University of Virginia Library

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA RECORD

Vol. 1

Charlottesville, Va., May, 1908

No. 9.

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Station), Va.

A LIST OF GIFTS TO THE UNIVERSITY—Continued.

(It is very probable that the following
lists are incomplete; therefore, information
that will enable the compilers to
make additions and corrections is solicited.)

CLASS D.

Libraries and Books.

About 2000 volumes, by will of President
Madison.

Bohn Library of German books and
pamphlets, from Christian Bohn of Germany
and of Richmond. (1840.)

Low Library, from Mr. A. A. Low of
New York. (1868.)

Library of Ballard Bruce, from his
daughter.

Gordon collection of books, from
Thomas A. Gordon of New York.
(1870.)

By Hon. Arthur W. Austin of Dedham,
Mass., his library of about 5000 volumes.
(1885.)

Hertz Library, about 12,000 books and
pamphlets, from certain alumni. (About
1898.)

Library of Professor Geo. F. Holmes,
value $2000, from W. A. Clark, Jr., and
other alumni. (1899.)

Library of Professor Thomas R. Price,
about 5000 volumes, from Mrs. Price and
Miss Price, of Richmond. (1904.)

About 5000 volumes, from Bernard
Shipp, Esq.

Law Library of Judge Alex. Rives, 251
volumes, from his granddaughter, Mrs.
W. H. Seamon of Charlottesville.

Tunstall Library of Poetry, value $1000,
from Mr. R. B. Tunstall of Norfolk.
(1907.)

About 350 volumes, from Mr. Lucian
Carr. (1907.)

About 200 volumes, from Rev. Dr.
Chas. A. Briggs, (1907.)

About 1800 volumes, from Mrs. Jed.
Hotchkiss of Staunton. (1907.)

By Chevalier Reynolds, through Dr.
C. W. Kent, gift of books; value about
$100.

By Rev. Hazlitt McKim of New York
City, gift of valuable books and periodicals
on biological subjects.

By Mr. A. Roelker of New York City,
gift of twenty-one volumes.

By Dr. W. C. Rives of Washington
City, gift of twenty-one volumes.

By Dr. W. S. Bryant of New York,
gift of seventeen volumes on diseases of
the ear.

By Miss E. P. Gould of Boston, gift
of ten volumes and autograph letter of
Phillips Brooks.

By Johnson Publishing Company of
Richmond, gift af ten volumes.

By Dr. Chas. W. Kent, gift of periodicals
and pamphlets.

By Mrs. Cornelia H. B. Rogers of
Bridgeport, Conn., a set of the Spanish
Academy Dictionary and fifty other volumes
of Romanic literature. (1907.)

By Prof. F. P. Dunnington, about
twenty volumes, reports of the British
Association for the Advancement of
Science. (1908.)

In connection with the foregoing list
of gifts the following item, recently discovered
in the University Collegian, vol.
I, No. 2—November, 1838,—will be of
interest:

"Laudable Donation."

"We take pleasure in recording the
fact that a lot of valuable books has just
been presented to the University Library,
by Mr. Peter K. Skinker, who was but
lately a student at this institution. This
gentleman has now removed to the
West, and, in leaving the University,
wanted no such memorial as the present
to fix his name indelibly amongst us.

"The number of books presented is
nearly 50, of which many are extensive
folios, extremely valuable for their rarity.
Judging from this and other similar examples
recently set, we are confident of
a rapid increase of the Library for some
time to come."

The Collegian was a literary journal
published by the students of the University,
and was evidently the precursor of
the present magazine.

CLASS E.

Portraits.

Launcelot Minor Blackford, from
alumni of the Episcopal High School of
Virginia. (1907.)

Professor Albert T. Bledsoe.

Professor Charles Bonnycastle, Chairman
of the Faculty, 1833-1835.

Rev. Phillips Brooks, from Miss Elizabeth
Porter Gould of Boston.

Alfred Byrd, Alumnus of the University,
painted by Carroll Beckwith.

Professor James L. Cabell, painted by
J. A. Elder.

Joseph C. Cabell, from the Faculty,
"to give expression to their high regard"
and "their grateful remembrance
of his uniform courtesy and kindness
toward them." (1856.)

W. W. Corcoran, Esq., by Elder.

Professor Edward H. Courtenay, painted
by J. B. Martin.

Professor Noah K. Davis, by Lelia
Smith, from Rev. Dr. George B. Taylor
of Rome.

