ee ayn see nee ee tats Satori ee Rot eriaeey ake at spate 4 a LD 5663 -A2 1906 X004640475pert Lane Lt ea tert tl Sra tare ee ee ; iN c H a § 1 : 4 a ee yAonrt sign erage statimreseneryFP Et eb ee ee) wbabily ny worteeri tet, ‘ i i Py E eee eter? Stedeteen setaeUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA Statement of Condition and Needser ee to ent oe eer’ Meee oath dee he beted er ees re oie. lias wee . : i Ei | ; ; i Es ; ear Teed et ae ee50,000 THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA Statement of Condition « Needs T'o The General Assembly of Virginia: The Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, to whom the Commonwealth commits the government of the University, has instructed me as its executive officer, to submit to vou this state- ment of the condition and needs of the institution. I appreciate sincerely this privilege and opportunity. I am not speaking as one who would point out your duty in this matter, or as one who would plead with you for the development of an institution which is yours. Hither attitude of mind on my part would be an impertinence. I simply bring you information which it is my business to know, and to communicate to the representatives of the people, who have builded this University as the cap-stone of a wise system of education, who own it now, and who are responsible to society for its development, trusting simply and entirely to their breadth of view and to their wisdom and good judgment as to what may be done for its advancement. The University of Virginia does not belong to the Board of Visitors, nor to the President and Faculty, nor even to its sons, but to the whole people, whose fathers created it, and whose sons have sustained it. Neither do I deem it my duty to use time in reciting to you any part of the story of its earnest and useful past, for I am a stranger to its training, and you are its sons and proprietors, and know out of the heart what I can know only out of bald records and a study of my country’s history. I may add that I feel deeply the solemn burden of responsibility for its wise ouidance that has come to me, for I know to the utmost how little my own strength is, if it shall be unfortified by your helpfulness and the helpfulness of its sons.ee ti eee Pair el el eke od Dea iy err Se eet et) ere or ae The University of Virginia Perhaps from the nature of my experience I do know better u how the South and the whole nation regards the Univer- Virzinia. The South sees it as their foremost institution, standing at the Northern gateway of its civilization. The rest of fhe nition sees it as the supreme intellectual achievement of South- life, bearing Virginia’s name and entrusted to Virginia’s keep- ing. Virginians see it as the head of their system of schools, striv- ing to relate itself sympathetically and helpfully to every forward interest of the Commonwealth. All men think of it as an institu- tion which, on small means, has accomplished a vast result of im- fluence and power. At no time since Mr. Jefferson’s vision of it was given to the world has public interest so centered on it, won- dering what is to be done for it and hoping that it may be enabled to fulfill its high destiny. THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA AS AN. ASSED OF DHE STALE: \ The State of Virginia has created at Charlottesville an educa- tional institution, representing a total monetary valuation of $2,- 128.000. This valuation is sub-divided as follows: Buildings, equipment and land ..... ..-. 5353 a oe With the exception of the original buildings, valued at $400,000, the land valued at $100,000, and the new Hospital valued at $70,000, this great property has come to the State in the form of cifts from private persons—equal in value to. . F80,000 Hindow men}, Tne: 4 ee eS ee ee 778.000 Bonded debt, incurred for restoration of buildings destroyed by. fire 1895, : 3°. eee 1 * 3 These large sums given by private persons have been invested as directed in buildings or chairs. They have added largely to the scope and capacity of the University, but only in small measure have they helped to bear the burdens of its daily needs, and in some instances have added to the expense of maintenance.Statement of Condition and Needs ANNUAL INCOME OF THE UNIVERSITY, Rilste SPROMer OM 6 i ks a oe.) OOOO $40,000 is given on condition that all academic schools shall be free to Virginia students. There are 170 of these at $75.00 per student, which equals $12,750. $10,000 to pay interest on bonded debt and sinking fund which requires $12,000. reMpiON Hille OUer ests aah. oo a eo SOOO ibercst onsendowment Munds. 