 | The University record September, 1907 |  |
THE UNIVERSITY RECORD
Vol. 1
Charlottesville, Va., September, 1907
No. 1
The University Record is published monthly, except July and August, by the
University of Virginia, for the purpose of disseminating information regarding the
University, its organization, activities, and growth. The Record is intended
primarily for the alumni and friends of the Institution and for the press of the State,
but will be sent to any address upon receipt of the subscription price, 25 cents a year.
Second-class postage rates have been applied for.
New Grouping of Subjects for
the B. A. Degree, as Adopted
June 10, 1907.
Resolved, that the B. A. Degree be
conferred upon any student who, after
satisfying the entrance requirements,
completes (unless admitted to advanced
standing) the work in (1) English Literature
1 and Mathematics 1; (2) two
subjects, one of which must be Latin,
from the first of the groups given below,
one from the second, two from the third,
one from the fourth, and one from the
fifth; (3) a varying number of electives-at-large,
viz., three, in case only one
ancient language is included; and two,
in case both ancient languages are included.
These electives-at-large may be
either B. A. courses, or M. A. courses in
subjects of which the precedent B. A.
courses have been completed. In every
case, however, at least two of the electives-at-large
must be chosen from a
single group—to be known as the candidate's
major group—while the others
may be chosen from the above-mentioned
groups or from the following miscellaneous
list of courses, viz., Biology 2, Biology
3, Analytical Chemistry 1, Education
2, Journalism, and Biblical History
and Literature.
It is provided, however, that any candidate
may be excused from the electives-at-large,
if in lieu thereof he passes the
First-year Law course, the First-year
Medical course, or any three technical
courses in Engineering.
It is also enacted that every First-year
College student who contemplates the
possibility of taking the B. A. Degree
shall be required (unless admitted to advanced
standing) to take English Literature
1, Mathematics 1, Latin 1, or some
other foreign language, and one course
in the third group (or Greek, in case the
student wishes to take both ancient languages).
Students fulfilling this requirement
shall be registered in the catalogue
under the general head of "The College,"
and under the sub-head "Candidates for
the B. A. Degree"; while all college students
(except special students) declining
to take this prescribed course shall be registered
under the sub-head "Not Candidates
for the B. A. Degree." Students admitted
to the University as "Special
Students" (see catalogue, p. 83) shall be
separately registered as such in the catalogue.
The Groups mentioned above are as
follows:
I. Languages.
Latin 1 and 2.
Greek 2 and 3.
French 2.
German 2.
Spanish 2.
English 1 (a course including Anglo-Saxon
and middle English
as well as modern English).
II. Mathematical Sciences.
Mathematics 2.
Mechanics 1.
Astronomy 1.
Electricity and Magnetism.
III. Natural Sciences.
Chemistry 1.
Physics 1.
Biology 1.
Geology 1.
IV. History, Literature and Economics.
History 1.
Economics 1.
English Literature 2 or 3.
2
V. Philosophical Sciences.
Logic.
Psychology.
Ethics.
Education 1.
Calendar for September, 1907.
Tuesday, the 10th, to Friday, the 13th,
Entrance Examinations.
Thursday, the 12th, Beginning of
Eighty-third Session.
Thursday, the 12th, to Saturday the
14th, Registration Days.
Monday, the 16th, Beginning of Lecture
Courses.
Saturday, the 28th, University Convocation.
Rules Regulating Class Standing
in Professor Minor's
Law Courses.
1. There will be held during a portion
of each lecture a written quiz on the topics
discussed in the text assigned for the
day and the lecture thereon; and about
the end of each month a quiz in writing
may be held embracing the work already
covered in the course. If the written
answers are upon more than one sheet,
the sheets must be securely fastened together.
2. The answers will be graded, and the
average of the grades in all the lectures
of the course will constitute the student's
class standing.
3. For graduation in the course the
class standing will be reckoned at twenty-five
per cent. and the examination at
seventy-five per cent. of a possible hundred;
that is, in estimating the session's
grade of the student, twenty-five per cent.
of his average class grade will be added
to seventy-five per cent. of his examination
grade, and the aggregate will constitute
his grade for the whole course.
