 | University of Virginia record April, 1910 |  |
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A Statement of Recent Growth
ON JUNE 16th, 1909, the University of Virginia completed
the ninetieth year of its life. Founded by
Thomas Jefferson, nourished by the Commonwealth
of Virginia, enriched and guided by the ability and
devotion of a rare group of scholars for three generations, it
may be justly said to have achieved and maintained a certain
distinct intellectual leadership in higher education.
It has clung steadfastly to old ideas of character and thoroughness,
and yet it has sought and is now seeking so to readapt
its life to the needs of society as to be always a source of
strength to the Commonwealth and to the Nation. Through the
wisdom and generosity of the State, and through the beneficence
and public spirit of the individual, it has recently been able to extend
its power in unusual and striking ways.
The purpose of this statement is to set forth simply the lines
of this expansion, for it is expansion in scope, and not subversion
of ideals. In the Installation Address of President Alderman,
April 13, 1905, he thus defined the character of the
University as it had been worked out through the generations:
"One does not have to search for this institutional character
as for something elusive and subtle. It shines out before the
face of the stranger in five clear points of light:
"A sympathetic understanding of democracy as a working
hypothesis of life, guaranteeing to every man a chance to realize
the best that is in him.
"An absolute religious freedom, combined with wide and vital
religious opportunities.
"An appeal to the best in young men, resulting in the creation
of a student public opinion and a student system of honor, which
endowed the University of the past, and endows the University
of to-day with its richest asset of reputation and fame.
"A high standard of scholarship, rigidly maintained in an air
of freedom of learning and freedom of teaching, begetting an
austere ideal of intellectual thoroughness and honesty.
"A conception of culture as a compound of sound learning
and gracious conduct, as an inheritance of manhood and moral
will won through discipline and conquest, and as a capacity to
deal with men in the rough work of the world with gentleness
and simplicity."
It is desired to add one other distinctive and ever-increasing
characteristic to this estimate, service to the people, to the
end that no cry for help in any academic, educational, spiritual,
or political direction, can be heard without immediate answer
from the University of Virginia.
JEFFERSON MEMORIAL FUND.
At the time of the installation of President Alderman the
Alumni of the University, upon the initiative of the Washington
Chapter, inaugurated a movement to raise a million dollars for
the endowment of the institution. The entire fund was completed
on February 1, 1909, and is held by the Alumni of the
University through an Alumni Board of Trustees, consisting of
the following members: E. A. Alderman, President; Eppa Hunton,
Treasurer; Chas. J. Faulkner, Wm. W. Fuller, Alex. P.
Humphrey, Thos. Nelson Page, Wm. H. White.
Of this fund $500,000 was given by Mr. Carnegie and forms
the permanent endowment of six existing schools in the University,
to which are given the names of great men who have helped
build the University and the republic, as follows: First, the
James Madison School of Law; second, the James Monroe
School of International Law; third, the James Wilson School of
Political Science and Political Economy; fourth, the Edgar Allan
Poe School of English; fifth, the Andrew Carnegie School of
Engineering; sixth, the Walter Reed School of Pathology.
Gratitude is due to the large-minded men of all sections who
have contributed to this fund, and thereby established a nucleus
of permanent strength to this University. Great praise is due
to the gentlemen of the Alumni Association, who set this movement
on foot, and lasting credit belongs to President Alderman,
upon whom fell the burden of actually bringing to pass the great
plan.
STATEMENT TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.[1]
Endowment.
