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A called meeting of the Rector and Visitors was held on this date with the
Rector, Fred W. Scott, and Visitors Garnett, Rinehart, Walker, L. C. Williams and R. Gray
Williams, and President Newcomb present.

The President announced the total enrollment for the winter session to date 2338,
which was a decrease of 150 for the same date of the previous session. He further announced
the total enrollment for all departments, as follows:

         

Regular session (1933-34)	2,338
Summer session (1933) net	1,163
Extension Division	878
Nurses Training School	151
Total	4,530

The following gifts were announced:

                 

From the late Edward Dean Richmond, an alumnus, in his will	$ 60,000
From the Estate of Jonathan Bryan, (previously reported to the Board, but money actually received on November 1, 1933)	20,000
From the Carnegie Corporation, a set of Music Study Equipment, valued at	2,500
From the National Research Council, for the establishment of the Mallinckrodt Fellowship for research in Alkaloid Chemistry	1,000
From Yale University, a portfolio of twenty etchings, - scenes from the life George Washington, valued at	500
(This was made possible by a gift to Yale University by a generous friend of that Institution.)
From Dr. Malvern B. Clopton, of St. Louis, for the development of the personnel in the Surgical Department of the University of Virginia	500
From Dr. William A. Lambeth, to the School of Italian, one Fifteenth Century Italian Mirror, one Sixteenth Century Italian Console, two Italian lamp stands, one della Robbia flower pot, and two brass urns, valued at	275
	$ 84,775

On recommendation of the President, the following leaves of absence were granted:

The President announced that during the summer he had appointed Frederick T. Morse
as Acting Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering for the session of 1933-34, at a
base salary of $3,200 - reduced 20% - an actual salary for the nine months of $2,560. The
appointment was ratified.

Upon the recommendation of the President, the following were adopted:

In connection with the application of the University of Virginia for a loan and
grant from the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works for the erection of an
Engineering Building, the President stated that he had received from Governor Pollard a form
of resolution desired to be adopted by the Rector and Visitors. The proposed resolution was
considered, amended, and adopted, as follows:

• 1. That no request will be made for an appropriation from the State of
  Virginia for the payment of any expenses incurred in equipping or
  maintaining the said project, or in providing the funds required for
  liquidating the indebtedness incurred for the erection or equipment
  thereof.

• 2. That such additional fees shall be assessed against the students at
  the University of Virginia, and such other persons or agencies as may
  be served by the proposed project when completed, as may be found
  necessary to provide sufficient funds for the equipment and maintenance
  of said project, and for the erection and equipment thereof, should the
  income available for this purpose be found inadequate therefor.

• 3. That all fees, rents and charges derived from the operation of the
  project in excess of annual interest and sinking fund or bond redemption
  requirements will, upon receipt thereof be paid into the state treasury
  to the credit of the University of Virginia, for expenditure for the
  aforesaid purposes.

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• 4. That the fees, rents and charges derived from the project and allocated
  to the payment of interest and sinking fund or bond redemption requirements
  thereon, shall, provided the said Federal Emergency Administration of
  Public Works agrees thereto, be paid into the state treasury, to the credit
  of the University of Virginia, for expenditure for the aforesaid purposes.

• 5. That any fees, rents and charges coming from the Engineering Department
  not necessary each year to pay interest and sinking fund or bond requirements
  on the project shall be available for the expenses of the University.

President Newcomb stated that some study had been given to the question of making
application to the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works for a grant and gift
for erecting a private ward to the University Hospital, but that the committee was not
ready to report its findings for action by the Board at this meeting, and requested that
the Rector appoint a Special Committee of the Board to consider the project and report to
a special meeting to be held on December 4th. The Rector appointed the following Special
Committee to study and report upon the project: Rinehart, L. C. Williams and R. Gray
Williams.

The President reported to the Board the continued illness of Dean J. M. Page and
explained that he would be eligible for retirement on the Carnegie Foundation on March 4,
1934, when he would be seventy years old, and asked with respect to continuing his salary,
whereupon the following was adopted:

The meeting then adjourned to December 4th, at 11 o'clock.