Board of Visitors minutes April 30, 1915 | ||
The President announced also a gift of $1,000 from Samuel
Porcher for the School of Business, as per the following letter:
Chestnut Hill
Philadelphia
President University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, Va.
I want to donate one thousand dollars to the
University because of my loyalty to her, and for what
she stands and has done - not that that sum is the measure
of my estimate of her worth or my admiration.
It would please me if this sum although so small
and of itself inadequate for the purpose might be applied
to the first of the needs you spoke of on Founder's day,
namely instruction to train the capable youth to perform
skillfully, justly, and righteously, the work of this great
industrial era and to become capable and right minded
business men. I do not make this the condition of donation,
however, and if impossible of such application,
would place the sum in your hands for such other purpose
for the University as you might think most useful.
I should be glad to send my check as soon as I
shall be informed that it will be accepted, and should
prefer that my name be withheld from general publication
in this matter.
I was a student at the University during the four
years 1877-1881, and am now an officer of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company and in that corporation's service since
graduation.
I hope that you will let me hear from you at your
convenience.
The Rector, Chairman of the Special Committee appointed
at the last meeting to consider some method by which the proposed
gift of Dr. Hopkins could be accepted by the University, reported
that his Committee had carefully investigated the matter
and had come to the conclusion that no plan could be devised
by which the gift could be accepted as it would incur a debt
and that the matter would have to be provided for by a special
act of the Legislature. The matter was referred to Dr. Alderman
for communication to Dr. Hopkins.
The President announced the resignation of Prof. W. M.
Hunley, which was accepted by the Board with regrets.
The President communicated to the Board the request
of Dean Thornton for an appropriation of $200 to lay a granolithic
floor in the machine shop of the Mechanical Laboratory.
The work was authorized to be done and paid for out
of the appropriation for Grounds and Buildings. The construction
of a toilet in the basement of the Observatory
was also authorized out of the appropriation for Grounds
and Buildings.
At the request of the President the salary of Miss Mary
Proffitt, stenographer to the Deans, was increased $10 per
month, making her salary $65. per month, beginning with
July 1, 1915.
Upon application of Prof. Maphis, the appropriation for
the High School Literary and Athletic League was increased from
$400 to $500.
Prof. Maphis was granted the use of the Board House for
the six weeks during the session of the Summer School.
The President was authorized to appoint as many as six
special policement for the protection during the Summer
School, same to be paid for by the Summer School.
Upon recommendation of the President, Jared S. Lapnam
was promoted to Adjunct Professor of Experimental Engineering,
at a salary of $800. per annum.
The sum of $100 per annum was added to the salary of
Dr. W. A. Kepner.
The matter of increasing the salaries of Professors
Hoxton and Sparrow $150 and $200 each, respectively, over
the Budget adopted at the April meeting, was referred to a
special committee consisting of the Rector, Mr. Michie and
the President with power.
The application of Reuben Maury to rent a portion of
the University mountain tract for a pig run, was referred
to the President with power to act.
Prof. Thornton's suggestion as to fees in the Engineering
Department, as contained in the following letter, was
referred to the Board by Dr. Alderman and adopted:
Office of the Dean, June 7, 1915
University, Va.
I learn from the Bursar that the new schedule
of fees in Engineering announced in the catalogue will
have to receive your formal approval and be validated
by action of the Board of Visitors before it is put
into force.
This plan was submitted to you last fall and
at that time was accepted. The statement prepared for the
catalogue was taken by me to your office. You were
absent, and, to save delay, I passed it on to the
Catalogue Committee. It came thus to be printed without
your definite authorization.
The reason for the change is found in the
growing number of students who desire to add some
course or fraction of a course in Engineering to their
scientific equipment. Such men pay not only the tuition
but the $40.00 University Fee. Thus a single
course in Electrical Engineering would cost such a
man $25. (tuition) plus $5. (laboratory fee) plus
$30. (addition to University fee) — total $60. A
single term in the same work would cost $40. The
men apply for relief from these charges, which they feel
to be exorbitant. Under our laws they have heretofore
applied in vain.
