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A called meeting of the Rector and Visitors was held
on this date at 10:30 A. M., with the following members
present: The Rector, Armistead C. Gordon, Goodrich Hatton,
Judge Norton, Wm. H. White, G. R. B. Michie, John W. Craddock,
R. Tate Irvine, Robert Turnbull, and President Alderman.

It was ordered that the minutes of the meeting of May
31, 1917 be copied from the journal and sent to the members
for review.

President Alderman announced the following gifts, acknowledgment
of which had been made in due form:

     

Mr. James O. Watts,	$2,500.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,	500.
Mr. Robert Hall McCormick,	350. (additional)

A letter was read from Mr. Bentley W. Warren, one of the
Trustees of the Arthur W. Austin Estate, advising the Board
of the resignation of Mr. Endicott as a trustee of said
estate, and suggesting the names of Mr. Irvin McDowell Garfield
and Mr. Moses Williams as desirable persons to fill the
vacancy. The Board chose Mr. Garfield and directed the secretary
to so notify Mr. Warren of its action.

It having been brought to the attention of the Board that
vacancies in the Thomas Forturn Ryan Scholarships existed in
the Third, Fifth and Ninth Districts, by reason of those
elected at the May meeting of the Board to fill the scholarships
for those districts, have enlisted in the military
service of the United States, on motion, the following selection
for these districts was made, namely:

     

Third District,	James A. Leach, Jr.,
Fifth District,	John R. Mooney,
Ninth District,	I. J. Quesenberry.

In filling the vacancy in the Eighth District, the following
offered by Judge Norton was adopted:

RESOLVED: That the Ryan Scholarship for the Eighth Congressional
District be transferred from Chas. B. Sullivan to Mr. Charles
Bruce Norton, the former having withdrawn from the University, and that
all fees chargeable against Mr. Sullivan be mitted, he having
been drafted for the army.

Upon recommendation of the President, the Bursar
was appointed to account to the War Department for Army
property loaned the University for use by the Reserve
Officers' Training Corps.

On motion, the following appropriations were made:

         

$200.	to take care of needed assistants in the Engineering Department, as per request of Dean Thornton.
$250.	for the American University Union to be established in Paris.
$559.	for the Modern Language Department, to conduct War courses as follows:         3 machines and records,  $ 399.  Laboratory Assistant,  150.  Needles, etc.,  10.  Total,  $ 559.
	It is estimated that the special laboratory fees from the War courses will amount to $450., leaving a net cost to the University of $109.
$125.	for Assistant in Wireless Telegraphy (War course IV.)

On motion, the following was unanimously adopted:

Whereas the notice of the purpose to elect a Professor of English
Literature has been duly published according to the re-
quirements of the Virginia statutes, be it

RESOLVED, That, upon the recommendation of President Alderman,
John Calvin Metcalf, M. A., Professor of English Literature
in Richmond College, be elected to fill the Poe Memorial
Chair of English Literature, made vacant by the resignation
of Dr. Chas. Alphonso Smith, at a salary of $3,300. per
annum, his duties to begin with the opening of the session of
1917-18.

On motion, the following was unanimously adopted:

RESOLVED, That, upon the recommendation of President
Alderman, Mr. Raymond Freas, Ph. D., (Johns Hopkins) be
elected Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at a salary of $1,400.
per annum, his duties to begin with the session of 1917-18.

Upon the recommendation of the professors of the several
schools, and with the approval of the President, the following
Assistants, Student Assistants and Scholarship holders
were appointed:-

                                                                                                                     

School of Astronomy:
Assistant,	Philip A. Dales
School of Biology:
Miller Scholar,	A. A. Pegau
Miller Scholar,	W. C. Whitlock
Student Assistant,	Conway Zirkle
Student Assistant,	C. B. Morton, Jr.
Student Assistant,	A. S. Gish
School of Chemistry:
Instructor,	J. H. Robertson
Assistant,	H. W. Easterwood
Assistant,	L. S. Cannon
Student Assistant,	E. H. Swift
Student Assistant,	J. H. Leach
Student Assistant,	K. W. Franke
Student Assistant,	W. E. Pinner
School of Economics:
Assistant,	S. James Hart
School of English Literature:
Instructor,	C. H. Huffman
Instructor,	F. L. Bruce
Student Assistant (Board of Visitors F.)	James Duff
School of Economic Geology:
Instructor,	S. Philip Holt
School of Latin:
Instructor,	E. L. Lehman
School of Mathematics:
Instructor, (Mason Fellow)	Edward T. Browne
School of Physics:
Assistant,	R. B. Hiden
Assistant,	J. M. Nalle
School of Clinical Medicine:
Instructor,	Dudley C. Smith
Instructor,	Thomas H. Daniel
School of Histology and Embryology:
Student Assistant,	G. A. Pagenstecher
School of Pharmacology and Materia Medica:
Student Assistant,	Wm. W. Strange
Student Assistant,	Geo. B. Setzler
School of Physiology:
Student Assistant, (Phys.)	Geo. B. Setzler
Student Assistant, (Phys.)	Wm. W. Strange
Student Assistant, (Physiol. Chem.)	David C. Wilson
Student Assistant, (Physiol. Chem.)	Francis M. Massie
Student Assistant, (Physiol. Chem.)	Roy M. Hoover
Department of Engineering:
Assistants,
Freshman Drawing,	Charles Henderson
Sophomore Drawing,	J. E. B. Stuart, Jr.
Shop Work,	A. S. Wise
Shop Work,	G. W. Crickenberger
Shop Work,	C. P. Livesay
Experimental,	P. F. Brown
Assistant in Civil Engineering,	G. E. Clark
Assistant in Civil Engineering,	S. S. Carroll
Instructor in Physical Culture:	F. D. Woodward
Assistant in Wireless Telegraphy (War Course IV)	Roger G. Wolcott
Rives Fellowship in History,	T. F. Carroll
Henry Coalter Cabell Scholarship	C. H. Huffman

