xt7ghx15n565_148 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 1901-1904 text 1901-1904 2024 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7ghx15n565/data/0000ua001/Box_14/Folder_1/Multipage13215.pdf section false xt7ghx15n565_148 xt7ghx15n565 Report of Pres. to-Board. 1880-81.

"By the act of the Legislature apprroved Apr. 23. 1880. a Normal School was _

established as one of the depts. of the State College. At the beginning of the
Collegiate year this dept. was opened and rendered accessible by resolution of

the Executive Committee to females as well as males”

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Compensated Labor. 12....paid'for at rates varying from five to eight cents

per hour. The experience of this College is that of Agr. Colleges generally-

that compensated labor is not remunerati\e to the College.

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Annual Register of State College (

Rules--selected: /-\\
All deltberaltions of discussions among students having the object of ' /
conveying praise or censure. or any mark of approbation or disapprobation
toward the College authorities. are strictly forbidden.

Any student who shall disobey a lawful command of the Pres. or any .

professor. Instructor. or other superior officer. or behave himself in a

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or disrogc ctful manner toward Hither of them. shall be dismisse. or otherwise
_ less sets sly punished. accortiig to the nature of tha offence.

no Cadet snail uriug any spiituous or intoxicating liquor. or cause the
same to be brought. within or near the College limits. or have the same in his
room or possession upon pain of being dismissed.

Any student convicted of visiting a drinking saloon. or a gambling or other
disruputable house. or of being drunk. or of gambling at cards or other game
of canoe...sha11 be dismissed.

No student shall ply at cards. or any other game of chance. within the College f
limits. or bring or cause to be brought within the limits. or have in his room. {
cards or other articles used in games of chance, All games and amusements

of every kind are forbidden during study hours.

Students are forbidden to take or have in their quarters any newspapers

or oyher periodical publications without special permission from the Prs. ,
They are also forbddden to keep in their rooms any books except text-books. 3
without special permission from the ﬁres.

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1878-79 --no catalogue as such. ”Announcement of the Agricultural

and Mechanical Collge of Kentucky. For the Session of 1878-79. established
on the Ashlang and Woodland Estates. Lexington. Ky. Session Begins

Sept. 9.1878.

Contains ggnouncement -‘ ' " ’ :4 " ' ~ ';

"The Agri. and~MeCh. College of Ky. was by the action of the last General
Assemnly detached from its connection with Ky. University, and placed upon
an independent basis. It is now goverened by.a Board_%ppointed by the G67.
of the Commonwealth. and in its administration and con 01 is entirely

separate and distinct from _Ky. University. It is provisionally established
on the Ashland and Woodland estates in the vicinity of Lex.

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From Report on Conditions of (allege. Resort of Pre;. To Gov.

"The amount to be added to the above for cdothineand pocket monev will.

of course. vary with the nauits o; the student. it is earnestly xeCOumeuaed.
howerer. that parents and guardians enjoin economy in the former. and reduce
the latter within the narrowest possible limits.“

HISTORY
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Annual Report of Board of Trustees to Gov. 79-80
"The connection with Ky. Univ. continued till 1870 when the act of 1865. making
it one of the Colleges of said University, was repealed. and a commission
appointed to recommend to the Legislatuse of 1879-'8O a plan or organization
for an Agricultural and Mechanical College such as the necessities of the
Commonwealth reguire. The city of Lex. offered to the Commission. which was
also authorized to recommend to the Gen. Assembly the place. which. all things
condidered. offered the best and greatest inducements for the future and
permanent location of the College. the City Park. containin fiftybtwo acres of
,land.within the limits of the city. and thirty thousand dollars in city bonds
for the erection of buildings. This offer the county of Fayette supplemented
1 by twenty thousand dollard in county bonds. to be used either for the erection
of buildings or for the purchase of land. The offers of the city of Lexington
and of the county of Fayette were accepted by the General Assembly.
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Report of Pres. to Board. June 8. 1880. '

”...As in the collegiate year 1878-9, the inability to supply compensated labor ‘
‘to all who applied. prevented many from entering the College. The compensated
labor system has always been a popular feature. It has enabled a large number
to begin their studies who ultimately found other means of support. sad who.
but for the aid thus furnished them at;the outset. would in all probability

‘ never have been able to make a beginning at all.”

