A Guide to the Papers of the President of the University of Virginia, Office Administrative Files, 1925-1930
A Collection in
The University of Virginia Archives
Special Collections
The University of Virginia Library
Accession Number RG-2/1/2.472 VII
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Papers of the 
President 
of the University of Virginia,
Office Administrative Files, Accession #RG-2/1/2.472 VII,
Special Collections, University of Virginia Library,
Charlottesville, Va.
Scope and Content Information
These files (ca. 2,900 items) constitute the major record series generated by Edwin Anderson Alderman, the first president of the University of Virginia. The records consist chiefly of correspondence, but also include reports, minutes, clippings,
memoranda, and related papers concerning all areas of business of the president's office.
Process Information
Archival transfer, Office of the President , 1980 April 22. Originally accessioned as MSS 2636-b, 1947 November 15.
Blueprint transferred to RG-31/2/11.811.
Contents List
Box 1
"A" Miscellaneous --Abbot, Lawrence, editor
of
Outlook --re Vergil
celebration, Thomas Jefferson; Abernethy, Charles L.,
Congressman from North Carolina; Academy of Political
Science; Adams, Samuel L., delegate in General Assembly,
expressing opposition to anti-prohibition speakers and
professors; American Council on Education; American
Philosophical Society; Amphitheater--amplifier
equipment; Angell, James, president of Yale
1925-1930
president of Yale
1925-1930
(4 folders)
Box 1
Academic Schools, Miscellaneous--Journalism
1925-1930
Box 1
Administrative Council
1925-1930
Box 1
Advertising
1925-1930
Box 1
Agriculture--report on agricultural education
1925-1930
Box 1
Alumni Board Allotments from Contingent Fund
guaranteed by Alumni Board of Trustees
1925-1930
Box 1
Alumni Board General Correspondence--Reports
on Endowment Fund
1925-1930
Box 1
Alumni Board Investments
1925-1930
(2 folders)
Box 2
Alumni Board Meetings--Report on Endowment
Fund
1925-1930
Box 2
Alumni Board Treasurer
1925-1930
(2 folders)
Box 2
Alumni Groups--General
1925-1930
Box 2
Alumni Office
1925-1930
Box 2
Annual Reports
1925-1930
Box 2
Applications for Positions
1925-1930
(2 folders)
Box 2
Architect's File
1925-1930
Box 3
Art, Architecture, Music--Carnegie
Corporation scholarships in Fine Arts--Otto Kahn
address; Kearny gift of pictures; proposed addition to
Law School; Beaux Arts Ball; play-writing; gifts of art
work
1925-1930
Box 3
Articles about the University
1925-1930
Box 3
Association of American Universities
1925-1930
Box 3
Astronomy--Leander McCormick portrait;
correspondence with Charles P. Olivier, professor
1925-1930
Box 3
Athletics
1925-1930
(2 folders)
Box 3
"B" Miscellaneous (1-6 of 8)--Bagby, B.B.,
Chief Medical Inspector; Bureau of Health; Barr,
Stringfellow; Battle, George Gordon; Bibliography;
Boothe, Armistead L.
1925-1930
Box 4
"B" Miscellaneous (7-8 of 8)--Brookings
Institution; Bryan, John Stewart of the Richmond
News Leader ; Buchanan,
Benjamin F.; Buenos Aires; Byrd, Harry F.; Byrd, Richard
E.
