UNIVERSITY LECTURE FOUNDATIONS.
THE BARBOUR-PAGE LECTURE FOUNDATION.
The University of Virginia is indebted for the establishment of
the Barbour-Page Foundation to the wisdom and generosity of Mrs.
Thomas Nelson Page, of Washington, D. C. In 1907, Mrs. Page
donated to the University the sum of $22,000, the annual income of
which is to be used in securing each session the delivery before the
university of a series of not less than three lectures by some distinguished
man of letters or of science. The conditions of the foundation
require that the Barbour-Page lectures for each session be
not less than three in number; that they be delivered by a specialist
in some branch of literature, science, or art; that the lecturer present
in the series of lectures some fresh aspect or aspects of the
department of thought in which he is a specialist; and that the entire
series delivered each session, taken together, shall possess such
unity that they may be published by the Foundation in book form.
Lecturer on the Barbour-Page Foundation.
1912-13.
Rt. Hon. James Bryce, D. C. L., LL. D., British Ambassador to
the United States.
Subject: Ancient Democracy.
1913-14.
President Arthur Twining Hadley, LL. D., of Yale University.
Subject: Some Problems of American Democracy.
THE JAPANESE EXCHANGE PROFESSORSHIP.
In 1911 there was founded an exchange professorship between
the United States and Japan for the promotion of a better mutual
understanding between the two nations. Sharing in this foundation
are the following six American universities: Yale University, Columbia
University, the Johns Hopkins University, the University of
Virginia, the University of Illinois, the University of Minnesota.
By the terms of the foundation, each of the above six universities
will be visited every other session by a professor from some
one of the imperial educational institutions of Japan, who will give
in each university a short course of lectures, treating some aspect
or aspects of Japanese life. In the alternate years the six American
universities forming the foundation will send a similar representative
to Japan. The first course of lectures on this foundation was
given during the spring term of 1911-1912.
Japanese Exchange Professor, 1913-1914.
Dean Shosuke Sato, Ph. D., Dean of the Agricultural College of
Tohoku University, Japan.
Subject: The Fifty Years Progress of Japan.
UNIVERSITY EXTENSION LECTURES.
During the session the services of the professors in the university
are available to communities in the state for university extension
lectures. A list of the lectures offered and other information
may be obtained on application to Professor William Harry Heck
of the School of Education.