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(8) lTo what extent do you suceed in interesting your pupils?

Answer .uy proi. in agnleulure.

Iiere seems to be congi.erable interest man.fest°d bv the students.

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...Board of trustees of the A & M college having under consideration the sinister
reports affecting the reputation of the college in relation to morals and discipline
regret to record that they find the evidence upon which these reports rest too strong‘
to be ignored. They believe that this laxity in morals and discipline is due in
great measure to the indifference and neglect oftnrtain members of the faculty who
»have disregarded the regulations of the board...

They were particularly-—the frequent and habitual absences from Chapel. The failure

to admonish and rebuke idle students when seen loitering about- the buildings. halls
and grounds during college hours and about the streets and hotels when they

should be in their quarters preparing their lessons.

Their failure to enter up demerits and to enforce the regulations relating thereto.

The board likewise record their intention to make the regulations of the college
effective to the end that the yo ng men and women Committed to their charge may
theough the wholesome example of professors and instructors leearn the lesson of

duty. of subordination and obedience essential to liberal culture and good citizenship.
If any professor or instructor thinks that he cannot or will not heartily cooperate
...tne soars will unnesitatingiy accept his resignation and hereoy invite nimmto tender it.

Report of

flames K Patterson, PI‘QSMQIII,

agricultural m mechanical
(Zollege‘el Kentucky

to the Board of trustees,

mav 3t, l899.

Published by Order of the Board.

VEACH PR. LEXINGTON.

REPORT OF PRESIDENT PATTERSON.

Gentlemen of the Board of Trustees of the Agricultural and Me.—
chanical College of Kentucky:

l have the honor to submit to you to—day my annual report
on the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky. The
year just closing has been the most prosperous in the history of
the College. Its matriculation list reaches four hundred and
eighty. This does not take into account many who entered pro-
visionally and after a short time withdrew. The increased
attendance I ascribe to two causes, viz: The improved ﬁnancial
condition of the people. of the Commonwealth and the efl'eetive
canvass made in Western Kentucky last year by an agent of the
College. )

Acting under the authority of the Board, I have again placed
an agent in the lield with instructions to visit the section of coun—
try traversed by the L. & N. Railroad and some of its branches.
If a suitable man can be found to do like work in Eastern Ken—
tucky I will] 11111 ethat part of the State visited also.

The general health of our student commu11it_\ has compared
very favorably with that of preceding years. \Vhile there has
been some sickness, principally measles and grippe, there has
happily been no consequent mortality. \Ve endeavor to give such
attention to sanitary precautions as circumstances enable us to do.
Persons attacked by infectious diseases are at once quarantined,
and so remain until danger is past.

The reports of heads of departments and deans of courses of
study show satisfactory work done. Better results could be ob-
tained if our recitation rooms were larger and our equipment more
ample.

The deticit oflast year has been reduced fully one—half and
is likely to be wholly extinguished by the end of the next ﬁscal
year. I desire however, to impress upon the Board the necessity
of economy in appropriations for the torthcoming year. The
estimates of receipts and expenditures which will be submitted to
you have been lramed upon the most careful consideration. The
appropriations to1 the ser\ ice of the sex e1 r111 depaitinents hax e been
cut down to the minimum 1ompatib1e with eﬁiciency. The salaries

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of professors and assistants should remain as they are except in
the two or three cases wherein they have not reached the maxi—
mum provided for by the action of the board in December, 1893,

‘ or by special agreement when appointed. Our salaries are liberal

as compared with those of other colleges in Kentucky, but not
too liberal for efﬁcient service.

All our balances hereafter should be, as far as possible, de—
voted to internal expansion, especially in the enlargement of the
the equipment of existing laboratories, the establishment of new
ones, and in supplying the necessary means for making instruc—
tion effective.

By the act of the Legislature removing the geological
museum to this college and the transfer therewith of the Inspector
'of Mines and his assistant, and the provision contained in the act
that after the expiration of the term of service of the present in—
spector and his assistant their successors shall be appointed by the
Board of Trustees, a school of Mines will thereby be created in
confOrmity with the terms of the act and under the management

and control of the college.

