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JOHN HARTWELL COCKE HALL.

Upon the recommendation of the President the following motion was adopted

RESOLVED, by The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia that
the old Engineering Building, formerly called the Mechanical Laboratory, which
faces the Rouss Physical Laboratory and is located at the end of West Lawn be
and the same is hereby designated

THE JOHN HARTWELL COCKE HALL

in memory of the distinguished service of General Cocke as a member of the
Governing Board of the University during its early history, it appearing to the
Board that it is fitting to recognize his service by an important memorial on
our grounds.