In a statement made to the General Assembly of 1906 it was
shown that the Commonwealth of Virginia and private beneficence
had created at Charlottesville an institution of higher learning
representing at that time a monetary value of $2,328,000,
subdivided as follows:
| 1. | Buildings, equipment and land, | $1,550,000 |
| With the exception of the original buildings, valued at $400,000, the land at $100,000, and the new hospital valued at $70,000, this great property had come to the State in the form of gifts from private persons—equal in value to $980,000 |
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| 2. | Endowment Fund, | 778,000 |
| 3. | Bonded debt, incurred by fire and restoration (not included in total), $200,000 |
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| $2,328,000 |
A similar statement made to-day would show that the University
of Virginia represents a monetary valuation of $3,780,268,
subdivided as follows:
| 1. | Buildings, equipment and land, | $1,550,000 |
| 2. | For new buildings and equipment,—hospital, dining hall, President's house, law building, |
168,079 |
| 3. | Remodelling old buildings, repairs, etc., for laboratory purposes, |
25,357 |
| 4. | Electric plant, | 4,300 |
| 5. | Laboratories, all departments, new equipment, | 38,992 |
| 6. | Library, Law and General, | 15,540 |
| 7. | Endowment Fund, | 778,000 |
| 8. | Increase in Endowment Fund since 1904, | 1,200,000 |
| 9. | Bonded debt (not included in total), $200,000 |
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| $3,780,268 | ||
| Increase in monetary value of this foundation since 1904, |
$1,452,268. |
One million two hundred thousand dollars of this sum represents
the gifts of private individuals; one hundred and fifty
thousand represents direct appropriation from the State; and
one hundred and fifty-two thousand represents the application of
income from all sources to material equipment. The fact that
the University of Virginia has attracted to its use private gifts
amounting to nearly two millions of dollars is unique in the history
of State institutions. I believe this beneficence would
quickly cease if, by reason of it, the State itself should in any
way slacken its commendable efforts to build up its chiefest
seminary of learning.
Income and Expenditures.
Total annual income of the University of Virginia in
1904-1905:
| 1. | From State appropriation, | $50,000 |
| 2. | From tuition and other fees, | 71,000 |
| 3. | From interest on endowment funds, | 32,390 |
| 4. | From rents and other sources, | 10,260 |
| $163,650 |
Annual expenditures of the University of Virginia in 19041905:
| 1. | Salaries of professors, instructors, executive, | $103,320 |
| 2. | Interest on debt and sinking fund, | 12,000 |
| 3. | Insurance, labor, improvements, repairs, | 31,480 |
| 4. | Summer School, advertising and printing, fellowships, scholarships and all other expenses, |
29,500 |
| $176,300 |
In 1904-1905, then, it will be seen that the annual deficit of the
University of Virginia was in the neighborhood of $13,000, and
the University was shorthanded in every department and far
from satisfactorily equipped. The student attendance for that
year was 706.
Total annual income of the University of Virginia for 19091910:
| 1. | From State appropriation, | $80,000 |
| 2. | From tuition and fees (estimated), | 73,000 |
| 3. | From endowment funds, | 81,234 |
| 4. | From rents and all other sources, | 6,946 |
| $241,180 |
It will thus be seen that in the five year period under consideration,
the University of Virginia has increased its value as a
permanent educational foundation by the sum of $1,452,268, and
has increased its annual income by the sum of $77,530. Thirty
thousand dollars of this income increase is due to the wisdom
and generosity of the State, and $47,530 of this increase is due
to the interest on private gifts from citizens of this country interested
in the higher education in general and in this University
in particular.
The total expenditures of the University for the session 19091910
are as follows:
| 1. | General Administration, | $21,616.00 |
| 2. | College and Graduate Department, | 85,250.00 |
| 3. | Law Department, | 14,080.00 |
| 4. | Medical Department and Hospital, | 47,345.00 |
| 5. | Engineering Department, | 10,940.00 |
| 6. | Summer School, | 1,500.00 |
| 7. | General Library, | 5,771.00 |
| 8. | Business and Grounds, | 25,314.00 |
| 9. | Gymnasium, | 1,305.00 |
| 10. | Business advertising and bonded debt, | 14,650.00 |
| 11. | Commons Hall, | 2,000.00 |
| 12. | Miscellaneous, | 3,700.00 |
| 13. | General appropriation for equipment, | 6,440.00 |
| Total | $239,911.00 |
The expenditures of the University of Virginia in 1904-1905
were, as has been stated, in round numbers, $176,000, being
$13,000 in excess of income. The expenditures for 1909-1910
are, in round numbers, $240,000, or $64,000 in excess of the
former period.
Increase of Power.