The school of Mines will be established in 1900. This will
require money for its equipment. It behooves us then to ac—
cumulate if possible a fund for this purpose, and this is an addi—
tional reason for the most rigorous economy. 7

As the members of the board are aware, I was unable to
obtain last year from the War Department the detail of an army
ofﬁcer as instructor in military tactics and commandant of cadets.

The Board authorized me to make the best arrangement
possible for this purpose at a moderate salary. I employed M. B.
Jones, an alumnus of the college and a man of character and
ability, uniting with his duties as commandant those of assistant
in mathematics on a salary of $700. The results of the year’s
work have been entirely satisfactory. We have never had a
better drilled corps, and the discipline of the dormitories has been
the best we have ever had since the organization of the college.
At the outset there was some friction, due partly to the heritage
of disorganization inherited from his predecessor, but during the
latter half of the year there has been the utmost harmony between
Major Jones and his ofﬁcers, and through the latter half between
him, and the battalion. This happy result is due to two causes,

viz: The compensation allowed ofﬁcers and to the organization
of the latter into a body with Major Jones as chairman and known
as the military council. This body sustains the same relation to
the college that the special faculties do to their respective courses
of study. They meet bi-monthly, discuss matters pertaining to
the efﬁciency of the corps and keep records of their proceedings.
I advise that this body obtain oﬂicial recognition from the Board, ‘
and that their proceedings be submitted henceforward to the

Board as the records of the other subordinate faculties of the
college are.

I again applied to the War Department for a detail, but have
been advised that no detail can be made while the unsettled con-
ditions in the Philippines last. I therefore recommend that Major
Jones be re—appointed as commandant of cadets and assistant in
Mathematics. His services in the latter relation have been en-
tirely satisfactory. This appointment, with the assistance already
provided for, and with that subsequently referred to will meet all
the requirements of the Department of Mathematics eﬂectively
and economically. Professor White informs me that his services
as assistant in mathematics have been very eflicient and entirely
satisfactory.

The establishment of a few fellowships as a reward of pro-
ficiency in the departments for which they were created has been
productive of good results. The emoluments, though relatively
small, have excited ambition. They enable students who are
desirous of doing post—graduate work for the master’s degree, to
remain at the college for this purpose. The system also provides
eflicient and well trained assistance in the departments to which
they are attached at relatively small outlay to the college. I re-
spectfully recommend that three more Iellowships be created in
addition to the three already authorized, viz: One in Modern
Languages, one in Mathematics or Ancient Languages as may be
deemed expedient, and one in Civil Engineering. I know of no
better stimulus to good undergraduate work than the reward thus
given, and of no more economic method of providing assistance
for the respective departments in which these honors are awarded.
They are tenable for one year and the value of the fellowshlp is
$150. For those who are preparing to teach the value of the

fellowship can scarcely be over—est1mated, both as regard the'ex-
perience in teaching and the prestige and distinction conferred.

I recommend that the Principal.of the Academy and his staﬁ
0t assistants constitute a subordinate Faculty with monthly meet-
ings and a record of their proceedings, which record shall be
submitted to the Board of Trustees at their regular meetings.

From the report Of the committee on internal expansion the
necessity for additional accommodations will be apparent, with
the exception of the comparatively inexpensive addition asked for
by Profs. Anderson and Brooks, it will be impossible for the Col-
lege for some time to provide out of its exising income the ad—
ditional buildings required. The only alternative left is an ap-
peal to the Legislature for money. I suggest that a committee
of this Board be appointed to present in conjunction with the
President a statement of the wants of the College and to solicit
and work for an appropriation for this purpose. The buildings
most urgently needed are :

1. Abuilding which will provide the necessary space and
appliances for a ﬁrst class gymnasium. This might also include,
011 the ground floor, space for a drill hall with military oflices,
and in the upper story space for society rooms and rooms for the
Young Men’s Christian Association. For these purposes $25,000
would sufﬁce.

