 | Board of Visitors minutes June 12, 1899 |  |
June 12th 1899.
At the annual meeting of the Board of Visitors of the
University of Virginia held on the 12th day of June, 1899.
Present, Visitors, Harmon, Irvine, Bryan, Downing, Chandler,
Miles and Holt.
Absent- The Rector, prevented from attending by important
engagements in Court, and Mr Glass by sickness.
On the motion of Mr Irvine, the following resolution
was adopted by a unanimous vote:
Resolved, that the Rector of this Board being absent,
Daniel Harmon be and he is hereby chosen President pro tempore
in accordance with the provisions of Section 1544 of
the Code of Virginia. Mr Harmon then took the chair as such
and called the Board to order.
The Chairman of the Faculty handed in to the Board the
annual report, etc., of the Faculty, the Proctor's reports,
school reports and sundry petitions and applications, which
being read and considered the following was enacted:
Resolved: That in accordance of the recommendation of
the Faculty, Lewis L. Holladay be allowed to substitute M.A.
Electricity for B.A. Astronomy in his courses for the B.S.
degree.
Resolved: That the Proctor be and he is hereby authorized
and directed to sell the securities belonging to the
Bierly Scholarship Fund, being bonds of the Cape Fear and
Yadkin Valley railroad Company, which do not now pay any interest,
at the best price obtainable, and with the advice and
consent of the Finance Committee of this Board, re-invest the
proceeds as may be deemed best.
Resolved: That the Proctor be and he is hereby authorized
and directed, in accordance with the recommendation
of the Faculty, to remit the fees for the current session
charged to Prof. Stonewall Tompkins of the Miller Manual
Labor School, it appearing that Prof. Tompkins has rendered
valuable mechanical services to the University without charge
and that he has taken only one hour per week of study in the
University.
Resolved: That a just pro-rata of the fees paid by Mr.
Percy Wells in the Medical Department the current session,
in view of his enforced absence from the University because
of his mother's illness, be applied, at his will, to the payment
of his fees at any future session of the University which
he may desire to attend.
Resolved: That the sum of $160.00 be paid to the Charlottesville
Hardware Company in full for heating apparatus
furnished by them for the Gymnasium.
Resolved: That an appropriation of $300. be made to
furnish chairs with tablets for the Law Class lecture room,
the same to be purchased by the Proctor.
Mr Wm M. M. Thomas of Maryland, having applied to this
Board for the Bierly Scholarship for the session of 18991900,
and it appearing that no income is now received from
the securities in which the Bierly funds are invested, and
it further appearing that no student from the County of City
of Frederick, Maryland, has made application for this scholarship,
and further that Mr Thomas is now receiving free tuition
on the ground that he is a candidate for the ministry,
and pays to the University only the matriculation fee of
$40.00,
Resolved: That Mr Thomas be appointed to the Bierly
Scholarship for the session 1899-1900, and that owing to the
uncertainty of the income of the fund the full benefits of
the Scholarship shall be for next session the remission of
matriculation fees, the amount of which shall hereafter be
charged to any income derived from said fund.
Resolved: That for the future, the anatomical department
be credited by the sum of ten dollars for each first
year student matriculated in that department, any balance
to be returned at the end of each year to the general treasury.
On motion adjourned until 10 1/2 oclock to-morrow morning.
Secretary.
Prest Pro. tem.
June 13th 1899-
the Board met in pursuance of adjournment
on yesterday.
Present, the same members as on yesterday, Mr Harmon
the President pro tempore of the Board presiding. The following
was enacted:
Resolved: That the reports of the Faculty submitted
to this Board on yesterday, be concurred in in so far as "there
should be complete harmony and mutual confidence between the
Faculty as a body and the Visitors as a Board", and that the
Board appreciates the importance of the suggestion that in
matters of general interest to the University, it is desirable
for the Faculty to have an opportunity to express its
views, and therefore be it
Resolved further: That a Committee consisting of three
members of this Board, to be appointed by its pesident pro
tempore of which he shall be chairman, shall take in hand
these reports and by and with the advice and assistance of
two members of the Faculty to be appointed by the Faculty
and representing the majority and minority views represented
in said reports, re-arrange, more clearly define and suggest
changes in the laws of the University, said Committees work
to be submitted to and passed upon by the full Board at its
next meeting.
