 | Board of Visitors minutes June 27, 1868 |  |
ANNUAL MEETING June 1868
The Board met June 27th present the following members-B.
Johnson Barbour, Rector, Thomas L. Preston, John R. Woods,
Wm. E. M. Word, Samuel Watts, R. W. Hughes, and Thomas J.
Pretlow.
After calling the Board to order the Rector appointed the
following committees.
Finance - Word & Woods
Grounds & Buildings - Pretlow & Word
Apparatus - Woods & Watts.
Library - Preston & Hughes.
Pursuant to resolutions of the Faculty recommending it,
and for the reasons stated in the resolutions.
Resolved- That Special Examinations for graduation to
be held early next session, be granted to the following students,
without requiring them to matriculate again in the
Schools named-
J. Floyd Lewis in the School of Law.
Margus Jones in the School of Greek
Charles E. Taylor in the School of Greek & Chemistry.
Resolved- That Prof. Boeck be allowed to retain in his
possession the books borrowed by him from the Library, during
the Session of the Board.
Resolved That former members of the Board of Visitors
be invited to attend the Inauguration of the Jefferson Statue
on the 1st of July.
On motion- Resolved That the Report of the Committee of
the Faculty on the "Revision of the Enactments" be referred
to a sub-committee- Messrs. Watts & Hughes were appointed
the Committee.
Resolved That the application of F. Hildebrand, asking
to be reimbursed in the amount expended by him in fitting the
Gymnasium, be and the same is hereby rejected.
Resolved- That the name of the School of Chemical Technology
& Agriculture be changed to that of "Analytical, Industrial
Resolved- That when a student engages a room in advance
he shall be required to deposit the amount of rent on or before
the 15th of September- On failure to do so, the room
shall be forfeited
Resolved- That the Chairman of the Faculty be requested
to submit an estimate of the probable cost of laying out the
Botanic Garden- and of the quantity of land he proposes to
devote to that purpose.
Resolved- That Drs. Cabell & Davis be requested to render
a detailed statement in reference to the Infirmary, financial
& administrative, including a brief history of its origin,
and conduct,- and in addition, that they be invited, if agreeable
to them, to a personal interview with the Board on the
subject.
Resolved- That in addition to the Fees from students as
ordered under the suggestions of the Faculty, that a thousand
dollars are hereby appropriated as compensation to Prof.
Mallet for his services during the next session.
Resolved- That the Proctor be instructed to enquire into
the Status of the old Temperance Hall, and if possible to
make its rents available to the University.
Resolved- That the subject of Political Economy be temporarily
transferred from the School of Moral Philosophy to
that of History, Literature & Rhetoric, and that the fee for
any two or all the subjects be $25 and for any one of them
when taken separately $20.
Resolved- That when a student offers his name as a candidate
for Proficiency or Graduation in any School, he shall
deposit with the Proctor, the requisite certificate or diploma
fee.- Provided, however, that in special cases, the Chairman
may give indulgence to the student on a pledge that he will
take the certificate or diploma and pay for it, at or before
the close of the session- In case of failure to obtain Proficiency
or Graduation, the deposit will be refunded.
The Board adjourned till Monday morning the 29th instant
at 9 oclock.
Secretary
Rector of Univ. of Virg.
The Board met at 9 oclock A.M. according to adjournment
Present the same members as on Saturday the 27th instant-
The Rector laid before the Board a letter from Henry
Massi Keeper of Hotel A.
On motion- Resolved that the same be laid on the table.
Resolved- That the Board is convinced that the practice
of decorating the Public Hall is injurious to the walls thereof,
it is ordered that it shall be discontinued.
Resolved That the Proctor be authroized to stop at will
the Passage under the new building.
Resolved That the Board earnestly recommend to the Faculty
a thorough rearrangement of the use of the Lecture Roomsso
that each and every Professor may be satisfactorily provided
for.
Resolved- That the outline of the plan for an Experimental
Farm as given in Prof. Mallet's memorandum is accepted and
approved and that the Executive Committee is hereby authorized
to carry it out when in their judgment it is proper to do so.
Resolved- That it being very desirable to add a new and
full Lecture room to the University- The Proctor is hereby
instructed to make an early examination into the expediency
of converting the space under the Bear Portico of the New
building into an apparatus room for Prof. Smith, to the end
that the partition in the Mathematical section room may be
removed.
Resolved- That in view of the depressed condition of the
Finances of the University the Board of Visitors are compelled
to refuse the numerous applications on the part of Professors
and Hotel Keepers for repairs and improvements- and they deem
it due to candor to state that these repairs and improvements
when not of an extraordinary character should be borne by the
Professors and Hotel Keepers themselves.
