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RESOLVED, by the Rector and Visitors of the University of
Virginia, That the resignation of Professor William Mynn Thornton as
Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Virginia be
accepted with regret. The Board of Visitors desire to place on record
their appreciation of the character, the devotion to duty, the unusual
attainments in scholarship and teaching ability of Professor Thornton,
as exemplified in a continuous service of fifty-six years at the University
of Virginia.

The Rector and Visitors wish for Professor Thornton the pleasure
and freedom that comes of duty nobly done, and they desire the privilege
of retaining him as Emeritus Professor of Applied Mathematics
upon the rolls of the University.

RESOLVED, by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia
that the resignation of Dr. Allen F. Voshell be accepted with regret.
Dr. Voshell has carried forward his work here with devotion and
skill, and the Rector and Visitors wish him continued success in his
new field.

Rowland A. Egger, Associate Professor of Political Science, at a salary
of $4,000 per annum, incumbency to begin about July 1, 1931. Professor
Egger will also head the Bureau of Municipal Research in the Institute
for Research in the Social Sciences.

Dr. John M. Nokes, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, at
a salary of $3,000 per annum, incumbency to begin September 15, 1931.

Dr. Alfred Burger, Research Assistant Professor, at a salary of $2,500
per annum.

Hardy Cross Dillard, Acting Assistant Professor of Law, for the session
of 1931-32, at a salary of $3,000. Mr. Dillard is substituting for
Professor F. D. G. Ribble who will be abroad on leave of absence.

Professor F. C. S. Northrop, Professor of Philosophy at Yale University,
Visiting Professor of Philosophy for the session of 1931-32, at a salary
of $3,500. Professor Northrop is to substitute for Professor Scott M.
Buchanan, who will be absent on leave during next session.

Instructors

Mrs. A. Vyssotsky, Research Associate in Astronomy.

Dr. Dirk Reuyl, Instructor in Astronomy

Elton Cromwell Cocke, Instructor in Biology.

Gilford Godfrey Quarles, Instructor in Physics.

James E. Ward, Jr., Instructor in Rural Social Economics.

William Edgar Byrd, Jr., Part time Instructor in Rural Social Economics.

RESOLVED, by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia
that the request signed by the Peoples National Bank of Charlottesville
and the National Bank and Trust Company of Charlottesville, that the rate
of interest paid to the University of Virginia on its average balance in
its checking accounts in the two banks be reduced from 3% to 2%, be and
is hereby granted.

(Mr. Rinehart did not vote on the question)

RESOLVED, by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia,
That inasmuch a the relative status of commissioned officers of the
Public Health Service has been recognized by Congress as on a par with
that of officers of the Army and Navy, the same regulations which apply
to admission to the University of Virginia of sons of commissioned officers
of the Army and Navy shall obtain for sons of commissioned officers of the
Public Health Service, (this to take effect beginning with the session
1931-32).

RESOLVED, by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia,
That the Acting President of the University, in consultation with the Deans
and Committees appointed by the Acting President from the staff, be empowered
during the summer to employ those professors who have been authorized
by the Board but who have not yet been selected. It is understood that all
actions of the Acting President and Committees will be brought to the Board
for ratification at their next meeting.

RESOLVED, by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia,
That Fred W. Scott, Rector of the University, be and he is hereby authorized
and empowered to sign for sale or transfer the following certificates of
stock of the Boston Elevated Railway Company, standing in the name of the
Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia.

Certificate for ten shares of preferred stock.

Certificate for fifty shares second preferred stock.

RESOLVED, That out of the surplus of $6,400.00 from the Summer Quarter
for 1930 there be appropriated the sum of $3,500.00 for the Institute of Public
Affairs for 1931. This appropriation is made with the understanding that it is
not a recurring one.

RESOLVED, That the Acting President be authorized to purchase the
Holladay lot on the south side of the Old Lynchburg Road along the boundary
of the University's property, located opposite the point of intersection of
the Old Lynchburg Road and the road to be constructed from the Observatory
Road, upon the best terms available, with power to sell or lease such portion
of the lot as may not be necessary for University purposes.

EDWIN ANDERSON ALDERMAN

The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia inexpressibly
shocked and grieved at the announcement of the sudden death of Dr. Edwin
A. Alderman, the President of the University, which occurred on the night
of April the 29th while on his way to the University of Illinois to deliver
an address at the inauguration of its President, desire to record on their
minutes some expression of their sense of the loss which has been sustained

in his death by the University, the State of Virginia and the cause of
education throughout the country, especially in the South where his life
was passed, as well as of their own sense of personal bereavement occasioned
by this sad event.