4. In estimating the class grade, a failure,
without legal excuse, to hand in a
paper upon the written quiz will count as
a total failure for that recitation.
Absence with legal excuse, or a legally
excused failure to hand in a paper, will
count as if a paper worth seventy per
cent. had been handed in. But no excuse
will be received, unless presented
to, and accepted by, the professor at the
first lecture of the course following such
absences or failures.
5. Attention is called to the provision
of the catalogue of the University that
"In case of delayed entrance, the student
is regarded as having been absent
from all lectures or other exercises that
have been given, in the courses in which
he enters, since the beginning of the session."
Such absences will be "excused"
if the student is permitted by the president
of the University to register without
penalty.
6. A student having optional attendance
upon a course, and standing the
regular examination with the class or one
standing a special examination thereon,
will have his class grade during the last
year of his attendance upon the course
counted in with his grade upon such examination.
7. To all papers handed in for class
grade the pledge must be appended and
properly signed. Otherwise the paper
will be treated as a total failure.
8. The oral quiz during the lecture is
not hereby abrogated.
With variations in certain particulars,
the above plan for combining the class
grade with the examination grade is substantially
the same that has been employed
for several years with much success
by Prof. R. H. Dabney, in his history
classes.
Messrs. C. M. Chichester and A. S.
Robertson, graduates of last year, have
been appointed assistants in the law department,
in order to meet the expanding
methods of the work. Mr. A. M. Dobie,
a member of the class of 1904, and since
a practicing lawyer of St. Louis, Mo.,
will instruct Prof. Lile's classes during
the latter's year of absence in Europe.
New Buildings.
The college dining hall (refectory)
is being pushed rapidly toward completion.
It occupies a position just a few
rods north of the Mechanical Laboratory,
at the southwest end of West Range. Its
location is most convenient and accessible,
and it will add immeasurably to the
comforts and economies of the student
body at large, but especially of those on
the Lawn and Ranges, in the Randall
Building and on Dawson's Row.
The second wing of the Hospital is to
be completed and equipped by the opening
of the present session. The central
building, flanked by the two wings, presents
an imposing and elegant appearance
architecturally; and with the increased
room and equipment the usefulness
of the institution is materially enlarged.
It is now possible to furnish
constantly no less than one hundred
beds.
The faculty committee on the University
exhibit at Jamestown has recently issued
an attractive fifteen-page catalogue of
the various treasures and articles placed at
the exposition for the inspection of the
public. In the catalogue the collection
is listed under 62 heads; and it evidently
represents in an appropriate manner almost
every phase of the University's life
and character.
In the several schools, held at the University
and various other places in Virginia
during the past summer, under the
direction of the State authorities, no less
than twenty-five teachers and alumni of
the University took part as instructors.
The reading room in Madison Hall, for
the use of professors and students, is elegantly
furnished and well supplied with
books, magazines, and newspapers. All
that a fellow needs to do, in order to enjoy
himself there, is simply to act the
entleman and keep quiet.
New Chemical, Physiological,
and Pathological Laboratories.
No less than four excellent laboratories
have been provided for the opening session
in buildings long familiar in other
capacities. The houses at the northeast
end of West Range, formerly employed
by Mr. Henry Massie, and latterly by
Mrs. Isabel Perkinson, as dining halls,
have been remodeled inside and fitted
up with first-class apparatus. These
houses, in this new capacity, are to be
under the direction of Dr. Theodore
Hough. The building towards the Rotunda
has been transformed into a laboratory
for physiological chemistry; the part
flush with West Range into a laboratory
for experimental physiology. In the
basement of these buildings rooms have
been arranged for the experimental practice
of medicine upon animals. In one
apartment of the basement floor is the
furnace for heating the rooms on West
Range.
