University of Virginia Library

A called meeting of the Board was held on the
above date at 8 o'clock P. M., being continued at 9:30
A. M. November 12th.

There were present Visitors Buchanan, Hall, Hart, Hull,
McIntire, Munford, Rinehart, Williams, and the Rector,
C. H. Walker, and President Alderman.

The minutes of the previous meeting which had been
copied and sent to the members were approved.

The President made the following announcements:

Attendance to date for the present session, 2135, and
for the year, including Summer Quarter, Extension, and
Nurses' Trainig School, 5573.

Gifts:

       

From American Clan Gregor, to establish a scholarship in the Department of Medicine, to be known as "The Dr. Edward May Magruder Scholarship in Medicine	$1,200.00
From Mrs. Louis Bennett, for $250.00 to establish, for the session of 1927-28, a special scholarship in the Law School, to be known as "The Lieutenant Louis Bennett, Jr. Scholarship	250.00
From Mrs. Frederick A. Packard, Treasurer, Colonial Dames of America, to be added to the principal fund of the Kate Cabell Cox Scholarship Fund	100.00
From Mr. M. T. Cooke, Jr., loan of a bronze group, probably by Barye.

The President was authorized to prepare the usual
resolution of thanks for the above donors.

The resignation of Mr. Luther C. Gilbert as
Assistant Professor of Education and Director of Teacher
Training at the close of the session 1926-27 was accepted.

On motion duly made and seconded the following was
adopted:

Mr. Harry Clemons, Librarian, at a salary of $4,800.00.

Dr. Richard H. Meade, Assistant Professor of Surgery
and Gynecology, at a salary of $4,000.00.

Dr. Charles Bruce Morton, Assistant Professor of
Surgery and Gynecology, at a salary of $4,000.00.

Mr. Eustace E. Windes, Assistant Professor of
Secondary Education, at a salary of $1,800.00.

Mrs. Mary Jeffcott Hamblin, Acting Adviser to
Women, at a salary of $1,200.00.

The following Instructors, Assistant, Scholarship and

Fellowship holders:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Art and Architecture:
L. B. Anderson	Instructor
F. H. Allen	Assistant
Astronomy:
Piet Van de Kamp	Instructor
Alexander Vyssotsky	Instructor
Biology:
Lewis W. McIlhany	Assistant
CHEMISTRY:
R. F. Selden	Assistant
H. H. Schockey	Assistant
Commerce and Business Administration:
W. A. McClain, Jr.	Assistant
L. K. Johnson	Assistant
Economics:
B. F. Hepler	Assistant
J. W. Rawles	Assistant
English:
E. D. Brooke	Assistant
E. S. Abernathy	Assistant
Charles L. Ayres	Assistant
John E. Slaughter	Assistant
English Literature:
George G. Leckie	Assistant
Mathematics:
F. A. Wells	Instructor
C. R. Larkin	Instructor
C. N. Hulvey	Instructor
C. D. Harmon	Assistant
E. C. Stevenson	Assistant
C. L. Ayres	Assistant
J. Van de Eppes	Assistant
Irving Lindsey	Assistant
Robert L. Echols	Assistant
A. Pharo Gagge	Assistant
Philosophy:
G. M. Armistead	Assistant
Physics:
H. M. Roth	Assistant
J. B. Saunders	Assistant
J. G. Browne	Assistant
E. C. Stevenson	Assistant
Romanic Languages:
M. S. Knowlton	Instructor
Fernando Martinez	Instructor
Anatomy:
E. B. Ferris	Assistant
J. P. King	Assistant
Wm. H. Roper	Assistant
Biochemistry:
Leslie L. Larson	Instructor
Diseases of Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat:
Cuthbert Tunstall	Instructor
Internal Medicine:
Oscar E. Swineford	Instructor
Obstetrics:
Rees Morgan	Instructor
Surgery and Gynecology:
W. J. Rollins	Instructor
W. W. Koontz	Instructor
Engineering:
H. D. Forsyth	Assistant
Arthur C. Thompson	Assistant
Education:
Henry G. Acker	Instructor
R. Claude Graham	Instructor
Physical Training:
Mrs. Mary H. Cassell	Instructor
Law:
C. N. Hulvey	Graduate Assistant
P. P. Burks	Assistant
G. K. Evans	Assistant
Julian Harris	Assistant
L. T. Louthan	Assistant
J. L. Walker	Assistant
Blandy Experimental Farm Fellowship	T. W. Whitaker
Louis Bennet Scholarship	Oscar J. Andre
Lt. Louis Bennett, Jr., Scholarship	F. J. Daniels
Valentine Birely Scholarship	Edgar English
J. Thompson Brown Scholarship	Charles R. Smith
T. P. Bryan Memorial Scholarship	N. B. Orrick
George Cameron Scholarship	W. A. Irvine
Isaac Carey Scholarship	A. Pharo Gagge
Isaac Carey Scholarship	R. B. Grinnan
Richard Eppes Memorial Scholarship	J. V. D. Eppes
William C. Folkes Scholarship	R. W. Church
William C. Folkes Scholarship	John R. Myers
William C. Folkes Scholarship	John W. Evans
William C. Folkes Scholarship	Harry R. McCoy
Elizabeth B. Garrett Fellowship	S. M. Byrd
D. J. Hennessey Scholarship	Dan F. Harrington
Wm. A. Herndon Scholarship	J. E. Amiss
Wm. A. Herndon Scholarship	J. E. West
Isabella Merrick-Sampson Scholarship	C. E. McMurdo
Samuel Miller Scholarship	Wesley Fry
Bartlett Roper	R. W. Plummer
James H. Skinner Scholarship	R. R. Beasley
James H. Skinner Scholarship	H. F. Butt, III
James H. Skinner Scholarship	R. R. Claiborne, Jr.
James H. Skinner Scholarship	B. B. C. Lile
James H. Skinner Scholarship	Chas. W. F. Smith
James H. Skinner Scholarship	Walter W. Clem
James H. Skinner Scholarship	Beverly T. White
James H. Skinner Scholarship	Wm. Wyllie
Seven Society Alumni Medical Scholarship	T. L. Watson, Jr.
R. H. Whitehead Scholarship	J. P. Baker, Jr.
R. H. Whitehead Scholarship	J. Alfred Calhoun, Jr.
Robert Hancock Wood, Aviator, Scholarship	Martin Mustard
Daniel Harmon Scholarship	T. Franklin Daniel
Law Review Scholarship	W. P. Sandridge, Jr.
Virginia Medical Scholarships	W. R. Jordan
Virginia Medical Scholarships	J. W. Baker

