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     Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Trustees, University of
Kentucky, September 23, 1944.


     The Board of Trustees of the University of Kentucky met in the
President's OCffice at 1:00 pcmn, Saturday, September 23, 1944, pur-
suant to adjburnment.   The following members ware present:   Governor
S. S. Willis Judge Richard C. Stoll, ivirs. Pau GO. Blazer, J. C.
Everett, H;A. Cleveland, Judge Harry W. Walters, T. H. Cutler,
R. P. Hobsont Robert Tway, Harper Gatton, John Fred Williams* Elliott
Robertson and Grover Creech#   President H. L. Donovan and Comptrollei
Frank D. Peterson, Secretary of the Board, were also present.


     A. Approval of Minutes,



            1. Upon motion of Judge Stoll, seconded by Mr.
               Cleveland, and unanimously carried, the
               minutes of the Board of Trustees of June 2,
               1944, is approved as published.
                           * * * * .* * * * * *


                           * * * * * * * * * **

            29 Upon motion of Mr. Gatton, seconded by Mr. Cut-
               ler, and unanimously carried, the minutes of the
               Executive Committee of June 6, 13, July 21, and
               August 22, 1944, are approved as published.




     B. Approval of Candidates for Degreeg.

     President Donovan submitted a list of candidates for degrees
witich had been approved by the University Faculty with recommenda-
tion to the Board of Trustees.


                    COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
           CANDIDATES FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS

Leland Edgar Day                        Dorothy Combs Hill
Lula Jeane Foley                        Mary Elizabeth Locknane
Mildred Ann Hannah                      Virginia Frances Mitchell
Margaret Ann Hartman                    Earl Charles Purvis#Jro




 







CANDIDATES FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF' SCIENCE



Joseph Brasher Boatman
Robert Burton Breeding
McHenry Shreve Brewer
James Campbell Cantrill



John Parker Hill, Jr.
Ralph Ernst Meyer
Murrell Leeon Salutsky



     CANDIDATE FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MUSIC

Donald Norman Galloway


CANDIDATES FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN LIBRARY SCIENCE



Evyline Devary
Josephine Moore



Ima Mae Van Hook
Helen Louise Williams



          College of Agriculture and Home Economics
CANDIDATES FOR ZE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN HOME ECONOMICS



Virginia Haynes Allen
Helen Margaret Bradford
Doris Rose Chrisman
Sara Lee Mock Floyd
Mildred Snapp Forston
Opal aarice Hurley



Katherine Krug Johnston
Joan Catherine Meyer
Jean Bernice Prichard
Lelia Barnhill Schooley
Erwina Soward
Wary Jacqueline Stamper



                      COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
CANDIDATES FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF XIENCE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING



James Hubert Crawford
David McCord Phelps III



James Barbour Stevenson



CANDIDATE FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEER-
                               ING
Ray Preston Walters



                          COLLEGE OF LAW
             CANDIDATE FOR THE DEGREE OF SCHELOR OF LAWS
Scott Elgin Reed



                  COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
CANDIDATES FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS IN EDUCATION



Willie Semenda Adams
Alice Louise Benton
Lucille McKinivan Clarke
Evelyn Percivrl Coffman
Ann Elizabeth Earle
Wathalyne Tipton Fairchild
Marian Atkinson Faulkner



Mildred Pauline Franklin
Carolyn Rhodes Hill
Dana Margaret Ison
Nora Sebastian Mosby
Martha Wood Neblett
Annabel Roberts
Joan Schlegel




 







Helen Marguerite Thacker                  Georgianna Young
Elizabeth Ellen Whaley

                        COLLEGE OF COMMERCE
    CANDIDATES FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN COMMERCE



Eunice Leigh Arnold
Mary Birnam Brittain
Wilma Clay Cecil



James Francis Doyle
Callie Ann Morris
Mary Jean Runyon



             GRADUATE SCHOOL
CANDIDATES FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS



John Coleman Arnold
Theressa Ross Garr
Chloe Gifford
Dorothy Annabelle Kuhn



Carmen Perez Roman
Marjorie Fingerhood Pfeffer
Guy Harvey Ranson
Margery Allene Thomas



CANDIDATES FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE



Annie Mary Botts
Floyd Cox
Mortin Irwin Dolin



John Laice Owen
William Landon Smith



  CANDIDATE FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE IN PUBLIC HEALTH

