.

RESOLVED, by the Rector and Visitors of the
University of Virginia, That the following promotions
in the faculty be made, to take effect with the
session 1926-27:

RESOLVED, by the Rector and Visitors of the
University of Virginia, That Dr. George Oscar

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RESOLVED, That the Rector be and is hereby authorized
to sign on behalf of the Rector and Visitors of
the University of Virginia, for transfer, two certificates
of Subscription for Common Stock of the Virginia-Carolina
Chemical Company, certificate # 720 for two shares
for the D'Arcy Paul Library Fund, and certificate # 721
for four shares for the Linden Kent Memorial Chair
of English Literature.

The Committee appointed to select and recommend
sites for fraternity houses met today and after viewing
the locations, make the following recommendation:

• 1. That four lots fronting on the Barracks Road
  in the rear of Peabody Hall, 75 X 100 ft.
  each, be allotted for building sites.

• 2. That four lots fronting on the Towles Road
  75 X 100 ft. each be allotted for building
  sites, as indicated on the appended map.

RESOLVED, That the locations for fraternity houses
be awarded in order of priority. The awards to be
subject to work being commenced within twelve months
and plans to be subject to the approval of the Buildings
and Grounds Committee, and all to be under standard
contract of lease.

RESOLVED, by the Rector and Visitors of the
University, That a person in the service of the
University, from sixty-seven to seventy years of age,

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At a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial
held on May 24, 1926, the following resolution was passed
on behalf of the University of Virginia:

No. 707 RESOLVED, that a sum not to exceed $137,500
be, and it hereby is, appropriated to the University
of Virginia toward its program of research in social
science for the period beginning July 1, 1926 and
ending June 30, 1931; payments to be made as follows;
$27,500 in each of the five years in the above named
period; any sums paid by the memorial and unexpended
for the above named purpose as of June 30, 1931 to
be refunded to the Memorial.

Under this resolution the Memorial
does not assume any obligation of any character beyond
the period which is mentioned in the resolution.
Perhaps I should point out that at the end of the five
year period mentioned, any amount not expended under this
resolution will lapse, but that unexpended amounts may
be carried forward from year to year within the term of
the appropriation.

I have this day received your communication of
June 3rd containing the resolution of the Board of
Trustees of the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial,
wherein a sum not to exceed $137,500 was appropriated
to the University of Virginia toward its program of
research in the Social Sciences. I shall present
this resolution to the Rector and Visitors of the
University at their meeting on June 14th, and shall
at that time convey their expression, as the Governing
Body of the University, of their deep appreciation of
this action. In the meantime, I can perhaps personally
assure you of my own profound sense of obligation
to you for the patient thought you have given to the
matter, and I assure you that I shall want to carry
out the work which this money is intended to promote,
with the very highest desire to have the exact thing
that the Board intends to get done in our American
life.

I have written to President Chase, trying to make
a tentative date for us to meet in Washington, and
will let you know as soon as I hear from him.

I shall cause your letter of June 3rd to be spread
upon our minutes, in order that all conditions surrounding
this grant may be thoroughly understood and carried
out. I shall make announcement of the whole matter on
June 14th, and then we shall get to work.

At a meeting of the committee representing
the Richmond Alumni of the University, it was unanimously
voted to offer to the University the support of a Research
Professor in the School of History. We expect to raise
$4,000 a year for five years for the support of this Chair.
We decided to specify history because we feel that it will
make a stronger appeal to the Alumni. We will be in a
position later in the summer to arrange the details necessary
to establishing this Chair with the authorities of
the University.

RESOLVED, That permission be granted Dr. A. F.
Voshell to erect a porch on the rear of the Fickenscher
house, and that the University reimburse him for
the cost of same not to exceed the sum of $100.