9.243. iy. are. S255, 288000 Bamtecamd @PHer SONTCRS cog oe Pare eee ee 10,260 Oa at aware WMEORO oe ee Sk. as vied 2 5 EO ANNUAL LIABILITIES OF THE UNIVERSITY. iaferess on debt and sinkine fund, «202.002. ete 2 ee BR 000 Insurance, labor, improvements, repair, ete. ( which is a total charge of 2% on value of property)...... 31,480 Salaries of professors, instructors and executive eee ee ee 3 ee Se ee as we eee Other expenses: Advertising and printing Catalogue and bulletins, contingent expenses, stationery and postage, School of Methods, annual appropria- . KOC 5 Hite 5 SG Ry ne i Ce aon eee Total annual liabilities, .. +. .. -+ seees- o-- $176,300The University of Virgunia This indicates an apparent deficit, if our present rate of growth ‘sto be maintained, of $11,650. An interesting deduction from these fioures is the following: The interest and sinking fund charg s, $12,000, the necessary operating expenses of the University, ‘+s insurance. care and. maintenance, $36,088.. These two sums equal to $48,088: This leaves only $1,912 for instructional purposes, purely, for 170 Virginia students in academic courses. ‘There are 376 Virginia students in all departments. In other words, the Commonwealth maintains and operates an educational plant, three- fourths of which has been given to it, and student fees and tuition and endowment provide the instruction for all who may attend its courses. No greater return for an investment could be had than this. Because the growth of the University has been more rapid than the increase of the income, it has been necessary to increase the in- structors and student assistants in greater proportion than the men of higher rank. This year in the University 25 instructors and assistants are receiving compensation not averaging over $300.00 a year. ‘These men teach in the first two years, and the character of the instruction of the first two years is the determining factor in the success of the average student. The adequacy: of this maintenance, which does not include an item of $10,676 for care and maintenance of Hospital, Library and Laboratories, will be hereafter. examined. The sum: of $36,088, the necessary operating expenses of the University, its insurance, care and maintenance, is a trifle over 2% on the value of the plant, and includes in addition all operating expenses and cleri- eal services. The teaching force of the University includes 34 professors, 12 instructors, 8 officers and 29 assistants. The enrollment of stu- dents this session is 715, which will reach 730 by March 1st, di- vided by departments as follows: Academic, 287; Medicine, 121; Law, 196; Engineering, 113. The enrollment-is the largest in the institution’s history, notwithstanding the introduction of the en- trance examination system this year, which shut out a hundred or more men. ‘lhe wide influence and prestige of the University is shown by the territory represented by its students. Of the pres- ) ent enrollment, 378 are from Virginia, 329 from other states, 6Statement of Condition and Needs 7 from foreign countries; 491 from South Atlantic States, 123 from South Central States, 24 from North Central States, 44 from North Atlantic States, and eight from Western States—thirty-eight states and four foreign countries being represented. The average age 18 21 years. At the present rate of growth, the University will approximate 1,000 students in the next five years. : RECENT GROWTH IN NUMBER OF STUDENTS. Session. Academic. Engineering. Law. Medicine. Total. 1902-3. 273 42 167 150 605 1903-4. 299 58 190 164 655 1904-5. 273 88 200 145 706 1905-6 287 113 196 12] 15 STUDENT. BODY, Fifty-one per cent. of our students come from the homes of farm- ers, merchants, business men, mechanics and contractors; the re- mainder from the professional classes and government and state offi- cials. From my experience as president of three Southern universities, I have a right to a comparative judgment of the Southern college student. J wish to record a very sincere judgment as to the char- acter of the students of the University of Virginia. ‘They are a manly lot of fellows, neither better nor worse essentially, perhaps, than their fellows elsewhere, but the appeal to the best in them which has been made for generations has developed in them a peculiar qual- ity of dignity, reasonableness, uprightness, earnestness and honor. It is not true that pleasure or dissipation forms their ideals. The University of Virginia is the home of democracy, opportunity and hard work. EXPENSE OF LIVING. Tuition, which averages $75.00 a year for non- Virginians, is free to all Virginians. There are 170 Virginians in the Academic courses, and 117 non- Virginians. A general matriculation fee of $40.00 is charged all students. This $40.00 fee, which is sharply distinct from tuition, is intended to cover the following necessary expenses :P Maeda Pheer kel a ie ae ie) The University of Virginia 1. Medical attendance ; 2. Hospital facilities ; 8: Diploma. fee; 4, Gymnasium fee; 5. Library fee; 6. Matriculation fee. In 1876 the fee was $30.00 and did not include Infirmary, Med- ical attendance; Library and Diploma fees. ‘These were extra. charges, amounting to $25.00 in addition to $30.00. This total of $55.00 was reduced to $40.00 and included all charges. It is hoped that this fee can be further reduced without diminution to the ad- vantages here offered. A Virginian can live frugally at the University on the following minimum necessary annual expense: 1. Matriculation fee“ 2 3 ee 2. Lodging and hightsand heat... ..