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RENTAL OF MICROSCOPES

The President reported that the Acting Dean of the School of Medicine had recommended to him
that the University follow the practice being adopted in a substantial number of schools of
medicine in the country of buying fairly expensive microscopes and charging a flat fee annually to
each medical student for the rental of these microscopes over his normal four-year program of
instruction. The proposal is based on the need for the use by students of microscopes of the first
quality rather than the individual purchase by the students of the cheapest ones available

The President proposed and the Board adopted the following resolution

RESOLVED by the Board of Visitors of The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia that
the Comptroller be and he is hereby authorized to make available to the School of Medicine $87,500
to be used for the purchase of microscopes, that this amount be repaid with interest at 4 1/2 per
cent, that an appropriate amount for insurance and maintenance be provided, that all of the costs be
recovered by a fee of $40.00 per medical student during each of his four years, and that the plan is
to become effective with the entering class in September 1963 and is to be extended to each entering
class thereafter