xt7ghx15n565_109 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7ghx15n565/data/mets.xml https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7ghx15n565/data/0000ua001.dao.xml unknown 9.56 Cubic Feet 33 boxes archival material 0000ua001 English University of Kentucky Property rights reside with the University of Kentucky. The University of Kentucky holds the copyright for materials created in the course of business by University of Kentucky employees. Copyright for all other materials has not been assigned to the University of Kentucky. For information about permission to reproduce or publish, please contact the Special Collections Research Center. Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. James K. Patterson papers Reports to the Executive Committee text Reports to the Executive Committee 2024 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7ghx15n565/data/0000ua001/Box_10/Folder_8/Multipage9459.pdf 1907-1916 1916 1907-1916 section false xt7ghx15n565_109 xt7ghx15n565 ARE TRAVELLIﬁG EXPENSES TO COUNTY APPOINTEES
UNCONSTITUTIONAL‘?

’In the Courier Journz..s.1 of 1:11;;- 19th ult. there was printed

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a. upecial" from Frankfort, the matter of which was, presmnsably '3

supplied by Premidmt Henry {3.73:1rker of the: University of Kentuc-
ky. It recites "‘“t the privilngm vacated in 1:310 caunties of
the Cozmoxmurrzlt3...for fifty years of sewing; to the State Univer-
sity one}; ;,=r::::,r :1, certain number of shutouts 30100th on (30111116131.-
tive «2:21.13vagiun, m 1.71:0121 is ,‘i’VGYl exérsmtion from 12-13. fees,trzv:el-
ingexgmzmes, 'ho:>.x'1’ who? leaking: To:- 1.a.\:: tum 0:" _,'e::2,;;-:'_a .‘z-mguircal
‘30 003:: 1:93.? (um-ix (301.1?{"5)Cf of study, arc; urinary:tiinrtiuwl '2:

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1:1(‘1‘33113513 'er: ”or 33.1;- m‘ucwtion 01" £551; ,‘ , ' *f~()"‘l(?

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free tuition for county appointees fomncd an essential feature

in the charter enacted hy the Legislature. '
In 1880 a tax of one half of one cent on each $100.00 was provided

for the A.&.M. College by the General Assembly in order to sup-
plement the inadequate income derived from the invested funds re-
ceived from the sale of the land scrip. This occasioned great

discontent in the distant counties of the state. Their representa-

tivee suid,"We pay a special tax for the'support of a college in

Fayette County from which we derive comparatively little benefit.
Free tuition is but n small r turn for what we pay. Geographical
conditions make it virtually a Blue Grass College". The Legisla-
turc of 1893 felt and admitted the Justice of this contention

and in the revised charter passed tndt year, enacted the following:
“that each county in the etate in consideration of the incomes C?
accruing to said institution under the present laws for the benefit
of the Agricultural and Mechanical College be entitled to select

and to send to the University each year, one or more properly
prepared students as hereinafter provided for free feon ~31 charges
for tuition, matriculation, room rent and , dormitory feescxcept
board." All beneficiaries of the state who continue students

for one consecutive, collegiate year or ten months, shall also

be entitled to their necesewry traveling expenses in going to and
returning from said college. The selection of the beneficiaries
shall be made by the superintendents of common schools in the
respective ccunties upon competitive examination, on ubJects
arepsred 3y thﬁ faculty of the University and trwusmitted to said

superintendents 'cfore the first any of June of each year."

The age limit van fixed between 14 anﬁ 24 years. Preference is
to 5* gjvva iv a“ apleebing, atﬁer thing” Rein; vq~ql, to uersons
whip m ;_‘1':1.c‘..r.1=1‘te:ﬁ Troy-:1 :3.- yn‘aldia Limbo-('31:; Vii 1;]; credit :mc‘. 1:11;;88
meant: '11? Samall. ' 4123,31" (3,“ ﬁlz‘g‘C-‘I'il’l'fﬂ‘ntlChili, 1.0 11:31“?
uvary school in his couvty, ﬁbc banefits of ﬂhis not,
721:6 "3.5.17“; '17:"- ‘pl 2.06 when am}, where 1116: 1:13am tillation 113. "or: held.