1925-1930
Box 4
Barbour-Page Lectures
1925-1930
Box 4
Biblical History and Literature
1925-1930
Box 4
Biology--Complaint from Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals re alleged snake fight;
Andrew Fleming Prize in Biology
1925-1930
Box 4
Blandy Farm bequest
1925-1930
(2 folders)
Box 4
Buildings and Grounds
1925-1930
Box 4
Bursar, Business Manager
1925-1930
Box 4
Bursar's Office
1925-1930
Box 4
"C" Miscellaneous (1 of 8)--Calendar; Canby,
Henry S., editor of the
Saturday Review ; Cannon,
Bishop James, re prohibition; Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace; Catalogue
1925-1930
Box 5
"C" Miscellaneous (2-8 of 8)--Cemetery;
Centennial medal, Century Association; Chamber of
Commerce, Chandler, J.A.C., president , William and Mary;
Chase, H. W., president , University of North Carolina;
Citizens Committee of One Thousand; Cockrell, Ewing, re
law enforcement; Colonnade Club; Columbia University;
Administrative Committees of the faculty; Commonwealth
Fund; Constitution; Coeducation; Cooperative Education
Association of Virginia; Crenshaw, Lewis
1925-1930
president , William and Mary;
Chase, H. W., president , University of North Carolina;
Citizens Committee of One Thousand; Cockrell, Ewing, re
law enforcement; Colonnade Club; Columbia University;
Administrative Committees of the faculty; Commonwealth
Fund; Constitution; Coeducation; Cooperative Education
Association of Virginia; Crenshaw, Lewis
1925-1930
Box 5
Calendars, Weekly
1925-1930
Box 5
Carnegie Foundation
1925-1930
Box 5
Chemistry--American Chemical Society Prize
Essay Contest; DuPont fellowships; research of John Yoe;
teaching fellowships in the laboratory sciences
1925-1930
Box 5
Commerce and Business Administration
1925-1930
Box 5
Commons--cafeteria for students
1925-1930
Box 5
Convocations--list of recipients of
intermediate honors
1925-1930
Box 6
Co-ordinate College --see also Fredericksburg
College
1925-1930
(2 folders)
Box 6
Crime Commission--Davis, John W.
1925-1930
Box 6
"D" Miscellaneous --Dabney, R. H.; Davis,
Arthur Kyle; Davis, John Staige; Denny, George H.,
president , University of Alabama; Drewry, Patrick Henry,
U. S. House of Representatives; drinking; Duke, Samuel,
president , State Teachers College [James Madison],
Harrisonburg, Virginia; DuPont, Alfred
1925-1930
president , University of Alabama; Drewry, Patrick Henry,
U. S. House of Representatives; drinking; Duke, Samuel,
president , State Teachers College [James Madison],
Harrisonburg, Virginia; DuPont, Alfred
1925-1930
(3 folders)
Box 6
Dean's Office, J. M. Page--regulations;
freshman failure in Virginia colleges
1925-1930
Box 6
Delta Tau Delta
1925-1930
Box 6
Dormitories (1-2 of 3)
1925-1930
Box 7
Dormitories (3 of 3)
1925-1930
Box 7
DuPont Bequest
1925-1930
(2 folders)
Box 7
"E" Miscellaneous --Edmunds, Mrs. J.E. re
paintings; Elliott, Milton C.; English Speaking Union
1925-1930
(2 folders)
Box 7
Economics--proposal to create a Bureau of
Business research in the Commerce School
1925-1930
Box 7
Education --student teaching
1925-1930
(2 folders )
Box 7
Education, Nursing
1925-1930
Box 7
Engineering Department, General--Industrial
survey of Waynesboro
1925-1930
Box 7
English
1925-1930
Box 7
Evolution
1925-1930
Box 7
University Extension--Extension Topics (1 of
2)
1925-1930
Box 8
University Extension (2 of 2)
1925-1930
Box 8
"F" Miscellaneous --Faculty; Fees; Fess,
Simeon D., U. S. Senator, re drinking; Fitz-Hugh,
Thomas; Flexner, Abraham; Foreign Policy Association;
Fox Movietone News re shots taken at the University;
Fraternities; Freeman, Douglas Southall
1925-1930
(3 folders)
Box 8
Faculty Apartments
1925-1930
Box 8
Fellowships and Scholarships
1925-1930
(2 folders)
Box 8
Filing Material
1925-1930
Box 8
Finals
1925-1930
Box 9
Finances--Budget; Phi Kappa Psi land value
1925-1930
Box 9
Forestry--Proposal to move location of State
Forester's office from the University; Seward Forest
bequest
1925-1930
Box 9
Forms
1925-1930
Box 9
Foundations, Boards, etc.
