The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-04-20
8ls@ observed With More
Pomp and Circum-
stance than Usual.
NEW GIFTS TO
ENDOWMENT FUND
Governor Swanson, Dr.. Mitchell
and Dr.. Alderman Make In
spring Speeches Follow
III ing Grand Procession
Of Faculty and
Students.
(special TO The Times ispa,ch)

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f(Specal to The Times DispatchO
S&a5 CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA, April H.
1ro,1nder.s Day was observed at the Uni
ycrsity Of Virginia to-day with moro
po,np and circumstance thnn usual. Inc
exercises, which were postponed from
Aptil 18th, which is Jcfferson's birthday
IN al account of that anniversary falling
tits year on Good Friday. brought the
celebration right in tho midst OF inc
gaIties Of Easter week. and tho Easter
girls anu many alumni Joined the pro-
fessors ana students in paying homage TO
the memory of Jefferson.
An attractive feature Of the exercises
vas the possession of tho faculty and
students into the public hall. The stu
dents marched by departments--law. med
Zeal. engineering and nchdemic--nlong the
lawn from the south front Of the" ro-
@1unda to the academic building, In which
IS the public hall. where the exercises
occurred The entire faculty. forty III
number, wore academic costume, With tho
different colorcd insignia to indicate their
various degrees.
Endowment Gifts.
President Alderman made an interest
ing statement Of achievements since the
last anniversary, which included q re-
View Of the progress made IN the COL
lection of an endowment fund OF mil
lion and nm enumeration Of gifts, and
closed with some intimations of his plans
for the future.
Z or the endowment fund he said $500. oO0--
,,nety-six per cent of which has come
from persons who have no flllal relation
~ Ty,,I,,o CT y- hoc
Among the gifts, he named 5000 from
4 Dr.. William c. Rives, of Washington,
for tho establishment of a fellowship In
history and economies; $1,000 from Miss
i. Grace Dodge, OF New York. and others
for the rcfurnishng Of the chapel; a
heroic bronze statue of Thomas JelTer-
son standing on, n liberty bell and u
bronze IIomerlc group, representing
Homer dellghting the heart Of tho youth
oftthe world, the sculptor and giver being
u SirsN1oses Ezekiel, Of Rome; a beautiful
tablet containing a comprehensive state
1nent of the end of university training, by
an alumnus; $1,000 in small sums from
one hundred and thirty-three alumni. etc.
Annual Income.
$ Another encouraging fact was the rise
Syof5&the annual income from Sl60,Op0 to
100000, which the president followed by
a an enumeration Of needs already mot
y and TO be met MS fast as the work can be
actually completed, VIZ: n chair OF edli-
Vi cation, one of secondary education, divl-
8 sion OF the chair Of philosophy, the nddi-
lion of three assistants In tho engineer
"a Ing. department. the completion OF tho
hospital, the building of section or
g great chemical laboratory sufficient to
Is enrich and expand the scope of that work
the establishment Of dining nal 70
afford board at cost prices. a chair OF
,,b> oh
employment Of adjuncts and assistants
EF3nt tho burdened department of mathe-
1natics. English, history and chemistry
st1 III expansion Of the medical department
byga chair of pathology, Of clinical medi-
cine of obstetrics and pedlatrics laboru-
tories and assistants in physiology, MS
&1ology and anatomy, assistants IN PHYSICS
and economic geology and the malnte-
nance of a large lopital on an academic
basis.
Pressing Needs.
no this enumeration OF the direction
Of growth either accomplished or assured
nv means in reach, President Alderman
added his estimate of pressing needs:
half million endowment for the medical
school and a. 900 For II home for the
medical science, $4,000 to be wisely eN-
pended from the existing buildings and
grounds TO modernlze and beautify them;
seperate book funds for literature, ms
INV nhilosonhy mathematics, economies,
,sr, 'ond modern languages. about thirty
ral,ou,sh,n Ia cover ench OF the southern
states Zach WITH an endowment of IS, 900.
q .Great law building In honor of the
49, prnfossor John u Minor md an
,,sou.,,ar, y, s,5nCIo for tho ,aw school
N..o,,;,a TO-. ~, a,n,n.,on Of lilo course
=. - ~ pn,or thrno wears.a loan fund NJ n,
800 AK ror ~ assistance of strua-
.s,n rtmIo,,.. Coz onl for !, nn,vnrsitv
uress: the creation of a special invcstlga-