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:Lt.‘!‘.19,v.ﬂ.ingf r..?'-r3'=’:'¥;o it: 6., comprmfg, '2. aorzfract ‘3.;::.;'1:1.1:'1 cm 7‘. rmrmﬁ.:i!,c:r:,ztion.
contrrmtinzi *‘mmtieta "um “2.3m I'iam'nqeww:«2:311"3.1L, gmrty m“ min: first
HIP: autmtiw: .; ,--.- f‘immaonirmﬂ.th, indivimmlly, War-tics
of" The; 'wzmz'z'i’ :rrt. The norm-E.{Wrath}: is: the incomes; :‘LC!31"1I57"1,{‘2 to
aka-.t-r: :"arw WH‘ ﬁzzwl‘zt tn}: 12.12333 {,0 km: ”tam: by the: cous'l'tirrn, :‘md
(Wm: :29 ﬁlm college 193/ mat» :..‘§l-’?'t€. "For {this-a cos-mi”i<.::r:1tion

:wis 'ir- ~.':>f.;':v3. War The trc;rcm;:nitic-)1": of this,» vested

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firm coun'ciczxa to {select ran-1 :czszinu
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:..>.2..‘i;i;;; a Irintutmz mm mmtiaxf‘mctux'y '{0

ummarmed. 'J'z- atrrleiw uwnenwms 'r«?"n'.1.$; :f‘r'w t0“’“1‘df‘: (amal-

nlluzcn‘. 'E-‘ul I201; :mr? Fizz: on iiw I?".L"L' f’cmtil'lfj
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Frayv‘ttcz "1.21 ‘ ‘ 5“". , ... 1" '~:~sr*:?v:?.lo(;c«3 with I‘mrlqn 'ma‘: 'ioitrackma,

no more. “...", 11231,. appoiz'xtmm fittif‘ their tuition fees.

The oparation a? th statutu not only cut at the root of the dia-
contant in the remote counties, but made ﬂhmn loyal aupworters of ‘I
the Univxrniiy; ‘Wor&0Vrr ii pruviﬁed as studentg the bent material
of each naunty. It lifeﬁﬁ inn appuinﬁmcntu out 01 tha Eu? 0f politics
anﬁ rali inn; mudﬁ Cham on marit only; and other th;nus being equal,
Hmvn $0 N~nervﬁﬁy “vans GCH amﬁ nouan irrsuyactiva ax ndniul con»
Citiana, i,,;;~ 1,-3'ij;=::,-2“'f;x.«nj.i <31." ”i.§:“.L‘i'\iiii{_; :m a‘e;.:'ur‘;::.tri..(m. '"T‘"E‘x.s>:1:‘m‘.- {2.312.151

ire no “iolz‘atihn of Liz-1: 35113. (31‘ flights; ’wl'mn mpmoin‘zw'szmqts‘! maz’é‘i Open

’o 312*» way‘nno Ijﬁijr tiv myru of 3% anﬂ hm n~n gangsta fur tha
anyoiutm wt. Mo our ﬁr erulnfvn ?Tnm Ln: aomwﬁtitivw contaut.

or inéluwnd in it, by yunaon u? politicﬂ, yeligicn at nociél cun-

rﬁtinn. It is: mum to 0.33.

lain thn attorney Cencrzl nut knew that his dgcimion vauld
must" 2,119 *2‘i.2iit my i‘aCT‘zuHuﬂs’ rant. "79:41:. .Mint and 131': ifrwal r“...(3r',=.d.c‘.2;*ay at n
Max‘xczpolisn' '5??ng :1‘ I'i'llilf. “"0 ..;u:.tcactml on. cm‘XII-WWm"‘4‘ “777‘“Jiv‘if'j'tion
and rucoir; tuition wnl pgintewwwnﬂ {run tga Savnrnmmnh . nornovor
a n¢dut a}; reﬁiﬁn the dmy ﬁftﬁr h? gruduntﬁa. If in“ upinion
or “am Av"xhtox:':'xz'='y Ccr‘mrcml prover: "A'IyML‘wz‘3. M "WV?“ “’0 "“03“ It
smi'lihilrttzezzt 2n. mm; ’01:: um vault} :7;j";.nj.h;?.l .te‘: "wall Lil's; “will 14*“
Nilitnry it: 2,.‘Tr‘r2y.