2. A building tor the accommodation of the Normal School
and for the Academy conjointly. Suitable quarters could be
provided for Normal School work and for the Academy in a
building costing $25,000. These are urgent needs and might be
met by judicious and persistent pressure on the Legislature.

Inasmuch as we are now nearing the end of a century a
brief retrospect may not be inappropriate. It is sometimes the
part of prudence to look backward as well as forward, in order
that from the experience of the past an intelligent forecast may be
formed for the future. For this purpose I append the following
epitome ofthe origin and growth of the institution:

DEVELOPMENT

THE GRO\\'TH 011‘ THE COLLEGE FROM YEAR '10 YEAR Is
SHOWN IN THE FOLLOWING SUMMARY:

1862. To establish and endow aCollege, chiefly for in-
struction in Agricultural and Mechanic Arts, an act of Congress

apportioned to each State, fo1 each of its Senators and Represen-
tatives in Congress, {0 000 acres of the public land.

1865. T he General Assembly of Kentucky having accepted
the State's pmtion under the conditions p1escribed, established
the Agricultural and Mechanical College, making it one of the
Colleges of Kentucky University. the 11 recently united with
Transylvania University and located at Lexington, citi7ens of
Lexington and its vicinity donating $100,000 to the Curators of
the University to buy a site for the College. The General As-
sembly having authorized the Commissioners of the Sinking
Fund to sell the 30,000 acres apportioned to Kentucky, by the
mismanagement of the Commissioners’ agent the State realized
for its land only $165,000.

1866. The College opens with a President, four professors
and a commandant. ‘

1878. Dissatisﬁed with the management of the College by
the Cu1ato1s, who were engaged 111 a long factional strife, the
General Assem bly sex ered the connection with the University
and appointed a commission to 1e— —locate the College, to provide
for its continuance in operation till re-located, and to prepare a
“plan for a ﬁrst class university.” Kentucky University claim-
ing and retaining the former site of the College, the sole proper—
ty left the College after the severance was an income of $9,900
derived Irom the land grant.

1880. The city of Lexington offered the city park of ﬁfty-
two acres as a new site for the College, and also $30,000 in bonds,
and the county of Fayette ofl'eiing $20, 000 besides, the General
Assembly ratified the selection of the site made by a majority of
the Commission, and located the College permanently in Lex—
ington.

1880. To provide teachers fer the common schools of the
State and for other schools, the General Assembly added to the
College a Normal Department, which should admit, besides other
students, one from each representative district every year free of
tuition. .

1880. To further endow the. College and to enable it to
purchase apparatus, machinery, implements and a library; to

maintain the Normal Department and to defray other necessary

expenses, the General Assembly imposed a tax of one-half cent

011 each one hundred dollars of the assessed value ofall property

in the State liable to taxation for State revenue and belonging to

its white inhabitants.

1880. The Classical and Normal Departments and Acade-
my added.

1882. The College building, the ﬁrst Dormitory and the
President’s house completed.

1885. The Commandant’s house reconstructed.

1887. To enlarge by experiments and to diﬁuse the knowl—
edge of agriculture, an act of Congress established, under the di-
rection of the Agricultural and Mechanical College in each State,
an Agricultural Experiment Station, appropriating for its support
$15,000 per annum.

1887. The Department of Civil Engineering established. an
experimental farm of forty—eight acres purchased, and the Col-
lege greenhouse built.

1889. The Experiment Station building completed.

I890. The second Dormitory completed.

1890. For “the more complete endowment” of Agricultu-
ral and lVIechanical Colleges an act of Congress appropriated to

each State $15,000 for the year ending June 30, 1890, and the
same sum with an increase of $1,000 per annum for ten years. af-
ter which the maximum of $25,000 should continue without
change. Of the amount thus annually appropriated the College
receives 85 per cent and the school of the colored people at
Frankfort 15 per cent.
1891. The Department of Mechanical Engineering estab—
lished.