In the matter of refund of fees paid by students who
may be drafted for the army, the following was adopted:

RESOLVED: That the release of fees by students who may be
drafted be left to the President, with the expression of the
Board that as a policy such release be made.

A committee from the Miller Board which was meeting at
this hour at the University, was received, and stated that

it was desired by the Miller Board that some expression
from the committee appointed by the Board of Visitors be had
in the matter of the use of a house for the Miller Professor;
whereupon, the Rector, Chairman of the Special Committee,
was requested to draft a letter to the Miller Board, setting
forth the decision of the Committee. The following letter
was immediately sent:

The following recommendations of the Academic Faculty, with
the approval of the President, were adopted:

The following letter and report of the Superintendent of
Grounds and Buildings was read and ordered spread on the minutes:

The report was approved and the recommendation relative
to purchase of a truck was referred to the President with
power to act.

President Alderman read a letter from Mr. Lewis Cass
Ledyard, one of the executors of the estate of Colonel Oliver

Payne, claiming that the legacy of $ 200,000.00, to the
University of Virginia, in the will of Colonel Payne, had
been anticipated and settled by the payment to Dr. Alderman,
of $250,000.00 as set out in the said letter, which letter
reads as follows:

Dr. Alderman also made a statement to the Board, setting
out all he knew about and had done in connection with the case.

Wereupon, the subject was discussed, and it was concluded
that further consideration be deferred until a future meeting
of the Board.

President Alderman announced that through the beneficience
of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a course
in International Relations would be offered this session, to
be conducted by Professor Lindsay Rogers, Adjunct Professor
of Political Science. The $500. gift for the purpose to be
distributed as follows: To Professor Lindsay Rogers, $300.,
to the assistant in Political Science, $125., and for the
purchase of books for the Library necessary for the course,
$75. The Board approved the foregoing.

Upon the recommendation of the Committee on the organization
of new College courses for those contemplating entering
the Federal service, beginning with the session of 191718,
and with the approval of the President, the following
Special War Courses were approved:

I. METEOROLOGY. (Fall Term)

A study of the cause and effect of atmospheric conditions,
such as to changes of temperature, pressure, winds, humidity,
cloud phenomena, precipitation and storms, and their effects
on aviation, etc. Weather bureaus and their work, and weather
predictions are fully considered. Laboratory work includes the
construction and use of meteorological instruments, the construction
and interpretation of weather maps, and practical
weather forecasting. Lectures and laboratory work to the
amount of five lecture hours per week.—Adjunct Professor
Giles.

II. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. (Winter and Spring Terms)

A general course devoted to the consideration of the
origin, growth and decay of land forms, the significance of
geographic features, and the agencies affecting changes in
those features. Oceanography is treatly briefly in the
latter part of the course. Laboratory work in the preparation
and interpretation of topographic maps, models, etc. Lectures
and laboratory work to the amount of five lecture hours
per week.— Adjunct Professor Giles.

III. ELEMENTS OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIAL MOTORS.

—Fee $10.00

This course comprises three lectures and four hours of laborato
practice per week for the entire year. The first two terms
are devoted to a study of the basic principles of electrical
engineering with associated laboratory practice on various
types of electrical machinery and accessories. The third
term is concerned more particularly with the question of choice
of equipment, arrangement of controls and general questions
concerning the actual installation of suitable units for industrial
and special classes of service. The laboratory
work of the third term is largely of the nature of solving problems
by both analytical and graphical methods.

The course as a whole aims to give a certain familiarity
with modern electrical equipemtn, its construction, operation
and adaptation to specific purposes. —Professor Rodman.

IV. TELEPHONY, TELEGRAPHY and SIGNALING, INCLUDING SEARCHLIGHTS.

—Fee $5.00

This course is designed to give considerable facility in
the actual operation of telephones, wire and radio telegraphs
and signailing systems, with particular emphasis on the apparatus
and methods of operation used by the Army and Navy of the
United States. One lecture and six hours of practice per week
throughout the year are devoted to the course. The practice
in telegraphy and signaling is conducted by men experienced
in those lines in government service.—Professor Rodman.