At the southwest end of the Range
equally commodious and convenient
quarters have been provided for the classes
of Prof. R. M. Bird, in the house formerly
occupied by Dr. A. H. Buckmaster,
latterly, by Prof. Bruce R. Payne,
and in the wing adjoining. The Buckmaster
house, practically without
change, is to be used for store-rooms,
offices, and small laboratories. The adjoining
wing, in which years ago Miss
Ross conducted a boarding house, has
been renovated and remodeled on the
interior and converted into two elegant
rooms, one above, one below. The basement
floor has been refitted as a laboratory
for undergraduate general chemistry;
the upper room has been turned into
an excellently equipped laboratory for
similar purposes, but may also be used
as a lecture room. This room, comprising
the two small and uninviting lecture
halls of recent memory, is now one of
the most convenient and attractive rooms
at the University. Dr. Bird's rooms will
be known as West Range Chemical Laboratory,
to distinguish them from those
of Dr. Mallet and Prof. Dunnington, in
the Chemical Laboratory a few rods to
the northwest.
University Publications.
The Alumni Bulletin is published
quarterly by a committee of the faculty.
As the name indicates, this magazine is
intended to contain articles and items of
special interest to the alumni of the institution;
yet it is at the same time a periodical
of more or less general interest.
It also serves as a sort of convenient and
permanent record, or chronicle, of the
important events and achievements in
the life of the University, as well as of
many in the careers of the alumni. Its
historical value will be enhanced with
the lapse of time. Each issue contains
about 100 pages; the yearly subscription
price is $1.00 a year.
The University Record.—This is a
new periodical, issued monthly except
July and August, at the nominal price of
25 cents a year. The pages are of the
same size as those of the Alumni Bulletin,
but the number of pages may vary
considerably from time to time, as the
needs of the occasion require. This publication
is intended to serve the convenience
of the press, the alumni, the students,
and the public generally, by presenting
in concise form timely announcements
and official information regarding
the condition, progress, and plans of the
University. Students will find the Record
of particular value for quick reference
in respect to many phases of their
courses and classes.
The University of Virginia Magazine
is published monthly, eight times during
the school year, and is intended not
only for the instruction and entertainment
of the student body and the reading
public, but also for the encouragement
and development of literary taste
and skill among the young men of the
University, by placing in their hands
the opportunity for practical journalism,
governed constantly by the highest standards
and ideals. Each number of the
magazine contains from 80 to 100 pages,
filled with stories, essays, poems, reviews,
and easy chair chats. A prize of
the value of $25 is given each year for the
best story, and two others of equal value
for the best essay and poem, respectively.
Under the editorship of Mr. L. R.
Whipple, and the supervision of the
Kent school of literature, the magazine
will doubtless maintain, if not advance,
the high rank it has occupied for years
among the best college publications of
America. The subscription price is
$1.50.
College Topics, the University newspaper,
is a large sheet of eight pages,
published weekly or semi-weekly, during
the greater part of the session, at the subscription
price of $2 a year. The athletic
and social life of the University are presented
in detail through the Topics columns.
Corks and Curls.—A splendid annual,
representing practically all of the phases
of college life, is published under this
title by a board of editors chosen from the
Greek Letter fraternities. The number
of this year (1907) is volume XX; and,
like those of the several preceding sessions,
is a handsomely printed, illustrated,
and bound quarto of some 300 pages,
selling at $3.
The Y. M. C. A. Handbook.—At the
opening of each session there is distributed
to the students from Madison Hall,
the Y. M. C. A. building, a vest-pocket
handbook, in which is given a mass of
information that every man in college
needs to have at his finger's end. In
form for ready consultation, the handbook
presents the calendar for the year,
schedules of lectures and examinations,
gives the accepted yells and most familiar
songs, and commends itself in numberless
ways as a vade mecum to every
student.
University Directory.—About October
25 of each session the managers of
the Young Men's Christian Association
complete and issue gratis from Madison
Hall a full directory, bound in size convenient
for the pocket, giving the names
and college addresses of all students.
The Association Record.—This is a
pamphlet issued at the close of each session,
giving a complete record of the
year's religious work of the University.
Copies may be obtained from Dr. H. M.
McIlhany, the general secretary of the
Y. M. C. A.
Madison Hall Notes is a four-page
weekly, published by the Association,
and distributed free to professors and
students. It will be sent to other persons
by mail for a small subscription price.
It contains reports and announcements
of all religious activities at the University,
together with many other things of
interest, and gives each week on the last
page the official bulletin of the University
for the succeeding week.
Every student, particularly every new
student, should attend the informal
opening reception given to the students
in Madison Hall, one evening within the
first week of the session. Notice of the
date of the meeting will be posted.
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