1892. The lVIechanical building and workshops completed.

1894. Greenhouses for the Experiment Station built.

1895. The annexvto the Mechanical Building and the In-
sectarium for the Station built.

1897. The Department of Electrical Engineering ‘estab-
lished. Additions made to the greenhouses and Insectarium.

1898. The building for Natural Science completed.

. INCREASE OF PROPERTY. The property of the College is
estimated to be worth $500,000 more than it was eighteen years
ago. - .
INCREASE 011‘ TEACHERS. Before 1880 the College had six
professors ; it now has sixteen professors and eight assistants.

INCREASE OF COURSES. Before 1880 the College offered a
single course of study leading to a degree ; it now oﬂers eight.

INCREASE OF GRADUATEs. No fact more distinctly marks
the growth ofthe College than the increase in the number of its
graduates. More students were graduated in 1897 than were
graduated in the ﬁrst seventeen years, and more in the last ﬁve

years than in the ﬁrst twenty-seven years.

I have thus advented to the growth of the College somewhat
in detail because its rapid advance is but imperfectly known to
even some of our governing board. With these facts behind us
we should bestir ourselves to give it such additional expansion as
the demands of the public require. By united eﬂort, by keeping

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it before the public in its results and possibilities we shall best ac—
complish the end for which it was established.

lVIy service with the College dates from the day when it ﬁrst
opened its doors. viz: September, 1866. Since 1869 I have been
its President—a longer term 01 service in that capacity than that
of any President of any College founded under the Morrill act of
1862, and with the possible exception of the President of Harvard
University—a longer term of service than that of any President
of any College or University in America. I have seen it estab—
lished 011 a relatively small foundation, not as an independedt self-
contained institution, but as a branch of a larger institution under
denominational control. I have. seen it detached from that un—
fortunate connection after a troublous co—partnership of thirteen
years. I have witnessed with joy its re—establishment under state
control and its endowment by the State, and I have passed
through the perilous crisis which imperilled its existence in
1881-2 and in subsequent years when assailed in the legislature
with all the vehemencc and all the energy which denominational
animosity could supply; when the question of thefrepeal of State
aid was pending in the House, when its building fund was ex-
hausted and the hall built college structures threatened to realize
the Gospel reproach, “this man began to build and was not able
to ﬁnish.” The outlook was stormy indeed. Under the condi—
tions then existing we could not stop and we could not go on. I
had still a strong conviction, however, that this ship would come
safely into port, so strong that when no other resource was possi—
ble, I myself, supplied the funds to carry forward the buildings
to completion, trusting to a future which_ then seemed most
gloomy for victory and reimbursement.

The measure to repeal was defeated, the clouds lifted, and
judicious economy enabled us in less than three years to discharge
an accumulated debt of $35,000, and best of all, neither the legis—
lature nor the general public, not even the faculty, knew of the
grave embarassments and the heavy load of debt under which we
had labored. But for weeks and months, while the measure of
repeal was pending, I never enjoyed for a single night the luxury
of a sound sleep. These are now things of the past.

The College triumphed all along the line. Its assailants re-
tired baﬁled, but sullen from the conﬂict. The College then en-
tered upon the lines of uninterrupted progress which it has fol-
lowed to this day. This much now seems certain—the College
has come to stay—wand the unexampled prosperity which it has
enjoyed and the progress which it has made seem to be but an
earnest and a presage of what its future will be.

I have given the best days of my life, a life which in the or-
der of nature cannot be prolonged many years, to its upbuilding

and development. It has been to me as a child. I have loved
it and worked tor it with the devotion of a lather. That it may
be for the commonwealth an everlasting possession and glory is
my most earnest wish and hope.

In conclusion I beg to thank the Board for its continued
conﬁdence and support. You are the custodians of a trust the
most important, in many respects, within the boundaries of the
Commonwealth. You serve the public without fee or reward,
but in the days to come, when the. State College ot~ Kentucky
leads the van in educational progress west of the Alleghanies,
when the story of its trials and triumphs is told, men will say
these results are due to the earnest, self-denying, patriotic men
who bore the burden and h tilt ofthe day.

I have the honor to be

Your obedient servant,

(Signed) JAMES K. PATTERSON.