V. NAVIGATION.

—Fee $ 5.00

The object of this course is to train men for service
in the United States Merchant Marine, or in the United
States Navy. Open to all, even though without previous
training in college mathematics. Takes up such questions
as: Day's work, Middle-Latitude sailing, Mercators' sailing,
Great Circle sailing, Distance from a fixed object, Use of
Charts, Latitude, Longitude, Correction of Compass, Sumner
lines. Two hours' lectures, one laboratory period. Hours
to be arranged. Credit three session hours. —Professor
Mitchell.

VI. FIELD ASTRONOMY.

—Fee $ 5.00

This course will be adapted to meet the needs of the
men taking the course. Two lectures, one laboratory period
per week. Hours to be arranged. Credit three session hours.
—Professor Mitchell.

VII. AUTOMOBILES: THEIR CONSTRUCTION AND CARE (Fall Term)

—Fee $ 10.00

An elementary study of the engine, including combustion
and balancing; of the fundamental mechanical problems of
automobile design and of the details of construction. The
course will be conducted by means of lectures and laboratory
work supplemented by reading and written exercises and problems.
—Prof. Hancock.

VIII. TIMBER: CHARACTERISTICS AND USES. (Spring Term)

—Fee $2.50

The most important commercial varieties of wood; Their
Identification, Distinguishing Characteristics, Mechanical
Properties and Uses, with Special Reference to War Conditions.
—Professor Jones.

IX. PRACTICAL GERMAN.

—Fee $ 5.00

A practical course in the German language, designed
primarily to give a speaking knowledge of the language. Two
hours weekly of lectures throughout the entire session, supplemented
by six hours weekly practice on phonographic records.
—Professor Faulkner.

X. PRACTICAL SPANISH.

—Fee $ 5.00

A practical course in the Spanish language, designed
primarily to give a speaking knowledge of the language. Two
hours weekly of lectures throughout the entire session, supplemented
by six hours weekly practice on phonographic records.
—Professor Bardin.

XI. POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY.

—No Fee.

This course will consist of one lecture a week throughout
the session. The fall term will be devoted to the political
geography of Germany.—Prof. Faulkner.

Winter term devoted to the political geography of Russia
and the Balkans.—Professor Faulkner.

Spring term will be given to the study of political
geography of France and Belgium.—Professor Wilson.

XII. PHOTOGRAPHY.

—Fee $ 2.50

This course will take one hour of lecture and four hours
of laboratory weekly, extending throughout the fall term.

Lectures on Photographic Lenses, Shutters, Exposure, and
Chemistry of Photography, Practice in the taking and development
of photographs. —Professor Hoxton.

XIII. PERSONAL HYGIENE FOR THE SOLDIER.

—No Fee.

This course will be offered by the Medical Faculty
and will be given one hour a week during the fall term.

In addition to these new courses the Committee believes
that the following existing courses in the University
will prove both interesting and valuable for students contemplating
Federal service.

1. INTERNATIONAL LAW AND DIPLOMACY.

The nature, sources, development, and rules of international
law (with a consideration of the problems of the European
War), the causes of war, peace projects of the past, arbitral
machinery, problems of the future, and the foregoing policy of
the United States. —Adjunct Professor Rogers and Mr. Dingledine.

2. ENGINEERING GEOLOGY.

A course of three lectures a week and three hours for
private study. Special emphasis is given to the study of
common rock-forming minerals and rocks, building stones and
ores. The divisions of dynamical, structural and physiographical
geology are covered in considerable detail, and the practical
applications of the topics treated to engineering work are
pointed out. (Fall, Winter, Spring Terms). —Professor
Watson.

3. PLANE SURVEYING.

—Fee $10.00

Lectures on the theory, uses and adjustments of the Compass
level, Transit and Stadia, the Computations of Surveying;
the methods and proper conduct of Farm, City, Topographic
and Hydrographic surveys. Practical class exercises
illustrating the subject matter of the lectures are assigned.

With this lecture course goes a practical course in field
surveys.

Special emphasis will be laid on practical work in taking
topography and contour mapping. This course comprises
three lectures per week during the spring term and six hours
per week in the field during the same term.—Professor Newcomb.

4. TOPOGRAPHICAL DRAWING.

—Fee $ 3.50

In this course the conventional methods of making topographical
maps are carefully taught. Each student is required
to become reasonably proficient in the preparation
of such maps. Particular attention is paid to the study of
contour plans and the solution of problems based on them.
(Spring term) —Professor Newcomb.

5. MILITARY SCIENCE AND TACTICS.

Four hours of drill and one hour of lectures weekly
throughout the entire session. — Colonel Cole.

On motion, the meeting then adjourned subject to the
call of the Rector.