University of Virginia Library

March 3, 1899.

The Board met in pursuance of adjournment on yesterday.

Present the same members as on yesterday.

The following was enacted

Whereas Col. Wm. E. Peters has informed the Board of
Visitors that he intends to resign his Professorship of Latin
in the University of Virginia to take effect June 1902, and

Whereas, with this knowledge, the Board should take steps
to have his work continued in worthy hands, and

Whereas Prof. Thos. Fitzhugh of the Chair of Latin in the
University of Texas has expressed his willingness to accept a
professorship of Latin in the Univ. of Va. on condition that
he be given a three years leave of absence without pay, subject

however to recall by the Board at their pleasure, and
will spend two of these years studying at the University of
Berlin, Germany and one in travel and research in classic
lands.

Therefore be it

Resolved: That Prof. Thos. Fitzhugh be and is hereby
elected a Professor of Latin in the University of Va. on
the conditions and with the understanding stated above.

Resolved: That Chas. A. Young be and he is hereby
elected Instructor in Hebrew at a salary of $600.00 per session,
his services to commence the beginning of the next session,
and that Professor Humphreys be requested to inaugurate
a course in New Testament Greek, and that these announcements
be appropriately made in the next catalogue.

Resolved: That the Advertising Committee suggested to
the Board by the Chairman be appointed as an advertising Committee,
consisting of the Chairman of the Faculty with Dr
Mallet as the Chairman on Canvassing and Dr Kent Chairman of
a literary bureau, and they are requested to secure the cooperation
of other members of the Faculty to aid them in their
work, and the sum of $3000. is hereby appropriated for the
said Committee, and the Chairman of the Committee is authorized
to employ a permanent clerk for said Committee.

The other Committees appointed in June 1898 are continued,
to wit A Committee to secure endowments and benefactions
and the Committee on Alumni.

Resolved: That the Proctor be directed to place to the
credit of the Anatomical Department the sum of $175.78 to meet

the deficit of the year 1897-8. Resolved further, that the
Proctor be instructed to credit the Anatomical Department
for the year 1898-9 with the sum of $5. for each student enrolled
in that department as a first year student and by
$2.50 for each second or third year student who has failed
on Anatomy.

Resolved: That the Rector and Visitors have heard with
grateful appreciation the purposes of the family and executors
of the late Alfred H. Byrd, of New York City, an honored
alumnus of the University, to present the proceeds of the
estate of Mr Byrd to the University for the endowment of the
department of the Library devoted to Virginia History and
Literature, and in transmitting their thanks for this contemplated
gift desire to express their purpose to set aside an
alcove in the Library for the reception of the Byrd donation.

Resolved: That the Committee of Benefactions and Endowments
be authorized to enter into negotiations with the International
Committee of the Y. M. C. A. and the Local Board of
Trustees, looking to the practacability of the purchase by
the Rector & Visitors of the Campus for the uses of the students
of the University, and to report to the Board at their
regular meeting in June.

Resolved: That the Proctor be authorized to pay to the
account of Medical Biology the per capita of $5.00 for each
student in Histology and $3.00 for each student in Bacteriology
as provided by the action of the Board of June 12th
1893, until otherwise ordered. The appropriation of June
1898 of $350. for Histology is hereby repealed.

Resolved: That the recommendation of the Faculty in relation
to the scheme for degrees in the Engineering Department
be adopted.

Resolved: That the Chairman be authorized to insert in
the next Catalogue that one half of all tuition fees be paid
at the begining of the session and the other half the first
week in January following.

Resolved: That Daniel Harmon and Dr P. B. Barringer, be
appointed a Committee with authority to close up the matter
of the water supply as between the University and the City of
Charlottesville, on the basis of the report made by them to
the present meeting of the Board, which report is in the following
words and figures to-wit:

We respectfully submit the following as a minute of the
proceedings of your Committee in regard to the water contract
with the City of Charlottesville, Va.

A meeting of a joint Committee of Gas and Water, Finance
Committee of the City Council, Prof. Barringer and D. Harmon
representing the University of Virginia.

Present - C. D. Carter, Dr. H. T. Nelson, A. Wingfield,
W. J. Tyson and M. Leterman, on the part of the city.