The proposed remedy consists of two parts—
First, a reduction of the University fee for Virginians
only to $20.00, this seems reasonable because about
half the work of all such students is in the College.
Second, an increase of the tuition fees in the
technical courses for all students; from $25. to $30.
for the lecture courses, and from $10. to $15. for
the drafting courses; this seems reasonable because
of the large volume of individual instruction given in
these technical courses.
These changes just about balance each other.
Out of every 100 students in Engineering, 60 to 65 are
Virginians. The change in income will then be as
follows in an average year for each 100 students:-
Decrease in the total of University fees for Virginians, |
$1250. |
Increase in the total of Tuition Fees for all students, |
$1250. |
Net change on the average — Zero. |
If you are reluctant to commend to the Visitors
a change figured with so close a margin, the University
fee might be reduced from $40. to $25. This would make
per 100 students.
Decrease $938:—Increase $1250:—Balance $312,
in favor of the University.
Relative to gifts to the University, the following was adopted:
RESOLVED: That the President be requested to make appropriate
acknowledgment of the several gifts to the Astronomical
by the President to the Board.
The President and Mr. Michie were authorized to secure
the additional professor for the School of Education.
The matter of filling the vacancy caused by the resignation
of Prof. Hunley was disposed of in the following resolution,
offered by Mr. Michie and adopted:
RESOLVED: That the President be authorized to take such steps
as he deems expedient to make provision to carry on the work
heretofore performed by Dr. Hunley, with such additional work
as seems to the President desirable and practicable during the
coming year.
The following Instructors and Assistants nominated by
Dr. Alderman, were appointed for the session 1915-'16:
1. Latin: | |
Instructor, | G. L. Barton, |
Instructor, | E. H. Lehman, |
2. Kent School of English Literature: | |
Instructor, | __________ |
Assistant, | Jas. L. Gordon, |
3. Romance Languages: | |
Instructor, | H. H. Neff, |
4. Mathematics: | |
Instructor, | E. J. Oglesby, (Mason Fellow) |
Instructor, | E. N. Tucker, |
Instructor, | G. H. Graybeal, |
Instructor, | E. T. Brown, |
5. Physics: | |
Assistant, | R. Macdonald, |
Assistant, | R. C. Lamb, |
6. Chemistry: | |
Instructor, | E. P. Brown, |
Instructor, | G. L. Carter |
Instructor, | L. S. Pratt, |
Assistant, | J. H. Robertson, |
Assistant, | W. E. Currie, |
7. Biology: | |
Instructor in Zoology, | W. F. Batterham, |
8. History: | |
Assistant, | Richard Lee Morton, |
9. Economics: | |
Instructor in Economics; | J. S. Graves, |
Instructor in Polit. Sc. | N. E. Oglesby, |
10. Philosophy: | |
Assistant, | Samuel O. McCue, |
Assistant, | Thos. Fitz-Hugh, Jr. |
Assistant, | W. K. Boswell, |
11. Germanic Languages: | |
Instructor, | G. P. Voight, |
Instructor, | Forrest J. Hyde, |
Assistant, | Elmore L. Andrews, |
Assistant, | George R. Calvert, |
Assistant, | Frank M. Dixon, |
Assistant, | William P. Hazelgrove, |
Assistant, | Roger Stanley, |
Assistant, Librarian, | Walter Wyatt, Jr. |
1. Anatomy: | |
Instructor, | T. B. Reeves, |
2. Histology & Embryology: | |
Assistant, | G. A. Pagenstecher, |
3. Physiology: | |
Assistant, | Ezra Eugene Neff, |
4. Bacteriology & Pathology: | |
Assistant, | M. F. Haralson, M. D., |
Student Assistant, | Claude Moore, |
