The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-07-02
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
Proceedings OF the Board OF Visitors
Animal Report ofthe raculty-APros-
porous MISUNDERSTANDING of the
Jefferson Society, Etc, Etc.
Especial Correspondence Of Richmond Dispatch
llSIrrps1rY or NIpcI,.rt I,lir1 Lot 1879

JEFFERSON society, Etc, Etc.
Especial Correspondence Of Richmond Dispatch
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, July 1st, 1873.
The new Board of Visitors, consisting of
4. G. II. Kean, Of Lynchburg (rector); r. Fl.
Baker, Of Norfolk; W. Il. Berkeley, of Farm
vile; Joseph r. Campbell, Abingdon +.
b. Montague, King and Queen Thomas
Smith, Warrenton II. II. Darlington, Rich
mond; Moses Walton, Shenandoah !; and
Micajah Woods, Charlottesville, have all
been here for some days hard at work upon
various matters Of importance. j suppose
an appointing power never read more care
fully nor considered more fully the recon-
mendations and claims OF candidates than
the Board did those of the applicants for the
DR.. Davis they simply yielded to the over
whelming weight of his testimonials.
THE ANNUAL REPORT or TIE FACULTY
shows that during the past year there have
been 342 students In attendance; that the
zeal and diligence of the majority has been
commendable, and the conduct Of most Of
them entirely satisfactory; and that the
health Of the institution has been very good
only one death occurring during the year.
The report makes various practical sugges
llo1S uDu Observation-Disclosures w It1S NOIh n
lngs of the University.
1t notes the gift of valuable books TO the
fburv, and specimens to the laboratory,
especially from Sir Thomas buffers Hardy
Deputy Keeper of Public Records of the
British Government, London; II. B. NJ. Sc
cretary Of State for India; Mr.. Justus Eek,
OF Louda DR.. Alois Alth, Professor OF
Mineraldsin the University OF Cracow,
Austrian Galicia.
As illustrating the cheapncss to which
board can be reduced by the mess system,
the report mentions mess Of eight whose
board cost them only 50 per month, and one
State student whose total expense for living
during the session Gncluding room-rent,
board, lights, fuel, and washing) has been
nnder $40.
This certainly refutes the popular fallacy
that the University is only for the rich, and
shows that its halls are accessible to even
the poorest, if they have but the right spirit
and are made of the true stuff.
rBy telegraph to the DispatchI
This has been q beautiful day, and to-
night is as favorable one as the most en-
thusiastic Jeffersonian could desire for the
FINAL celebration Of the Jefferson Society.
The day has witnessed the arrival of Il
number of additional visitors; among them
is Senator Bayard, of Delaware, who is to
address the literary societies tomorrow
night. Rev. DIR. John A. Broadus is
here, and will on tomorrow at II O'Clock
deliver before the Society of Alumni me-
mortal address on the life and character Of
the late DR.. Gessner Harrison.
The Society of Alumni were in session TO-
day discussing some matters of grave im-
portance, which are not yet in shape TO be
given to the public.
There has been great fluttcrn" among
the young limbs of the law, but the report
is not out up to the time we send this to the
office. 1t will be out early in the morning.
The following very short list was announced
to-day:
Graduates IN Natural PhiIoSophy.-
Fl. Boasc, Albcmarle county Henry Il. Car
ter, Hanover county; T. J. Raymond, New
Orleans; c. II. Sinclair, Charlottesville.
The celebration tonight attracted IN even
larger crowd, and the scene was even more
brilliant. than on last night. After the usual
marching, fiuttcring OF ribbons. music, and
pleasant chit-chat ui bellies and beauy, Rev.
L. r. Steel. chaplain.clcct to the University.
made IN arproprite prayer, during which
most Of the audience stopped talking.
The President of the Society. Mr. Benja-
min c. Wickes, of Maryland, presided, and
introduced as orator of the occasion Mr.
William Rogers Alexander, Of Clarke coun-
~, Virginia.
AruKEss OF MR.. WILLIAM H. ALEXANDER, CLARKE
COUNTY, VA.
Mr.. Alexander begun by remarking that
there are periods in the life OF every one
when, reviewing our actions, the heart is
filed with sadnes, at the sorrows of the
past; other periods at which brightest beams
of pleasure g,lSh forth from the past, while
hope illumincs tue future with her beniSnant
smiles; and other periods at which pleasure
interminges with pain, and JOY and sadness
bit side by side like children Of common
parent. Tonight such a period had ar
rived in the lives Of many OF his audi
tors, more particularly those the end OF
whose college career had Just been
reached; for In laying aside the study
of dead authors, aud paying our court
but tor moment to the shrine Of hUtng
beauty, and studying the language of living
authoresseS. we Mt the same time must bid
fnal farewell to our school-boy days. and
sever the many sacred ties OF friendship
which have been enlwined around our
hearts by college companions. The close OF
our college career dates our entrance upon
a fur more practical and extensive field of
eXcrlion-a field which, while richly ladcned
with its priceless grain, yet whose golden
sheares can be garnered by those alone
whose Individual labor sows, reaps, and
gathers. Ills true that slothful genius may
sometimes sip the nectar from the blushlns
flower, but only the child OF labor is allowed
to taste the ambroSial fruit. He would
have his comrades review the pages
oi the book of experience for lessons Of
practical benefit for the present and the fu-
ture With brief but fitting reference to
The teachings of history he easily introduced
as his subject, :" What has been belongs not
alone 10 the past He conceived this truth
taught by the gentle sunbeam as it kisses
the sparkling dew-drop from the richly-man-
tied cheek of Mother Earth, that it may be
spangled with the pcarly lily and fragrant
1Orcet-me-not, as well as by reading from
The records of the worlds memory the rise
and fall of mighty empires or the grandeur
OF human genius. He argued that each ma.
fion forms q link in the worlds history
necessary to its complete whole, and
illrstated his position by reference to the
influence which Rome eXerted on the after
history Of nations--an influence which i,
still felt, and will be in the ayes to come.
He insisted that the character of nation
will depend upon the character of her people,
and illustrated by reference to Switzerland
and Scotland. He spoke of the power and
influence eXerted on the destinies Of nations
and the world by Individual leaders ana il.