?h~ layﬁ pringiple of contemporaneoua aonabruotion in here
‘mniin'V‘l. no immunitinn enjoywd'by county'mppoihteem are noeval
”in: tho fu mainﬁ of the collage fifty years ago; abuir lunality
and canatitutionmlity have bcen accepted withaut quwmtinn; the pre- ’L

aawnption is: that 1‘me are cormtitutiozml.

V, ,Hc‘cuestion,_until now, has been raised as bu uh-“
tLegislaturesihaVG net and aéﬁourned: inferior courts and Supreme '”&”‘ﬁ7
courts have convened and set; the Constitutional Conventi0y has re-CaSt

the organic law of the Commonwealth. None of these bodies, con-

taining dozens and scores of the ablest lawyers in the state '
questioned it. hot a Governor from Wramlette to Stanley doubted J
its validity. Veanwhile it‘has supplied thousands of pupils
to the University. The President himself, his brother, his cousins
all obtained their education through the instrumentality which he E
has now, with the concurrence of the Attorney General repudiated.

Until 1911 the year after President Barker‘s accession, the
law relating to county appointees worked admirably. It removed dis- ‘ I
content, equalized advantages, placed every county on the same
footinu, supplied the very best material for students, made alumni

who made the reputation of the University and made this reputation

through quality rather than numbers. The counties took pride in-

selecting and sending the best men and women; they kept their ,f}

quotas as a rule, well filled. I construed the law literally, , ‘

and required county superintendents to do the same“

In 1911 President Barker who had a cross for numbers, thought
to exploit the system of county appointments for increasing the
matriculation of the University. Without consultinﬁ the Board of
Trustees, on his own initiative, he instructed the county super~
intendents that they might ignore the competitive examination, the
cardinal feature of the low, and appoint as beneficiaries, under
the act, as many as they chose to appoint. The consequence was
that many constituencies appointed twice, five times and even ten ‘-

were
times the number to which they entitled. Under the act these illegal

appointees received traveling expenses. Lodging, fuel and lights

I"!

were provided in about twenty dwelling houses rented by the uni—
versity. The aggregate expenditure on bogus appointees for that
year exceeded, I am told, $10,000. An expenditure wholly illegal
and wholly unauthorized. But was not the limit of his sinister
activity. The denovrxinational colleges found theirGlassesrdeple- '
ted. The State University took avay their studeﬁts in dozens,
because it offered advantages which tiey could not supply: free
tuition, lodging, traveling expenses. They complained that Judge
Barkers violation of the law was emptying their class rooms. They
sought and obtained the opinion of Attorney General Garnett, who
interpreted the law advers to President Barkers contention. They
carried their complaint to the Legislature. Judge Barker than
endeavored to obtain such a modificatio; f the law cs.wou1d amount
to an expost facto justification of his action. He and I argued

the question before the Senate Committee of which Hon. Claude Thomas
was chairman. The Commettee reported unanimously against Judge _
Barker's contention. The aggrieved colleges then employed counsel.
Judge O'rear, to bring an injunction against the Unversity to
restrain it from paying illegal appointees transportation. Judge
Barker importuned Judge O'Rear to forbear action until after

June 6, 1912. intimating intended compliance with the opinion of
the Attorney General. After June 6th, Judge Barker proclaimed free
tuition to all. Illegal appointees were still made and accepted,
involving the illegal expenditure of thousands of dollars annually

by the Unversity.

At meeting of the Board of Trustees, Way 30th, 1916 a V

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resolution was moved and carried " that the secretary of the board

notify all county superindendents that no traveling expenses would

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henceforward be paiﬁ county appointmea unless such appointments
were 1min in mxact non? :uity rifh ﬁhu :zquixm¢mnts of ﬁha statute.