The President pro temp. appointed Visitors, Miles and
Chandler to act with him as said Committee, on the part of
the Board.
Resolved: That $170.00 be and is hereby appropriated
for rewinding the Electric Motor in the Mechanical laboratory
and installing the machinery as an auxiliary source of power.
Resolved: That authority is hereby given to the Faculty
to dispose of the duplicate volumes of books in the Library
as suggested by them.
Resolved: That Saturday, Oct. 7th, 1899, be set aside
for the Poe Memorial exercises, and that all University lectures
be suspended that day.
Resolved: That the sum of $300.00 out of the rents of
the old Temperance Hall be and is hereby appropriated for
the assistance of the Y. M. C. A. in securing ministers to
conduct religious services at the University, this being the
nearest use to which the Board can appropriate said funds in
keeping with the purpose of the original donors, this to continue
as an annual appropriation until further ordered by the
Board.
Resolved: That in pursusance of the recommendations of
the Faculty with reference to the annual appropriations of the
Board, of fifty dollars each, to the Washington and the Jefferson
Societies, be adopted, and that the appropriation be
discontinued.
Resolved: That the resolution passed on the 2d day of
March, 1899, making an appropriation for a hospital, be amended
so as to read as follows:
Resolved: That the sum of $20,000.00 is hereby appropriated
for the erection of a building for hospital purposes, and
equipment of the same, to be paid out of the Fayerweather fund
Executive Committee, the amount to be expended by the Medical
faculty acting as a building Committee.
Resolved: That in accordance with the recommendation
of the Faculty, the salaries of Dr Humphrey's assistant in
the Department of Physics, and Dr Lyman J. Skeen, demonstrator
of Medical Biology and Pathology, be and the same is hereby
fixed for the next session at $800.00, each.
Resolved: That the Pavilion on East Lawn, lately occupied
by Prof. Perkinson, is assigned to Prof. Graves.
Resolved: That as a mark of appreciation of the long
and faithful services of Henry Martin, Janitor of the Rotunda,
it is ordered that he be granted a vacation of two weeks, without
deduction of pay, during the present summer.
Resolved: That Raleigh C. Minor be elected a full Professor
of law; that Dr John Staige Davis be elected a full
Professor of Pathology; and with the approval of each of them,
their salaries are fixed at $2500.00 without commutation for
house rent. That the salary of Associate Professor, J. M.
Page be increased to $2000.00, The salaries of each of the
above to take effect at the beginning of the next session.
Resolved: That Mrs Isabel H. Perkinson is appointed
Hotel Keeper and assigned the Hotel now occupied by Mrs Elsom,
on the terms and conditions prescribed by Chapter VI,
of the University laws.
Resolved: That this Board authorizes the reception into
the Medical department, of students from the Academic department,
or from other colleges with advanced standing, within
Medical Colleges.
Resolved: That Daniel Harmon and P. B. Barringer, the
representatives of the Rector and Visitors to negotiate a
contract with the City of Charlottesville in regard to to
the expense of constructing and operating the pumping plant
supplementing the water supply, be and they are hereby authorized
to close the contract and authorize the Proctor to
make the necessary payments. Provided said contract shall
stipulate that the University is not to be at an expense for
the cost of operating said pumping plant greater than the
proportion of the water used by it to that used by the city,
the said contract may provide that, we are willing for this
proposition of expense to be ascertained by meters to be put
in on the separate water mains by either party upon the request
of the other, but, if the City of Charlottesville is
unwilling now to stipulate for such meters the said contract
shall provide, that while the Rector and Visitors are to receive
the full benefit of the pumping plant, there is to be no cost
to us for the expense of operating the same except and until
the mode of definitely fixing the proportion of operating
expenses shall have been fixed and agreed upon.