Lawrence Landis

       CANDIDATES FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS IN EDUCATION



Otis Lane Adams
R. P. Brown
Louisa Elizabeth Bumgardner
Mar-an Margaret Evans
Garnet C. Hines
Joe Grady Lehman
Thelma Oleen Majors
Willie Curtis Wright Partin



Emma Seifried Phelps
Ida Mae Pieratt
Lena Turner Saunders
Alice Eloise Seay
Elizabeth Shaikun
Clarence William Starns
Raymond Jayson Wesley
Goldie Margaret Wilson



CANDIDATES FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE IN EDUCATION



Frances Elizabeth Brown
Thelma Lee Monical



Elise Sams Patrick



3. It was moved by Judge Stoll, seconded by Mrs
   Cutler, and unanimously carried, that degrees
   be granted to the persons lwIagcompleted the
   requirements for the degrees indicated as
   having been approved by the University Faculty
   and recommended by the President of the University.




 




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     C. Report of the President.

     President Donovan made the following report to the Board of
Trustees:


               QUARTERLY REPORT TO BOARD OF TRUSTEES

                     H. L. Donovan, President

                        September 23, 1944


The Administrative, Instructional and
Research Organization of the University
of Kentucky

     On the table before you is a chart of the administrative, in-
structional and research organization of the University of Kentucky.
I am suggesting that we take a few minutes to study this chart,
which has been carefully prepared by Dean Leo M. Chamberlain in con-
sultation with the Deans of the various colleges, the Director of the
Experiment Station, the Comptroller, arid the President. This chart
is alaue-print of the organization of the University, and it gives
the reader at a quick glance an understanding of how the University
is organized and the functions of the different colleges and divi-
sionso


Enrollment

     The civilian enrollment during the past year has been the lowest
for many years.   This is easily explained.   All able-bodied young
men eighteen years and over were drafted for military service.   Many
of the young women enlisted as WACS, WAVES, SPARS, or Cadet Nurses.
High %Llaries paid by industry and government also induced other
young women and many young men who were unable to meet the physical
requirements for military service to accept positions.

     It is believed that the past year represents the turning point
in the enrollment of the University.    Already there are indica-
tions that the enrollment for the next year will be considerably
higher than that of the past year.   There is every evidence to be-
lieve that as soon as hostilities terminate the enrollment will in-,
crease rapidly until it reaches a figure Ar beyond any enrollment
the University has ever had.

      One of the unfortunate results of the war is the curtailment of
the enrollment in the Graduate School.   Graduate schools throughout
the nation have lost the majority of their students.    This repre-
sents a national disaster because it is certain to result in a short-
age ofmen and women adequately prepared for many of the professions
and for research,   It will take some years to overcome this de-
ficiency in trained personnel for many of the essential services for
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Appointment to Advisory Committee
Committee on Education--House of Representatives

     About a month ago, Congressman Graham A. Barden, North Carolina,
Chairman of the Committee on Education of the House of Representa-
tives, invited me to serve as one of twelve members of an Advisory
Committee to study higher education for the Committee on Education
of the House. My colleagues on this Committee are distinguished
American educators representing all parts of the nation.   We have
been charged with the responsibility of ascertaining to what extent
the war has affected higher education in iis country, and to recom-
mend aprogram to tie National Government for relief in ase we decide
that t is necessary for the government to come to the rescue of
both private andpablic institutions,   This Committee has held one
meeting of three days in length in Washington.    The Director of the
Study, Dr. Francis J. Brown, is assembling material from all the In-
stitutions of higher education in this country, from which he is
attempting to ascertain from the presidents of these collges and
universities what has been the effect of tis war on the various insti-
tutionls. We are to meet again in October for the purpose of con-
sidering the information which will have been assembled.


Decision of Veterans Administration on Question of
Payment of Cost of Education of the Upturning Veterans

     The 78th Congress of the United States recently passed Public
Law 346, commonly known as the GI Bill of Rights.    This bill provid-
ed for the education of returning veterans.    It stated that, 'The
Administrator shall pay to the educational or training institution,
for each person enrolled in full time or part time course of educa-
tion or training, the customary cost of tuition, and such laboratory,
library, health, :firmaryt and other similar fees as are customarily
charged, * * * * * Provided, that in no event shall such payments,
with respect to any person, exceed $500 for an ordinary school year
* * * * *   Arnd provided further, That if any such institution has
no established tuition fee, or if its established tuition fee shall
be found, by the Administrator to be inadequate compensation to
such institution for furnishing such education or training, he is
authorized to provide for the payment, with respect to any such per-
son, of such fair and reasonable compensation as will not exceed
$50oo r an ordinary school year.'