Student Assistant, | G. B. Gilmore, |
5. Pharmacology, Materia Medica, etc: | |
Instructor, | J. E. Faris, |
6. Clinical Medicine: |
Applied Mathematics: | (promoted) |
Instructor, | |
Electrical Engineering: | |
Assistant, | A. W. Wright, |
Sophomore Drawing: | |
Instructor, | J. E. Bomar, |
Freshman Drawing, | |
Assistant, | Charles Henderson, |
Civil Engineering: | |
Assistant, | L. H. Williamson, |
Civil Engineering: | |
Assistant, | R. Emmett, Jr. |
Mechanical Engineering: | |
Assistant, | H. L. MacCarter, |
Mechanical Engineering: | |
Assistant, | A. S. Wise, |
Assistant, | Henry Trautman. |
The following Scholarships and Fellowships were awarded:
Valentine Birely Scholarship: | |
Dean White Hendrickson, | Frederick, Md. |
Thompson Brown Scholarship: | |
John DuBose Barnwell, B. A. | Claussens, S. C. |
Henry Coalter Cabell Scholarship: | |
Marion S. Dimmock, | Richmond, Va. |
Isaac Cary Scholarships: | |
George Scott Shackelford, Jr., | Orange, Va. |
Robert Hill Carter | Orange, Va. |
William C. Folkes Scholarships: | |
John Camm, Jr., | Lynchburg, Va. |
William Harvey Whitmore, | Lynchburg, Va. |
Bennett Wood Green Scholarships: | |
John Owen Beaty, M. A., | Ruckersville, Va. |
Douglas Ramsay Semmes, M. A., | Richmond, Va. |
Daniel Harmon Scholarship: | |
William A. Stuart, B. A., | Boydton, Va. |
Kalford Wall Howard, B. S., | Portsmouth, Va. |
McCormick Scholarship: | |
R. K. Blakey, | Charlottesville, Va. |
Isabella Merrick Sampson Scholarship: | |
Crawford Patterson Livesay, | Red Hill, Va. |
James H. Skinner Scholarships; | |
R. Robert Jones, | Petersburg, Va. |
C. F. Peterson, | Washington, D. C. |
W. S. Newton, | Norfolk, Va. |
William Charles Ewing, | Chrisfield, Md. |
Gordon Lee Harwell, | Mesilla Park, N. M. |
James Keith Marshall Lee, | Charlottesville, Va. |
Tilgham Hollyday Sharp, | Norfolk, Va. |
T. N. Barth, | Mt. Savage, Md. |
Ryan Scholarships: | |
First District, T. E. DuVal, Jr., | Gloucester, Va. |
Second District, James Kerr, B. A., | Norfolk, Va. |
Third District, W. A. Williams, Jr., B. A. | Richmond, Va. |
Fourth District, C. P. Reynolds, | Chase City, Va. |
Fifth District J. P. Harrison, Jr., | Danville, Va. |
Sixth District S. M. Foster, | Lynchburg, Va. |
Seventh District C. C. Carroll, | Charlottesville, Va. |
Eighth District W. G. C. Macdonald, | Leesburg, Va. |
Ninth District W. H. Nickels, Jr., B. | S. Big Stone Gap, Va. |
Tenth District F. S. Crosby, | Staunton, Va. |
John Y. Mason Fellowship: | |
E. J. Oglesby, M. A., | Glade Spring, Va. |
Phelps-Stokes Fellowship: | |
T. R. Snavely, A. B., | Pennington Gap, Va. |
William Cabell Rives Fellowship: | |
Thomas Stuart Luck, A. B., | Ashland, Va. |
Vanderbilt Fellowships: | |
C. P. Olivier, | Charlottesville, Va. |
H. L. Alden, M. S., | Topeka, Kan. |
P. H. Graham, M. A., | Jonesville, Va. |
With reference to the re-appointment of holders of certain
scholarships, the following resolutions were adopted:
RESOLVED: That the re-appointment of Mr. Bethea to a Skinner
Scholarship be rejected.
RESOLVED: That the re-appointment of Messrs. Smith and Van
Horne to the Skinner Scholarships be referred to a committee
consisting of the Rector, the President and the Dean with power
Professors Newcomb, Goodwin and Dobie applied to the
Board for permission to install a heating plant in the Mallet
house, but it was deemed inexpedient to grant permission
to do so in view of the possibility of a general heating plant
being installed in the near future.