Resolved: That the Election of a professor of Modern
Languages be posponed, and that Visitor G. W. Miles be appointed
a committee to ascertain and report to the Executive
Committee whether it would advisable to appoint an associate
professor at a salary of $2000.00, the Executive are autho-
rized to make the appointment to the School.
On the motion of Mr Irvine, it was-
Resolved: that the Executive Committee as at present
composed, viz- D. Harmon, Chairman, Chas P. Jones, Rector,
and Visitors, Bryan, Glass & Miles, be continued for the ensuing
term.
The applicants for the Mason Fellowship were M. W.
Swartz and J. A. Shepherd and a vote being taken thereon resulted
in the election of Mr Swartz to the fellowship.
On motion the Board adjourned until tomorrow morning at
10 oclock.
Secretary.
Prest Pro. Tem.
University of Va.
June 14th, 1899- the Board met in pursuance of adjournment
on yesterday.
Present the same members as on yesterday with the exception
of Visitors Irvine and Downing who were excused on
account of having pressing engagements elsewhere.
The following was enacted:
Resolved: That in accordance with the recommendation
of Prof. Ormond Stone, of the chair of Astronomy, that Robert
G. Robb, a graduate of this University and at present a professor
of Mathematics in the Marion, Alabama Military Institute,
be and he is hereby appointed a fellow in astronomy for
the session of 1899-1900, at a salary of $350.00, and that
Messrs E. O. Eastwood and J. A. Lyon be continued in their
present positions and with their present salaries as such fel-
lows.
Resolved: That in accordance with the recommendation
of Dr Christian, of the Chair of Anatomy and Surgery that
in the event Dr Jones, the present demonstrator of Anatomy,
should not return to the University next session, Dr James
B. Bullitt is hereby appointed in his place and with the
duties and pay now pertaining to the position, and further
Drs J. R. Lyman and Geo. L. Livermore are made first and
second assistant demonstrators of Anatomy respectively, to
serve without pay.
Resolved: That the Alumni Associations of Rockingham
County Va, and of Huntsville be placed upon the list of those
associations entitled, to fill the Alumni Scholarships recently
created, and that the Association of Atlanta Ga be
placed upon said list as soon as it complies with the conditions
required.
Resolved: That Clause 13 of the scheme establishing a
system of Alumni Scholarships approved March 3d 1899 be
amended so as to read as follows:
13. The final appointment of each incumbent shall be made
by a vote of the whole association, a majority of the active
members voting of record for the applicant. It shall not
finally be made by any committee or by any officer or officers
of the Association. But such Committee or officers may
be appointed by the Association to nominate or examine Candidates
and to report to the Association.
The following resolution of the Miller Board was received:
"The Board is impressed with the conviction that the
school of which Profr Tuttle is the head is not devoted to
by Mr Miller whose gift was made for the advancement
of Agriculture. Therefore - Resolved. That the Board
of Visitors is hereby requested to take such action in the
premises as will meet the requirements of the Deed under
which this Board is constituted." "The above is a copy of
a resolution passed by the Miller Board of Trustees at its
meeting held June 12th, 1899. signed, R.T.W.Duke, Jr. Sec-
retary".
The Finance Committee submitted its report which was
read and considered, and on motion it was received, approved
and adopted and ordered to be spread of record. Said report
is in the following words and figures, to wit:-
The following estimates of the income and expenditures
for the year 1899-1900 is adopted and the sums specefied for
expenditures are hereby appropriated for the respective purposes
so far as the income of the year will allow.
