The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-04

&, NJ 1i.isSsrtersanextS points out that the
= Y University of Virginia even from a ma
terial point of#view is a splendid invest
sment Last year there were 800 students.
sssf having come from other States and
countries. Putting the students from OUT
sac the State at an average of $500 each,
me amount brought into Virginia is S143,-
oD annually; putting the Virginia. stu
a eosn 500, at low average will give us
ssoooo0 to 100000 certainly brought into
the State and kept at home much Of
which otherwise would go to the rich.
Northern colleges il the University be not
llperaliy supported. The address pro-
ceeds:
Inc subject SO far has been treated only
IN It's commercial and financial aspect
II cannot be necessary to say anything
to this body Of the immeasurable loss to-
the State, educationally and intellectual
~, mat would ensue from lowering the
grades Of the work done for want OF a
liberal support from it's owner and bene-
hclary, the State! No institution can
meet the competition from within and
without the State unless it keeps abreast
in equipment and tuition in all depart
mentS with the advanced methods of the
day.
For twenty-five years the University
OF Virginia has been virtually an i'll
tegral part of the free school system of
this State, and has given free tuition to
Ga A III Ill ttCduelIliC ~
that Virginia students can take the de-
gree of Bachelor of Arts Master of
Arts, Doctor of Philosophy Ga postgrad-
uate degree), without paying a dollar Tor
tuition, regardless of the number Of years
they may attend 1t is virtually the cap
stone of the free school system OF the
State. 1t offers to the public schools OF
Virginia six academic scholarships, Two
of which are filled annually for a term not
exceeding three years. The holders are
exempt from matriculation fees and are
given for each scholarship yearly 500 IN
cash. The mode of selecting the ncum-
bents of these scholarships is by com
petitive examinations within the schools
that are eligible.
For poor students who are compelled
or are willing to economize, the Uni
versity is, of it's grade. the cheapest uni
Versty in this country, and students can
be named who have spent only two nun
dred dollars a SESSION and graduated III
their respective courses. The student,
however poor, with moral force, brain
power and industry is honored and rev
cred by his fellows and appreciated by
his professors.
The University, as is we'll known. is
non-sectarian. Mr.. Jefferson designedly
made it so. He preferred an institution
open to all Christians and opposed to
none.
James Bryce, the distinguished historian
and member of the English Parliament.
who has made an extensive study OF our
institutions, as saying in his work, Il ne
American Commonwealth. that OF the
III degree-confcrrinG institutions OF learn
ing for men in the Southern States, the
University of Virginia is the only one
that attains to the first rank.
And this in conclusion:
The University of Virginia. stands on
consecrated ground. Before its birth,
within a distance of one hundred and nifty
miles from the mountain to- the sea, had
been born and nursed on the bosom of
the old mother State a GALAXY of great
men without a parallel in the same time
and space on the earth s surface-George
Washing ton Richard Henry Lee, Patrick
Henry Thomas jefferson, Benjamin 'iac-
rison, James Madison. James Monroe,
Thomas Nelson, Richard Bland, Peyton
Randolph, Edmund Randolph George MA
son. John Marshall, Fielding Lewis, and
at later day Henry Clay, r. e. Lee.
Maury and a host of others. BY what
.heavenly alchemy this small spot CT
earth has grown so much of greatness we
may not know but it is a priceless herit-
age of wisdom that we hope AMI believe
will guide the deliberations of your hon
orahle body safely through the profound
responsibility by which you are beset
and redeem from bondage the gre nd OLD,
mother of States and. statesman whose
whole history has bccn-one7 blaze Of glory
and not one blot of shamc! Even in
these latter days the University OF VIZ
ginia, drawing inspiration from these I'M
mortal names and this hallowed section,
has furnished from it's graduates two
members of the Presidents Cabinet, two
justices on the bench of the Supreme
Court of the United States, three judges
on the bench of our own Court of APP
peals, numberless professors in colleges
throu ghout the South and host of alum
nj tinguished in every vocation of life,
including thirty-six members of the Con-
stitutional Convention Such men are
trained only in schools OF high degree,
They are the outcome Of the highest
types of educational forces.
Let us pray that the lustre of this Uni
vcrsity may not be dimmed by policy
short -sighted and mistaken, but that, re-
newed and Refrigerated, it may be fos-
tered to go forward to greater heights Of
| usefulness and grandeur
The University of Virginia begs leave
to submit to your favorable consideE2-
ton the following petition with the pre-
face that the small State of West Viz
ginia, once a part Of the Old Dominion.
is giving one hundred and five thousand
dollars yearly to its own University
! PETITION.
The University of Virginia shall consti-
tute a public trust and its organization
| and government shall be continued in the
form and character prescribed by the or
ganic act creating the same, passed jan
! uary %, 1918, and several acts amend
atcry thereof, subject to such legislative
control as may be necessary TO insure
compliance with the terms of its founda-
ton and the proper investment and Sc
curty of it's funds. 1t shall be entirely IN
dependent of all political or sectarian in
fuence and kept free therefrom in the
appointment of its visitors and in the ad-
ministration OF its affairs. 1t shall be,
what in its creation it was designed TO
| be- the head of the educational system
| of the Commonwealth, including its @o:a-
mon schools classical academies and
| chartered schools and colleges, and to tnls
| end it shall be maintained by q percent
age of the permanent revenue oil me
State. the proceeds Of which shall not bt.
| less than the amount now appropriated
| to this institution, and the Legislature
| may from time to time pass such enact
| ments and make such appropriations for
| its benefit as it's full efficiency demands
Miner Arrests.
J1,cy Fal,ntleroy (colored0 is under ar