     The members cf Congress with whom I have talked have stated that
they tought they were enacting a law which would actually provide
for the cost of educating returning soldiers and sailors at institu-
tions of higher education, not to exceed tic maximum of $500.   They
have tiid that they thought they were taking care of the cost of edu-
cating the returning veterans in view of the fact that these men lad
been called into rilitary service by the National Government and that
their education had been interrupted because of the national emergency.

     7he Veterans Administration has not so interpreted this law.
 In June it sent out a directive which insisted that it would pay only
 the published catalog tuition fee.    This decision caused such a
 violent reactionom the part of colleges and universities that the




 





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Veterans Administration decided to appoint a committee of educators
to study this question, stating in advance that it would accept the
recommendations of this committee.   The committee appointed consist-
ed of Dr. Robert G. Sproul, President, University of California; Mr.
Robert B. Stewart, Controller, Purdue University; Mr. H. S. Ford,
Treasurer, M.I.T., and Dr. R. C. Harris, President, Tulane University.
These men represent four of the rich universities of the United
Statese  Their institutions Eve already received millions of dollars
in contracts from the Federal Governmentfor services which they have
rendered during the war.   This committee met and decided to recom-
mend that a floor or minimum fee be established, guaranteeing to
institutions tuition of at least $10 a month, $30 a quarters or $40
a semester.   They also stated that public institutions may charge
the non-resident tuition fee.  This recommendation was but to add
insult to injury,   At least 200 colleges of the United States will
have to spend a large part of their state appropriations, or a part
of their endowment funds for the education of the returning veterans,
even though Congress had meant to finance their education.  An exam-
ination of the catalogs of these four universities whose epresenta-
tives recommended a policy to the Veterans Administration will reveal
that each of them will receive tuition fees for the education of
returning veterans ranging from $205 to $500 per yeare

     Their recommendation was a perfect application of the old Bibli-
cal statement, "For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he
shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away
even that which he hath.s"

     The Veterans Administration appointed representatives of these
rich universities, ignoring the small private colleges, the state
teachers colleges, the Junior colleges, the state universities and
land-grant colleges with small tuition fees.   Theseinstitutions Ed
no voice whatsoever in formulating the recommendations to the Vet.
erans Administration,   Their problems were absolutely ignored and
if this decision stands, it will amount to the Congress enacting the
laws tD have the states and the privately endowed colleges educate
the returning veterans largely out of their own resources*

     A more arbitrary decision has probably never been made by any
agency of government in this country.   It is a perfect example of
government by a bureaucracy, regardless of what legislation Congress
may enact.

     Under the decision now announced by the Veterans Administration
the University of Kentucky will probably secure $165 tuition fee per
year from the Federal Government for each returning veteran.    A
study of the cost of education at the University of Kentucky for ll
of its colleges over a period of four years has recently been made
and the average cost is $410.92 per student per year.    This means
that the University of Kentucky will have to supplement the educa-
tioncf the veteran with $245per man per year.    It is reasonable to
expect that over ie period of seven years in whkh returning veterans
may take advantage of the provisions of the GI B111 the University
of Kentucky will sroll a minimum of 4t000 veterans.    These men may
remain in college from one to four years.   I believe it would be
conservative to assume that they would remain In school an average




 








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of two years each, This would mean that the University would give
8,000 man years of education to the returning veterans. Multiplying
$245, the amount the University would have to subsidize each veteran,
by 8,000 you get he enormous aim of $1,960,000 which the University of
Kentucky will be alled upon to spend on the education of the return-
ing men. It will receive from the Federal Government for the educa-
tion of these men $1,320,000. M.I.T,, enrolling a like number of
students, will receive from the Federal Government $4,000,000.