-.. #20i0e 8. yaundiry 5 4 13.00 A. Boatd: 3: i058. ei ee ee ee 108.00 a; Room Tumilshings: 2. (taste 3.75 $184.75 The figures given are such as are realized by frugal students here every year and include only fundamental things. Such items as clothing, books, stationery, traveling vary with habits and finan- cial condition of student. The average student would probably spend $100 to $150 more in providing for these items. In comparison with institutions of similar class and advantages and income, it is difficult to see how these minimum charges can be reduced save by distinct appropriation for the purpose, though the authorities welcome effort to aid in their reduction. The average yearly expense in fees and tuition merely to non-Vir- ginians is $124.50. At least 75 students are working their way through college, or are here as the result of money earned or bor- rowed. They may be found in every form of honorable labor— clerking in stores, pressing clothes, waiting on table, janitor ser- vice, stenographers, agents, etc. The statement that none but the sons of the well-to-do can enter here is an exploded fiction.Statement of Condition and Needs SCHOLARSHIPS. In addition to the fellowships and scholarships, founded by don- ors, the University goes to the extreme in seeking to aid worthy poor boys: 3 | 1. To all of its accredited schools, forty-five in number, it gives a scholarship, remitting three-fourths of the fees, if a Virginian, and, of course, all tuition. ee aes oe Se pees 2. ‘To the public high schools of Virginia it gives a scholarship valued at $50.00, which enables the recipient to get his education free from cost. 3. ‘To all alumni associations, comprising a stated membership, it gives a scholarship, remitting three-fourths of the University fee and exemption from tuition fees in the Academic Department, if he be a Virginian; if he be not a Virginian, remission of tuition and one-half of the University fee. It can be confidently claimed that this University is the Univer- sity of the poor man in the sense that it seeks to aid him in its own yrcperty to the limit of its power. Students can be named whu spent here only $200.00 for a whole session of academic work and graduated in their courses. Academic students from Virginia may pass through here at an annual expense, including board and lodg- ing, ranging from $180 to $400. Professional students from Vir- ginia, $280 to $420. The Indirect Profit of the University of Virginia to the State of Virginia, even on a basis of dollars and cents, 1s indisputable. Of her 715 students, over half are Virginians, and the remainder come from all over the Union. ‘These bring into the State certaimly not less than $200,000. Of the 378 Virginians, many would remain at home uneducated but for the State University; the others would take out of the State a sum assuredly not less than $150,000. Thus at least $350,000 a year is brought into the State, or kept in the State by the University—a sum seven times greater than the amount spent by the State in maintaining its plant. The Direct Cost of the University to the State is $50,000, while the total revenue of Virginia is about $4,000,000 and her taxable property, about $470,000,000. The tax-payer, who pays poll taxPUL tit it tackaks detects ee 10 The University of Virguma alone, contributes nothing to the University. It is a great public school, maintained by the property holder for the benefit of his own sons, and the sons of the poor. In view of the fact that public corporations pay a notable percentage of the entire revenue, it 1s plain that the property-holder, who pays taxes on property valued at $100, contributes to the University less than .. .. 1 cent; $1,000, contributes to the University less than .. .. 10 cents; $10,000, contributes to thhe University less Ghani ses = Sl eOU: The tax-payer who contributes to the annuity of the University 95 cents, must pay in.taxes to the State, .. 2 =. $ 20.00 1 dollar, must pay in taxes to the State; -.° 72 22" 730-00 5 dollars, must pay in taxes to the State, .. .. .. 