Board of Visitors minutes May 31, 1921 | ||
May 31, 1921.
A special meeting of the Rector and Visitors was held on
this date at which were present the Rector John Stewart Bryan,
and Visitors Dillard, Duke, Greever, Hatton, Robertson and Scott.
The minutes of the meeting of May 18th, at which a quorum
was not present, were read, and upon motion, ratified.
The President announced the following gifts:
A check for $20,000 received from the executors of the
will of the late T. Jefferson Coolidge, in payment of a bequest
previously reported to the Board.
From the family of Mrs. Kate A. Tuttle, the sum of $625
for the establishment of the Kate Austin Tuttle Fellowship for
Women, to which it is proposed to add later.
A gift from the General Education Board of the additional
sum of $50,000 payable during the next five years for the purpose
of increasing teachers' salaries, as set forth in the following
letter:
University of Virginia,
University, Virginia.
Confirming the following telegram which I sent to you
under date of May 31st, 1921, -
"Board appropriated Fifty Thousand Dollars May twenty-sixth
in addition to a similar sum appropriated February
Twenty-fourth total of One Hundred Thousand
Dollars for increase of teachers' salaries payable
Thirty Thousand Dollars next year and diminishing
Five Thousand Dollars per year till exhausted. Letter
giving condition of gift follows. No action taken
on request for endowment." -
I have pleasure in informing you that the General Education
Board, at the meeting held May 26th, took the following action:
Resolved, That the executive officers of the General Education
Board be, and they hereby are, authorized in their discretion
to commit the Board to an amount not to exceed
One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000) to the University
of Virginia, University, Virginia, made or to be made for
the five years beginning July 1, 1921, to be distributed
as follows:
$30,000 for the year 1921-22
25,000 for the year 1922-23
20,000 for the year 1923-24
15,000 for the year 1924-25
10,000 for the year 1925-26
in place of the appropriation of Fifty Thousand Dollars
($50,000) for the three years beginning July 1, 1921,
made February 24, 1921 for the same purpose, which is
hereby cancelled.
The above appropriation will be paid in cash on October
1st and April 1st of each year, unless you are advised to
the contrary. Shortly before October 1st a form of requisition
will be sent you for you to kindly fill out and
return to us.
Yours very truly,
The President was requested to convey to the General
Education Board their expressions of appreciation and gratitude,
which he did as per the following letter:
General Education Board,
New York City.
Please pardon my delay in making formal answer to your
telegram of May 31st, but I have been in the midst of Centennial,
and this is the morning after.
It is difficult for me to express to you and, through
you, to the Board, the appreciation the University has for
the action taken May 26th. It was a handsome action which
this institution will never forget, and I am authorized to
extend, on behalf of the Board of Visitors, as well as the
alumni, the grateful appreciation of the University of
Virginia for their action. I understand perfectly the
nature of the gift as set forth in detail in your letter
of June 1st, I approve heartily of that method of giving,
and of the purpose involved in the gift. I shall cause
the money given shall be used for precisely the purpose
indicated.
I was able to announce a total of $1,500,000 as the
net result of our strivings during the spring months.
$200,000 of this sum was given as an independent gift for
specific reasons, but given for endowment. This is not
so bad for this period of deflation and depression.
Assuring you of our gratitude and good will, I am,
A gift from Paul Goodloe McIntire of the sum of $200,000
for the establishment and maintenance of a school or department
of Commerce and Finance, as per the following letter:
University of Virginia.
In pursuance of our conference, I beg you
will convey to the Rector and Visitors my purpose, if it be
in accord with their wishes, to give the sum of $200,000
for the establishment and maintenance within the University
of Virginia of a School or Department of Commerce and Finance,
utilizing as far as possible the basis of such School or
Department now in existence. The purpose of this school
or department shall be to give such training for the career
of business as will give our youth knowledge and skill in
that field, and will inculcate in them those habits of economy
and integrity upon which our whole economic life depends.
The conditions I deem it wise to put upon this gift are the
following:-
1. This capital sum of $200,000 shall be setaside solely
for the endowment for the School or Department designated,
and the interest on it shall be used for the support of this
school or department and for no other purpose.
2. This endowment of $200,000 shall be treated as a gift
independent of the Centennial Endowment Fund, and not subject
to any charges falling upon or connected with that fund.
3. This endowment shall be placed in trust for the
Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia in the
United States Trust Company of 45 Wall St., New York, and the
interest on the capital sum shall be paid by the United States
Trust Company of New York, to the Rector and Visitors for the
purposes indicated.