This increase of income has been used to add to the power of
the University of Virginia in the following directions:
1. The deficit of $13,000 has been liquidated.
2. Twelve new professors and adjunct professors and
eighteen new instructors have been added to the
staff of teachers in the college, at a cost of
$26,633.3. Salaries, and expenditures in Library, for additional
instruction in Law:1 Professor, $2,500 2 Instructors, 1,500 Library, 1,000 $5,000 4. Salaries, and expenditures in laboratories, for additional
instruction in Medicine:7 Professors, 2 Adjunct Professors, 6 Instructors, $16,000 Increased laboratory appropriation, 1,650 Hospital, etc., 7,500 $25,150
| 5. | Salaries and expenditures for additional instruction in technical Engineering: |
$3,500 |
| 6. | Additional expenditures for Library (general), Gymnasium, fuel, administration and miscellaneous: |
$4,417 |
The total cost of these new departments, increased teaching
power, and improved laboratories amounts to $64,700, or a few
dollars in excess of the increased income.
| 1. | Total increase in teaching staff, | 35; or 96 per cent. |
| 2. | The increase in the number of courses offered has been about |
25 per cent. |
| 3. | The increase in the number of students has been |
126; or 16 per cent. |
New Professorships.
The new professorships which have been established are the
following:
(1) In the College and the Department of Graduate Studies.
(a) One full Professor in each of: Education, Secondary
Education, Economic Geology, and Chemistry.(b) One Associate Professor in Biblical History and
Literature.(c) One Adjunct Professor in each of: Physics, Romanic
Languages, Biology, Chemistry, Economic
Geology, and Public Speaking.
(2) In the Department of Medicine.
(a) One full Professor in each of: Pathology, Physiology,
Surgery, Obstetrics, Diseases of the Eye,
Diseases of the Ear, Nose and Throat.(b) One Adjunct Professor in each of: Clinical Medicine,
Surgery, Anatomy, Histology and Embryology,
Pathology, and Chemistry.
(3) In the Department of Engineering.
(a) One full Professor in each of: Chemistry and Economic
Geology.(b) One Adjunct Professor in each of: Civil Engineering,
Mechanical Engineering, Physics, and Chemistry.
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(4) In the Department of Law.
One Professor of Law.
One Adjunct Professor of Law in 1910.
Needs.
It should be clear, therefore, that the added income both from
State appropriation and private endowments, which has come to
the University, was absolutely necessary to make this University
what it should be in the modern world, offering the best instruction
in the five great departments of the College, Law, Medicine,
Engineering, and the Graduate School. On its old income, however
devoted and able its teachers, it must have languished and
fallen away from leadership. Owing to just or inevitable causes,
our numbers have not greatly increased, though we have now
passed the eight hundred mark, but the scope and quality of instruction
have increased many hundred fold. A great modern
university of 800 students, comprising well equipped professional
schools, cannot do the highest quality of work on an income less
than $300,000 a year, as may be discovered by examining the
resources and services rendered by other institutions.
The Board of Visitors in its memorial to the General Assembly
of 1906 petitioned that the sum of $154,000 be appropriated
for the pressing needs of the institution in the direction of buildings,
equipment, and repairs. The amount appropriated was
$85,000. The Board again in 1908 set forth the need for
$324,000 for similar purposes. The amount appropriated was
$65,000. The amounts appropriated have been wisely used, but,
of course, many of these needs still exist and cannot be supplied
from any endowment funds.
I shall not re-enumerate all of the unsupplied needs, for I am
aware of the State's necessities and its other obligations. The
Rector and Visitors will ask for no increase in the regular appropriation
for purely instructional purposes of the University.
They beg, however, most earnestly to set forth three urgent and
provide for these needs, if the State's resources permit.
Two of these needs involve additional annuity, and one necessitates
a special appropriation.
I. Additional annuity for maintenance of the State Hospital located
at the University, $10,000.II. Increase of Fund for the Maintenance of the Property of the
University, $5,000.III. A Building for the Department of Chemistry, $75,000.
[As a result of the finanical condition of the State only the
first of these needs could be provided for by the General Assembly.]
Extracts from a statement submitted to the General Assembly of
Virginia of 1910 by the President for the Rector and Visitors of the
University.
GENERAL EQUIPMENT.
The beneficence of generous friends and the wise liberality of
the State of Virginia have made possible, in addition to an enlarged
teaching corps, the following material improvements and
additions:
1. The repairing and better equipment of the Anatomy Hall.
2. The provision and equipment of a Histological Laboratory.
3. Further equipment of Bacteriological and Pathological
Laboratory.
4. Provision and equipment of a Laboratory for Physiology
and Physiological Chemistry.
5. Provision and equipment of an additional Chemical Laboratory.
6. Provision and equipment of a Laboratory for Clinical
Diagnosis.
7. Provision and equipment of a Laboratory for Pharmacology,
Materia Medica, and Toxicology.