| State annuity | $ 45,000.00 | |
| Corcoran fund | 6,000.00 | |
| Miller fund | 6,000.00 | |
| Linden Kent fund | 3,000.00 | |
| Astronomical fund | 4,455.00 | |
| Rent from 2 boarding houses & cottage & 1/2 of Temperance Hall |
948.00 | |
| Rents from Randall building | 3,203.00 | |
| Madison fund | 156.00 | |
| Gordon fund | 300.00 | |
| Mason fellowship 210., Brown Scholarship 120., Bierly do 40.00 |
370.00 | |
| Sinking Fund | 1,180.00 | |
| Estimated income from fees & rents of students on a basis of 575 students at a per capita of $110. |
63.250.00 | |
| Total income | $133,862.00 |
| Instructors | $ 71,500.00 |
| Officers | 5,100.00 |
| Scholarships and Fellowships | 3,570.00 |
| Interest & Sinking fund | 20,400.00 |
| Miscellaneous | 9,845.93 |
| Employes | 7,382.00 |
| Working Expenses | 14,875.00 |
| Total | $132,672.93 |
| Deficit for 1877-78 | $5,989.43 | ||
| Estimated deficit for 189899 June 5.th |
930.49. | 6,919.92 | |
| $139,592.85 | |||
| Net Estimated deficit | $ 5,730.85 |
| 19 Professors at | $3000. | $ 57,000.00 |
| 2 Professors at | 2500. | 5,000.00 |
| 2 Associate at | 2000. | 4,000.00 |
| Instructor in Physics | 800. | |
| Instructor in Latin | 600. | |
| Instructor in Mechanical Engineering | 600. | 2,000.00 |
| Instructor in Hebrew | 600.00 |
| Demonstrator of Anatomy | 600.00 |
| Demonstrator of Pathology & Biology | 800.00 |
| Director of Gymnasium | 1 500.00 |
| $ 71,500.00 |
| Chairman | $ 500.00 |
| Proctor | 2,000.00 |
| Secretary to Proctor | 600.00 |
| Secretary to Board | 300.00 |
| Secretary to Faculty | 800.00 |
| Commissioner of Accounts | 100.00 |
| Librarian | 800.00 |
| 5,100.00 |
| 3 Astronomical Fellowships. | $ 1,050.00 |
| 2 Biological Fellowships. | 600.00 |
| 3 Miller Scholarships | 750.00 |
| 4 State Scholarships (Public Schools) | 800.00 |
| 1 Brown Scholarships | 120.00 |
| 1 Mason fellowship | 210.00 |
| 1 Bierly Scholarship | 40.00 |
| $ 3,570.00 |
| Sinking fund (old debt) | $ 2,050.00 |
| Sinking fund (new debt) | 2,000.00 |
| Interest on old debt | 5,170.00 |
| Interest on new debt | 10,000.00 |
| Interest on Sinking fund for reinvestment | 1,180.00 |
| $ 20,400.00 |
| Charlottesville Hardware Co | $ 160.00 |
| Mechanical Laboratory equipment | 215.93 |
| Law Class Chairs | 300.00 |
| Repairs & improvements | 5,000.00 |
| Commutation of rent of 8 professors | 2,400.00 |
| Contingent fund | 1,500.00 |
| For rewinding Electric Motor (not recurring) | 170.00 |
| Chemical department for the purchase of apparatus for medical students & not recurring |
100.00 |
| $ 9,845.93 |
| Janitor & plumber | $ 900.00 |
| Engineer & fireman | 500.00 |
| Day policeman & boos of hands | 480.00 |
| Night policeman & boos of hands | 360.00 |
| Janitor of Rotunda | 300.00 |
| Two Janitors of new buildings | 270.00 |
| Janitor of Anatomical hall | 240.00 |
| Janitor of Museum | 180.00 |
| Janitor of Gymnasium | 225.00 |
| Janitor of Medical hall | 135.00 |
| Janitor of Chem'l Lab. | 135.00 |
| Janitor of Dispensary | 108.00 |
| Chairman's Messenger | 120.00 |
| Laborers, 3 hands, 3 teamsters | 1,080.00 |
| Eighteen dormitory servants | 1,944.00 |
| Three Janitors for Randall building | 405.00 |
| $ 7,382.00 |
| Observatory | $ 405.00 |
| Agricultural & Biological department | 350.00 |
| Chemical department | 350.00 |
| Physical department | 300.00 |
| Medical department, for laboratory work estimated per capita, for Anatomy $840,00, for Histology $470.00 for Bacteriology $189.00, for Chemistry $225.00, for Physics $225.00 |
1,989.00 |
| $ 3,394.00 | |
| Engineering department | 200.00 |
| Engineering department for providing current for motor |
50.00 |
| Mineralogy & Geology | 25.00 |
| Law department | 150.00 |
| Dispensary | 400.00 |
| Hospital | 600.00 |
| Library | 456.00 |
| Diplomas | 100.00 |
| Printing blanks | 200.00 |
| Catalogues & postage on same | 1 000.00 |
| Advertising | 3 000.00 |
| Gymnasium | 450.00 |
