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STATELMWVERSHW’OFKENTUCKY

JAS. K. PATTERSON. LL. D.. PRESIDENT
COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE

CLARENCE W. MATH EWS- DEAN.
PROFESSOR OF HORTICULTUHE AND BOYANV

J— J— HOOPER-
PROFESSOR or ANIMAL HUSBANDRY

GEORGE ROBERTS,
PROFESSOR OF AGRONOMVA
ALFRED H. GILBERT.

ASS'T PROFESSOR OF BOTANVr

Address GeneraI Mail for college of Agriculture to 660 South Limestone Street.

LEXINGTON. KY.. February 2,1910.

President James K.Patterson,
State University of Kentucky.
My dear President,

In accordance with your request I
submit the following names of those who were proposed
at the faculty meeting on yesterday for the several
honorary degrees named:

Jonathan Blair MacAfee, Ardmore,Pa. for the degree

Doctor of Engineering.

J.Levering Jones, Philadelphia,Pa. for the degree LL.D.

Alex.P.HDmphrey, Louisville, Ky. for the degree LL.D.

W.W.Finley, President of the Southern Railroad,

Washington, D.C. for the degree LL.D.

Henry Clews, New York City, for the degree LL.D.
Respectfully submitted,

Secretary of the Faculty.

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STATELHMVERSHW’OFKENTUCKY

JAS. K. PATTERSON, LL. 0., PRESIDENT
COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE

CLARENCE: w. MATHEWS DEAN.

PROFESSOR OF HORYICULTUR: AND BOTANV

d. J. HOOVER.
PROFESSOR OF ANIMAL HUSBANDRY

GEORGE nann-rs,
FHOFESSGH OF AGRONOMV.

ALFRED H. GILBERT-

ASS‘T PROFESSOR OF BOTANV.

Address General Mail for College of Agriculture to 660 South Limestone Street.

LEMNGTON.KYH
February 9,1910.

The professors of the College of Agriculture desire to
call to the attention of the Executive Committee the following
detailed plans for the further development of the agricultural
work during the next collegiate year. Your attention is called
to these facts now so that, if possible, some expression of
your attitude toward this matter may be secured now as the basis
for planning the work for next yeardmuch of which must be planned
very early.

First, I would urgently recommend that Professor George
Roberts be invited to give his entire time to the College of
Agriculture, beginning with the next collegiate year, and that
ppovision be made for~equipping on the third floor of the
agricultural building a laboratory for soil physics and a
laboratory for soil fertility. lhe equipment for these labora—

tories Professor Roberts estimates to cost about $4000. It

is deemed essential that this equipment should be provided for
our students to give them any adequate knowledge of some of the
most fundamental problems of the agricultural course. No well
equipped College of Agriculture at the present time is without
them and it is impossible to draw students to this work as we
should unless such laboratories are provided.

I deem it a matter of equal importance at the present time
that provision should be made for the erection and equipment
of a suitable dairy building to properly develop the work in
charge of Professor Hooper. The Blue Grass country and many
other parts of Kentucky are admirably adapted to the dairy in-
dustry. Many creameries are being established all over the
State but the owners of such creameries have to send to Wisconsin
and other states to the North and West of us to secure their
operators. We should have a building thoroughly equipped for
butter making, both upon the creamery basis and upon the farm'
dairy basis. Professor Hooper is well satisfied that an ade—
quate supply of cream for this purpose could be secured within
easy distance of Lexington and that such an establishment could
be conducted upon a basis of sufficient magnitude to give thorough
practical creamery instruction to our students. The experience
of other institutions leads Professor Hooper to believe that such
a dairy department could be made within a very few years nearly
or quite self-sustaining. We have asggeod-ew better conditions

in Kentucky for establishing an extensive dairy industry than are

STATELMNVERSHW’OFKENTUCKY

JAS. K. PATTERSON. LL. D.. PRESIDENT
COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE

CLARENCE \N. MATHEWS DEAN,
”#031550" or NORTICULTURE AND BDTANV

d. a. HoopER.
PROFESSOR OF ANIMAL HUSBANDRY

GEORGE ROBERTS.
Pnorzsson OF AGRONOMY.

ALFRED H. GILBERT.
Asb’T PROFESSOR OF BDYANV.

Address Gonerol Mail for Collogo of Agriculture to 660 South Limestone Street.

2 LEMNGTON,KYH

enjoyed by states like Wisconsin which have developed this
business to enormous proportions.

The present is a peculiarly favorable time for entering
upon this line of work in the University. We estimate that
the cost or erecting and equipping a dairy building of the
necessary capacity would cost d18,000.00, and we earnestly
hOpe that some provision may be made for erecting such a
building during the session of 1910.

There should also be provided a supervisor of agricul—
tural extension work with the rank of assistant professor, to
be closely allied with the work of Professor Roberts in crOp
growing, who could organize both here in Lexington and in other
places over the State various lines of the agricultural extension
movement. This phase of work is rapidly reaching very extensive
proportions in adjoining states and should not longer be neglected
in the State of Kentucky.