Thlm liﬁt movw by Juagw Shrtnr in him rcply ho Lhc Resolution of

z" “a Lauri-(311?: r15.cun’tMLC-zzfun'zi of ﬂaw T713643; in ‘*'f'¥..'?l.3.!ij'f by the cor-
weﬁpwndint of an. Tauriﬁr Journal. Mu status that free Maura is

given t0 counﬁy gpnaintnem. That i3 nut tru$. Eu appoiﬂﬁVG hmg

«Var received Fraé harm“ frnﬂ ﬁhn Univwruiﬁy. Pres ﬁunrﬂ in speck-

ally excepteﬂ in ﬁhu mtntuta. ' ‘

Why than ﬂhould in: smolumxntm utﬁﬁehiﬂﬂ to n connfy mﬂpoint-

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:aﬁnt bc':ﬂsolﬁxﬁ1eﬁ2' Jhmrlsm? dinazivjjw;tﬁmr:mgwinwb XL) anu.

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bar? a” the aﬂuvxtion of 111 mtuﬂwara of ihw Unizmrwity, and 13
xvauirnd ﬂy the Federal Governmcvt under tun organic act a! 1352.
It hue ﬁnnﬁnnhnw ﬁrm 1 count?uwtion in: m yuriud of fiftv
y ’m ';-_;,-':;no';~“; 143:: ‘.“'t,:i,i",.itjf. T213; in c;\..:‘zj.‘:2-ﬁ:"1:21;; ‘i;.:.:,:“;; 120 11.1.»:
¢n€1yi¥u ﬂﬂuﬂtina' lmmmmuéh 13 it tnndu ho reducc thn inﬂqumliuy
betwwan the counkimn af ﬁnntral Kentucky 7nd the distant unuutime
M”iwthw mm malﬁh. It Hupplieﬂ thu hunt matmrial to th Univer~
U}. ,3," 0“; "my minim 117 Mm Imiorl. Until my 71713543311 .‘tiorz. “4'0 1310“?

ﬁwn kw}? of onw ubr“wwt of ltm aluwui W.Hw failuruum~ pbv 503%

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#030?” 0? “n3'00110C0 in Muﬁricu. 'Ly ihiﬂ incwusanﬁ umuim
for nnﬁdlinr?

For this ill-“Lima“ 61.1.3131an

, Premidunt Fmrhur is alone xuaponsible.

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a

He has no mandate from the: Board. I have been compelled in

this brief abatement to omit many things $11310}: am germane to a '
mmpact armament. In all likelihood the quotation will come into

the courts, um: than full latitude for rlisouzmion "“111 be possible .

It nmy be added that though ﬁlm atatute exempts county appointees

from :11} fees, ﬁche President has aonaeoeed tlmm during: the last

two years, "from 5,310 to "if"; each you , ovrvr Mmir collective and
energetic protest.

A 13180 and librrral policy is; required by him university;

a policy of conciliation.

The validity of the statute has been conceded for fifty
years. Gmmral Assemblies: of the Carmnonwcol m have enacted laws
in conformity 'vxarith its; spirit, and, Governors ham: {given ”(heir
assent. Copetition wit‘z': of, discrimination him been open ‘to all!“

The ixmuni tic-m to which (197)011’1‘3003 are entitled. are based V
upon (:2. consideration-u 4:316: ,w'mnt ”cam. Abolish uh. iznnux'xities,
the consideration dimumeoro and the tax falls \z‘ith it.

Z‘hirty four years .930 on the «aztciotonm of the mo: «no.
impurriled m‘ the lift: oi." t1; :51'131v<'3,":::i':;,r11';;:.z":,g; 11,1 ,3. 3. 71"115'3100
single handed , I zaz-xintnﬁned its validity mag! its necozmity.