The following appropriations were made:

In the matter of the will of Dr. Walter M. Seward:

The Buildings and Grounds Committee submitted a report
to the Board in accordance with instructions given said
Committee at the June, 1927, meeting, covering certain
questions which have arisen as to the University's use of
water from the City's Reservoirs and the rate of payment
therefor.

Accompanying said report was a brief form of contract
which the Committee recommends should be executed on behalf
of the University, by which 175,000 gallons of water per
day is to be furnished for the University's use by the
City as rental for the University's lands occupied by the
City's filter plant, pipe line, etc. Said contract
provides that all water in excess of said 175,000 gallons
per day shall be paid for by the University at the rate of
5 ¢ for each 1000 gallons of such excess.

It was thereupon

RESOLVED that said report is hereby accepted and
approved and the Rector and Secretary are hereby instructed
to execute the contract aforesaid on behalf
of the University.

And a copy of said report and of said contract are
ordered spread upon the minutes of this meeting.

Under date of April, 18th, 1922, the Rector and
Visitors of the University of Virginia, and the City of
Charlottesville, entered into a contract whereby the
University leased to the City, for the term of 99 years
from the date thereof, a certain tract of land belonging
to the University and situated on the east side of Observatory
Mountain, containing 5 acres, more or less, and to
be used by the City as a site for a filter plant, said
acreage including certain rights of way for two 16-inch
water mains from a point on the Lynchburg Road through
the lands of said University to said filter plant. And
said contract contains, among other things, the following
clause:-

"In consideration for which the said City undertakes
and agrees to furnish to said University, for use of
its public buildings and grounds, and for use of Officers,
Professors and employees of said University, residing
on University property, a total of 175,000 gallons of
water per day, for the term of the lease herein above
specified, and without charge, and all water in excess of
175,000 gallons per day used as aforesaid shall be paid
for by the University at a rate to be hereafter agreed
upon by said City and said University, which rate, however,
shall in no event exceed 5¢ for
each 1000 gallons over
and above said 175,000 gallons per day."

And said contract further provides for the payment
by said University to the City of $150.00 per annum
in accordance with the terms of a contract between said
parties of January 20th, 1885.

Also for the payment by said University to said
City of $30.00 per annum under contract of May 26th, 1900,
and of $12.50 per month for each and every month during
which a certain pumping plant on Moore's Creek shall be
in actual operation, this also in accordance with contract
of May 26th, 1900.

The rate at which the University is to pay for
water in excess of said 175,000 gallons per day has never
been fixed, and the purposes for which the payments under
said contracts of 1885 and 1900 were to be made no longer
exist.

IT IS THEREFORE AGREED this 11th day of
November, 1927, between The Rector and Visitors of the
University of Virginia, of the first part, and the City
of Charlottesville, of the second part, that the rate
at which the University shall pay for water used by it in
excess of said 175,000 gallons per day shall be 5¢ for
each 1000 gallons used by said University over and above
said 175,000 gallons per day.