     This is notti that the State of Kentucky will lose as a result
of this decision   the Veterans Administration.   The combined enroll-
ment of the four Mate teachers colleges, the two colleges for Negroes,
and the vocational school at Paintsvillevill probably equal the
enrollment of the Universitycf Kentucky. Their tuition fees are
smaller than ours and they will sustain a greater loss proportionate-
ly than that sustained by the University,

     The high tuition schools are largely. located in New Englando
Many of them will receive the maximum of $500 for compensation under
the terms of the announced policy of the Veterans Administrationv
whereas the colleges of Kentucky, both private and public, as well
as practically all the colleges and universities in the South, will
secure only a small fractioncX the actual cost of the education of the
returning veterans. While paying for a large portion of the cost
of the education of the returning soldiers and sailors in our region,
we will be paying Federal taxes that will help to pay the tuition
cost tr the wealthier colleges and universities of New England, the
West Gbast, and some other favorite regions.

     Representative Rankin of Mississippi has introduced an amendment
in the Congress asking the Veterans Administration to pay the actual
cost to all colleges of the nation and not to discriminate among
them.   The only relief that I can see is for us to ask our Congress-
men to support this measure that a fair and reasonable fee be paid
to all institutions for the education of returning veterans.

     I request that the Board of Trustees pass two resolutions, one
to be sent to General Frank T. Hines, objecting to the policy an-
nounced by the Veterans Administration, and the other to be sont to
each of our Senators and Congressmen, asking them to support the
hankin Amendment.   I would also appreciate it if each member of this
Board would communicate with his Congressman personally and urge him
In the nanme of justice and fair play to correct this [eat wrong that
has been done smaller American colleges and universities.




      The Board took cognizance of the requests of the President, and
upon motion of Judge Stoll, seconded by Mr. Williams, and unanimous-
ly carried, the following resolution was assed:




 





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          The Board of Trustees of the University of Kentucky,
     at its regular meeting on September Z3A1944, takes note
     of Section 5 of Part VIII of Public Law 346, cited as
     the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944. The last
     part of this section reads as follows: "That if any
     such institution has no established tuition fee, or if
     its established fee shall be found by the Administrator
     to be inadequate compensation to such institution for
     furnishing such education or training, he (the Adminis-
     trator) is authorized to provide for the payment, with
     respect to any such person, of such fair and reasonable
     compensation as will not exceed $500 for an ordinary
     school year."

          Whereas: It is the conviction of this Board that
     the recent directive issued by the Veterans' Administra-
     tion is not in keeping with the meaning of the above
     provision of the law or with the intent of the Congress#
     and

          Whereas: the administration of the law under this
     recent directive will do marked injustice to all insti-
     tutions that for good and legitimate reasons have had no
     tuition fees or have maintained low tuition or incidental
     charges,

          Be It Therefore Resolved: That this Board express
     to General Frank T. Hines, The Administrator of\Eterans
     Affairs, its objection to the interpretation that has
     been placed on the above mentioned section of the Act and
     that it request that the matter again be taken under ad-
     visement with a view to a decision more in keeping with
     the letter and intent of the law and one that will result
     in the equitable treatment of all institutions concerned.

          Be It Further Resolved: That the Secretary be instruct.
     ed to send a copy of the above statement and resolution
     to General Hines.


     The Board of7Tustees, upon motion duly made, seconded and unani-
mously carried, passed the following resolution directed to the United
States Senators and Representatives from Kentucky&


           The Board of Trustees of the University of Kentucky,
      at its regular meeting on September Z, 1944, takes note
      of Section 5 of Part VIII of Public Law 346, cited as the
      Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944.   The last part of
      this section reads as follows: "That if any such institution
      has no established tuition fee, or if its established
      fee shall be found by the Administrator to be inadequate
      compensation to such institution for furnishing such
      education or training, he (the Administrator) Is authorized




 





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    to provide for the payment, with respect to any such per-
    son, of such fair and reasonable compensation as will not
    exceed $500 tr an ordinary school yecr."

         Whereas: It is the oonviction or this Board that the
    recent directive issued by the Veterans' Administration
    is not in keeping with the meaning of the above provision
    of the law or with the intent of the Congress, and

         Whereas: the fees charged in all the state supported
    institutions of Kentucky are designed to cover costs inci-
    dental to instruction rather than tuition and do not, there-
    fore, fepresent adequate compensation to such institutions
    for furnishing the required education for veterans, and

         Whereas: this is true even though the institution is
    permitted to charge the non-resident fee for each veteran
    irrespective of his residence, and

         Whereas: all institutions of this state and of the
    South generally will be reimbursed at a much lower rate
    than wealthier institutions of other sections of the
    country, when the same service is required of all, and

         Whereas: the citizens of Kentucky and of other states
    of the South will be paying Federal taxes to finance the
    cost of a program that under the recent directive will bne-
    fit principally Institutions in other sections of the
    country that have found it possible ad desirable to assess
    higher fees,

         Be It Therefore Resolved: That this Board request each
    United States Senator and Representative from Kentucky to
    lend his active support to the proposed Rankin amendment
    to Public Law 346, or to such other amendment as Aill insure
    that every college participating In fre education of veterans
    will be properly reimbursed in accordance with the obvious
    intent of the original act.