Assuring you of my unfailing interest in the growth of
in the developments of well organized courses for the teaching
of commerce and finance and for the proper preparation
of young men for the opportunities, duties, and responsibilities
of business life, I am,
The foregoing gift was accepted with sincere thanks, and
the President was requested to express to Mr. McIntire the appreciation
and gratitude of the Board for this new manifestation
of his wisdom and benevolence, which the President conveyed in
the following letter:
University, Va.
I had the honor to transmit your communication
of May 30th, to the Rector and Visitors at their annual
meeting on May 31st, 1921. The farseeing gift which it
announces was accepted by them unanimously and with deep
appreciation of the wisdom of the purpose for which the
endowment is intended. I was directed by them to express to
you their apprediation and gratitude for this new manifestation
of your wisdon and beneficence. They begged me to
assure you that they were accepting this gift mindful of all
the conditions named by you which they consider wise and helpful
conditions. It will be their purpose to carry out your
wishes rigidly and to seek by all just means to develop the
great new department which this endowment makes possible in
the life of the University. I need not assure you of my
own personal appreciation of the greatness and wisdom of your
services to this institution in its effort to serve the youth
of this and other generations.
The President presented the following report of the
Committee on the site of the proposed new gymnasium:
The Committee appointed by the Board of Visitors of
the University of Virginia to investigate and report upon
a site and plans for the proposed new gymnasium met at the
president's office at 3 P. M., April 30th, the following
gentlemen being present: Dr. Alderman, Dr. Lambeth, Mr.
Robertson, Mr. Duke and Mr. Michie. Mr. Bryan and Dr. Warren
were unable to attend. Dr. Lambeth was asked to act as
chairman of the committee and Mr. Michie as secretary.
After some discussion of various possible methods of
selecting an architect, a motion was adopted to the effect
that several distinguished Virginia alumni who were architects
should be invited to act as a commission, along
with an outside, preferably Mr. Peadbody, of New York, and
Professor Kimball of the University, in deciding upon the
general plans for the building, the detail work and drafting
to be done by the University School of Architecture under
the direction of Professor Kimball. It was further resolved
that a nominal fee, of perhaps $500, should be offered each
of the gentlemen on the commission, and a somewhat larger
fee to Professor Kimball in view of the more extensive
work which he would be required to do under the plan.
Dr. Lambeth was instructed to communicate with the architect
to see if they would assent to the plan.
The subject of the site was then taken up and after
discussion of several different possibilities, a committee
consisting of Dr. Alderman, Dr. Lambeth, Mr. Duke and Mr.
Michie was appointed to meet the Board of Trustees of the
Y. M. C. A. to consult with them as to the possibility
of securing the site now used by the Y. M. C. A. for
Tennis courts. Dr. Lambeth as asked to arrange this meeting.
The Committee then adjourned.
The President stated that a meeting had been held by the
Board of Directors of the Y. M. C. A. for the purpose of securing
a site on the land now used for tennis courts, and presented the
following paper drawn up by the Board of Directors with respect
to transfer of apart of its land for the aforesaid purpose:
The Board of Directors of the Y. M. C. A. of the University
of Virginia, Inc., hereby resolves to convey to the Rector
land extending from Rugby Road to Madison Lane and from
the north boundry of the Association property to the line
of the northern-most backstop of the tennis courts, being
a rectangular strip of land approximately 300 × 100 ft. for
the following consideration and under the following donditions,
to wit:
1. Cash consideration of ($5,000) Five Thousand Dollars.
2. Condition that this land be used for the erection
and maintenance of a gymnasium or other University
purpose.
3. Condition that the Rector and Visitors assume the
responsibility for the operation of the present Y. M. C. A.
tennis courts, collecting such fees for the use of these
courts as they may deem it necessary to impose.
4. Condition that if the Y. M. C. A. of the University
of Virginia, Inc. desires the use of that portion of its
property now used for tennis courts for any other purpose
the Rector and Visitors of the University agree to give up
this land on one years notice.
5. Condition that the Rector and Visitors of the
University of Virginia guarantee to the Y. M. C. A. of the
University of Virginia, Inc. the perpetual right of way
for a sewer line across said property to be conveyed and also
assume financial responsibility for making any change
in the present sewer which may be rendered necessary by the
erection of the proposed building.
This transfer is not complete until and unless these
conditions are complied with.
After due consideration of the conditions contained in
the foregoing paper, it was deemed inexpedient to close the bargain,
and in view of the fact that President Alderman is President of
the Board of Directors of the Y. M. C. A. and preferred that some
one else should act as a representative of the University, the
Rector was requested to meet with the Board of Directors and take
up certain of the conditions which it is felt shoould be changed
before any final action is taken by the Board.