1925-1930
Box 9
Founder's Day--Nicholas Murray Butler
1925-1930
Box 9
Fredericksburg College--recommendations for
new presidency; see also Co-ordinate College
1925-1930
Box 9
Funds, Loan
1925-1930
Box 10
"G" Miscellaneous --Gault, Robert H.; Gee,
Wilson; Guggenheim Foundation
1925-1930
(3 folders)
Box 10
General Education Board
1925-1930
(2 folders)
Box 10
Geological Survey
1925-1930
Box 10
Geology
1925-1930
Box 10
Gift
1925-1930
Box 11
Governor's Office--Byrd visit; Budget report
to Byrd after reorganization of state government;
keynote speech, Byrd, Harrisonburg; Trinkle, Stone
Mountain Memorial "Harvest Campaign" coins; salary for
Watson; insurance letter re dynamite in Cabell Hall; R.
E. Byrd North Pole conquest; gifts to University of
Virginia.; DuPont Trust; alcohol at UVa.
1925-1930
Box 11
Graduate Dept.--statistics; expansion;
fellowship
1925-1930
Box 11
Greek
1925-1930
Box 11
"H" Miscellaneous --Hartridge, Evelyn B. re
Julien Green; Hollins College; Hoover, Herbert
1925-1930
(6 folders)
Box 11
Higher Education
1925-1930
(2 folders)
Box 11
Higher Education, Education Survey Report and
Commission to Unify Higher Education
1925-1930
Box 12
History --complaints over lack of office
space and lecture rooms
1925-1930
(2 folders)
Box 12
History Department Research Professorship in
Southern History
1925-1930
Box 12
Honor System
1925-1930
Box 12
"I" Miscellaneous--Institute of Citizenship
and Government; Institute of International Education;
Institute for Research in the Social Sciences; Institute
of Public Affairs
1925-1930
Box 12
Invitations to be represented
1925-1930
(4 folders)
Box 12a
Institute for Research in the Social Sciences
(1of 5)--gifted children; Wilson Gee; Laura Spelman
Rockefeller Memorial; Committee recommendations for
formation of Institute: Gee, Gooch, Ferguson, Smithey,
Malone, Kincaid; Second Conference on Teaching and
Research in the Social Sciences, Southern Region, at
UVa., March 1926; D. W. Willard; Howard W. Odum;
candidates for professor of sociology
1925-1926
Box 12a
Institute for Research in the Social Sciences
(2 of 5)--all correspondence with Rockefeller Memorial,
including lengthy letters from Alderman, and a
memorandum for Alderman on a conference with Professor
Odum at Chapel Hill, NC re the Rockefeller Grant
1926 Jan- Jun
Box 12a
Institute for Research in the Social Sciences
(3 of 5)--Applications and recommendations for head of
Institute; H.W. Chase, President , University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill; Gee re responsibility of
University of Virginia to public welfare in Virginia;
alumni of Richmond to set up research professorship in
Social Sciences; minutes of meeting, Alderman, Smithey,
Snavely, and Gee, setting up Research Council; State
Board of Public Welfare plan for School of Social
Sciences at University of Virginia; Frank Bane; Dumas
Malone; Floyd House; budgets; minutes; Beardsley Ruml;
space; program suggestions; organization plan; Social
Science Research outlines for University of Chicago and
Columbia University
1926 Jun-Dec
President , University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill; Gee re responsibility of
University of Virginia to public welfare in Virginia;
alumni of Richmond to set up research professorship in
Social Sciences; minutes of meeting, Alderman, Smithey,
Snavely, and Gee, setting up Research Council; State
Board of Public Welfare plan for School of Social
Sciences at University of Virginia; Frank Bane; Dumas
