University of Virginia Library

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA RECORD

Vol. 1

Charlottesville, Va., January, 1908

No. 5.

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Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice at Charlottesville (University
Station), Va.

A LIST OF GIFTS TO THE UNIVERSITY—CLASS
A.

Those Constituting no Part of the Fixed
and Permanent Endowment
of the Institution.

(Note.—Other lists will appear in order
in subsequent issues of the Record.
They are published for their intrinsic
interest and historical value, and for the
information of the alumni and friends of
the Institution. The editors will be grateful
for the correction of any errors; or,
when the series is complete, for the
pointing out of any omissions that may
unintentionally be made.)

1818.

General Contributions to Central College,
$40,000.00.

1826.

Mr. Jefferson's Library, by his will;
rendered abortive by the condition of his
estate.

Books for Library, by Bernard Carter of
Maryland, $100.00.

1831.

Books and Prints, by Christian Bohn,
Richmond, Va., $500.00.

1835.

Tract of Land, by will of Martin Dawson,
$14,000.00.

1836.

Part of Library of James Madison, by
his will, $1,000.00.

1855-1856.

General Contribution to erect a parsonage,
$2,500.00.

Ditto, to erect a Temperance Hall,
$4,000.00.

1856.

General Contribution to procure a copy
by Balze of Raphael's "School of Athens,"
$4,000.00.

1869-1881.

Gifts to Library and Museum of Industrial
Chemistry, $10,000.00.

1870-1876.

Library for the Chemical Department,
by W. W. Corcoran of Washington, D. C.,
$6,000.00.

1875-1876.

Gift for the erection and equipment of
a Museum of Natural History and Geology,
by Lewis Brooks, Rochester, N. Y.,
$68,000.00.

1876-1877.

Gifts for Lewis Brooks Museum, by
Lewis Brooks' brothers, Rev. Samuel
Brooks and Mr. Garcy Brooks, of New
York, $4,000.00.

Gift for Brooks Museum, by Prof. Wm.
B. Rogers, Boston, Mass., $1,000.00.

Gifts for Brooks Museum, by sundry
Alumni, $1,000.00.

1881-1882.

Gift of a refracting telescope (value
$50,000.00) and of the cost of observatory
building ($18,000.00), by Leander J. McCormick,
a native of Rockbridge County,
Va., and a resident of Chicago, Ill.,
$68,000.00.

1884-1888.

General Contributions to erect a Chapel,
$30,000.00.

1884.

Library and estate, in remainder after
certain life interests, of Arthur W. Austin,
Dedham, Mass., by his will, $430,000.00.

1891-1895.

Bequest of Daniel B. Fayerweather of
New York, $100,000.00.

1897-1898.

Additional from Fayerweather Bequest,
$100,000.00.

1893-1895.

Bequest of A. W. Shields of Richmond,
Va., $6,000.00.

1896-1898.

Gift to build and equip a Physical Laboratory,
by Charles Broadway Rouss of
New York, $30,000.00.

Contributions to the "Restoration
Fund," by Alumni and Friends, $50,000.00.

1898.

Contributions to "Restoration Fund,"
by J. R. Coolidge, Boston, Mass., $5,000.00.

Ditto, by A. Hemenway, Boston, Mass.,
$1,000.00.

Ditto, by Children of the Public
Schools, $1,500.00.

Gift for Dormitory, by J. W. and Belinda
Randall of Massachusetts, $20,000.00.

1899.

Donations to purchase the Holmes Library,
by the Alumni, $1,550.00.

Donation to complete the $2,000.00
needed to purchase the Holmes Library,
by Wm. A. Clark, Jr., $450.00.

Donation for the purchase of books for
the Library, by Mrs. Paul, $500.00.

1900-1901.

Gift for the employment of a special
assistant in the Department of English
Literature, by Dr. B. W. Green, $200.00.

1902-1903.

Cash donation for the purpose of carving
the marble capitals on the columns of
the Rounda porticos, by John Skelton
Williams, in memory of his father, John
L. Williams, an alumnus of the University,
$8,000.00.

1904-1905.

Gift for the equipment of the "John
Waverly Scott Memorial Laboratory" in
the Engineering Department, by Mrs.
Sarah F. Scott, through F. W. Scott,
Richmond, Va., $5,400.00.

Donations for the equipment of the
Physical Laboratory, by Joseph Bryan,
Richmond, Va.; Rev. R. H. McKim,
Washington, D. C.; M. K. Karr; Prof.
F. H. Smith, S. C. Chancellor, Dr. E. A.
Alderman, Prof. Ormond Stone, G. W.
Olivier, University of Virginia; and R.
L. Preston, $455.00.

1905.

Cash donation to the current expenses
of the University, by W. H. and Alexander
Fitz-Hugh of Vicksburg, Miss.,
$2,500.00.

Five 1000-dollar 5 per cent. bonds of
the U. S. Steel Co., without conditions,
for the general uses of the University, by
Charles R. Crane of New York, through
Pres. Alderman, $5,000.00.

The several amounts as given above
foot up a total of $1,021,655.00.

Dawson's Row at the University takes
its name from Martin Dawson; and the
dormitories occupy part of the land that
he donated. The Temperance Hall,
erected by contributions secured in 18556,
is the building in which the University
postoffice is located. The Austin
bequest has not yet become available to
the uses of the University.

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
a 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.

Comings and Goings of the Faculty.

President Alderman has recently taken
part in educational conferences at Roanoke,
Va., and Atlanta, Ga.

