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 twenty-two thousand dollars, the annual income of
which is to be used in securing each session the delivery at 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 shall possess such unity that
it may be published by the Foundation in book form.