Malone; Floyd House; budgets; minutes; Beardsley Ruml;
space; program suggestions; organization plan; Social
Science Research outlines for University of Chicago and
Columbia University
1926 Jun-Dec
Box 12a
Institute for Research in the Social Sciences
(4 of 5)--Budgets; letters re Wylie Kilpatrick to become
Associate Research Professor; annual reports; Douglas
Southall Freeman,
The News Leader ,
Richmond, Va. complimenting Gee; Beardsley Ruml for the
Rockefeller Memorial; University of North Carolina
report to Rockefeller Memorial; American Council of
Learned Societies questionnaire on research; Institute
Executive Council meeting
1927
Box 12a
Institute for Research in the Social Sciences
(5 of 5)-Edward L. Stone re Public and Private Welfare
Survey of Roanoke, Va.; Gooch report to Gee on
"Regionalism in France" study; Gee to Floyd H. Marvin,
President , George Washington University re the
Institute; Gee report re Va. Social Science Association;
Alderman re Institute publications; Gee article for
The Charlotte Observer ,
"Higher Education and Southern Progress"; minutes and
report from Fall 1929 Institute meeting; annual report,
1927; Social Science Research Council Requests
information; Rockefeller Memorial and Social Science
Research Council re Gooch; Gee to Philip Parsons,
University of Oregon, re Institute; 2nd Annual Report,
1928; Alderman to Ruml, Rockefeller Memorial, mentions
lecture by Charles A. Beard at University of Virginia;
Virginia Social Science Association re its own
formation; Institute Brochure, 1927-1928; Institute
Budget Sheet, 1928-1929
1928-1930
President , George Washington University re the
Institute; Gee report re Va. Social Science Association;
Alderman re Institute publications; Gee article for
The Charlotte Observer ,
"Higher Education and Southern Progress"; minutes and
report from Fall 1929 Institute meeting; annual report,
1927; Social Science Research Council Requests
information; Rockefeller Memorial and Social Science
Research Council re Gooch; Gee to Philip Parsons,
University of Oregon, re Institute; 2nd Annual Report,
1928; Alderman to Ruml, Rockefeller Memorial, mentions
lecture by Charles A. Beard at University of Virginia;
Virginia Social Science Association re its own
formation; Institute Brochure, 1927-1928; Institute
Budget Sheet, 1928-1929
1928-1930
Box 13
Invitations to be represented (1-9 of 31)
1925-1930
Box 14
Invitations to be represented (10-19 of 31)
1925-1930
Box 15
Invitations to be represented (20-27 of 31)
1925-1930
Box 16
Invitations to be represented (28-31 of 31)
1925-1930
Box 16
Box 16
Jefferson Memorial Foundation
1925-1930
(2 folders)
Box 17
"K" Miscellaneous --Kahn Foundation for
Foreign Travel, James Southall Wilson proposed;
Kallenbach scholarship; Kappa Delta Pi; Fiske Kimball
1925-1930
(2 folders)
Box 17
"L" Miscellaneous --La Baume, F. re cigarette
smoking; laboratory courses; letters to W.W. Laird re
idea of approaching Du Pont family to set up school of
Social Sciences; Lake Placid Club; Lancaster, Dabney S.;
Lane company re offer to sell property; Lee, Lawrence;
R. E. Lee Memorial Foundation; Lefevre portrait; Lewis,
Ivey re
University Bibliography ;
Lincoln Scholarship Fund; Loan Fund
1925-1930
(3 folders)
Box 17
Latin
1925-1930
Box 17
Law Department, General--letter to John
Bassett Moore re strengthening instruction in
International Law; recent Law Library acquisitions;
needs of the Law School