| Fuel Exclusive of Randall building | 1,500.00 |
| Lights (electric) of Randall building | 1,000.00 |
| Fuel & lights for Randall building | 500.00 |
| Pathology & Laberatory | 250.00 |
| Infirmary fund | 1,600.00 |
| $ 14,875.00 |
The following resolutions of respect to the memory of
the late Professor Perkinson were unanimously adopted:
This being the first annual meeting of this Board since
the death of the late professor W. H. Perkinson, and the Board
meeting to day to consider the matter of his successor takes
this occasion to spread upon its minutes some memorial of the
great loss to the University and of the genuine sorrow to its
friends and alumni everywhere occasioned by his untimely death.
As a friend he was genial and loyal, as a scholar he was
accurate, enthusiastic and learned; as a teacher he was dilligent,
popular and successful, and being conscientious in all
his duties he won and kep the admiration and love of his pupils;
as a man and a citizen he was of the highest type of a
Christian gentleman; his untimely taking off when in the full
possession of a vigerous, happy and useful manhood is one of
the saddest events this Board has been called upon to record.
Resolved, that a copy of these resolutions be sent to
Mrs Perkinson with the sincerest sympathy of the members of
this Board for her in her great bereavement.
The following resolutions in respect to the bequest by
the late Col James H. Skinner decd to the University were
unanimously adopted and ordered to be spread on the minutes
of the Board:
At this the first meeting of the Rector and Visitors of
the University of Virginia, since the death of Col James H.
Skinner of Staunton, at which knowledge has come to us of
the contents of his will, we desire to put on record our
grateful appreciation of the generosity of this distinguished
and cultured gentleman. The provision he has made for the
education of worthy young mentwill indissolubly link his name
with the cause of Christianity and of higher education in Virginia
and furnish a fitting index to his cultured and unselfish
life, appreciated most by those who knew him best.
The Board on its part will faithfully endeavor to carry
out the noble purposes and objects of the donor.
And we further desire to express our confidence in the
high character and capacity of the gentleman to whom Col
Skinner has intrusted the execution of his will.
Resolved further, that a copy of these resolutions be
sent by the Secretary of the Board to Miss Fanny Skinner,
surviving sister of the deceased, with the sincerest sympathy
of this Board and of the friends and Alumni of the University
generally, for her great loss in the death of her devoted
and distinguished brother.
The following resolutions touching the donation by the
late Hon. F. W. M. Holladay, decd of his miscellaneous library
to the University, were unanimously adopted and ordered to be
entered of record:
Whereas the Hon. Fred. W. M. Holladay, late Governor of
the Commonwealth of Virginia, and now deceased, did, prior
to his death donate to the University of Virginia his miscellaneous
Therefore resolved: that the Chairman of the faculty
is authorized to receive said books in Winchester, Virginia,
and transfer them to the library of the University. Said
books to be placed together and properly designated. And
this Board on behalf of the University takes pleasure in
hereby recognizing its deep obligation to the generosity and
foresight of the gifted and cultured gentleman and distinguished
alumnus whose name will thus be linked with the growth
of our beloved alma mater and the intellectual development of
her sons.
Resolved further: That the thanks of this Board be and
they are hereby extended to Mrs Margaret D. Mason, sister and
devisee of Gov. Holladay for her kindly interest in executing
his wishes in this regard.
On motion the Board adjourned sine die.
Secretary.
Prest Pro. Tem.
| Board of Visitors minutes June 12, 1899 | |