Col. R. T. W. Duke, from his son,
Judge R. T. W. Duke.

Professor Robley Dunglison, made in
England, from Prof. D.'s son.

Jennings Wise Garnett, Alumnus of
the University.

Muscoe R. H. Garnett, Alumnus of
the University.

Professor Basil L. Gildersleeve, by
Lelia Smith, from Prof. Thomas R.
Price.

Francis W. Gilmer, from his niece,
Mrs. Lucy A. Minor.

Professor James H. Gilmore, painted
by William G. Browne.

Henry W. Grady, Alumnus, from Prof.
W. H. Perkinson.

Professor Gessner Harrison, painted
by Lelia Smith.

William Wirt Henry.

Professor George F. Holmes, from his
daughter, Miss Letitia Holmes.

Thomas Jefferson, replica by Andrews
of the Corcoran Art Gallery of full-length
painting in the White House, from Dr.
Wm. D. Cabell of Washington City.

Thomas Jefferson, replica of painting
by Thomas Sully, made from life when
Jefferson was 78; Jefferson Society Hall.

Thomas Jefferson, bust portrait.

Chapman Johnson, Rector of the University,
1836-1845, from the Johnson
family.

Linden Kent, by Duncan Smith, from
his brothers, Henry T. Kent and Chas.
W. Kent. (1903.)

Robert E. Lee, by J. A. Elder, from
the students. (1872.)

Professor John Tayloe Lomax.

Dr. John W. Mallet, by Lelia Smith,
from his pupils.

John Marshall, from Mr. John L. Williams
of Richmond. (1902.)

Matthew Fontaine Maury, from Mr.
John L. Williams of Richmond. (1903.)

W. Gordon McCabe, from alumni of
McCabe's University School of Richmond.
(1903.)

Leander J. McCormick, Esq., from
Mrs. McCormick,

Professor William H. McGuffey, painted
(1867) by Foster, from Mrs. S. W.
Sterling of Charlottesville; framed by
Professor F. P. Dunnington. (1908.)

John Peyton McGuire, from alumni of
McGuire's School of Richmond. (1905.)

Alamby M. Miller, Alumnus of the
University.

Professor John B. Minor, by Lelia
Smith, from the students.

Col. John S. Mosby, Alumnus of the
University; in Washington Society Hall.

Thomas H. Norwood, Alumnus of the
University.

Robert M. Patterson, former chairman
of the Faculty, from Messrs. T. L. and
L. G. Patterson of Cumberland, Md.

Professor William E. Peters, by Lelia
Smith, from members of his class.

Edgar Allan Poe, crayon portrait, from
Albert Bigelow Paine of Kansas.

Edgar Allan Poe, bought of a Boston
dealer, who had procured it in Vienna.

Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Rector of
the University, 1857-1864.

Dr. Walter Reed, Alumnus of the University.

Professor William B. Rogers, by Lelia
Smith, from Col. Charles S. Venable.

Professor M. Schele de Vere, painted
by Guillaume, from Mrs. Schele.

Governor William Smith, from his son,
Col. Thomas Smith.

Professor S. O. Southall, by Mrs. Lelia
M. Cocke, from the Law Class, 1882-3.

Alexander H. H. Stuart, Rector of the
University, 1886-1887.

J. E. B. Stuart, by J. A. Elder of Richmond,
from his brother, W. A. Stuart.

John R. Thompson, Alumnus of the
University, by Mrs. Marietta Minnegerode
Andrews, donor.

Professor William M. Thornton, by
Lelia Smith, from his pupils.

Professor William B. Towles.

Professor Charles S. Venable.

William Wertenbaker, Librarian, painted
by J. A. Elder.

CLASS F.

Miscellaneous Gifts.

1850-1856—By Alumni, a copy of Raphael's
"School of Athens." Destroyed
by fire in 1895.

1854—Appropriation by Virginia General
Assembly, $10,000, for marble statue
of Jefferson by Alex. Galt of Norfolk.

1870—By Gen. Wm. C. Preston, tall
red leather-covered chair in which Jefferson
sat as Vice-President.

1895—By Law Alumni, marble bust by
Valentine of Professor John B. Minor.

1896—By Professor James A. Harrison,
the "Harrison Trophy" to the Washington
and Jefferson Literary Societies, to
be awarded for excellence in debate.

1897—The Chapel bell now in use, bearing
the inscription, "Presented to the
University of Virginia by the V V V Dramatic
Club, 15 September, 1897."