1925-1930
Box 17
Law Department Teaching Staff
1925-1930
Box 17
League of Nations Non-Partisan
Association--Alderman to serve on National Advisory
Council
1925-1930
Box 17
Lectures, see also Barbour-Page lectures
1925-1930
Box 17
Lecturer Baccalaureate
1925-1930
Box 17
Legislative Bills re University of Virginia
1925-1930
Box 18
Legislative Program --Report on progress of
Agriculture in Virginia; budget; Byrd, Harry F. re the
University; emphasis on medical program; Centennial
celebration
1925-1930
(3 folders)
Box 18
Legislative Program newspaper clippings
1925-1930
Box 18
Legislative Program statistics
1925-1930
Box 18
Library, General --book lists; statistics;
Poe portrait; James McConnell cap; fund for books on
Negro [Arthur Curtiss James donation]; information re Jefferson manuscripts in library
1925-1930
(5 folders)
Box 19
Library, General --list of donors; Library
Committee minutes
1925-1930
(2 folders)
Box 19
"M" Miscellaneous --McConnell statue; Maphis,
Charles G.; Memminger, C. G. re Baron Powell Rammingen's
autograph collection; Metcalf, J. C. re books on Negroes
for the library [Arthur Curtiss James donation]
1925-1930
(7 folders)
Box 19
McIntire Fund
1925-1930
Box 19
Marshall Statue
1925-1930
Box 19
Mathematics
1925-1930
Box 19
Medicine, School of (1 of 2)
1925-1930
Box 20
Medicine, School of (2 of 2)
1925-1930
Box 20
Medicine, School of--Application for
Superintendent
1925-1930
Box 20
Medicine, School of--dedication
1925-1930
Box 20
Medicine, School of--expansion
1925-1930
(2 folders)
Box 20
Medicine, School of--hospital
1925-1930
Box 20
Medicine, School of--Hospital
Superintendent's Reports
1925-1930
Box 20
Medicine, School of--Hospital Ward Patient
Statistics
1925-1930
Box 21
Medicine, School of--Hough Memorial
1925-1930
Box 21
Medicine, School of--Movement to raise
$450,000
1925-1930
(3 folders)
Box 21
Medicine, School of--Nursing Chair
1925-1930
Box 21
Medicine, School of--Pathology Department
1925-1930
Box 21
Medicine, School of--Statistics
1925-1930
Box 21
Medicine, School of--Teaching Staff
1925-1930
Box 21
Medicine, School of--memorial to Walter Reed;
Historical Sketch of Belroi
1925-1930
Box 21
Miscellaneous--College shield; Alma Mater
song; sabbatical leave; request for information about
alumni and traditions at the University
1925-1930
Box 21
"N" Miscellaneous (1 of 2)--Narcotics;
National Committee for Mental Hygiene; National
Education Association; National League of Women Voters
1925-1930
Box 22
"N" Miscellaneous (2 of 2)--Near East College
Association; Near East Relief
1925-1930
Box 22
National Association of State Universities
1925-1930
Box 22
"O" Miscellaneous--Omicron Delta Kappa
1925-1930
Box 22
"P" Miscellaneous --Painting walls by
students; Phelps-Stokes fellowships; Phi Kappa Sigma
Fraternity; Poe Room
1925-1930
(3 folders)
Box 22
Page School of International Relations at
Johns Hopkins
1925-1930
Box 22
Pan American Celebration: Bolivar mementoes
1925-1930
Box 22
Peace Pamphlets and Letters
1925-1930
Box 22
Phi Beta Kappa
1925-1930
(2 folders)
Box 23
Philosophy--suggestions for enrichment and
enlargement of graduate work in philosophy; portrait of
Albert Lefevre; proposed changes in the course "History
of Philosophy"
1925-1930
Box 23
Physical Education
1925-1930
Box 23
Physics
1925-1930
Box 23
Political Science--Geneva School on
International Studies
1925-1930
Box 23
Prohibition
1925-1930
Box 23
Prospective Donors
1925-1930
Box 23
Psychology--W and L Record Card