The question under consideration was the running expense
of the Auxiliary Station, the University declining to pay one
seventh of the running expense of said station. After a full
and free discussion of the matter, the following resolution
was adopted:

It is the sense of this Committee that a contract be prepared
between the City of Charlottesville and the Rector and

Visitors of the University that the expense of erecting the
pumping plant be paid, six sevenths by the City and one seventh
by the University, and that the expense of operating
the plant be paid by the parties in the proportion that the
water is is used by each while the pumping plant is in operation.
The means by which it will be determined how much
water will be used by each party is to be decided in further
conference before the contract is executed. The said contract
is to be subject to the ratification of the two contracting
parties.

Respectfully,
D. Harmon,

P. B. Barringer.

1. Resolved: That the School of Modern Languages be reorganized
by combining in one chair the studies of English
and German under the style of "Teutonic Languages", and that
the studies of French, Spanish and Italian be combined under
the style of "Romance Languages".

2. That Prof. James A. Harrison be professor of the chair
or Teutonic Languages after the end of the present session
and that a professor of Romance Languages be elected at the
meeting of the Board in June next.

Resolved: That the recommendation in regard to the degree
of Doctor of Philosophy, be adopted, which is as follows:

It is recommended by the Faculty that in the paragraph
in the Catalogue defining candidacy for the degree of Doctor
of Philosophy the following be substituted:

The Candidate for this degree must hold the degree of
Bachelor of Arts, or other degree of like value, from this
University or from some other College or University of good
standing; or must exhibit to the Faculty by examination if
necessary satisfactory evidences of having a collegiate education
equivalent to that represented by the degree of Bachelor
of Arts of a University or College of good standing. In
the case that the applicant received his collegiate education
at an institution other than this, the Faculty will pass, if
necessary, upon the standing of the institution in question.

Resolved: That the recommendation of the Faculty in regard
to the changes in the B. A. Course be adopted so that
this degree be conferred upon a student who has completed nine
B. A. Courses selected from the list at present prescribed of
which at least one must be taken from each of the seven groups
indicated, the other two being taken at will, provided that
students who elect both Latin & Greek shall be required to
complete but eight courses.

Resolved: That the School of General and Special Pathology
(including Surgical diseases) and Clinical Diagnosis, be
constituted and that the duties thereof be filled by Dr J. S.
Davis and that the subject of Hygiene is hereby transferred
to Dr W. A. Lambeth, who is authorized to teach the same. And
further that Dr Davis is hereby relieved from duty as assistant
to Prof. A. H. Tuttle in the Chair of Histology, but this resolution
shall not go into effect until the commencement of next
session.

Resolved: That the Rector and Visitors of the University
of Virginia have learned with genuine pleasure that the beneficent
intention of Col. John B. Cary to provide means for undenominational
instruction in the English Bible at this University
has been in part carried out by Col Cary's wife and children
who have for this purpose generously donated to independent
trustees the sum of ten thousand dollars.

Not insensible to this filial loyalty, cognizant of the
esteem in which Col Cary was held, and deeply interested in
the plan to do fitting honor to his memory, the Rector and
Visitors desire to express to Mr T. A. Cary and through him
to the family of Col Cary and to place on record:

First, their grateful recognition of this evidence of
the interest manifested by Col Cary and his family in the
welfare of the University and of the students here annually
assembled.

Second, their deep sense of the present significance
and far-reaching import of this movement to provide for nonsectarian
Biblical instruction without in any wise connecting
this work organically with the University or without soliciting
from the University any financial support or official
recognition.

Third, their hearty sympathy with the purposes and plans
of this movement so long as it is kept, as it now is, totally
free from all denominational bias and religious prejudicies.

Fourth, their sincere hope that the full sum of Twenty
five Thousand dollars needed to endow permanently the John B.
Cary Bible Lectureship may be speedily raised and the amount

entrusted to parties so well known and so highly esteemed as
to assure the application of the income to the true purposes
of the foundation.

Resolved: That the Proctor be directed not to make, at
this time, any contract for rent of the Elsom hotel to extend
beyond July 1st next.

Resolved: That the report of the Alumni Committee created
by the Board at its annual meeting in June last of which Col
Thos H. Carter is chairman and Prof. R. C. Minor is Secretary
be filed and the recommendations made with regard to Alumni
Scholarships be put into effect, and to this end, be it further

Resolved: that a system of Alumni Scholarships be and
the same is hereby created in accordance with the following
scheme.