1898—By Col. Thos. L. Preston of Charlottesville,
bust of Senator William C.
Preston.

1899—By Hon. Jefferson M. Levy, the
Jefferson electric clock and time-service,
consisting of a marble dial in the Library,
two steel dials, one in each pediment of
the Rotunda, and a system of electric
bells in the various lecture rooms.

1899—By the "Poe Memorial Association,"
bronze bust of Edgar Allan Poe,
by George Julian Zolnay.

1899—By the "Christian Women's
Board of Missions," income from the
John B. Cary Bible Lectureship Fund—
about $28,000 for the purpose of maintaining
Bible teaching in the University.

1899—By Mr. W. G. Lapham of Michigan,
a Spencer 1-10 water-immersion
objective.

1900—By Mr. John L. Williams of
Richmond, a handsome revolving case
filled with books.

1900—By Professor and Mrs. James A.
Harrison, handsome carved oak cabinet
filled with books by Southern writers.

1901—Bust of Charles Broadway Rouss,
to occupy a place in the Rouss Physical
Laboratory.

1901-1902—By Professor and Mrs. James
A. Harrison, handsome carved oak cabinet
filled with volumes of Poe's works
and of writings pertaining to him.

1902—By Alumnus Robert D. Ballantine
a second copy of Raphael's "School
of Athens," the work of Geo. W. Breck;
now in Cabell Hall.

1905—By the St. Louis World's Fair
Management, a statue of James Monroe.

1905—By Carl Bitters, sculptured
group, representing the American and
French commissioners signing the agreement
relating to the Louisiana Purchase,
from President Francis of St. Louis Exposition.

1905—By French Republic, through
Ambassador J. J. Jusserand, china bust of
Lafayette.

1905—By an Alumnus, from the Virginia
Bible Society, through Rev. Dr. G.
L. Petrie, a handsome Bible for use in
the Public Hall.

1905—By Misses Bangs and Whiton of
New York City, formerly of Washington,
D. C., bronze tablet marketing the room of
Edgar Allan Poe.

1906—By Col. John S. Mosby, bust by
Valentine of the famous calvary leader.

1906—By Mr. John L. Williams of
Richmond, handsome tablet for the Library.

1906—By Dr. J. Ackerman Coles of
New York City, bronze bust of Cicero for
the Library.

1906—By the Ladies' Confederate
Memorial Association of Albemarle, two
bronze tablets, for south front of the Rotunda,
bearing the names of the 515 sons
of the University who fell in the war between
the States.

1906—By Medical Class of 1906, two
handsome bronze electric lamps, to be
placed above the two memorial tablets
on the south front of the Rotunda.

1907—By Mr. Andrew Carnegie, large
pipe organ for Cabell Hall.

1907—By Dr. J. Ackerman Coles,
bronze bust of Jefferson, the work of
H. Dan Webster, for the Library.

1907—By Mr. J. W. Simpson of New
York City and Sir Moses Ezekiel of
Rome, splendid bronze statue of Homer,
with handsome black marble pedestal.

A bust of Professor William B. Rogers,
from Mrs. Rogers.

Plaster bust of Washington, in Washington
Society Hall.

The Association of American Universities.

In February, 1900, pursuant to a call
issued by the presidents of Harvard, Columbia,
Johns Hopkins, Chicago, and the
University of California, representatives
of the leading American universities met
at Chicago; and after careful discussion
a permanent organization was formed
under the name of "The Association of
American Universities." The purpose of
the association was defined in the constitution
to be the considering of the
matters of common interest relating to
graduate study. Accordingly, only institutions
of high rank, such as are engaged
extensively in giving advanced or
graduate instruction, were considered
eligible to membership in the organization.
The fourteen institutions composing
the initial or charter membership of
the association are the following: University
of California, Catholic University of
America, University of Chicago, Clark
University, Columbia University, Cornell
University, Harvard University,
Johns Hopkins University, Leland Stanford,
Jr., University, University of Michigan,
University of Pennsylvania, Princeton
University, University of Wisconsin,
and Yale University.

It was provided that other institutions
might be admitted at the annual conference,
on the invitation of the executive
committee, indorsed by a three-fourths
vote of the members of the association.
In 1904 the University of Virginia was
admitted to membership; and within the
last year or so three other institutions,
namely, the universities of Illinois, Minnesota,
and Missouri, have been received.
The total membership at present, therefore,
consists of the eighteen institutions
named. At the annual meetings such
questions as the following are discussed:
"Migration among Graduate Students;"
"The Type of Examination for the Doctor's
Degree;" "Fellowships;" "To
What Extent should a Candidate for the
Doctor's Degree be Required to Show a
Knowledge of Subjects Not Immediately
Connected with his Major Subject?"