The following resolution was adopted with reference to the
new heating plant:
WHEREAS the Committee on Heating, consisting of
John Stewart Bryan, Fred W. Scott, W. R. Duke, has
carefully considered on May 27th, 1921 the various reports
and p;ans for heating the University submitted by Wiley
and Wilson, Whitehurst, Professor Hancock, and E. J.
Willis, chairman of the Governor's Board of Mechanical
Survey, and
WHEREAS the Committee is of the opinion that the
site for future development should be located at the present
new site and that supervision of the plant and choice of
the system should be put under the Department of Engineering
subject to the ratification of the Rector and Board of
Visitors, now therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the Rector and Board of Visitors approve
the choice of the new site for the development of a Central
Heating Plant, and further that the Engineering Department,
to-wit: Messrs. Thornton, Newcomb, Rodman, Miller and Hancock,
be appointed as the committee in charge of such
development, subject to the approval of the Board, and
further in the specific case before the Rector and Board
of Visitors be it resolved that the committee above designated
be authorized to expend the sum of $60,000 in the development
of the new site as a Central Heating Plant subject to
the approval of the details of such extension by the Committed
on Heating, with further authority to said committee
to retain such expert assistance as to such committee may
seem desirable.
The following resolution offered by Mr. Robertson was adopted:
WHEREAS, By Act of March 26, 1918, the General Assembly of
Virginia authorized the presentation to the Government of
Great Britain by the Commonwealth of Virginia of a replica,
or copy in bronze, of the Houdon statue of George Washington,
to be made from moulds owned by the State, under the
direction of and to be presented by a commission composed
of the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, and Speaker of the
House of Delegates, or such person or persons as they might
designate to represent them, and the Clerk of the House of
Delegates, who should act as Secretary of said commission, and
made an appropriation for that purpose; and
WHEREAS the Governor of Virginia appointed as Chairman
of said commission, in his room and stead, Dr. Edwin A.
Alderman, the President of the University of Virginia; and
WHEREAS, at the time contemplated for the presentation
of the statue, by reason of circumstances which in his
opinion required that he should give his whole strength and
time to the services of the University of Virginia in connection
with the raising of the Centennial Endowment Fund, and
to the duties demanded of him by the celebration of the One
President Alderman unselfishly and patriotically has
declined the distinguished and honorable office thus conferred
on him, and has surrendered the opportunity of making
the voyage to Great Britain and of presenting this gift
of the Old Dominion to the Mother country:
RESOLVED, by the Rector and Visitors of the University
of Virginia, that they make record on their minutes of the
deep regret which they feel of the deprivation on the part
of the Commonwealth of the services of President Alderman
in the performance of this notable function, and their
profound appreciation of his selfsacrifice in declining
through a sense of unselfish devotion and patriotic loylaty
to the interests of this University an office which he would
have conspicuously adorned.
RESOLVED, That this resolution be spread on the minutes
of the Board, and that a copy signed by the Rector and
attested by the Secretary be presented to Dr. Alderman with
the assurance of the admiration and affectionate regard
of the Rector and Visitors.
The following recommendations of the General Faculty proposing
changes in requirements for B. A. and B. S. degrees were
adopted:
At their meeting of April 8, 1921, the General Faculty
adopted the following:
The degree of Bachelor of Arts or of Bachelor of
Science respectively will be conferred on regular students,
who have completed not less that 63 session hours of undergraduate
courses, taken in conformity with the following
programme:
(1) Required subjects:- Candidates for either cultural
degree must take 33 hours of required subjects as stated
below, three hours of which must be Physical Training. Of
the remaining 30 hours not less than 24 hours must be taken
during the first two years and the remaining 6 hours not
later than the third year.
Foreign Languages
For the Bachelor of Arts
9 session hours in two
subjects, of which 6 must
be in either Latin or Greek.
For the Bachelor of Science
9 session hours in two subjects,
of which six must be
in either French, German,
or Spanish.
Mathametics
For either degree: Mathematics A1 or A3 - 3 session hours.
Natural Science
For either degree: Six session hours.
English
For either degree: Six session hours, 3 of which may
be in Biblical History, or Biblical Literature, or Public
Speaking; the other 3 being in English or English Literature.
Social Science
For either degree: Three session hours in History B1 or
B2 or Economics B1 or Government B1.
If Economics B1 is selected that course
cannot be taken before the candidate's
2nd year.
Philosophy
For either degree: Three session hours in Philosophy B1,
Philosophy B2, or Philosophy B3.
