The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-05
UNIVERSITY
OF VIRGINIA.
Executive Head Measure is
Up This Afternoon.
FULL TEXT OF WEST BILL
Provides for ., Composite Board to
Choose Pres;dent-An Interest,"
ing Communication from One
of the Alumni.

of the Alumni.
n1r West, OF Louisa offered by re-
quest in the House yesterday two COM
panlon bills relating to the proposed head
1 OF the University OF Virginia, which
will be OF great interest to the people
interested in higher education. =
Tho bills 1t Is understood. were drawn
by Messrs. Wyndham r, Meredith, Hon
ny Taylor and other members Of the
.Alumni Association, and 1t Is understood
That they represent the views Of that
body
One bill provides for a composite board
TO elect the proposed executive head 81
tho University OF Virginia, to be composed
OF three members Of the Board of Visl.
tors, three members OF the Alumni AS.
I. Hociation, and three members Ct the fac-
ulty.
The other simply provides for leaving
the fixing OF the salary Of the new offl-
Ger by the composite board.
The House Committee on Schools and
Colleges has fxod this afternoon at 4
z o'clock as the time for hearing argument
IN the bills and some lively speeches are
looked for.
TuLD BILL IN FULL.
The bill offered by Mr.. West reads in
tull as follows:
An act to amend and re-enact section
5b48 OF the Code OF Virginia, relating to
1he duties OF the board ana to the con-
trol Of the University of Virginia
Be 1t enacted by the General Assembly
of Virginia. That section l546 OF the Code
Of Virginia be amended and re-enacted
10 as to read as follows:
Section 1916. Duties of board; appoint.
= ment and removal of profes sors and pres
ident; appointment of bursar and proctor;
duties Of faculty and president to advise
and represent the board; water supply.
1. The said board shall be charged with
the care and preservation of all the prop
igerty belonging to the University. They
shall appoint es many professors as they
deem proper fnd. with the assent Of two
thirds Of the whole number of the visitors
may remove any professor. They may
prescribe the duties Of each professor.
and the course and mode OF instruction.
2. They shall appoint a president Of
the University, who shall also DO chair
man of the faculty. and with the assent
OF two-thirds Of the whole number of the
visitors may remove him. Such presi-
dent shall be appointed as follows and
not otherwise:
NOMINATING COMMITTEE
The board. the faculty. and after the
FIRST day Of January, 1905. the General
Society OF the Alumni OF the University
shall respectively appoint or elect in
such manner as each body may pre-
ecribe for itself a committee Of three Of
Its mem beers, which committee uniting
shall constitute a joint committee, which
Joint committee shall nominate to the
board one Or more suitable persons for
tho office of president one Of whom the
board may appoint; or In its discretion,
the board may reject all the nominees
and refer the matter back to the same
Joint committee, Or one similar consti-
tuted for further nominations, In which
Ease. such Joint committee shall nominate
one or more other persons, and so en-
until the president is chosen by the
board In the election of a president of
the University under the provisions Of
aIthis act any time prior to the first day
Ytof January,s19G, appointm ent Of election
of the three members Of the alumni to
act as members of said joint committee
shall vest and remain in James B. Sener,
". 7. w. Duke James P. Harrison, Ed
ward Echols Arrnstead c. Gordon, L. r,
& 1ianekel, r.. c. Minor. II. D. Bruins, John
D. Patton' and their successors in office,
being the Executive Committee Of the
General Society Of the Alumni of the
University iof Virginia, and the above
banned persons and their successors in Of.
nee shail, until January /. 1906, have the
authority to select and appoint three
/. alumni OF the University OF Virginia, not
members of the said Executive Commit
lee, nor of the faculty of the University,
nor OF the Board of Visitors OF said
university to serve on said joint COM
mittee. and these restrictions shall al,
ways apply to the selection of alumni
70 SO serve.
SHALL NOT BE ELIGIBLE.
During the period for which he Is an.
pointed a member of the faculty or OF
khe Board of Visitors, and for four years
thereafter, no member of the faculty nor
II the Board of Visitors of the University
bf Virginia shall be eligible to the OH,
II president of the University of virginia,
6uch joint committee shall elect its owr
chairman and secretary, and a nrniorit,
pf the whole number shall constitute ,
quorum. And II it should happen that one
pf the said constituent committees fail.
q appoint or elect, it shall not affec
he legal standing of the joint committe,
,r Its determinations, but the quorum
)hall remain as before majority q
)ine. A vote of majority of those pres
tnt shall be necessary to nomination
Whenever the services of such joint com
nittee are necessary the rector of tn
board shall issue to the secretaries O
lhe faculty and of the General Society q
The Alumni, respectively, call for th
lelection Ut their constituent committees
The joint committee shah hold Its frs
meeting at the University at a dat
named by the rector but subsequen
meetings may be held at any point
the State selected by the committee, nm
at such times as they shall determin,
II the said joint committee should unrea
Sonably delay the making OF nomination.
the board or the rector, II SO authorize
by the board may revoke the nuthorlt
OF the committee, and may Issue a ca
as before for the selection of ne,
Joint committee constituted as above dc
scribed.
ACTING PRESIDENT.
"a While the selection OF a president
pending, or In case OF his absence, deatl
resignation. removal. sickness or disable
~. the board shall provide for the Sc
lection from the body OF the faculty c
an acting president and chairman VII
4 shall exercise the functions Of presidar
and chairman until president shall