Resolved- That the Proctor be authorized as far as practicable
to substitute coal for wood as Fuel throughout the
University.
Resolved That Major L. J. Boeck be appointed Adjunct Professor
in the School of Mathematics to be assigned to the
Department of Applied Mathematics.
Resolved 2nd That the fee in the Department of Applied
Mathematics be hereafter for each student $40.
Resolved 3rd That the emoluments of the Adjunct Professor
and the fees of his Department.
The Committee on Grounds & Buildings submitted the following
Report-
"The Committee on Grounds & Buildings ask leave to make
the following report.
House E of the Dawson buildings requires new floors in the
upper story and the outside steps of nearly all those houses
require repairs-
A wooden structure near Massie's Hotel used as a wood
house and for other purposes should be removed without delay-and
put up at the expense of the University at some other
place.
All the roofs of the Rotunda Buildings are said to be
in a leaky condition-
The Balastrades on either side of the Portico of the
Rotunda require repairs.
The roofs of the Professors Houses, the Hotels and dormitories
are said to nearly all leak more or less.
The Gutters are generally in bad condition. The Water
tanks in the Rotunda are exerting an injurious influence on the
building and should be no longer used for such purposes.
The walls of the new building attached to the Rotunda
seem to be giving away and should be looked after.
"I have inspected the Hotel of Mr. Jeffries at his request
and find the house in a very uncomfortable condition-The
dining room walls are filthy, so much so that the room
is unfit for decent people to eat in. Jeffries thinks that
by the judicious expenditure of one hundred dollars the house
and premises can be made comfortable. I am informed that very
little has been expended on the property of late, and I most
respectfully recommend that the Board of Visitors instruct
the Proctor to apply one hundred dollars in doing such repairs
as he may think most necessary to the premises.
Most respectfully
T. J. Pretlow"
June 29th 1868
Resolved That the foregoing report be received and approved
with the exception of the appropriation of $100 to Mr. Jeffries
which is not allowed.
Ordered That the Rector of the Board of Visitors be and
he is hereby authorized to negotiate a loan of Sixty thousand
Dollars for the University of Virginia, to run for any period
he may deem advisable, not less than six nor more than thirty
years; and to bear interest at the rate of not more than eight
per centum per annum and payable at any place he may designate;
and execute such bonds as may be most elegible to secure the
punctual payment of interest and principal- pledging the faith
of the University as well as its resources including the Johnson
bequest for the faithful discharge of the obligations of the
contract.
Ordered further, That out of the proceeds which may be
received from the sale of the bonds authorized by the foregoing
order, the Executive Committee are authorized to expend the
sums of money as follows, Viz, a sum not exceeding seventeen
thousand dollars for the erection of a Laboratory & for procuring
apparatus & means of illustration, needed for the chair
of Analytical, Industrial and Agricultural Chemistry.
2. A sum not exceeding three thousand dollars for the
purchase of models, material, instruments &c necessary for the
equipment of the School of Applied Mathematics.
3. A sum not exceeding four thousand five hundred dollars
for introducing a supply of water to the University by means of
a suitable Reservoir at Observatory Mountain and conduit pipes;
and they are authorized to sell such of the old pipes, steam
engine, hot water pipes &c as can be spared, and apply the
proceeds in part payment of the said $4,500 hereby authorized
4. A sum not exceeding ($15000) fifteen thousand dollars
for two Professors houses upon the terms authorized by this
Board in its Resolutions of the 3rd day of December 1867 or
upon such other terms as the Executive Committee may determine.
The Board adjourned to meet again tomorrow morning at
9 oclock.
Wm. Wertenbaker
Secretary
B. Johnson Barbour
Rector of Univ. of Virg.
The Board met at 9 oclock A.M. Present the same members
as on yesterday.
Resolved That the Board deem it their duty to call special
attention to the Law which declares that the Professors, Tutors
and all Officers shall reside constantly in or near the University-
and will allow no departure from this rule in letter
or in spirit.
Resolved That with the exception of Dawson's Row and such
large rooms on Carr's Hill as the Chairman may direct, it shall
be allowed to any student to occupy a Dormitory alone by paying
the full rent and if it shall be found that this change works
serious injury to the Hotel Keepers the Executive Committee
shall have power to make such rateable deduction from the rent
as to them may seem reasonable.
Resolved That in receiving he report of Drs. Cabell and
Davis, the Board of Visitors decline to take any further action
except to declare their entire dissent from the conclusion that
the Infirmary fund should not be charged with the cost of repairs
and improvements- believing on the contrary that such charge is
perfectly legitimate and should be adhered to.