Founder's Day.

On April 13 lectures were suspended
and the day was occupied in exercises
fitted to celebrate the birth of the University's
founder—Thomas Jefferson. At
11:30 students, faculty, and invited guests
marched in procession to Cabell Hall,
where the chief address of the occasion
was made by Mr. James Bryce, British
Ambassador to the United States. President
Alderman introduced Mr. Bryce;
and after the latter's address, made the
annual statement concerning the recent
progress and present status of the University.
He said, among other things:

"Each college year, like each year in
the life of an individual, has its distinctive
meaning. 1907-'08 in the history of
the University will be marked by these
notable events: The building of the college
dining hall; the opening of the second
wing of the hospital; the establishment
of `College Hour'; the inaugration
of the Barbour-Page Lecture Foundation;
and the provision by the State Legislature
for a Geological Survey, with headquarters
at the University.

"The realization of the bequest of Mr.
Edmund W. James, realizing $264,656 in
endowment for the University; the increased
annuity from the Legislature to
80,000 a year, and a provision at last for
the building of a worthy and noble home
for the Law School of the Institution;
the great increases in the teaching staff,
of the interior equipment, and in annual
income, have been elsewhere noted. To
me one of the most attractive and impressive
developments in the life of the
institution is the increased interest in the
development of the University Library,
which is the heart of any college."

Faculty Notes.

One of President Alderman's recent addresses
was delivered at Bristol, Va.-Tenn.,
on April 17, before the final session
of the conference of superintendents
of public instruction in Southwest Virginia.

On April 29, Professor Ormond Stone
went to Harrisonburg, Va., where he attended
a meeting of the board of visitors
of the new normal and industrial school
to be established in the near future at the
place named. Professor Stone has recently
been appointed on the managing
board by the Governor; and at the meeting
in question was made chairman of the
committee on courses of instruction.

Dr. John William Mallet, Professor of
Chemistry, has been awarded a pension by
the Carnegie Board, and will retire from
active service at the end of the present
session, after 38 years of distinguished
work in this university.

Dr. Richard Heath Dabney, Professor
of History, recently made a short visit to
Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, Va.,
where he served as a judge at an intercollegiate
debate held on the evening of
April 17.

Dr. Charles W. Kent, Professor of English
Literature, recently delivered two
addresses in Staunton, one on John R.
Thompson, at Stuart Hall; the other on
Tennyson, at the Mary Baldwin Seminary.

At College Hour, Saturday, May 9, the
leading address of the occasion was delivered
by Dr. Albert Lefevre, Professor
of Philosophy.

Professor W. H. Heck, Curry Professor
of Education, made an address at Memphis,
Tenn., April 24, before the final
session of the 1908 conference for education
in the South.

Dr. Bruce R. Payne, Professor of Psychology,
recently visited the Augusta
Military Academy, Fort Defiance, Va.,
and the city of Winchester, delivering
addresses at both places.

Dr. Charles H. Bunting, Professor of
Pathology, has resigned his position in
order to accept a chair in his alma mater,
the University of Wisconsin.

On the evening of April 13 the Colonnade
Club of the University gave a reception
to Mr. and Mrs. Bryce. Among other
distinguished foreigners present were
Prof. and Mrs. J. B. Bury, of Cambridge
University, and Mr. Indu Bhushan de
Majumdar, of Calcutta.

Debates.

On the evening of April 3 Virginia
won a unanimous decision in a debate
with Johns Hopkins, and lost by two
votes in three in a similar contest with
North Carolina. The question, "Resolved,
that national banks should be permitted
to issue, subject to tax and government
supervision, notes based on their
general assets," was affirmed by Virginia
in both contests. The debaters against
the Baltimore team were Messrs. T. S.
Settle, Maurice Hirsch, and D. R. Fon
ville; the last of the law department, the
other two of the college; those speaking
against the Chapel Hill team were Messrs.
S. C. Williams and G. W. Fry, both
of the law school. President Alderman
was in the chair in the debate with Johns
Hopkins, which was held at the University
of Virginia; the contest with North
Carolina was held in Richmond, and was
presided over by Mayor Carlton McCarthy.

