The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-11
Important Gathering Of
Educators and Busi-
ness Men Wednesday.
DRAFT OF CHARTER
TO BE PRESENTED
Board Of Visitors Will Be Chosen
and Application Will Be Made
to the Corporation Com
mission for Articles
Of 1ncorpora-
ton.

meeting Of all those interested in tht
movement TO establish the University
OF Richmond will be held at the Cham
aber OF Commerce on Wednesday, after
noon, the session being open to the pub
lie.
Tho special committee on charter and
scope VIII present n report, which vii
be considered In detail, and board OF
visitors or directors will be chosen. APP
plcation will then be made to the Cor
poration Commission for Il charter, alte,
which the financial problem will be taken
UP. The proposition which contemplates
matchmaking number of the leading
cducatnna! institutions In Virginia, un-
der the general title OF the University OF
Richmond, bringing In number OF ex-
isting institutions. without In any way
disturbing the identity OF each constitn-
ent part. has received careful attention
from the members OF the committee on
charter. and also from n large number
OF prominent citizens OF Richmond and
prominent educators, who have been
struck with the feasibility and desirability
of the plan. Il rough outline Of which
was published several weeks ago.
The Plan Proposed.
In general, the idea contemplated Is
:
known as the University OF Richmond,
which shall be the central Institution
around which q group of colleges arc
located. The charter which Is proposed
for the university provides for the estab-
,shment Of common utilities, such as
may be used jointly by the colleges
taking part In the scheme. such as
Libraries. muscums gymnasiums, athletic
fields. laboratories. etc. and also for
a D t,tv1,t
advlsa Bile, 1t being provided, however,
that the institution Itself shalt not
operate an Undergraduate department, or
any course of instruction which is at
The time carried on in any separate col-
legc which LIS located In the university
group.
The Institutions which are proposed
as forming this nucleus of the UNDER
taking. and which have Informally
had the matter under adrtsement. are
Richmond College, the Womans Col
lege, or Richmond: Randolph Macon,
Y College. now at Ashland: Hampden-
Sidney College. now In Prince Edward
county: Union Theological Seminary.
Mechanics Institte, University College
of Medicine and tho Medical College
of Virginia.
The scheme in brief proposes that
the corporation, the University OF
z
OF land. two hundred acres or more.
near the city. establish the proposed
central utilities, and offer to each OF
lhese institutions and to any others
that may seem desirable, a site OF
IRON twenty-five to ffty acres con-
Venient TO the university as centre.
Each college Will keep It's own faculty.
us own board OF visitors, or other form
OF government, its own denominational
md q
z ftlon. separate and distinct from the Uni
verslty. The idea is somewhat after tho
scheme which has for many centuries
been in effect at Oxford, where a group
or colleges OF varying grades and re-
Qurements.f are grouped into one central
university. The proposition OF having a
postgraduate faculty in the University
for postgraduate work alone, uses the
German idea. with the American small
college left intact
Draft OF Charter.
The committee on charter consists OF
Mr.. Joseph Bryan, chairman; Rev. S. C.
Mitchell. d. d., of Richmond College:
Rev. r. Il. Blackwell, D. D., of Randolph
Macon College; Captain w. Gordon Nc
Cabc, Mr.. John Garland Pollard and Mr..
John c. Freeman. Tile plan which they
have drawn up is substantially in accord
ance with the proposal OF the former
meeting.
They vii! submit to the meeting pro-
posed draft of tho charter of the Un-
yersity, which will be subject tc amend
ment and correction, at that time. and
as soon as the paper Is perfected II viii
be offered to the Virginia Corporation
Commission, as plan of incorporation
OF the University of Richmond. The
charter as at present proposed Is as fol-
lows:
.sf,r VVnn rn - Il
University of ItichmOnd;
This Is to certify Tint we do
hereby nxsOclnte ourselves to cs-
4 tnbIpsli Il corporation under, ind
by virtue Of the provisions OF
Chapter 4 of nn Act of the Gencrnl
Ansmebl, of the Stntc of Virginia,
entitled, "An net concerning cor-
y porntions," which became II law
On the "1st dny of May, 1908, for
the purpose and under the corpo-
rate name hereinafter mentioned,
ana to that end we do, by this
our certificate, net forth ns fol-
lows;
a. The name Of the corporation
is to be the University OF Ricil-
m0nd.
u. The principal OtlIce ar the
corporation Is to he located In the
City of Nirhmond, Vn.
q. The purposes for which he
corporation is formed are to ul-
vance tho cnn.c Of education by
seeking to bring into helpful CO.
operation Institutions of learning
now located, or which may here
after he located, In or near the City
of UicIinOnd,-to provide sites for
such institutions, ana to estnblish
for their common benefit librnries,
mt,seunA, Eymnnsiums, nnd suel
other utiliticH as may with Advnn-
tnpe he used by nll of sucIl insti-
tuti0ns,--tO provide colrses 0f
graduate instruction, pr6nOte
scientific Investigations, cHtbnllsl,
lecturcships, fOuDd schOlnrshIps
ana felI1,sxlllps, confer RpOst-Ernd-
uate and honorary degrees, and to