Dr. Hugh Young presented to the Board the following
communication from a special committee of the Executive
Committee of the General Alumni Association:
A special Committee of three appointed by the
Executive Committee of the General Alumni Association
to consider, with power to act, the question of financing
the Secretary of the Alumni Association and his office,
begs leave to announce to the Board of Visitors that it
has decided to recommend to the Alumni Association that
it guarantee the sum of $2500.00 yearly for three years,
which with the $1500.00 a year appropriated by the Board
of Visitors for the same purpose and which we assume will
be continued, will make $4000.00 a year, the sum estimated
sufficient to conduct this important work.
Pursuant with the foregoing offer, the following resolution
was unanimously adopted:
RESOLVED: That it is the sense of this Board that it approves
the resolution of the Alumni Executive Committee with reference
to the continuation of the appropriation of $1500 per year to
the employment of the Alumni Secretary, and that it is the
purpose of this Board to continue this appropriation for three
Senator John Sharp Williams, President of the General
Alumni Association, appeared before the Board and presented
verbally a resolution of said Alumni Association, urging upon
the Rector & Visitors, the importance of instituting a school
of International and Institutional Law, a school of Political
Science and a School of Spanish and Portuguese, whereupon
the following resolution was adopted:
Senator John Sharp Williams, President of the Alumni
Association, having presented on behalf of the Association a
resolution of the Executive Committee, requesting the Board
to establish a chair of Political Science, and the Chair of
Spanish and Portuguese,
RESOLVED: That the Board has heard of the action of the
Executive Committee of the Alumni with great pleasure and satisfaction,
and accept with equal pleasure the tender on behalf
of the Alumni Association of their services in forwarding
the establishment of these chairs.
That it is with regret that the Board announces that the
plans suggested by the Alumni are impossible to put into
present concrete form by reason of the existing insufficiency
of funds; but that the Board would gladly avail itself for
such purpose of any aid that might be rendered it by the General
Assembly of Virginia, the Alumni Association, the Alumni of
the University generally, and by generous friends of the institution
everywhere. —
RESOLVED: That the Board heartily approves the measure
suggested by the Alumni, as it is one which the Board has had
in mind and purpose for the past several years.
The following proposition of the Class of 1908, looking
to the establishment of a School of Journalism was approved
and adopted:
The officers of the Class of 1908 respectfully
submit to the President of the University the following
offer with the request that the matter be laid by him
before the Board of Visitors. The officers of the class
will secure from the class a guarantee to pay to the
University of Virginia a sum of $1200.00 per year for
three years, this sum to be used as the salary for a
Professor of Journalism in the University. If this is
approved by the President and the Board of Visitors
the officers of the class hope to secure this guarantee
by the beginning of the session of 1915-16.
The following reasons have led the officers of
the class to take this step. Since its organization,
the class has been desirous of inaugurationg some
method by means of which the class might express in concrete
form to Alma Mater, its loyalty to her purposes
and ideals and its desire to further her development.
The plan first considered was the creation of a sinking
fund, which fund was to be turned over to the University
upon the death of the latest surviving member of the
class. This plan has been rejected, because first,
its fruition was necessarily too long postponed, and nence
lacked the tangibility and imaginative appeal required
to secure complete support from alumni of this University
to whom organized alumni work has no background of
tradition and custom on which to rest; and secondly, because
the difficulties encountered in the organization
of this, the pioneer class, rendered the launching of such
a plan impracticable in the first five years of the class's
corporate existence.
The present offer seems highly suitable to the officers
of the Class for the following reasons:
1st., Courses in Journalism have long been a felt
need in the work of the University; this is proven by
the yearly agitation in the student body in favor of such
courses, and by the fact that men have been lost to the
University, who would have entered, had there been such
courses offered.
Secondly, Courses in Journalism were formerly given,
and the dropping of these courses has proved a disappointment
to student body and alumni.
Thirdly, This plan has the needed concreteness and
tangibility and will have a powerful appeal to the
members of the class.
Fourthly, While the Class of 1908, which in no
way would condition its gift upon the appointment to
the position of Professor of Journalism a person of
their own choosing, yet we would respectfully point out
that Mr. Leon R. Whipple, who formerly taught the courses
in Journalism, is a member of the Class of 1908. President
Alderman has expressed himself as believing in Mr.
