 | The University of Virginia record February, 1909 |  |
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.
LECTURERS ON THE BARBOUR-PAGE FOUNDATION.
1907. Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, of Philadelphia, Pa.
Subject: Some Literary Reminiscences.
1908. Prof. Basil L. Gildersleeve, of Johns Hopkins University.
Subject: Vitality of Greek Studies in America.
1. November 19th, The Channels of Life.
2. November 20th, The Pervasiveness of Greek Language and Literature.
3. November 21st, Hellas and Hesperia—Analogies of Ancient Greek
and Modern American Life.
1909. President Charles W. Elliot, of Harvard University.
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