400.00 The vast majority of the citizens of Virginia pay less than one cent each to the annual support of the State University. The True Benefit of this great school to the mother State, is, however, not fiscal. It is absurd to try to reduce it to figures. It is moral, intellectual and spiritual. Wipe out her influence from the hfe of Virginia and the South for three generations, and imagine the result! She stands today at the opening of a new era, her face toward the morning of her life. Her noble traditions, her high standards, her equipment for her present task offer to the State and the Legislature an unequalled opportunity for high services. Private generosity stands ready to aid with liberal hands, if assured of the State’s hearty co-operation. Mr. Andrew Carne- gie with wise generosity has offered to our alumni the sum of $500,- 000, conditional upon the raising of a similar sum. Mr. John D. Rockefeller has given $100,000 to found the Curry School of Edu- cation, and various other private citizens have donated about $140.- 000. ‘The assurance of these gifts and of others needed for large development is absolutely dependent upon the attitude of the State. If the State of Virginia says to the world that she intends to support and nourish her University, according to her power, the generous citizenship of the Republic will rally to its support.Statement of Condition and Needs Ranh PULORE OF DEE UNIVERSIZY. The South, as well as Virginia, looks to this University for guid- anee, and demands from it leadership. ‘There is a great strugele going on in all these States for a co-ordinated and efficient system of schools, beginning with primary education, capped by the Uni- versity, and tied together and unified by secondary education. There is also a great and silent revolution going on in industrial and social life. ‘Weare at the beginning of a new world as clearly as we were when Mr. Jefferson projected his noble scheme. ‘The supremest need of the whole great building process is at least one or more great institutions, situated at right places and holding right relations to the whole region. Is the University of Virginia such a place? It is not my purpose now to detail the larger plans for the de- velopment of the University of Virginia. These plans, if carried out, would involve an increase in its endowment funds of $2,830,- 000. This sounds large, but it is very moderate for the expansion of a great modern university. There are today at least eight Ameri- can universities spending annually over $1,000,000. The average an- nual expenditure of the first-class State Universities of the West is over $600,000. Missouri is rapidly reaching that point. Har- vard alone spends a sum exceeding by $500,000 the combined in- comes of every Southern university. South Carolina with less than one-third of our enrollment appropriates within $8,000 of our sum. and North Carolina last year went beyond us $7,000, with ap- proximately 100 fewer students. These facts are not mentioned to glorify money as an agent of University growth. This University has done heroic and noble work without such vast sums. and it will continue in that course. In a mere contest of budgets, it will probably be behind for generations. It must rely as of old on honesty and self sacrifice. The statements are ly to show the vast scale on which modern Universities made simp are projected. The authorities of the University will not ask this honorable bodv. to contribute towards these larger schemes of growth, for and allied institutions, and they recognize its obligation to sister They will content towards primary and secondary education.ee reat en Pe tend Pvveest HETIL Stet eet eee 12 The University of Virginia themselves with asking only for that vital and immediate aid necessary for the institution to take the next forward step, and to put into its life the spirit of hope, born of the knowledge that the State is behind its chiefest educational institution and the head of its system of schools. Universities cannot stand still. Like the waves of the sea they must go forward or break. ‘This is a crisis in our life. All around us is erowth. Our ancient and proud pre-eminence in the South is threatened. We turn to the State as to our natural support. If we cannot thither, we can, of right, turn nowhere. STATEMENT OF IMMEDIATE NEEDS. The Board of Visitors, therefore, ask for the University of. Vir- ginia an annuity of $65,000 in addition to the $10,000 appropri- ated for interest and sinking fund on debt, in order that in ad- dition to the proper carrying forward of current work there shall be growth and better work in the following directions: 1. In the Academic Department. 