I hoped to (:00 1.210 i‘r'nivnroity, at lozrmt v‘turxrix'n' my brief life icinm,
renjoy UL Inarmzf'icu'mt fruits of 1:110 legislation on ~. 1111::211 it roam
11.11; if "no'ix‘m‘r content in pmmipi13:3.th’, I ram :z'ewly to stand. for

it against 23.11 assszzilrmto. ”Let us have pr.=a.c«:?."

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Gentlemen of the Executive Committee:
After thanking you

for the privilege of pddreeeing you upon the subject under
consideration, I i .‘ “m.’ - y to present, in no

We ti one spirit, «J obj" i’on which, as a member of the
Board, I have to the proposed coneoli wtion oi the ﬂechani-
cal and Civil Engineering courses of study.

1. Each is now a self—contained course ofe study,

doing good work under their reegective organizations

3. Each has homegeneoue and congact faculties.

5. Each will do better work, if etinmlated

a generous emulation.

4. The inevitable tendency will be, if the con,
eolidation takes place, to build up and denelcp heclm ni-
cal Engineering at the expense of Civil En ngine eerin Ma-
trmcﬁlatee in the forner will increase relatively, while

in.the latter they will eie tively decrease in numbers.

5. The Civil Engi inserinc students are proud of

O
by
the records mace/the Alumni of the Civil Engineering 001»

evelo~g ee a wholes me and praiseworthy college

6. The Civil Engineering College, with its new
building and equipment, is pre; cared to do better work now
than ever before.

7. The consolidation would not and could not add
.to the efficiency of instruction. Rather the contrary would
he the result.

8. The consolidation would not diminish the ex-
penses of administration and instruction.

9. The faculty of the Civil Engineering
deprecate and deplore the proposed consolidation.

10. The students of the Engineering College feel

deep regret that consolidation is under consideration by the

Committee.

.2-
The proposed action is in direct contravention
of the attitude and policy of the head of the Mechanical
Engineering course of study, when Civil Engineering and
Mechanical Engineering were operated under one management
many years ago.
I suggest that the proper method of procedure
would be that the Board of Trustees appoint a committee

of its own members, with instructions to visit the Mechani—

cal and Civil Engineering Colleges, take testimony, collect

statistics and report to the Board whether efficiency and
economy would be promotei by consolidation. NO man is

qualified to act as juror or judge in his own cause.

The Univereity Opened with a good matriculation. The ac-
Iion of the laet General Aeeembly in cutting off the Normal De—
partmelt reduced the numbers materially below what would otherwiee
have Been the enrollment. Notwithstanding the increaeed allotment
given by the meaeure which changed the name of the institution
from College to University, to the counties for free tuition and

exyeneee, the matriculation in the Univereity claeeee

the creceding year. There wee, however, an in~
of 44 per cent in the Academy. Thie wee due in eome neaeure
to the ﬁaising of the etawdard of admieeion for the University and

the coneequent lengthening of the couree of study in the Academy

from two yeare to three,
The relative numbers ' the Univereit claeeee
190V~8 and 1908—9 thue far are a followe:~

1907—8
?oet~grnduate 29
Scientific 37
Claeeical 78
C‘ivil inglneetﬁﬂg 93
Mechanical Engineering 187
3- ' 111171;; '2! :5 in e "—1 r it: 1.5; l E.)
T on 1c Mai on 1 9
ﬂgrlculture 18
Qpeciel Students
{Fyem7Agﬂculmme
Reverr Mining
Wurel Tngineering
Law
Academy

Venture 87
J uni 9:" !-: 8 5
Soggmcy acif‘e 1.35
Vreehnen 142

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te. Enrollment to December 1, 1908 685

to State University claeeee adopted Hr the Aeeociation of State
Univereitlee, of which the State univereitv ie a member, during
their late eeeeion in Vaehington, will require one more year in
he Academy, with a correeponding addition to the inetructicnal
eterf of the Academy. First class univereitiee an; insisting strongly

upon nore advanced preparation for University claeeee and the

total elimination of all condition for entrance upon Wreehman work.