8. Provision and equipment of a Geological Laboratory.
9. The decorating and furnishing of the Public Hall.
10. The repairing, decorating, and refurnishing of the University
Chapel.
11. The refurnishing and lighting of the University Library.
12. The erection of Madison Hall, the home of the Young
Men's Christian Association.
13. A Residence for the President of the University.
14. The University Commons, which provides an attractive
Dining Hall with all modern conveniences and comforts and at
the same time furnishes board at such reasonable rates that
students in straitened circumstances need not thereby be deprived
of daily association with their more fortunate fellows.
This Dining Hall will in time become a sort of Memorial Hall;
for its stained glass windows will probably commemorate our
martial heroes and its walls be hung with portraits and mementoes
of our distinguished Alumni.
15. An additional Wing to the Hospital. The Hospital now
consists of an administration building and two wings. The addition
of the new wing has greatly increased the usefulness of the
Hospital, but the wards are already crowded and further enlargement
is urgently needed.
16. A Law Building. To meet the demands of the rapidly
growing Law Department, a commodious building is in process
of erection, to contain suitably arranged and equipped lecture,
library, and study halls.
17. A Modern Dispensary Building, as outlined hereafter in
connection with the Department of Medicine.
BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.
During the past four years the heating of the University
dormitories, laboratories, and lecture rooms has been extended so
as to include East and West Lawn, East and West Range,
Anatomy Hall, Medical Hall, Infirmary, Brooks Museum, two
Chemical laboratories, Physiological and Pharmacological laboratories;
in fact the entire group of University buildings except
Dawson Row, Monroe Hill, and the Chapel.
Several thousand feet of new sewers have been laid, many old
sewer lines which had become congested have been replaced by
larger ones, many new water lines put in place, and a new bath
room located on West Range.
The lighting system has been doubled, both on the grounds and
which greatly improves the appearance of the Campus.
The University has retained the services of Mr. Warren H.
Manning of Boston as landscape architect, who is constantly
in touch with the needs of the University. He has devised an
entrance with a system of drives and walks which will greatly
add to the beauty of the grounds. The waste spaces between
the Lawns and Ranges have been cleaned out, graded, and
planted in grass and shrubs. Part of the Lawn has been underdrained
and renovated. Cement walks have been extended to
the entrances of the new buildings at the foot of the Lawn. The
Dining Hall approach has been terraced and connected with the
main lawn by cement walks. Carr's Hill has been graded and
terraced, and is now for the first time seen covered with grass.
The old ditches and galls have disappeared, and hedges have
been planted on many boundaries in order to break up the random
and unsightly paths.
ORGANIZATION.
There are at present 110 officers of instruction and administration
in active service, of whom, beside the President, there are
35 professors, 13 associate and adjunct professors, 42 instructors
and assistants, and 19 other officers.
As now organized, the University comprises twenty-five distinct
and independent Schools. The courses of instruction given
in these are so coördinated as to form six Departments, two of
which are academic, and four professional (or technical); viz.:
The Academic Departments.
The College, with the degrees of:
Bachelor of Arts;
Cultural Bachelor of Science;
Vocational Bachelor of Science.
The Department of Graduate Studies, with the degrees
of:
Graduate in a School;
Master of Arts;
Master of Science;
Doctor of Philosophy.
The Professional Departments.
The Department of Law, with the degree of
Bachelor of Laws.
The Department of Medicine, with the degree of
Doctor of Medicine.
The Department of Engineering, with the degrees of:
Civil Engineer;
Mechanical Engineer;
Electrical Engineer;
Mining Engineer;
Chemical Engineer.
The Department of Agriculture, with the degree of
Bachelor of Science in Agriculture.
ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS.
The College.
The reduction of the University Fee for Virginia Academic
Students to $10, makes the University of Virginia one of the
great inexpensive institutions of America. It should be repeated
that the sum of $10 entitles the Virginia Academic Student not
only to tuition and matriculation but to all the advantages of
Gymnasium, Hospital, Library, etc. The reduction of living
expenses by means of the new Commons, it is believed, enables
the student to live here as cheaply as at any State University in
this country.
Since 1904-05, the numerical strength of the College Faculty
has been nearly doubled—the increase being about 90%, counting
instructors of all ranks; and the programme of Academic
electives has been greatly broadened at the same time.