Whipple's eminent fitness for the place. The appointment,
therefore, of Mr. Whipple would be a source of pleasure
and gratification to the Class of 1908 and an added incentive
to giving their support to this plan.
Fifthly, we respectfully point out that this gift,
if accepted, would serve as an example and stimulus of
great value in leading other classes to give their support
to the University in some equally immediate and practical
way.
Finally, the officers would like to say that they
have consulted certain members of the class and have,
found them enthusiastic about the plan. The officers
have also carefully studied the personnel of the class
and have estimated the dependence that can be placed
upon their promises of support in the light of the history
of the class since its organization. The officers,
therefore, feel confident that the plans suggested above
can be successfully carried out.
Mr. Allan Perkins, attorney for the University, appeared
and submitted to the Board the following paper in connection
with the sale of certain land belonging to the estate of the
late Cumberland George Herndon, which was adopted:
Under the will of the late Dr. Cumberland George
Herndon, which bears date on the 21st day of August,
1902, and which has been duly admitted to probate and
recorded in the District of Columbia, certain legacies
were given to the University of Virginia and to other
parties named therein, payable out of the residium of
his estate under the 8th Clause of said will.
With the exception of Mrs. Lizzie H. Rixey, Mrs.
Lizzie H. Stearns and George H. Sinclair, all of the other
interested in said legacies have departed this life, leaving
the University and the persons just named the only parties
interested in the residium of said estate.
And by a contract under date of March 28th, 1913,
the said Mrs. Lizzie H. Rixey, Mrs. Lizzie H. Stearnes,
George H. Sinclair and the Rector and Visitors of the
University of Virginia agreed that said residium should
of which should be paid to the said Mrs. Stearns,
one-third to the said George H. Sinclair and one-third
to the University of Virginia.
We are informed that a portion of the residium
of the estate of said Cumberland George Herndon consists
in the joint ownership with Mrs. C. J. Rixey, Sr.,
of a one-fifth undivided interest in a tract of about
200 acres of land in Spottsylvania County, Virginia, the
land being poor and of very little value.
We are further informed through Mr. J. G. Hiden,
an Attorney of Culpeper, Virginia, who represents some of
the parties in interest, that an offer of $200.00 cash
has been received for this one-fifth interest.
The share of Dr. Herndon's estate in this one-fifth
interest in said 200 acres of land being one-half thereof,
would amount to $100.00 on the basis of the present offer.
And in accordance with the terms of the contract of
March 28th, 1913, above referred to, the share of the
University therein amounts to $33.33.
As we are informed by Mr. Hiden that all the other
parties in interest desire that said land be sold and
the proceeds divided, therefore be it
RESOLVED: That the Rector be and is hereby directed
to unite in a deed along with the other parties owning
interests in said land for the purpose of conveying to
the purchaser or purchasers thereof, upon the payment
of said sum of $33.33 in cash, all right, title or interest
of any kind that is now owned by the Rector and
Visitors of the University of Virginia in and to said
200 acres of land in Spottsylvania County under the
will of said Cumberland George Herndon above referred to.
Mr. Perkins also submitted a report looking to a
contract between the University and the City of Charlottesville
in re.- sewer connection; same was disposed of in the following
resolution, which was adopted:
RESOLVED: That the report submitted by the attorney, looking
to a contract between the University and the City of Charlottesville
providing for the use of the city's sewer system by the
University, be and is hereby approved, and the Rector is hereby
authorized to execute a contract with the City of Charlottesville,
conforming to the terms set forth in Mr. Perkins' report.
The plans and specifications for the new wing to the
Hospital were presented to the Board, and referred to a
special committee consisting of the President, Mr. Michie,
Dr. Watts, Dr. Whitehead and Dr. Lambeth with power to act.
The following gentlemen were appointed to constitute
the Executive Committee, to serve until the next annual
meeting of the Board:
Geo. R. B. Michie, Dr. W. F. Drewry, John W. Craddock,
Walter T. Oliver and the Rector.
On motion, the meeting then adjourned.
Rector.
Secretary.
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