Dr. Alderman's whole life since his early manhood was devoted to
educational work. Beginning in his youth in his native State of North
Carolina he travelled over the State with his friend and colleague, Dr.
Chas. D. McIvor, in an effort to awaken interest in popular education and
so successful were these pioneers that their labors marked the beginning
of a new era in the educational history of that State, and set in motion
influences for good which have continued to this day.

After serving for some years as President of the University of
North Carolina he accepted the presidency of Tulane University, whence in
1904 he came to the University of Virginia as its first President, and for
twenty-seven years he served it with unsurpassed loyalty, ability and
devotion.

His task, especially in the early years of his administration, was
one of peculiar difficulty. Owing to the traditions which had grown up
around the University since its foundation and the spirit of conservatism
which prevailed with reference to everything connected with it, including
its courses of study and its method of government, there were not a few
among its alumni, in its faculty and its student body who regarded the
change involved in the election of a President in the light of a doubtful
if not a dangerous innovation, and who feared that as the result of this
innovation the University would lose those distinctive characteristics
which differentiated it from other institutions and for which it was most
highly esteemed and venerated. Under these circumstances the new President,
who was progressive as well as conservative, could not, certainly in the
beginning of his administration, reasonably anticipate sympathetic and
wholehearted co-operation in his plans for the development of the University.
The situation in order to be successfully met demanded in an unusual degree
wisdom and tact and patience as well as courage and resolution. That it was
successfully met and that the expediency of the change from the old order to
the new was amply vindicated is now a matter of history. Through a gradual
process of growth and development the University of Virginia has become a
modern University. Its material advancement during the last twenty-seven
years has been very great. Its student enrollment, not including the Summer
Quarter and the Extension Schools, has increased from about seven hundred
to more than twenty-five hundred, its faculty from fifty-five to more than
three hundred; its endowment from three hundred and fifty thousand to ten
million dollars, its buildings and material equipment immensely increased,
and its annual income from one hundred and sixty thousand to two million,
one hundred fifty thousand dollars. But with all the growth and change which
has taken place its most precious possessions, the intangible but invaluable
things of the spirit which have characterized the University since its
foundation, honor and truth and manliness and courtesy, and courage and
patriotism and freedom of thought have been cherished and preserved.

Dr. Alderman has been conservatively progressive. He jealously
strove to guard and preserve what was best from the past, while eagerly seeking
whatever good could be gained from the increasing knowledge and experience
of men. Thoroughly in sympathy with the educational ideals of the founder and
father of the University he thought of popular education as an unity, a system
extending from the primary schools up to the University as its cap stone, and
he conceived the true function of a University to be that expressed in the motto
of the Prince of Wales, to serve, first of all its own students, then as a
State University to serve the people of the State in as many ways as possible,
then in a broader sense to increase the sum of human knowledge and assist in
the discovery of truth for the benefit of all mankind. In conformity with
this conception the University under his leadership has been and is progressing
in its approach towards the realization of these ideals.

With its Summer Quarter and Extension Schools, its Library extension
features, which make available as far as practicable the facilities of the
Library for the use of the people of the State and the public schools of the
State, the admission of women to its graduate and professional schools, the
research and statistical work being done by the School of Rural and Social
Economics, its periodic publications, its Institute of Public Affairs, its
greatly enlarged hospital facilities permitting the extension of its benefits
constantly more widely, not to mention other agencies, the University of
Virginia touches the life of the State today more widely and more helpfully
than ever before in its history. In addition, a considerable amount of
original research work is being done in several departments and its results
published.

The Personal and official relations of Dr. Alderman with the members
of the Board of Visitors serving with him have always been of the most cordial
and pleasant character. His unswerving loyalty and devotion to the interests
of the University, his untiring and successful labors in its behalf, his farsighted
vision of its ever increasing needs and his efforts to make provision
for them, his broad and statesman-like views of its policies, his eloquent
and brilliant advocacy of its claims upon the consideration of the representatives
of the State as well as upon benevolent agencies and individuals, his
ceaseless dreaming and planning for its greater usefulness and influence won for
him their unstinted admiration and esteem; while his charming personal qualities,
his unfailing courtesy, his sympathetic understanding and consideration of views
and opinions which might differ from his own, his warmhearted and generous personal
interest in every member of this body gained their affection and made him
their friend, so that his death has produced in all his official family a feeling
of poignant personal bereavement.