Oratory.

At the final preliminary, April 16, men
were chosen to represent the University
in oratorical contests; Mr. D. R. Fonville
of Burlington, N. C., will enter the Central
Oratorical League contest, May 8, at
the University; Mr. W. K. Jackson of
Jacksonville, Fla., will go to the Southern
Inter-State contest at Lexington, Ky.,
May 7; and Mr. G. W. Warren of Emory,
Va., will participate in the Virginia State
contest at Lexington, Va., May 1.

At a meeting of the Board of Visitors
on April 10 it was decided to enlarge the
University law course so that three years
will be required for completing it instead
of two, as at present. The change is to
become effective in September, 1909.

Creatore and his band, assisted by
Madame Barili, soprano soloist, visited
the University on May 4th and gave
one of their excellent concerts in Cabell
Hall. To have both Sousa and Creatore
within the same session is to be unusually
fortunate. The former was here in
January.

Ben Greet and his famous company of
English players made their fourth visit
to the University on the 9th of this month
and presented two of Shakespeare's
plays, As You Like It and Much Ado
About Nothing. Mr. Greet makes it his
purpose to give Shakespeare's plays as
nearly as possible like Shakespeare himself
wrote them and played them, depending
on the intrinsic merit of the
drama for interest and effect, rather than
upon elaborate and fanciful inventions of
the modern stage. Whenever the weather
is favorable, and other conditions are
inviting, as they are at the University of
Virginia, he prefers to give such plays as
the two named above out of doors, "under
the greenwood trees." To the intelligent
student of Shakespeare this
adds much that is appropriate and attractive.

The faculty of the University Summer
School, to be held from June 18 to July
31, is composed of forty-three members,
many of whom are among the most experienced
and eminent educators of the
country. Besides fifteen members of the
regular University faculty, the following
well-known scholars and teachers have
been seeured as instructors and lecturers
for the summer session: Dr. John B.
Henneman, Professor of English, and
Dean of the University of the South; Dr.
S. C. Mitchell, Professor of History,
Richmond College; and Dr. C. Alphonso
Smith, Professor of the English Language
and Dean of Graduate School,
University of North Carolina.

The excellent results of the training
given during the present session in the
principles and methods of effective public
speaking, by Mr. Charles W. Paul,
have been repeatedly in evidence in the
recent contests in oratory and debate.

On April 24 the University dramatic
club gave in Cabell Hall their final performance
of La Serena, the merry Mexican
comedy that has been presented
with much success in various cities of the
State within the last two or three months.

The Y. M. C. A.

The following extracts from the annual
report of the president of the Young
Men's Christian Association, made April
1, will be read with interest.

"Up to the present time our membership
is 476, which is an increase of 46
over last year. With this large increase
in our membreship there has been a corresponding
increase in our average attendance
at our Wednesday evening meetings.
The average attendance up to date
this year has been 54, while the average
attendance last year was 39.

"The committee chairmen will tell you
what has been accomplished by the various
committees during the present year.
Our Bible study department has failed to
come up to the higher standard set last
year, but we feel that this is largely accounted
for by the numerous changes of
administration during the year. The
present Chairman has accomplished wonders
in the short time that he has had
charge of the work. Our plan since
the first of January has been not so much
to gain a large enrollment in Bible classes
as it has been to prepare for the work
next session by the creating of interest
in the work and the training of leaders
for the classes.

"We feel that the year just closing has
been one of distinct advance in Association
work here at the University. More
and more the Association has identified
itself with the various college activities.
Men prominent in college life have taken
an active part in the Christian work of
the Association, and have demonstrated
that the principles of the Christian religion
can be carried into all college activities
and are an absolute necessity for
the production of a well-rounded character.

"The home of the Association, Madison
Hall, has become more and more the acknowledged
meeting place, not alone of
the Publication Boards and the Athletic
Committees but also of musical organizations,
state clubs, fraternities, debating
teams and other student organizations.
The Reading Room has been more largely
used than ever before, and the Biblical
and Mission Libraries have been in constant
service."

University Legislation.