Physical Training
For either degree: 3 session hours.
A candidate entering with advanced standing or college
credit shall in his first, and if necessary continuously
in subsequent sessions, take such courses as are necessary
to complete these requirements for the first and second
sessions.
(2) Electives-at-Large:- Of the remaining 30 session hours
required for the baccalaureate degree, 18 session hours may
be elected from any courses in the academic schools for which
the candidate has adequate preparation.
(3) Major-Elective.- The remaining 12 session hours required
for either degree, shall be known as Major-Electives.
The Major-Electives shall include at least one C course and
must all be offered from some one of the following Major-Groups
of related subjects:
Group I. - Languages, Literature, Fine Arts and Music.
Group II. - Social and Philosophical Sciences.
Group III. - Mathematical and Natural Sciences.
(4) Substitutions for Major-Electives. - 12 session hours
of technical courses in any one of the professional departments
of Law, Medicine, Engineering or Education, may
be substituted for the 12 session hours of Major Electives
in Academic subjects.
The following Thomas Fortune Ryan Scholars were appointed
for the session 1921-22:
First District | T. L. Cockrell |
Second District | H. C. Monroe |
Third District | J. B. Christian |
Fourth District | R. B. Pinchbeck |
Fifth District | C. H. Allman |
Sixth District | Vasco R. Parrack |
Seventh District | R. L. Jackson |
Eighth District | L. D. Dawson |
Ninth District | W. M. Elswick |
Tenth District | J. S. Cunningham |
Upon the recommendation of the President, the following
Fellows, Scholars, Instructors and Assistants were appointed:
Fellowships
Mason Fellowship:
Isaac T. Musser, Jr., East Radford, Va.
Rives Fellowship:
Hugh Warren, Washington, D. C.
Scholarships
Birely Scholarship:
Lee McCardell, Braddock Heights, Md.
Louis Bennet Scholarship:
T. Nelson Parker, Richmond, Va.
Bennet Wood Green Scholarship:
Harry G. Burks, Jr., M.A. Raven & Phi Beta Kappa,
Bedford, Va.
Daniel Harmon Scholarship:-
Hawthorne D. Battle, Charlottesville, Va.
Wm. E. Holmes Scholarship:
Blackstone D. Ayres, Accomac, Va.
Garrett Scholarship:
Peyton N. Rhodes, Crozet, Va.
McCormick Scholarship:
O. B. Morrison, University, Va.
Miller Scholarship:
Emmett Lee Jones, Jr., Cumberland, Md.
Virginia Law Review Scholarship:
Anson W. H. Taylor, Editor-in-Chief, New York City.
Instructors and Assistants
Biology: | |
William Cary Holt, | Assistant |
History: | |
Shields M. Goodwin, | Instructor |
Economics: | |
A. B. Davies, Jr. | Instructor |
S. B. Akers, | Assistant |
F. N. Caldwell, | Assistant |
D. T. McNair, | Assistant |
The application of Prof. C. M. Sparrow for permission to
build on University grounds was considered and declined as it
was deemed inexpedient to grant further leases at this time
of University land, to be used as sites for residences.
The question of providing suitable housing accomodations
for the faculty of the University was discussed and referred to
the Committee on Buildings and Grounds to study and report thereon
at a later meeting; and the Finance committee was requested to report
to the Buildings and Grounds Committee the amount of endowment
fund which may be available for use in the construction of residences
for professors, and the President was requested to communicate
with the Buildings and Grounds Committee the extent of the
need for such houses.
The Bursar brought to the attention of the Board that in
accordance with its action at a former meeting, he had provided
funds to meet the expenses of the Centennial Endowment Fund and
the Centennial celebration and asked for action on the part of
the Board to reimburse his current funds for the amounts so
expended, whereupon the following resolution was adopted:
RESOLVED, That the Trustees of the Alumni Endowment Fund
will pay to the Bursar of the University such sums of money as
may have been spent by him in accordance with the resolutions
of this Board.
Dr. Hugh Young presented, on behalf of the Medical Alumni,
a series of resolutions adopted by them with respect to the consolidation
of the Medical Schools in Virginia. The resolutions
adopted by the General Faculty in the same matter were also
presented, all of which were laid over until a meeting of the
Board to be held to consider the question of consolidation of
the medical schools in Virginia.
On motion of Mr. Hatton, the following was adopted:
RESOLVED, That all the documents submitted to the Rector
and Visitors in relation to the consolidation of the medical
schools in Virginia be speedily copied and copies forwarded to
each member of the Board.
On motion the meeting then adjourned.
Rector.
Secretary.
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