1925-1930
Box 23
Public Health and Hygiene
1925-1930
Box 23
Public Speaking
1925-1930
Box 23
Box 23
Questionnaires
1925-1930
Box 23
"R" Miscellaneous --Randolph, Hollings, list
of graduates of law Class, 1895; Raskob, John J.;
Rockefeller, Jr., J. D.; Rural Sociology
1925-1930
(4 folders)
Box 24
Radio --Report on radio broadcasting;
Alderman's acceptance as member of Advisory Council to
National Broadcasting Company; Stringfellow Barr's
ideas; hearings before the United States Senate; George
Zehmer suggestions
1925-1930
(3 folders)
Box 24
Radio Broadcasting Systems at High Schools
and Universities
1925-1930
(2 folders)
Box 24
Recommendations, Letters of
1925-1930
Box 24
Religious Exercises
1925-1930
Box 25
Research--Proposed establishment of an
institution for research in the Social Sciences
1925-1930
Box 25
Rhodes Scholarship
1925-1930
Box 25
Rockefeller Commission: Appeal for grant for
library for cataloging
1925-1930
Box 25
Romance Languages--Bolivar; plan to furnish
Romance Pavilion with antiques; Ormond Smith gift to
french Room; Claude Swanson re dedication of French Room
1925-1930
Box 25
"S" Miscellaneous --Scott, Frederic; seal;
Self help student employment; University Senate re
Yellow Journal ; Seven
Society re Jim McConnell; making of Shenandoah National
Park; Sigma Xi; Silver, W.H. re iron spike from Rotunda,
1895 fire presented to University of Virginia; Social
Sciences Institute; student fees; student health;
student organizations
1925-1930
(8 folders)
Box 26
"S" Miscellaneous--Swannanoa; Swanson,
Claude; death of Symmers student
1925-1930
Box 26
Salary Increases
1925-1930
(2 folders)
Box 26
Sesquicentennial--plaster model of University
of Virginia by Victor Mindeleff
1925-1930
Box 26
Smith Campaign --F. D. Roosevelt letter
1925-1930
(2 folders)
Box 26
Sociology--tentative six-year program for the
development of the School of Sociology
1925-1930
Box 26
Southern Women's Educational Alliance
Fellowship in Sociology
1925-1930
Box 26
Statistics
1925-1930
Box 27
Sullivan Foundation Award--given by N.Y.
Southern Society--bronze plague for "admirable spiritual
qualities"
1925-1930
Box 27
Summer Session
1925-1930
Box 27
Summer Work
1925-1930
Box 27
"T" Miscellaneous --
College Topics ; Tunstall,
Robert B., re Dartmouth
1925-1930
(2 folders)
Box 27
Term Reports--statistics of number of
enrollments in each class, number dropped, number
passing and failing
1925-1930
Box 27
"U" Miscellaneous--Underwood, Oscar W.,
editorial at time of his death; United Daughters of the
Confederacy; U. S. departments; University Club of New
York; University Cruising Club
1925-1930
Box 27
University Hour--budgets; schedule
1925-1930
Box 27
University Houses: Applications for the
Pavilions
1925-1930
Box 27
"V" Miscellaneous--Van Demark, R. W.,
renomination of Samuel Colcord for Nobel Peace Prize
1925-1930
Box 28
"V" Miscellaneous--Varsity Club; Veterans'
Bureau; Virginia Academy of Science
1925-1930
Box 28
Virginia Constitution--revision of
1925-1930
Box 28
Virginia Quarterly
Review
1925-1930
Box 28
Visitors, Board of--
1925-1930
(3 folders)
Box 28
Visitors, Board of--Members
1925-1930
Box 29
"W" Miscellaneous
1925-1930
(2 folders)
Box 29
William H. White Foundation
1925-1930
Box 29
Women at the University
1925-1930
Box 29
Woodrow Wilson Film
1925-1930
Box 29
Woodrow Wilson Foundation
1925-1930
Box 29
Woodrow Wilson Memorial Tablet
1925-1930
Box 29
"X-Y" Miscellaneous--Yale;
Yellow Journal --see
Senate
1925-1930