Resolved That as suggested in their Report the Faculty
is hereby authorized to confer the following Degrees.
1. The Degree of Graduate in the School of Applied
Mathematics.
2. The Degree of Graduate in the School of Analytical
Industrial and Agricultural Chemistry.
3. The Degree of Civil Engineer to be conferred on such
students as shall have graduated in the Schools of Mathematics
Natural Philosophy, Applied Mathematics, and Chemistry or
Mineralogy & Geology.
4. The Degree of Mining Engineer to be conferred on graduates
in the Schools of Chemistry, Applied Chemistry, and Natural
Philosophy, who shall have also obtained Certificates of Proficiency
in Junior and Intermediate Mathematics, in a Prescribed
course of Applied Mathematics, and in Mineralogy and Geology.
5. The Degree of Civil and Mining Engineering on those who
shall graduate in all the Schools above mentioned and shall
also obtain a certificate of Proficiency in the class of
Mineralogy and Geology.
6. The Degree of Bachelor of Sciences- on graduates in the
Schools of Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Chemistry and
who shall also be Proficients in the classes of Anatomy, Physiology,
Comparative Anatomy, Botany, Mineralogy & Geology and who
shall also have taken distinctions in the Junior class of Applied
Mathematics, and made satisfactory attainments in the
Laboratory course of Analytical Chemistry.
Resolved That the requisitions for the Degree of Bachelor
of Arts be changed to read as follows.
The Degree of Bachelor of Arts to be conferred on those
students who shall have graduated in the Schools of Latin,
Greek, Chemistry, Moral Philosophy and French or German and
shall also have obtained Certificates of Proficiency in Junior
& Intermediate Mathematics, Physics and History or Literature.
The Board adjourned to meet again at 9 oclock tomorrow
morning,
Secretary
Rector of Univ. of Va.
The Board met pursuant to adjournment. Present the same
members as on yesterday.
Prof. S. Maupin was unanimously re-elected Chairman of the
Faculty for the ensuing year.
The Committee of "Revision of Enactments" reported progress,
and asked to be discharged from the further consideration of
the subject, which was granted.
Ordered-That the report on said revision be referred to
the Rector, and that he be requested to examine the same and
report to the next meeting of the Board.
The Finance Committee submitted the following Report.
"We, the undersigned appointed a committee on the Finances of
of the University of Va. recommend that no new and extraordinary
appropritations, whatever, be made, until the Rector ascertains
whether the money can be borrowed, under the resolutions passed
at the present meeting of the Board. They regret to make this
recommendation, and feel it due to themselves to say, that while
most of the appropriations asked for, are actually necessary,
they cannot be made, (except in the contingency above named)
in the present embarrassed condition of the funds of the
University".
Resolved That the Report of the Finance Committee be ap-
proved and adopted.
The Board adjourned to meet again tomorrow morning at 9
o'clock. Wm. Wertenbaker, Secretary
The Board met pursuant to adjournment. Present the same
members as on yesterday except Th. L. Preston.
The Committee on apparatus submitted the following Report
"The Committee on Apparatus concur with the Faculty in recommending
the usual annual appropriation of $450 to the Schools
of Chemistry, Natural Philosophy, Physiology Surgery & Anatomy,
and suggest that the most rigid economy be observed—making such
additions & improvements only as are absolutely necessary and
cannot be dispensed with."
Resolved That the above Report be approved and adopted.
Resolved That a special appropriation of $200 be made to
the School of Medicine for the purchase of a manikin, a Laryngoscope
and other appliances.
Resolved That the following appropriations be made.
| Repairs & Improvements | $2000 |
| Labor of all kinds for grounds | 1000 |
| Servants to attend Lecture rooms, Library &c | 500 |
| Fuel & Lights for Lecture rooms, Library, Chapel &c |
800 |
| Insurance | 650 |
| Interest to Cocke &c | 1881 |
| Sundries- Expenses of Visitors (so much as may be necessary) |
200 |
| Contingent Expenses | 1000 |
The following resolution was offered and laid on the table
for consideration at the next meeting of the Board.
Resolved, that in all public exercises of the University,
discussions of political topics are disallowed.
Resolved, that in conveying information to public speakers
of their appointment to deliver addresses at the University on
public occasions, a copy of the foregoing regulation be communicated.
On motion the Board then adjourned sine die.
Secretary
Rector of Univ. of Va.
| Board of Visitors minutes June 27, 1868 | |