Furthermore, said City agrees that the charge
of $150.00 per annum, under contract of 1885, and the charges
of $30.00 per annum and $12.50 per month, referred to in
contract of 1900, shall no longer be made but said University
is hereby fully discharged and acquitted for any further
liability with reference therefor, either for payments
thereof that may have been due in the past and still remain
unpaid, or for any payments thereof in the future.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF The Rector and Visitors of
the University of Virginia has caused this contract to be
signed by C. Harding Walker, its Rector, and its corporate

seal to be hereunto affixed and attested by E. I.
Carruthers, Secretary, and the City of Charlottesville has
caused its name to be signed hereto by J. Y. Brown, its
Mayor, and its corporate seal to be hereunto affixed and
attested by H. A. Haden, its Clerk, this 11th day of
November, 1927.

THE RECTOR AND VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY
OF VIRGINIA.

By C. Harding Walker, Rector.

Attest:
E. I. Carruthers,
Secretary.

CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE,

By, J. Y. Brown, Mayor.

Attest:
H. A. Haden,
Clerk.

The Bursar, on behalf of the Finance Committee, submitted
a report on the sale of land in Colorado and Kansas,
bequeathed the University by Miss Este Coffinberry for the
establishment of the John W. Richard Lectureship in
Religion, and the Rector and Secretary were empowered to
execute and deliver deeds conveying the said property, as
set forth in the following report and resolution adopted.

RESOLVED that the action of the Finance
Committee in making sale to Harold F. Jobe of the 320 acres
of land situated in Logan County, Colorado, which passed
to the University of Virginia under the will of Miss
Este Coffinberry, be and is hereby approved, ratified and
confirmed.

The terms of said sale are as follows:- The
said Harold F. Jobe agrees to pay the sum of $7,000.00
for said land, of which $1,000.00 is evidenced by his five
notes for $200.00 each, all dated January 1st, 1928, and
payable in one, two, three, four and five years after date,

respectively, with interest at 6& per annum, the privilege
of anticipating any of said notes on thirty days notice to
payee prior to any interest payment date being reserved, and
all of said notes being secured by a deed of trust constituting
a first lien upon 160 acres of land owned by said Jobe,
which said 160 acres adjoins the 320 acre tract which he is
purchasing from the University.

The residue of said purchase money ($6000.00) is evidenced
by the eighteen notes of said Harold F. Jobe for
$333.33 each, all dated October 18th, 1927, and payable
on the first day of January, 1929, and each year thereafter,
with interest at 6%. These notes also contain reservation
by the maker of right to anticipate payment on thirty days
notice before any interest date, and all of said notes are
secured by a deed of trust which constitutes a first lien
upon the 320 acres which is to be conveyed by the University
to said Jobe.

Mr. Carruthers then presented to the Board a form
of deed, drawn in accordance with Colorado practice, and
by which said 320 acres is conveyed to said Harold F. Jobe,
said land being described as lying and being in Logan County,
Colorado, and being the "North one-half of Section 1, Township
10, north of Range 49, west of the Sixth principal meridian",
and eight shares of the capital stock of Harmony Ditch
Company, No. 1 is included in said conveyance.

It was thereupon further

RESOLVED that the Rector and Secretary be, and are
hereby authorized and requested to execute and deliver this
deed to the said Harold E. Jobe upon delivery by said Jobe
of the notes and deeds of trust aforesaid.

Mr. Carruthers reported that an offer had been received
from G. W. Fender of Ottawa County, Kanaas, to
purchase 80 acres of the 160 acre tract of land devised to
the University by Miss Este Coffinberry, and situated in
Ottawa County, Kansas, at the price of $4000.00. cash.

He also presented a deed to the Board, which had been
drawn in accordance with Kansas practice and which is in
shape to be executed on behalf of the University.

It was thereupon

RESOLVED that The Rector and Secretary be, and are
hereby requested and instructed to execute and deliver the
deed in question to G. W. Fender thereby conveying to him the
west one-half of

Township 11, south Range 3, west, in Ottawa County, Kansas,
containing 80 acres, more or less, upon payment by said
Fender to E. I. Carruthers, Bursar, or to his duly authorized
agent or Attorney, of the sum of $4000.00 in cash.

Mr. Carruthers also reported to the Board that he had
received a tentative offer from one Charles Rake of Ottowa
County, Kansas, to purchase the remaining 80 acres of the
160 acres of land in Ottawa County, Kansas, devised to the
University by Miss Este Coffinberry, the offer being to pay
approximately $4800.00 in cash.