1. The scholarships shall be known as the Alumni Scholarships.

2. The incumbents shall be appointed by the local Alumni
Associations now organized throughout the Country, and appearing
in the Catalogue of 1898-99; and by such other local
Associations as may hereafter be organized, and who, by consent
of the Board of Visitors of the University, become entitled
to the privilege. Provided, that no Association shall
be entitled to make such appointment, except upon the terms
and conditions hereafter mentioned.

3. No incumbent shall hold such Scholarship for more than
one year, but one who has passed satisfactory examinations

at the University in one or more of his classes may be eligible
for reappointment the following session upon the recommendation
of the Faculty.

4. These scholarships shall be confined to those classes in
the Academic Departments of the University to which Virginia
students are now admitted under the laws of Virginia, (that
is, all Academic courses, save the course in Analytical Chemistry-).
The scholarship shall entitle the incumbent to
exemption from tuition and matriculation fees.

5. Only such persons may be appointed as actually stand in
need of such aid, and such as otherwise would not, in the
judgment of the Association making the appointment, be able
to attend the University.

6. The incumbent must be at least eighteen years of age,
and must be one who, in the judgment of the Association naming
him, is studious, of good moral character, and prepared
to enter the University.

7. These provisions shall be applicable only to such Associations
as are already organized and appear in the catalogue
of the present session, and to such of these only as may have
twenty or more active members who are entitled to vote on the
appointment of an incumbent. But any local Association hereafter
organized, having twenty or more such active members, may
apply to the Board of Visitors, and upon obtaining the consent
of the Board, shall be listed among those associations entitled
to appoint incumbents to the scholarships hereby created.

8. Every local Alumni Association, as above described, having
twenty or more active members, shall be entitled annually

to have one appointee at the University; if hereafter such
Association ceases to have as many as twenty active members,
it shall not be entitled to make an appointment until that
number be restored.

9. Every such local Association having fifty or more such
active members shall be entitled to fill two such scholarships
annually, so long as they shall continue to have as
many as fifty such members, or as soon as they shall reach
that number.

10. But no Association shall be entitled to make such appointment
for any session, except such as, through their
Secretaries, shall have mailed to the General Secretary of
the Alumni, at the University, on or before the first day of
May preceding the session for which the appointment is to be
made, a complete list of the active members of such Association,
with their correct post-office addresses at that time,
and the names of the officers of such Association. Provided,
however, that for appointments to go into effect on the 15th
of September, 1899, it will be sufficient if such list is
mailed on or before the 1st day of July, 1899.

11. By "active members", as herein used, is meant Alumni of
the University, who have been admitted by the Association as
active members thereof, in accordance with the rules laid
down by the Association. No alumnus shall be entitled to
vote upon this question in more than one Association during
the same year, nor for this purpose shallan Alumnus be considered
as an active member of more than one Association at
the same time. But graduation in any Department or School
of the University is not hereby required.

12. Only one Association in any city or town shall be entitled
to appoint incumbents to the scholarships hereby
created.

13. The final appointment of each incumbent shall be made
by a vote of the whole Association, a majority of the active
members thereof being present in person and voting of record
for the applicant. It shall not finally be made by any Committees
or by any officer or officers of the Association.
But such Committee or officers may be appointed by the Association
to nominate or examine Candidates, and to report to
the Association.

14. A copy of the minutes of the meeting which shall include
the final result of the vote of the Association, the candidates
who were voted for, with their post-office addresses,
and the name of the successful candidate, the fact of his appointment,
and the specific compliance with the conditions
contained in sections 5, 6, 10 and 13, must be certified to
the Chairman of the Faculty of the University, attested by
the signatures of the presiding officer and Secretary of the
Association making the appointment. This certificate must
be in the hands of the Chairman of the Faculty on or before
the 15th day of August preceding the opening of the session
for which the incumbent is appointed. And the Chairman of
the Faculty is hereby authorized to print forms of such certificate
which may be sent to the officers of any Association
desiring the same.

15. The above requirements having been complied with, the
person or persons so appointed shall be entitled to attend
the University for one session without the payment of any
matriculation or tuition fees, and shall enjoy the same
privileges and be subject to the same restrictions as other
Academic students.

16. To guard against any possible ill feeling or sense of
injustice on the part of the local Associations in respect
to the constructions of these provisions, all such matters
shall be referred to the executive Committee of the General
Society of the Alumni, the decisions of which, when approved
by the Faculty shall be final.

On motion the Board adjourned sine die.