Moreover, they adepted two years of Univereity work, viz., the
Freehman and SOphOmOTe Veare,ae the minimum requirement for Law
ind Engineering. We must meet these requirements or be content to
be eliminated frqn the rank of a first—class University with all
the discredit and disability which this impliee. The etandarde
adopted by the Universities and by the Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancemeﬁ of Teaching insist upon high gradee for admission and

honest work in Univereity claeeee.

The disappearance of W. E. Smith on the 22nd of Septermer,
ecarcely two weeke after the University opened its fall term, was
a eource of great perplexity and dietreee to the University. Every
effort to trace him proved futile. It wee clearly established by
the inveetigatione of the Faculty and of the Grand Jury of Fayette
County that he was not eeen on the University grounds nor in their

neighborhood efter leaving hie boarding—houee on the Vereaillee

turnpike. Various rumors, some of them most improbable and most

atrocious, were invented and circulated by the correepondente of
the newspapers and.publiehed by many of the newspapere. It wee not
obecurely hinted that the etudente of the Univereity had murdered
him, and that the Faculty were more interested in ehielding the
etudente than in discovering Smith, deed or alive. Much einieter
notoriety was given the iietitution on account of hie disappearance
and by the miechievoue rumors to which his dieapgearanne gave rice.
Liberal rewarde were offered for hie dbecovery, but without avail.
Local detectivee and detectivee from outeide the Commonwealth were
employed, byt no clew has yet been found and no trace of him, so
far ae we know, exiete. It is gratifying to know, however, that
the Grand Jury exonerated the Univereity nutheritiee from all ree—
poneibility for his disappearance.

Much injury has, however, been done to the reputation of
the University by irresponsible and disaffected persons who eagerly

seized the oﬁportunity to disparage and calumniate the inetitution.

903?Gﬁlv Che week after the diaappearance of w. E. Smith,
the faculty “Nd Qﬁuientg Of the ingiitutton wwre Qurpriqed anﬂ
3?ieve d t” 19%?“ 0f the death of Prof. John H. Neville. It in
scarcely pessible to eatimate the 1099 which the ingtfiution mus—

tained thereby, A man Of eminent ability, ﬂ ah and riﬂe scholar-

ship, thoroughly imbued with the gpirit of Classical culture and

inspired h? a SEHHiHH anthueinwm for ﬁne ihﬂtruﬂtigh

wag “Qt only a 5Vﬁﬁt Rehclﬂr, but a great teaaher,

known personally a man whome knowledge 'f the Glﬂﬁxifn

i‘vltimaﬁe than his}. I“ aﬁﬁition 510 Wig (33_R"%-“~‘i.<3:1‘1

was well versed in French and in German. Although pcnnqued t
great mastery 0f Engligh’ he WTQﬁe 34d Dubliﬁhed littla. Whig was
probably due to his extreme fnqtidiousnegg of qtyle’ in Which he
might well be 031194 a Duriut. Hie range of knowledge embraced

a wide field of English literature of the heat and nobleet type.”
W89 quite faMiliar with the great mantera of ﬁngliah proqe who
illuminated the reign of Elizabeth, the Reign of Anne and the
reign of Victoria, three epochn, aingularly enough, ideptified
With the ?eign8 of Female HOVereignn who made Britain illuatrioun
in artg, in antenna and in arms. Ingpired hy a genuine and lofty
patriotiem, he loved his countwy and he loved tﬁﬁ men who rade it
great. Hi8 patriottqm W3” large, t0“ lﬁTﬁe to be confined within
the bound“ 0f party 0? partisan limitatiONS, and though he held
Rtrong vimwg upon pant and current paliticﬂl DTiNGiplws’ hp wag
always ccurteous in their expression, liberal in their appliaation
and. .T'Fiﬁild'ily :pjggmxdﬁd 13-?) 'ti‘vj!‘:(a- "F710 (1%.?{wﬂqgﬁ “fifth “1U“ 117m

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every Aweriﬁan citizen in think and no» for himnelf. Him influ—

ence upon hig ammociate members of the Paaultv and uﬁon tum stu—
dent hOdy was great anﬂ alwaym made for the hegt ﬂnterentﬁ of the
inntitntion. Admiwed and Teﬁveﬂted by all, he leavea behind him
the nemory Of a great, a 800“ “Nd a junt man, a memory blensed
evermore.

