The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-02-16
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY.
A MEETING YESTERDAY or THE
RrCHMOND COMMITTEE.
For "a Grand Post Graduate Institution I'm
Memory of George Neutrality-suspicious.
bers Of the Richmond Organization

4 large meeting Of the Richmond Com
mittee for the George Washington I'm
vefslty was held yesterday morning az
II o'clock in the parlors OF Mrs Joseph
willard. state Chairman. at the Jefferson
Hotel Mrs. John Dunlop. Mrs. j, Hoge
Tyler Mrs Herbert \. Claiborne.
Mrs James Lyons. Mrs. J. II. Y: Daniel,
Mrs Edmund &. Minor. Mrs. Reginald
Gillian. Mrs. James Il. Pace, Mrs. II. l..
Purcell Mrs. William ID. Thomas, Mrs.
j. TAYLOR Ellyson, Mrs. Thomas T. JET
fress. Mrs. l.. l.. Lewis. and Miss Ella
Bruce were present
These ladies with Miss Virginia Ran
dolph Elicit Mrs Matthew Bland Harri-
son Mrs Decatur Axtell. Mrs. j. Aston
Cabell. Mrs. William L. Robins. Mrs.
Mary Louise Harrison, Mrs. r. Dailam
Barksdale and others. who arc not yet
formally enrolled constitute the commit
THE OFFICERS.
The officers are:
Mrs. j. Hoge Tyler Honorary Chair
man; Mrs. Enders Robinson. Chairman
Mrs. John Dunlop, Nice-Chairmah' Mrs'
J. TAYLOR Elyson. Nice-Chairman; Mrs.
William O. Thomas. Nice-Chairman; Mrs
REGINALD Gillian. Secretary; Mrs. Thomas
f. Jeffress. Treasurer.
All who compose the committee have
the privilege of charter membership nav
ing been endorsed by Mrs. Herbert \:
Claiborne National Nice-President. ana
Mrs. Joseph willard. Chairman Tor the
State. The following ladies nave ALREADY
become charter members. Mrs. j. lloge
Tyler Mrs. John Dunlop. Mrs. Joseph
Willard. Mrs. Herbert \. Claiborne. MIS-.
James Lyons Mrs James b. Pace, Mrs
Finders Robinson, Mrs. Decatur ANteli,
Mrs. l.. l.. Lewis. Mrs. W. ID. THOMAS,
Mrs. j. Taylor Ellyson. and Mrs. Matthew
Bland Harrison and Mrs. Thomas i. Jen-
ress.
The names Of the charter members viii
be enrolled and preserved Tor an tiine
among the records OF this University or
the success - which they feel assured,
and i'm the words OF the National Presi-
dent. Mrs Ellen A. Richardson, As ages
roll by this record will be tit 10 stand with
the names on tho Declaration OF indie
pendeuce.
THE WORK.
he wOmen'5 movement for ralslhs'
$4,000 for the administration building is
raIidly gaining ground iu every part OF
tho country. Mrs. Calvin Brlce Mfs.
Mark Hanna. Mrs. Nelson Miles ANA Mrs
David Starr Jordan are among its innu-
entail promoters Their efforts have all
ready resulted I'm the plcdglng OF largo
sums for the building fund while SlpWO
has been promised for chair Of music,
and endowmcnts for a. chair Of literature
and a chair of surgery have also been
promised conditiOnaly II the bill In Con-
gress IS passed.
The women propose TO erect the admin
istration building on the Naval ObserVa-
tory SITE Mficn was NtlttNtu lf ~ dFAlllN
ton himself and has been held by the
United States government for this pur-
pose. The nifty shares In the Potomac
Company. which Washington left In his
will for the founding Of a great national
university were donated TO him by the
Legislature Of Virginia. and We're accept
ed by him as "A trust TO be devoted al ms
death 10 some worthy object.
POSTGRADUATE UNIVERSITY.
II is not the purpose OF this movement
10 establish a rival Of undergraduate COLI
leges. nor indeed Of existing post graduate
schools. but 10 found an institution OF
broader scope for men seeking wider
fields for scientific research with the
worlds best equipment on hand. after
they have finished their studies and taken
their degrees in the foremost schools IN
the land-where the student i'm music and
art shall find the best advantage
grand postgraduate university that shall
lead the world in the work Of research
and Investigation.