In spite of the fact that within five years the formal entrance
requirements have been raised to fourteen units, the number of
Students enrolled in the College has increased; while the enrollment
for the present session breaks all previous records.
The usefulness of the College in the life of the Nation has
of Science. The Cultural B. S. is open to candidates for a
Collegiate degree who cannot offer a classical language; while
the Vocational B. S. is designed for those who desire to fit themselves
for some vocation for which special training in one of
the Natural or Mathematical Sciences is necessary.
For prospective students of Law, Medicine, or Engineering,
the time of procuring the B. A., or the Cultural B. S., may be
shortened, since the first year's work in a professional course
may be counted in lieu of a year of College work.
The notable increase in power and efficiency of the College
is the source of profound gratification to the friends of the institution.
Department of Graduate Studies.
Graduate courses are now offered in all the Academic Schools
of the University, and the number of students pursuing them
is rapidly increasing. Just credit is given for equivalent work
done at Colleges and Universities of recognized grade, and credit
is further given for graduate work in any University holding
membership in the Association of American Universities. The
University of Virginia is the only Southern institution holding
membership in this Association, and its work is recognized by
all members of this Association and by the German and English
Universities.
DEPARTMENT OF LAW.
The teaching staff of this Department has been recently enlarged
by the addition of a professor and two instructors, and
another professor will be added shortly. With the session of
1909-10, the new Three Year Course was inaugurated with a large
entering class. The new course is unusually comprehensive and
the large number of elective courses offered gives the student
a broad scope for his selection. All of the old subjects have
been also retained and expanded. Work on the Law Building
is now being rapidly pushed, so that it is hoped that the building
will be ready for occupancy by September.
Last session the total enrollment in the Law Department
previous records; while the list of graduates, the largest in the
history of the University, numbered seventy-four.
DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE.
The Medical Department has received perhaps the largest share
of expansion in the extension of its laboratories and teaching
force, and attention is invited to its growth in efficiency, and to
the following additions and improvements:
1. A renovated and re-equipped Anatomy Building.
2. An additional Laboratory for Histology and Embryology,
with an Adjunct Professor.
3. A Professor of Pathology and an Assistant.
4. A Laboratory for Physiology and Physiological Chemistry.
5. A Professor of Physiology and an Assistant.
6. A Laboratory for Clinical Diagnosis.
7. A Laboratory for Pharmacology, Materia Medica, and Toxicology,
placed under the direction of a Professor.
8. Various additions and improvements in the facilities and
equipment of the other laboratories; so that the Department is
doing very efficient work in all the fundamental sciences.
9. The addition of a new wing to the Hospital, which enabled
that institution to treat over 1200 cases last year.
10. Through the generosity of Mr. Charles Steele, of New
York, there will be added during the coming year another building
to the Hospital plant which will contain a modern teaching
Dispensary and a new Clinical Laboratory.
11. The General Assembly of 1910 made an appropriation of
$10,000 for the annual maintenance of the Hospital, the appropriation
to take effect at the beginning of the fiscal year 1911-12.
DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING.
The conspicuous items in the development of this Department
have been
1. The addition to the Faculty of Professors of Civil Engineering,
Mechanical Engineering, Inorganic Chemistry, and Economic
Geology.
2. The reorganization of the Courses of Instruction, so that
each student is now for three years in constant touch with his
special technical studies.
3. The gradual improvement of the facilities for practical
work in the Drafting Rooms, the Shops, the Laboratories, and
the Field.
4. The provision of an adequate corps of Instructors and Assistants
to give to the student individual guidance in his practical
exercises.
5. The formulation of the Entrance Requirements on such
conditions as will ensure adequate preliminary training on the
part of entering students.
6. Large additions of equipment, instruments and machinery
for Electrical and Field work.
ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS.
At the beginning of the session of 1905-1906, entrance requirements
equivalent to those adopted by the Southern Association of
Colleges and Preparatory Schools went into effect for all Departments
of the University. This was an entirely new departure in
the policy of this University; and the change was made with misgivings
on the part of some. While the increase in attendance in
the College was somewhat affected by the new regulations, the
total effect of the change has been recognized as being so highly
beneficial that two sessions ago the General Faculty voted to introduce
a system of entrance examinations making the requirements
for entering this University as exacting, practically, as
those of any university in America. The new entrance requirements
went into effect in June, 1909.
LIBRARY.
