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At a called meeting of the Board of Visitors of the University
of Virginia held on the 13th day of June 1903.

Present: The Rector, and Visitors Moore, Irvine, Harmon,
Stuart, Glass, Downing, Wallace, and Hunton.

The Board was called to order by the Rector, and the following
resolutions were adopted.

Resolved—

1st That the Training School for Nurses in connection
with the University of Virginia Hospital which has been in
operation for the last two years is hereby officially recognized
by the Visitors.

2d. That its management is continued under the direction
of the Medical Faculty, which is charged with the duty of providing
for the instruction to be given in a course of two or
more years.

3rd That the Medical Faculty is authorized to confer
upon nurses who have satisfactorily completed the prescribed
course certificates of graduation as trained nurses.

4th That these certificates are authorized for the candidates
now completing their course.

5th. That the names of those receiving the certificates
in question are to be printed on a separate page of the commencement
programme.

Resolved-

That the Faculty be authorized to admit anyone who has
hereto for graduated in medicine at this University, who so
desires, to candidacy for a new degree in Medicine upon presentation
of satisfactory evidence that time equivalent to
the difference between that at present represented by the degree
in question and that represented by the degree at the
time of graduation has been spent either as a bona fide student
in a medical school of good reputation, or in a recognized
hospital, or as an instructor in a reputable medical
school; or partly in one and partly in another of these methods;
and that to any candidate so qualified who passes satisfactory
examination in all of the professional subjects added
to the course since his graduation the Faculty may grant a
diploma in Medicine of current date, in which the facts in
this case are stated.

2. That the action embraced in the above be printed in
the catalogue.

The Board having read a communication from James B.
Sener, touching a resolution entered by this Board on October

17th last, relating certain medals given by him, finding that
the word annually, in that resolution, was inadvertently entered,
orders that it stand as recorded save that the word
annually be omitted therefrom.

Resolved-

That the election of a President for the University be
postponed to July 28th next, and that when this Board adjourns
from its present session it adjourn to meet on said date at
12 o'clock M. at the University, and that a committee of the
Board to consist of the Rector and three members to be named
by him, take such steps as they may deem best to bring before
the Board such further information on the subject as may be
available.

The Rector appointed as members of the above Committee
Messrs. Irvine, Downing, and Wallace.

On motion the Board adjourned.