1. Professor of Organic Chemistry, (giving instruc- tion and laboratory work for Academic Students,) $2,500 2. ‘Pwo adjunct professors in Chemistry, (instruction in laboratory for students in medicine and engi- NGCTING 7) So RE ey Ge ee 2,000 REASONS: Chemistry is the great basic subject of the modern industrial world. Graduates in Chemistry are sought after and engaged even before graduation. For forty years, under able leader- ship, the University has lead in the South on this subject. Its students are to be found everywhere in practical life and at the head of institutions. It is the pioneer in the teaching of Industrial Chemistry. This is the most over- burdened Department at the University. 180 students throng its courses in a room planned for 145. It has out- grown its means in equipment and teaching corps. There is Insuflicient laboratory work and students are unable to find even seats in its lecture rooms. 3. - Associate Professor of Physicg..(. 2.5- ee 3,000 REASONS: Physics is the fundamental study in the natural sciences. It is greatly in need of added instruction and greater appli- ances and skilled help. Under the present leadership, a greatStatement of Condition and Needs work is going on, but the department needs division into several independent schools. The field of general physics is too vast for treatment by any one in nine months. Most respectable text-books on physics are in four volumes. Elec- tricity, magnetism and other branches, practically born since the school was established, demand separate treatment, especially for engineering students. A score of men handle the subject in the great Universities. It is all handled here by one able and devoted man with two student assistants. Advanced work is almost impossible without aid. AS Wncimenor in Mat wemames: os ee 1 200 ~ 5. Instructor in English REASONS: These subjects are the ground work of liberal culture. They are the subjects to which flock the new students. They necessitate individual attention or failure results as a consequence. This is illustrated by the experience of course 1, School of Mathematics: Last session with one instructor, only 3314 per cent of these young boys, fresh from school, passed the Christmas examinations. This year, with three instructors, 662, per cent passed, and 75 per cent would be euaranteed by the instruction asked for. There are over three hundred men in these classes and the sections are entirely too large for proper teaching. Failure in them means failure at the outset and consequent discouragement. What we lack in scope here we must make up in good teaching. But good teaching is impossible under such conditions, however able the teachers. $790 6. Professor of Economics and Political Economy.. $3,000 REASONS: This is practically an undeveloped subject here, save as the extra work of the over-burdened Professor of History— only one course being offered in this subject. The demand ‘n the South for trained leaders in the re-organization of its economic and industrial life makes it necessary for any col- leve, seeking to better the life of the State and Nation, to lay emphasis on the economic and social sciences. It is better for all reasons that the State should inaugurate and carry forward this work. To exclude this great group of subjects from our instruction much longer would be fatal, for the great’ problems of our time are social and economic and Universities must serve their eras.ihe ere heb seins Sra ee or nea nn eel ed eee ere tt The University of Virguma (. REASONS: The application of the sciences to the enrichment of life in Mechanical, Civil and Electrical Engineering is the intensest need of our time. We must master the forces of nature, and jearn the methods of the industrial order. of things. Our Engineering School under able management holds the record for rapid growth, having increased over 300 per cent in five years. But for the liberality of a private citizen who came to the rescue, the Department could not begin to do its work now. The elements of weakness in the Department are in the Drawing Work and Shop Work. ‘These subjects are now in the hands of undergraduates, who are constantly changing, owing to small salaries and other purposes in view. Sys- tematic practice in drafting and intelligent and permanent direction of shop work is sorely needed. We cannot afford to deliberately impede the growth of this department. 8. Instructor in Gymnasium, The only assistance in our Gymnasium given to us by the Fayerweather estate is a student assistant at a nominal salary of $100. Manifestly, if the proper work is to be done, this service must be enlarged, for such an instructor cannot pretend to care for the bodily development of 715 young mien. Two Instructors in Engineering, .. ..: ..... .. - $2,000 Total increase in Academic Department, ..... :. 