The Board of Trustees. in ordering the publication of the
foregoing report. unanimously adopted the tollowing resolution :

"It is With feelings of great pride and exultation that the
Board of Trustees read the report of the President of the institu-
tion. And it is eminently litting that as 'l‘rustees for the people
of this State we express to President Patterson the thanks of the
Commonwealth of Kentucky for his services that are not only
unparalleled in length ot~ time, but unsurpassed elsewhere in these
United States for distinguished ability.

“Not all the battles of men have been tought on tented fields,
nor all their Victories won by marching legions. In the annals or
our State, marked as they are by the stories ol'struggle and hero-
ism, we believe no page can shine brighter than that on which is
recorded the life work of President James K. Patterson. If cour-
age in struggle with adverse circumstances can command admira—
tion, the highest meed of praise must be his. It absolute devo-
tion to duty and unyielding pertinacity ot purpose, coupled with
deep and strenuous faith in the lot‘tiest ideals of human endeavor,
count for aught. we can conﬁdently say to the. world, that as the
head of this great trust we have-a man and leader of men.

“It is, therefore. our duty to congratulate Kentucky on the
possession of such a son and servant, and to express to him our
united and earnest hope that he may long be spared to carry on
the work he has done so well.

"It is. morever. our pleasure to record the unvarying courte—
sy and kindness that has always marked our personal and ofﬁcial
dealings with him, and to say that he enjoys to the tallest extent:
our confidence. respect and esteem.

have again the pleasure and honor of rezjortinp to
o: the curre ent collegiate session a year of great

apprehn.ded in September last when the Col ego

0* matriculated students in consequence of +“e

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on, commonwealth,and beyond.

‘ealized. 0n the OOEtI& my the utt<:ndanco

of last year. Si: hundred
dent: Eiﬁfluh late d,and not withstanding the ire'm

and small—pox in~the the former in th

during the mid~winter

13sec! tlie1t 0' , ; pr\,cdin
decrease in the number“

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yer failire to do their duty in making known

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1;_1Sekools,provision for which was made by

meeting of 1902 are likely to be well attended

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list of the ensuing year.
for aking the College Known w:ill b: ai

Kentucky Educational A:H

during the latter dz1ye of June and the Convention of Institute vorzers_i

called by the Superintendent of Public instruction to meet ﬂ 1t the

UT ate Col cg immediately upon the adjournment of the former body

will likewise bring into prominence the work of the College and its

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results. The knowledge of its existence and of its work is gradually

becoming known in the remoter parts of the commonwealth and every year
brings students from sections unrepresented before.

rho arerage clans—standing has, thinh,been well maintained during
new closed.khanxaanxhexeknfxxxs We have in accordance with the in»
structions of the Board a year or two ago raised the standard of ad~
mission into the Freshman class. Last year we required three books

will be required.
has made r;~-'.V . corresponding advance in the curricului
accredited High Schools. A :w - this effect

encouraging response.

ago I invited the Faculty of Kentucky University to
us in adopting and adhering to a common s andard of
invitation Was at first favorably received but afth‘
This is much to be regretted. It is a matter of‘
difficulty,when two institutions are situated in the same or adjacent
localities and are recognized by the general public as s anding on thu
same plane for one to establish and adhere to a high standard of ad~
mis ion W l '\ : _ Students who fail to pass on rance
in the former or who fail in final examinations readily
line of least resistance and find refuge in the latter.
been our experience for years. In tde end it would be much
better for all concerned to adopt a high standard of admission and
to it. It would moreover tend to elevate the standard of
cholarship in the High Schools of the Commonwealth and thus stimulate

scholarship generally.

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As heretofore the question of ways and means must Occupy seriously

the attention of the Board of Trustees. In addition to the expenditure
formerly required we have now two additional isms items in the nature
of a permanent charge upon the resources of the College viz:
the school of Mining Engineering and the Gymnasium.
The salaries of the Dean of the School of Mines and his assistant are
paid by the State and hence do not contribute to swell our budget,but
the expense of equipment and of current expenses unfortunately fall
upon as the funds of the College.
In the case of the g inasium all the expense of instruction and main~
-tcnance ~ including janitor‘s wages,fuel,light,end water and repairs,
amounting in the aggregate to three thousand dollars ($5000) must b
of the College income.
of these the