A recent issue of the Charlottesville
Daily Progress contained the following
items relating to some changes made by
the present Virginia legislature in certain
Acts pertaining to the University:

"Lewis H. Machen, in his analysis of
acts of the assembly, says: Two acts,
approved March 13, Acts 1908, pages
378 and 380, which are emergency acts,
amend sections 1541 and 1556 of the
Code of Virginia, respectively. The
first gives to the university, in addition
to its other powers, all the corporate powers
given to corporations by the provision
of chapter 5 of the acts concerning
corporations, which became a law on
May 21, 1903, except to those cases
where, by the express terms of the acts,
it is confined to corporations created under
it; and the university is also given
the power to accept, execute, and
administrate any trust in which it may
have an interest under the terms of an
instrument creating a trust. The provision
that the rector and visitors of the university
shall be at all times subject to
the control of the General Assembly is
retained in the new statute.

"The second act amends section 1556,
so as to make it unlawful for the rector
and visitors of the university to issue its
obligations to be secured by deeds of
trust on its real estate without the consent
of the General Assembly. The old
law simply provided that they could not
contract debts without such consent."

The President's house on Carr's Hill is
being pushed rapidly toward completion.
When finished it will not only afford a
beautiful place of residence for the head
of the University, but it will also add
much to the attractiveness of the locality,
which has long been recognized as one
of the most desirable in college.

Calendar.

Monday, June 1—Thursday, June 11—
Final Academic Examinations.

Tuesday, June 9—Friday, June 12—Entrance
Examinations.

Sunday, June 14—Baccalaureate Sermon;
Address before the Young Men's
Christian Association.

Monday, June 15—Annual Meeting of
the Board of Visitors; Address before the
Literary Societies; Final Celebration of
the Literary Societies.

Tuesday, June 16—Alumni Day: Address
before the Alumni; Annual Meeting
of the Alumni.

Wednesday, June 17—Final Night;
Closing Exercises of the Session.

On April 10 the University was favored
by a visit from Dr. Robert Irving Fulton,
Dean of the College of Oratory in
the Ohio Wesleyan University. Dr.
Fulton was a student in the law department
here in 1877, and came back to
Virginia with the true spirit of an alumnus.
In the afternoon he gave an address
on the art of public speaking, which
was heard with enjoyment and profit by
a fair-sized audience. At night, when he
generously gave an excellent program
of unusually good readings for the benefit
of the Y. M. C. A., it is to be regretted
that the audience was very small.
Those present were most profitably entertained,
and were ready at the close to
second Dr. Alderman's recent statement,
that Dr. Fulton is the best exponent of
his subject in this country.

The annnal election, on May 2, of officers
for the General Athletic Association
resulted in the choice of the following
men: Charles Brown Crawford, of Theological
Seminary, Va., president; Mark
Roy Faville, Dolgeville, N. Y., vice-president;
Charles Francis Cocke, Roanoke,
Va., and James Alcorn Rector, Hot
Springs, Ark., members of advisory
board.

The part of the campus adjacent to the
northeast wing of the Hospital is being
improved by regrading and the construction
of much needed walks.

As usual, the Easter number of the
University Magazine is of special weight
and attractiveness. Eight pieces of verse,
three stories, a critical essay, and easy
chair essay combine with other features
to make the reader interested.

The University band, announced in
the March Record, has made its debut,
and is now regarded as an essential factor
in college life.

On Friday night, May 8, the annual
contest of the Central Oratorical League
was held in Cabell Hall. Visitors participating
represented the University of
Chicago, Cornell University, and Ohio
Wesleyan University. The University
of Virginia was represented by Mr. D.
R. Fonville of North Carolina, who tied
for first place with Mr. G. G. Bogert of
Cornell. Mr. C. A. Bales of Chicago
was given second place. Mr. A. C.
Schatzman of Columbus, Ohio, represented
Ohio Wesleyan University.

The orators and their friends were entertained
after the contest at a bauquet
by the local chapter of the Delta Sigma
Rho Society.

The Judges, Congressman DeArmond
of Missouri, Dean Wilbur and Prof.
Vance of George Washington University,
Prof. Bowen of Randolph-Macon,
and Supt. Fulton of the Miller School,
were given a reception by the Colonnade
Club.

The following items should form a part
of the lists of donations given on the
first pages of this issue of the Record:

From Dr. George Tucker Harrison of
New York, 180 volumes, including a set
of Buffon's great work, Histoire Naturelle.
(1907.)

From some Jewish gentlemen of Richmond,
at the suggestion of Dr. E. N.
Calisch, a set of the Jewish Encyclopedia,
12 volumes. (1908.)

From Mr. R. Hall McCormick of Chicago,
a portrait of his father, Mr. Leander
J. McCormick, for the observatory.

From the same, a six-inch refracting
telescope for the observatory.