The Library has been handsomely furnished with reference
shelves, working tables, and electric reading lamps, and is much
frequented by students. The collection of Virginia and other
Southern literature is becoming particularly valuable, while the
general appropriation for the purchase of books has been largely
increased. The use of the library has grown with its increasing
facilities and improved service. The circulation of library books
the circulation of the same period ending January 1, 1909. The
Library is a great force in the life of the University, and it is
designed to add constantly to its power.
PHYSICAL CULTURE.
To the Director of the Gymnasium and his Assistant has been
added an Associate Director of Athletics. This plan of having
a regularly employed officer in charge of the training of athletes
and in control of all athletic sports has proved so valuable that it
has been put on a permanent basis. The regulations relating to
athletics have also been thoroughly revised, and the success of
athletics under these strict regulations has given much encouragement
to all lovers of pure sport.
RELIGIOUS WORK.
The University authorities encourage in every way the work of
this department. An elective course in Biblical history and literature
with academic credits is offered under an exceptionally capable
professor. This provides for a scholarly and non-sectarian
study of the scriptures. Through the Faculty committee on religious
exercises some of the leading divines in America are secured
for the Sunday services in the chapel. The Young Men's
Christian Association with its handsomely equipped building is
the center of religious life at the University. The majority of the
students are members of this organization, and hundreds of them
are enrolled in its Bible and mission study classes. In addition
to the regular weekly prayer meetings occasional evangelistic
meetings are conducted. Visiting the hospital and mountain sections,
teaching and preaching in the neighboring Sunday-schools
and chapels, and providing the partial support of an alumnus in
China are some of the many good works of the Association.
ATTENDANCE.
The number of students thus far registered in the University
during the session of 1909-1910 is 801. This is the largest number
ever enrolled in the history of the institution.
SUMMER SCHOOL.
Since the reorganization of the Summer School two years ago,
when the majority of the classes were arranged with special reference
to the needs of high-school and college teachers, and college
and university students, the growth in attendance has been
remarkable, the number for the summer of 1909 reaching 1144,
of whom 648 were in the School of Methods and 596 in the University
courses. 212 of these were holders of college degrees.
The faculty consisted of nearly fifty men and women representing
many of the best colleges, universities, professional schools,
and technical schools in the United States. Including the Summer
School, the University of Virginia now gives instruction to
nearly two thousand students each year.
THE COLONNADE CLUB.
One of the most significant features of our University life has
been the establishment of the Colonnade Club, considered in the
light of its remarkable progress during the past year. From a
purely local membership, chiefly confined to the Faculty and
teaching staff, the scope of the Club has latterly broadened into
an earnest effort to make the Club a practical means of bringing
the general body of Alumni into closer personal and social relations
with their University and with each other, to the manifest
advantage of all concerned.
Basing its activities on the belief that alumni-visiting on a
broad scale is essential to every general movement for the University's
upbuilding, the Colonnade Club, numbering now nearly
800 members—all influential, and many occupying positions of
high distinction in the professional, official, and business life of
forty States and several distant countries—aims to develop the
habit and increase the pleasure of alumni-visiting. Having already
accomplished much in both these directions, it has also
made a most promising beginning in the work of providing the
facilities needed for such visiting.
University of Virginia
Ten Years Growth
1900-1910
| Students | 1900 | 656 |
| 1910 | 801 | |
| Endowment | 1900 | $ 676850 |
| 1910 | $ 1850062 | |
| Income | 1900 | $ 146339 |
| 1910-11 | $ 248503 | |
| Faculty & Officers |
1900 | 62 |
| 1910 | 110 | |
| Library | 1900 | 46800 |
| 1910 | 72490 | |
| Law Library | 1900 | 4775 |
| 1910 | 9119 | |
| Buildings | 1900 | 71 |
| 1910 | 78 | |
| Laboratories | 1900 | 10 |
| 1910 | 17 | |
| Number of Schools |
1900 | 22 |
| 1910 | 26 | |
| Courses of Study |
1900 | 111 |
| 1910 | 200 | |
| Entrance Requirements |
1900 | No formulated requirements. |
| 1910 | 14 Units | |
| Number of Graduates |
1900 | 99 |
| 1909 | 137 | |
| 1910 | 211 | |
| Summer School |
1907 | 508 |
| 1908 | 908 | |
| 1909 | 1144 |
| University of Virginia record April, 1910 | |