Dr. Albert Lefevre, professor of moral
philosophy, addressed the Woman's Club
of Lynchburg, Va., on December 13.

Dr. Chas. W. Kent, professor of English
literature, addressed the Albemarle
Teachers' Association at Charlottesville
on December 7.

Professor W. H. Heck, head of the
Curry School of Education in the University,
made an address recently at Farmville,
Va.

Dr. Bruce R. Payne, head of the department
of secondary education in the
University, visited the Manchester High
School on December 19, and delivered
an address which was highly complimented
by the Richmond press.

Writing from Lausanne, Switzerland,
December 3, Professor Wm. M. Lile,
Dean of the University Law School, expressed
himself as very much enjoying
the several months already spent at that
place, where he finds much pleasant
company from both America and England.
In the latter part of this month
(January) Prof. and Mrs. Lile will go to
Italy for a month or two; their children
remaining in school at Lausanne in the
meantime.

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. Attention is called to the
revised regulations concerning athletics
(Catalogue, p. 215). The success of athletics
under these strict regulations has
given much encouragement to all lovers
of pure sport.

Linden Kent Prize.

A prize of the value of twenty-five dollars
is offered by the Linden Kent Memorial
School of English Literature in
the University for the best essay, biographical
and critical, on a hitherto unexploited
Virginia author. This is a step
in keeping with the aggressive and progressive
attitude of the department,
through which so much has already been
done to stimulate and direct pioneer work
in literature and history, especially in
Southern fields.

Dr. McIlhany's Change of Work.

Rev. Dr. Hugh M. McIlhany, who has
for a number of years been the faithful
and efficient general secretary of the Y.
M. C. A. at the University and the superintendent
of the religious work in college,
has resigned his position to assume the
task of building a church near the University
for the special accommodation of
Episcopal students. A similar plan may
be adopted sooner or later by the leaders
of other denominations. As yet no permanent
successor to Dr. McIlhany has
been announced; but Mr. Herbert M.
Peck, president of the Association, has
been secured to assume the duties of general
secretary pro tempore.

The various portraits, busts, relics, publications,
and valuable collections of appropriate
character recently on exhibit
at the Jamestown exposition, have been
returned to the University, and will soon
be distributed to their respective places
in the library and other buildings.

The annual report of the University
Young Men's Christian Association for
1906-7, recently published, shows the
following summaries as to membership:
Active members, students, 118; active
members, faculty, 13; total, active members,
131; associate members, students,
292; associate members, faculty, 7; total,
associate members, 299; grand total, 430.

The Board of Visitors were in session
at the University on Monday, the 6th
instant.

The University Ph. D. Men.

From statistics recently collected it has
been ascertained that the 39 men who
have taken the Ph. D. degree at the University
of Virginia, from 1885 to 1907, represent
ten States as to nativity, and sixteen
as to present location. Twenty-five
of the thirty-nine were born in Virginia,
and seventeen are now holding positions
in the same State. For men were born
in northern States,—Ohio, Minnesota,
Utah, and Michigan, respectively; and
five are now working in northern States,
namely: New Jersey, California, Illinois,
Massachusetts, and New York. Dr. Lyman
Skeen was practicing in Utah at the
time of his death. As to occupation, 29
are teachers; 3 are college presidents; 2
are astronomers; 2 are graduate students,
one at Johus Hopkins, the other at Harvard;
one was a practicing physician—at
least two others are doctors of medicine;
one is a chemist; one is a pastor—at least
three others bear clerical orders. The
youngest of the thirty-nine at the time of
graduation was 21; the oldest was 41; the
average age of all was about 29. Six men
chose Latin for their major subject; mathematics,
English language, and English
literature were each chosen as major by
five men; while astronomy and chemistry
were each the major subject for four.
Physics, Greek and history were each
chosen as major by two men; while the
others divided singly upon German, geology,
biology, and French. The largest
number of men receiving the degree in
a single year was eight, in 1901. In 1902,
six were graduated; in 1907, five.

The Washington and Jefferson literary
societies, both almost as "ancient and
honorable" as the University itself, are
showing a worthy and commendable activity
this year—a fact that will be most
gratifying to the numerous alumni who
have received an invaluable part of their
college training in these societies.

At the annual football banquet, December
7, a football of gold was presented on
behalf of the team to Hammond Johnson,
whose excellent coaching was thus acknowledged
in appropriate form.

The February issue of the Record
will contain the regular annual catalogue
of the University for the session of 1907'8,
with announcements for 1908-9.
This special number will contain the
new entrance requirements and other
items of particular interest, as well as
the great mass of information usually
given. It will be sent to all subscribers
to the Record, and to others who request
it. Alumni and others are invited
to forward the names and addresses of
prospective students to whom the catalogue
should be sent.

The president's house on Carr's Hill is
now being pushed forward by the contractors,
and will doubtless be completed
and ready for occupancy in the near future.

The special issue of the Charlottesville
Daily Progress of December 21,
Christmas edition, contains a fine panoramic
picture of the University buildings
and grounds, together with extensiv
and interesting descriptive matter pertaining
to the institution.

On December 11 the new wing of the
University Hospital was formally ope-
ed by a public reception, at which Mrs.
Alderman and Miss Besley, superintending
nurse, presided. The building had
already been in use for some time previously.

On December 4 David Bispham, the
famous baritone of New York and London,
gave a song recital in Cabell Hall.
An opportunity was thus afforded to hear
an eminent artist of which many persons
among the students, teachers, and townspeople
availed themselves.