615,250 GENERAL REASONS: For the past twenty years our Academic faculty has re- mained practically the same in number. During the period, however, the number of coures offered has increased 60 per cent. The number of students enrolled has increased about 150 per cent. There has been no increase in the annual appropriation, available for educational purposes, in twenty- two years. II. Hospital and Medical Needs. |. -Care and ‘Maintenance of Hospital... 21 3. nue REASONS: Our hospital is a State hospital. It is the only hospital owned and controlled by the State. It is necessary to success of all medical instruction. It is necessary to the welfare of the public health. Healthy human life is an asset to State. Fifty free beds are needed here. Nearly every AmericanStatement of Condition and Needs State makes such provision for its indigent sick as will bring them back to health and service. Colorado main- tains forty free beds at the University Hospital, Boulder, Col., under the control of the Medical Department of the State Uni- versity ; Louisiana maintains 800 free beds at the Charity Hos- pital in New Orleans; Maine maintains 148 free beds at the Maine General Hospital, Portland, and 60 free beds at the Eastern Maine General Hospital, Bangor; Michigan main- tains 270 free beds at the Michigan University Hospital, Ann Arbor, under control Medical Department of State Uni- versity; Mississippi maintains 275 free beds at its hospital in Vicksburg; Missouri maintains 40 free beds at the Parker Memorial Hospital, at Columbia, Mo., under the control of the Medical Department of the State University; West Virginia maintains 40 free beds at the State Miner’s Hospital, No. 1, Welch, W. Va., and 40 free beds at the State Miner’s Hospital No: 3, at. Parrmont; W.Va. 9 we REASONS: While the items specified consume the extra annuity asked for, it is proper to make this exhibit of the needs of the instructional side of the Medical School. Our Medical School has a great and useful past, standing among the foremost. Modern needs and the revolution in medical education demand its re-organization and enlargement. This is a_ strategic spot for a medical school, and nowhere between the Gulf and the Potomac does there exist one with such achievements, traditions and possibilities. The rapid growth of medical science makes this growth necessary and the matter cannot be postponed. (a) Professor of Practice of Medicine, (b) Instructor in Anatomy, (c) Instructor in Pathology, (d) Instructor in Histology, (e) Adjunct Professor of Obstetrics. SPECIAL APPROPRIATION FOR EQUIPMENT AND BUILDINGS. Additional needed Instruction in Medical Department. The Board of Visitors ask for a total sum of $77,000 for each of the years 1906-7 and 1907-8, for the following purposes: 1: Completion of, Hospital: .. ose i.e 2 - $50,00016 The University of Virgina REASONS: This is the practical completion of the work so wisely begun by the General Assembly four years ago. It is absolutely necessary to realize the idea of a State hospital for indigent sick, and to cuarantee the clinical work of the Medical Department. No appropriation for buildings, except for the hospital, the com- pletion of which is here asked, has been received for more than half a century. 2. Chemical Laboratory. (Remodeling Anatomical Hall, and other available Rooms for Laboratory PUT POSCS once ig eae SA ee ee Sire Pere aaa $20,000 REASONS: This is a necessity for carrying out the plans of develop- ment outlined above in the Department of Chemistry. The Department has outgrown its teaching power, its seating capacity, and is without laboratory space. 3. ‘The erection of a suitable residence for. the Presi- dent of the University, .<. 2222224 3 6) 2 !. Repairs and Reconstruction of Carr’s Hill Dor- mitories and Dining Hall. REASONS: l. The galleries and entrances to both upper and lower floors are weakened by decay, rendering them. dangerous to life and. hmb; 2. The roofs leak badly, keeping the walls damp, mouldy and unhealthful. The floors in many rooms are badly worn and open to weather; 3. The rental has fallen from $1200 per annum to $400—the demand for such rooms no longer exists—nor is it just to continue renting such quarters to students. 4. They represent an architectural blemish, being con- structed from ill-assorted waste building material at different periods, without relation to each other or consideration of har- mony with their surroundings. 5. They occupy the most beautiful and accessible unde- veloped sites in the University, thereby preventing further and more useful extention in this direction, repelling the philanthropy of any generously inclined who would other- wise be attracted by the beauty and accessibility of the situation. ’REPAIRS AND IMPROVEMENTS . CONNECTED WITH THE UNIVERSITY ds, Statement of Condition and Needs 6.