Mr. Carruthers further stated that in his opinion we
would do well to sell the property in question for any
amount over $4650.00, and he requested that authority be
given to the Rector and to himself to execute and deliver
a deed to this property provided negotiations could be completed
with said Charles Rake at any price above said
$4650.00.

It was thereupon

RESOLVED that the Rector and Secretary, and the Finance
Committee be, and are hereby requested and instructed to
continue negotiations for the sale of the property in question,
and they are instructed to accept the offer of $4800.00,
and the Rector and Secretary are further empowered to execute
and deliver a deed conveying said property upon the payment
of said purchase price.

The land in question is the eastern one-half of the
northwest quarter of Section 23, Township 11, South Range
3, west, of the 6th P. M., in Ottawa County, Kansas.

The Committee on New Medical Buildings submitted the
following report of contracts let for the new medical buildings:

The foregoing report was received and ratified and
the Special Committee was authorized to make contracts
for such equipment as may be necessary for the new buildings
within the limit of the sum available.

The President stated to the Board that in a conference
with the Governor concerning the appropriations for the
next bi-ennium he learned that tentative appropriations
to the University for capital outlays had been made as
follows:

               

For 2 dormitories for men,
from the Literary Fund as a loan	500,000.00
From the State Treasury;
For Library improvements	7,500.00
For Medical Buildings commitment	125,000.00
For general capital outlays	44,500.00
For building purposes to be designated	200,000.00
Making a total of	877,000.00

The designation of the said $200,000, together with the
question of making some provision for erecting a woman's
building, was discussed and disposed of in the following
resolution adopted;

Petitions from certain students to be allowed to park
their cars on the concrete dirveway leading to the gymnasium
and also to be allowed to park behind Dawson's Row were
referred to the Buildings and Grounds Committee for action
and report.

Petition of Professor Campbell for permission to
cut two doorways in partition wall in his residence was
referred to the Buildings and Grounds Committee with power
to act.

The Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity petition for lot #5
in addition to lot #4 of said lots designated for fraternity
houses in the rear of Carr's Hill was referred to the
Buildings and Grounds Committee with power to act.

On motion duly made and seconded, the following
resolution was adopted:

Upon the recommendation of the President, Professor
Edmund S. Campbell was nominated to the Governor for appointment
as a member of the Virginia Art Commission in the place
of Professor A. L. Kocher, resigned.

The following resolution to authorize the Rector to sign
certificates of stock belonging to the Arthur W. Austin
Bequest was adopted:

The Secretary presented letters received from M.
Carter Hall, Chairman of the Special Committee in the Rogers
matter, and from Dr. George Floyd Rogers in reference to
charges made against Professor Knight, which letter has been
received since the last meeting of the Board. They were
read to and considered by the Board, whereupon, on motion
made and carried, it was.

Mr. Hall stated that Professor Knight was appealing
to the Board to appropriate a sum to cover the attorney's
fees incurred by him in defending the charges of Mr.
Rogers. The Board declined to make an appropriation for
the purpose, but authorized the Bursar to pay the fees of
the stenographers for their services in said case.

Report of the University attorney in the Blandy
matter;

Mr. Perkins presented to the Board a report with
reference to expiration of our present leases with Mrs.
Elizabeth Glinn, in her own right and as Committee of Bessie
Glinn Bowe, and stated that he was requested by Dr.
Hornsby to ask that authority be given for the extension
of these leases for an additional term of two years from
the date of their expiration, April 30th, 1928.

It is thereupon

RESOLVED, That the Rector and Secretary of this Board
be, and are hereby, requested to execute new leases with
Mrs. Elizabeth Glinn, in her own right and as Committee
of Mrs. Bessie Glinn Bowe, so that the use of the premises
which are now occupied as a nurses' Home may be secured for
and additional term of one year with the privilege of renewal
for one more year. It is of course understood that

the new leases shall be upon terms, as to terms of payment,
identical with those of the original leases under which
we now occupy this property.

Mr. Rinehart, Chairman, brought up the question of
petition of the G. A. A. to be permitted to use the
land lying between the Ivy Road and the C. & O. Railway
for athletic purposes. The matter was continued with
the Buildings and Grounds Committee for further conference
with the Department of Forestry which is using part of
the land, and the Athletic Council.

The Bursar read a letter from the Trust Company of
Norfolk, which has been a depository of the University for
the B. W. Green bequest, stating that it was closing
its accounts with a view to the final liquidation of the
bank and the surrender of its charter, having been consolidated
with the Norfolk National Bank under the title
of Norfolk National Bank of Commerce and Trusts, and soliciting
a continuation of the service heretofore rendered
for the new institution, whereupon, on motion, duly
made and seconded, it was

On motion the meeting then adjourned.