THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE of NEW YROK Provisional Charter of WEST CHINA UNION UNIVERSITY 紐約州大學對華西協合大學臨時特許權
資料原文來自於耶魯大學檔案館館藏 RG011-272-4317 ,第3頁
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| THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE
of NEW YROK Provisional Charter of WEST CHINA UNION UNIVERSITY THIS INSTRUMENT WITNESSETH That the Regents of the University of the State of New York have granted this provisional charter incorporating Rev. Austin K. DeBlois, Rev. Joseph Beech, Rev. James Endicott, Vincent Massey, Rev. Canon E. Price Devereaux, James Edmund Clark, Rev. Cyril C. B. Bardsley, Rev. John Franklin Goucher, Mornay Williams, Willian North Rice, Rev. Richard Pinch Bowles, Ross A. Hadley, Rev. F. Baylis, Henry T. Hodgkon, Michael Sadler, William O Gantz, Rev. Emory William Hunt, Rev. James Henry Franklin, H. Wilson Harris, T. R. W. Luntz, Rev. Frank Mason North and James Wood, Newton W. Rowell, George Vaux, Jr., Rev. Frank Anderson, and their successors and associates as a university for the elementary, secondary and higher education of youth in China, under the corporate name of "West China Union University", to be located at Chengu, in the province of Szechwan, China, with the principal office to be located in the Borough of Manhattan, in the City, County and State of New York, with twenty-five trustees who shall be known as the Governors of the University, to be at first the persons Named herein as incorporators, to hold in the order of their naming, eight until the annual meeting of the University in the year 1922, eight until the annual meeting in 1923, and nine un- til the annual meeting in 1924 and until their successors shall be chosen by the members of the corporation each year in place of those whose terms expire within that year, one from the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, one from the Friends Foreign Mission Association, Great Britain and Ireland, one from the General Board of Missions of the Methodist Church of Canada, one from the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, one from the Church Missionary Society, and the remainder from the Board of Governors of the University as it may be constituted from time to time, and to hold office for terms of three years each with power in them to increase or decrease its membership in such manner and upon such terms as shall be provided for by the general rules of its trustees, with power in them from time to time by unanimous vote of their full board to fix their terms of office and their number to be not more than twenty-five nor less than five; and with the provisions that this charter will be replaced by an absolute charter authorizing the university to confer upon its graduates the usual degrees, subject to the restrictions and requirements of the University, if with- in five years the corporation shall acquire resources and equipment of the value of at least $500,000, Available for its use and support and sufficient and suitable for its chartered purposes in the judgment of the Regents of the university and be maintaining an institution of educational usefulness and character satisfactory to them; and that until the granting of the absolute charter suitable degrees of The University of the State of New York will be conferred upon the graduates of the University who in the judgment of the Regents shall have duly earned the same. GRANTED MAY 25, 1922, by the Regents of the University of the State of New York, executed under their seal and recorded in their office. Number 3126 ADELBERT MOOT Vice Chancellor FRANK D. GRAVES President of the University 0602 |
紐約州大學
華西協合大學 臨時特許權 本文件證明，紐約州立大學的董事會授予了包含以下內容的臨時特許權： 牧師奧斯汀·K·德布洛伊斯，牧師約瑟夫·比奇，牧師詹姆斯·恩迪科特，文森特·馬西，牧師卡農·S·普賴斯·德韋雷奧，詹姆斯·埃德蒙·克拉克，牧師小西里爾·B·巴茲利，牧師約翰·富蘭克林·高徹，約翰尼·威廉士，威廉·諾思·克萊恩，牧師理察·菲爾登·豪爾斯，羅斯·A·哈德利，牧師F·P·貝利斯，牧師T·霍奇金斯，麥可·薩德爾，威廉·岡茨，牧師艾莫瑞·威廉姆·亨特，牧師詹姆斯·詹尼，弗蘭克·H·威爾遜·哈里斯，T·R·W·倫茨，牧師弗蘭克·梅森·諾思和詹姆斯·伍德，牛頓·W·羅威爾，喬治·沃，牧師弗蘭克·安德森。 他們的繼承者和同伴，以「華西協合大學」的名義在中國建立一所大學，涵蓋小學、中學和高等教育，校址設在中國四川省成都。紐約州內位於曼哈頓的主要辦公室，擁有二十五位信託人，這些信託人將被稱為大學的董事會。在所列名字中，前八人將於1922年年度會議上擔任信託人，直至1923年年度會議；九人將於1924年年度會議擔任信託人，直到後續信託人被選舉產生。每年董事會將選舉一名代表取代在信託任期內去世或任期屆滿的成員，分別來自美國浸信會外國傳教士協會、美國與加拿大的英國朋友外國傳教士協會、加拿大衛理公會外國傳教士董事會、聖公會外國傳教士董事會和聯合差會的董事會成員，並指定一位來自大學董事會的成員組成理事會。該理事會可根據需要進行調整，任期三年。理事會成員有權定期或必要時通過一致投票改變成員的任期，且人數不得少於五人；並以這樣的規定確保本臨時特許權的有效性。 五年內，大學應籌集不低於50萬美元的資源和設備供其使用、支持，並證明其教學用途的有效性。在大學董事會的判斷下，為其畢業生授予有效的紐約州大學學位，前提是他們已滿足所需標準。 1922年5月25日，由紐約州大學的董事會批准，蓋章生效，並記錄在冊。編號3126。 阿德勒特·穆特 副校長 弗蘭克·P·格雷夫斯 大學校長 |