Eis death, I made provigional arrangements for

oarvying on his olaoaao. Thane arrangements I reported to the

Executive Committee at their first meeting, and innnmunh am they
iﬂVOlVG no exponoo whatever to the institution and were deemed

and aoonomie the oonmittae Toﬁomxended their con-

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e until the ﬂoating of the Hoard of Truoteeg. It remains

with you, gentleman, to detorﬂine whether this provisional arrange—

ment Shall continue until the 01038 of the preoent Univerqitv year,
or whether some nompoteni person ohall he employed to carry on

the won until the noxl mooting of the Board of Truoteen, whom
without douht the comrdtﬂee on Vacancies will he prepared to recom-

mend the employment of a ouihahle LHTSON to do the subordinato work
of the Department. In thin, you will observe that I Raqume that

Pref. Umville'e Wirqt Amoiotnnt, Prof. Theodore Tolnan Johan, who
for yeFTR ham had virtually Lho conduct amﬁ management of the De-
partment of Claooioal inotruoﬁion, who has organized itg elasmes and
superviwod their work, and who in, moreover, in my edtimation,

the Best olasaioal scholar of him age In Kentucky, will naturally

be in the line of ouooeaolon for the hoadohip of the Departwent.

Prof. Jonas is a graduate of our own inotitution, has taught in it
for yoaro and to, moreover, a Master of Arts of Harvard Univeroity.
No man stands higher in the estimation of faculty and otudentg

than he, and hir I ill weecmmond to the Committee on Van mains

as too naﬁural and legitimate suoooooor to his lamented chiel.

Major General James Franklin Bell, Chief of Staff of
the U. 8. Army, addreeeed the_Association of American Agricultural
'Colleges and Experiment Stations on the 20th of Novenmer, during
their meeting in Washington. His subject was the relation of
military instruction in the land grant Holleges to the military
strength of the Nation. He hOlds very strongly to the opinion
that military instruction is equally obligatory with instruction
in those branches of learning related to Agriculture and the Mechan—

ic Arts by Section 4 of the Act of Concress anoroved in 1862
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that the War Department was ill~edvised in yielding to the impor—

tunity of the COlleges the present minimum required mat that it is
impossible to impart any military instruction of value within the
allOted time, viz., three days in the week for two years in the
Cellege or University. The several States in the Union must look
to the State colleges and Universities for trained men ahle to
provide organization, instruction and discipline for their respec—
tive bodies of militia, and this can be done only through the
military instruction provided for in the Land Grant Colleges under
the Act of 1862.

I respectfully commend the whole subject of military
training to thie Board. We must take the necessary steps to make
it attractive, thorough and effective, for the purpose for which
it was designed. This I am satisfied we can by wise legislation
accomplish without the intervention of the General Assembly. It
would he a grace reflection upon the conduct of the affairs of the
University that the Legislature should by a mandate require us to
do What the organic Law 01‘ the Congress of the United. States m'riz‘a‘re :1

it our duty to do.

While in New York, I had a conference with Dr. Pritchett,
the President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of T
Teaching. This munificint provision made by Mr. Carnegie for re-
tiring allowances to superannuated professors is not, he explained,
to be construed as a charity, but as a well earned and merited
right. It is in the nature of an endowment to the instititions
which become eligible as beneficiaries of the Foundation. The
Foundation, however, retains the power to determine the amount of
the retiring allowance and the conditions under which it is made.
The beneficiary then receives it as a right and not as a gift. A
faithful Professor can thus enjoy, while yet on the educational
staff of his institution, the salary earned, with the conviction
that a liberal proportion of his salary will he-continued after
his retirement, with provision for his widow, should she survive
him.

The College or University, to be eligible to membership,
must

let. Conform to the standard of admission required for

College or University classes, viz., a certain number of units.
2nd. The standard of graduation must come up to the re~
quired level.