         Be It Further Resolved:  That the Secretary be Instruct-
    ed to send a copy of the above statement and resolution to
    each United States Senator and Representative from Kentucky*



    D. The President's Report Continued.

The Smer Quarter.

     One of the first recommendations I made after coming to the
University was to place the summer school under the control of the
deans of the several colleges of the University.    I mad this recom-
mendation after consulting with Dr. Jesse Ee Adams, Director of the
Summer School, explaining to him my reason for doing so*    I should




 




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like to record here that Doctor Adams gave me his full cooperation
and support in bringing about this changes   Under the splendid lead-
ership of Doctor Adams a great summer school had been built up, but
it was in a large measure independent of the administration of the
various colleges,   In October, 1941, we took the summer school
academially into the pattern of the organization of the University,
but because of the lack of funds it still had to be operated on
student fees, plus the small sum of $10,000 appropriated by the Gen-
eralAssembly for that purpose.   The fees of the students served
somewhat as a "Jack pot" to be divided among the professors in pro-
portion to the number of students they were able to attract to their
classes.  In some departments there were plenty of students, while
in others there was not much demands   This uncertain financial ar-
rangement resulted in dissatisfaction among teachers ad it tended to
affect the morale of the faculty of the Universitye

     Before the last meeting of the General Assembly, I requested a
ten per cent increase in our appropriations, primarily for the pur-
pose of correcting this problem.   The Governor and the General As-
embly granted this increase in our appropriations and made it possi-
ble for us to take the summer quarter financially into the University.
The summer quarter is now academically and financially part of the
University, and it is administered in the same manner as any other
quarter of the year.   All members of the faculty who desire a
twelve-months contract are employed on a twelve-months basis.     If a
member of the faculty desires to teach three quarters only, this
privilege is granted to him.   However$ practically all the staff in
the future will be employed on the four-quarters basis.   This full-
time employment of men and women has made it possible to increase the
salaries of the faculty to some extent.   It also assures a better
balanced summer school schedule, which will enable those students
who desire to accelerate their work to do so, thereby graduating in
three yeara instead of four.


Kentucky: Designs for Her Future

     Following the celebration of the Kentucky Sesquicentennial in
1942, the University undertook to make a thorough study of Kentucky
In prospect.   A number of the members of our faculty were encouraged
to look into the Ixture and attempt to anticipate many of the problems
of tomorrow.   We have a faith that Kentucky's true greatness   lies
ahead,   A study of our vast undeveloped natural resources on which
to build the land of tomorrow was made.   A series of thirty radio
addresses were made over WHAS, setting forth the possibilities of
Kentucky's future.   as a result of this preliminary study, it was
decided that a much more comprehensive investigation of future needs
should be undertaken.   We requested Dr. Howard W. Beers, Professor
of Rural Sociology, to assume the editorship of a volume that might
be valuable in charting   our course in the years ahead for Kentucky
in the world of tomorrow.   He invited a number of his colleagues in
the University to join him in making a comprehensive study of our
staters future needs and prospects,    For two years these men have
been giving earnest consideration to this problem.    A volume en-
titled "Kentucky: Designs for Her Future" will be published shortly,
giving the results of the study and deliberations of twelve members
of our faculty who have worked on this project.    This book should




 







prove to be of interest to every citizen who has an interest in the
future of the Commonwealth.

