The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1899-03-07
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.
Increase of the Medical Term from Three
to Four Years,

Special 70 The Post.
Charlottesville Va, March 5.-Among
the important acts of the Board OF Visit
ors of the University OF Virginia, at Its
recent meeting. was the provision OF
scholarships to be awarded by local
alumni associations. Each active assocld-
ton with twenty members will be entitled
to 4 scholarship in the university, and as
Sc Citations with as many as fifty members
may have two scholarships. This action
is intended TO give the alumni essocia-
tions something definite TO work for, and
will place in the university young men
who otherwise could not get there. The
movement provides that young men ad-
nitted by these scholarships enter the
university absolutely free Of tuition.
1t is understood that the new dormi-
tory building which is to be erected will
cost about $4,000, and viii be paid fer by
a specific fund donated to the university
by the trustees of the John and Belinda
Randall fund from large donation made
to certain, eleemosynary institutions in
the United States. left to trustees to be
distributed at their discretion. The new
building Is to contain forty bedrooms, six
bathrooms, a number of closets and linen
rooms, and is to be heated throughout by
steam. The plan Of the successful COM
petitor-Architect PelZ. of Washington, d.
C.-eXhibitS taste in design and much
practical sense.
The board also took an important step
in making the medical term one of four
years instead of three, as at present. This
action was made necessary by the fact
that after 1902 the degree of doctor of
II edicine from colleges that teach a three
year course viii not be accepted by the
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medical bodies, and by the further proba-
bility that soon the regulations of the
army and navy will be such as to exclude
graduates of colleges with the three years
term In this connection the board also
appropriated the sum of $4,000 out of the
FayerWether fund for the purpose of in
augurating suitable hospital building
The details will be decided upon in June,
and the construction OF the hospital will
be begun this summer.
DR.. Charles Z. Young, of Chicago, who
has been giving Bible lectures at the uni
VerSlty for the past TWO sessions was
elected instructor in Hebrew. and prOvis-
ion was also made for the teaching OF He
brew and New Testament Greek
English and German were put under one
professor (Dr. James A. HARRISON, under
the name of the school of Teutonic Ian
guages, and French, Spanish, and Italian
were made one chair, under the name OF
the school Of the Romance languages.
This chair is to be filled hereafter.
PrOI- W. L. Peters having notified the
board that al the expiration OF three years
he would resign and 90 to Europe with
has family, Prof. Thomas Fitzhugh, of the
[ University of Texas. was chosen as his
successor, on condition that he spend two
years IN Berlin and one at Rome in the
study OF Latin, so that he will be pre-
pared TO speak as well as write end
read il.
II was stated to the board by a member
that by the death, in New York, OF an
alumnuS of the university, his estate
amounting IL SO go. was donated TO the
university, and was in a shape to be real
lied. The object of the donation is TO
create an alcoVe in the library devoted en-
tirely TO Virginia history