3rd. There must be a total and complete elimination of
clap—trap and pretense, i.e., the work done must be honest, thorough
and effective. There must be no publication on paper which is not
realized on the class rooms and laboratories.

All this, it is Manifest, must make For rot” in etirun
lating a desire for high standards and honest work. Hence the title
"The Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching."

To this end, it wishes good High Schools established as
feeders and until this be accomplished, firstwclass academies or
preparatory departments, in connection with the Universities, to
provide the necessary units for admission into GOllege and Univer~

sity classes. This will, I think, require another year to he added

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to our AcademY.

In order to get on the "Foundation for the Advancement
of Teaching", ayylication must be made by the Board of Trustees
to the Chaimman of the Carnegie Foundation.

2. This apn1ication muqt be endorqed by the Governor of

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5. It must also receive the endorsement of the General

Agaembly in a joint resalutionapassed.by that body.

It will be within the recollection of the members of the
Board that I dwelt at some length in the report which I had the
honor to submit in June of the present year upon the unsatisfactory
condition of the finances of the institution. I showed that the
budget, if adepted as submitted, would involve an expenditure con—
soderably beyond the visible income of the institutions leaving
a deficit at the close of the fiscal year 1908—9. On the basis
of this, I made a plea for economic expenditure ami deprecated the
assumption of any additional hurdens. I argued that the time was
not opportune for the establishment of any professional conrees of
study, such as Law and Medicine, and that sound policy and sound
finance, both alike, required that we should strengthen the exist—
ing departments of the University before making provision for the
eetahlisfrmnt of adventitious annexes which are not now in these
modern days essential elements of University life. I argued, fur—
thermore, that no additional burdens should be undertaken, unless
their absolute necessity was made quite apparent.

It was not then anticipated that any constitutional ques—
tion would arise likely to interfere with the income due from the
State and tying up for a time the appropriations made by the Gene—
ral Assembly for the support and maintenance of the University.
Before the session Opened, it became quite apparent that the Auditor

would pay over no funds, either those for general income or spec—
ial appropriations for buildings, until the question of constitution—
ality which it raised had been passed upon by the appellate court.
The constitutional question was argued in the Wranhlln Circuit

Court and a decision favorable to the University rendered. The

case has been argued and.submitted in the con rt of Appeals and

We are now anxiously awaiting their decision. Should the favora—
ble decision which we anticipate be made, while assuring ultimate
relief, it will avail little to provide the relief needed just at
present. We have a building under contract and in process of con~

struction, which when finished will cost us, besides the equipment,

fully $50,000. This building was undertaken in good faith, before

there was any question involving the constitutionality of the ap—
prOpriation. We are moreover paying inter est upon an indebtedness
of about $100,000., incurred for the erection of buildings more
than a year ago. It is not gravely hinted through the public pree
that in the eyent that a favorable decision be rendered by the
Court of Appeals, involving the eXpenditure within two yeare of
about $640,000. 0 r $650,000., that the treasury will be entirely
unequal,to me et these demands and that either the appropriations
due must remain unpaid until after the meeting of the ne xt General
Aeeemhly, or there must be a called session of the Legislature to
provide additional revenue. All this means for the University
inevitable delay and embarraeement.

The unsatisfactory relations exieting between the admini—
strative departments of the Unive_eity, growing out of the ill—
defined character of the initiative and authority of the President
of the institution, the Comptroller and the Business Agent, require

the careful consideration of the Board.

I respectfully suggest that you ooneider

(1). Whether the Offtce of Comptroller, created by the
Board at its late session be not a euperfluoue one, involving ex~
penditure with no adequate return, and

(2). Whether, if continued, it should not be enti rely
separated and diejoined frow a profeeeorehip in the Univereity.

It in Scarcely Open to doubt that the duties of the Dean
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fice of Comptroller. They are wholly dietinct an? involve no

.eceeeary relationship, but in the discharge of the duties of

Comptroller, opportunitiee for the exerciae of an influence wholly
aculczr

incompatible with his obligations as a member of the ﬂamily ale

aftorded and the temptation ie too etrong to resist using them. I

may add that the University has not yet reached the point where its

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