     The table of contents will give you some idea of the subjects to
be presented in this volumes


                          TABLE OF CONTENTS

PEACE IN THE COMMrzON1EALTH * a..  .  * * * * .- *.  6 Howard W. Beers

KENTUCKY'S HERITAGE . . . .       * *... .    . * *.. .   Thomas D. Clark

THE ENERGY OF THREE MILLION PEOPLE  * * * * * * * * *,Howard W. Beers

AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY  .. . . . . . . . . . .     . Dana G. Card

THE WEALTH IN ROCKS AND STREAMS . . . . . . . . . . . A. C. XcFarlan

WILD IIFE AND OUTDOOR KENTUCKY .   . . . . . . .* * * W. R. Allen

MANUFACTURING RESOURCES AND RESOURCEFULNESS . . . Marshall D. Ketchum

NEW USES FOR OLD M0ATERIALS *.      .. *.     e    Laurence Lx Quill

LANES OF COMMERCE  . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . Rodman Sullivan

GOVERNMENT: THE PEOPLE'S BUSINESS . . . . . . . . James W. Martin

EDUCATION  . . .     ......... . . . . . Mlaurice F. Seay

AALTHiIND WELFARE .*. . . . . .*. ..     . . . .v Irwin T. Sanders

GOALS FOR KENTUCKY  .    .    . . . . . ..e . . . Howard W. Beers

PHOTOGRAPHIC EDITOR  . . . . . . . . . .           W. Brooks Hamilton

A LIST OF SELECTED READI1*S


University Health Service

     Approximately two years ago a committee of the faculty of the
University made a careful survey of the University Health Service
and recommended a number of new policies with regard D the activities
of this important agency of the University.    These policies have
proved to be sound.

     When we contracted with the War Department for the AST Program,
the University was requested to establish and maintain an infirmary
for the soldiers.   A considerable sum of money was made available
by the Army to activate this project.    The old law building, which
in recent years has been used for the headquarters of the University
Health Service, was remodeled so as to provide for hospital rooms
and other services essential to the establishment of an infirmary.
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hospital facilities which can be used effectively for the civilian
students as the soldiers retire from the Universityv- In the past
the only infirmary that we have had available on the campus has been
three or four rooms In one of the women's residence halls, Students
living in town or in the men's dormitories were without infirmary
facilities when ill except in cases where they were sent to the local
hospitals. This was too expensive for most students and frequently
students who should have been receiving hospital care remained in
their boarding houses or dormitory rooms, or were taken in automobiles
to their homes, The infirmary set up for the soldiers will in the
future be available for civilian students. These new facilities
should enable the University Health Service to render better service
to the students in the future and it should Insure greater protection
to the health of our students.


Future Building Program

     The thing that has amazed me most about the University since as-
suming my duties s president s the meaner funds that Eve been spent
for buildings in ne past.   During its entire history of seventy-nine
yearst less than $1,650,000 has been appropriated by the General
Assembly of Kentucky for construction of lildingso

     We have a number of new modern buildings which were erected under
the Public Works Administration program, the Federal Government sup-
plying forty-five per cent of the cost of these buildings and the Uni-
versity bonding itself for the remainder of the cost. These bonds
are being retired over a period of years out of fees collected from
students, The State of Kentucky assumed no responsibility for the
construction of the buildings or payment ' the debt on them.    This
method of financing the plant of a university places tio much of the
burden upon families of the children who attend the University*

     The University faces a critical shortage of residence halls for
the purpose of housing our students and of classroom and laboratory
buildings for the instruction of young men and women who we in at-
tendance.   There is probably no state university in the United
States that has as little dormitory space as the University of Ken-
tuckyD We are able to house In dormitories approximately 361 women
and 325 men.   This Is less than twenty per cent of our normal en-
rollment,   The University should have a afficient number of dormi-
tories to take care of half the student population.    There are many
lovely homes in Lexington within a radius of a mile that are prepared
to receive students, but there is not a sufficient number of desirable
homes to provide adequate facilities for the students who desire to
attend the University.   This results in many students being crowded
in sub-standard homes where students should not be permitted to re-
side.   So imperative Is this need for additional residence halls
that I believe the Trustees should proceed at once, under the Act of
1934, to build another large residence hall for girls and one for
boys.

      The need for classroom and laboratory space is just as acute
 as rooms for living.   The visitor on the campus looks about him and




 





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views many buildings. He may frequently be inclined to think the
institution has a rather extensive physical plant.   It is hard for
him to realize that in normal times there are more people operating
on the campus of tie University than the total population of towns
the size of Georgetown, Mt. Sterling, Princeton, or Pikeville*   If
you should drive awer these towns and see how many buildings it takes
to house their population, you will then realize something of the
magnitude of the cperations of the University. As you look over the
number of buildings required br the living and commercial activities
of the people of these county-seat towns, pu will secure some idea of
the housing problems of the University.

     The last General Assembly authorized the Governor to erect a
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