Respectfully submitted,

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Requisition N o. ,7 . o

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DEPARTMENT OF_%XQ(L; m;
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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,

Please approve requisition for the following:

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May 2 , 1910.

University of Kentucky

To Mrs.R.L.St0ut, Dr.

For petty expense account as follows:—
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Traveling expenses of Baroness Posse,
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gpxington, Ky., May 19, 1910.

To the Board of Trustees
of the State University of Kentucky.
Gentlemen:—

I beg to submit to you the following report,
covering the period from the beginning of the University
year just closing to Harch 18, 1910 of the current year,
the date upon which my resignation was formally accepted
by the Executive Committee.

A period of transition is always unsatisfactory.
Knowing this, I endeavored so to arrange Letters that after
my declared intention of last June to resign as soon as I
should feel assured of a reasonable prospect for a competent
successor, the business of the University could go on
without interr uption'or dislocation. I IGCOULendBd that
the Vice—President should relieve me of some of the burdens
of administration until my resignation should become effec~
tive, and that he should thereafter, with my advice and

.aid, discharge the duties as President until my successor

should be elected and installed. This reconnendeticn use

adopted and under thee provisional arrangement 'the Uni-
versity work has been carried on from June of last year
until now. Earlv in isnuary, I ylsoed my resignation in
the hands of Governor Willson, with the request that it
become operative-January 15, 1910. I notified the Busi—
‘ness Agent of this action and made my settlement‘nith him
for the half year ending January 15, 1910, Ihenceforword
becoming the beneficiary of the retiring allowance provided

for by the Board of Trustees, instead of receiving a salary

"an

as heretofore. I notified the Executive Committee of WA&

I had done at their next meeting thereafter, viz: Iarch 12,
1910. 1y action was ratified by them and from that date I
consider that I ceased to be President, although Governor
Willscn has not yet formally accepted my resignation. This
report then covers the period from June lst of last year
until Earch 13, 1910, or a little more than two-thirds of
the current university year.

The session opened in September 1909 with a fair—
ly good att endance. There was a shortage in the Latricu-
lation as compared with previous years and notwithstanding
the addition of the matriculates in the College of Law. The
Latriculation in the University proper and in the kcsdeny
does not show any increase over that of the years innedi~
ately preceding, indeed rather otherwise. The matriculation
for the last six years is as folloWSz~

1904—5 705

1905—6 815

1906—7 901

1907—8 1064

1908—9 778

1909—10 684 (exclusive of post~grsdueces)

It will thus be seen that the maximum attendance
attained by the University was in 1907-8. The rapid decline
in the two following years, viz..Last year and the year just
closing, was due principally to the unfortunate and ill~ed~
vised elimination of the Normal Department at the instance
and insistence of the Norusl Schools by the General Assam»
bly of 1908. I have done all that I could, by addresses to
high schools, participation in the proceedings of state,

district and county institutes, correspondence, information

supplied to superintendents of county school: and by whet~

_d_
ever other means I could command, to redress the balance
and bring up the attendance to the level of 190?. I have,
moreover, sent out competent and energetic agents, ;-'

larly during the vacation, into the field to address insti—
tutes, visit schools and private families and to distribute
illustrated posters and booklets, catalogues and other lit—
erature. I have had Dr. Louis F. Snow, Dean of the Bogart—
ment of Education, in the field during more than half of the
current year, visiting high schools, Leking addresses, and
attending educational assemblies and conventions.

sider this a most important work, indeed an r nt necessity;
We must do what we can through the epartne

to train teachers for the high schools. The General As—
sembly, in re—establishing by formal recognition the Be—
rartment of Education, expects the University to do this.
The General Assembly locks to the Normal School to Lrovide
teachers for the common schools and to the University,
through its Department of Education, to supyly yrinciyals
and teachers for th High Schools. We must make our
courses in the Department of Education so full, so attrac-
tive and so practical, so well administered and so well
taught that teachers for the high schools Slall find in

it all they need and be induced to come hither because of

nrestige and economy. If we neglect to do

thoroughness,
this or fail in the effort, students preparing to be
teachers in he high schools will go elsewhere to prejare

for their work either to other ates or to other collares
! b

and universities in our own state. We shall thus lose

.4~
:restige, build up other institutions through our neglect
or incompetenoy and, worse than all, lose both leadership
and revenue. So far as our Deyartment of Education is con~
earned and its relation to high school teachers, we are
now at the parting of the ways.

Under these circumstances it will be impossi—
ble to think of the discontinuance of the Department of
Education, as some have suggested. The sane is true of
the Academy. The Legislature of 1908 made :rovision for
the elimination of the Academy of the State University V
as rapidly as educational conditions in Kentucky should
warrant. This was done in anticipation of the expected
establishaent and early naturity of the
vided for by the General Assembly of that year. In many

of the counties of the Commonwealth high schools are only

beginning to be established and their growth and efficien—

cy will necessarily be slow. The legislation of 1893,

which is still upon the stat ute book, makes it obligatory
upon the University to receive and matriculate purils who
have graduated from the common schools and have on competi—
tive examination received appointments from their resyective
county superintendents. Even at the best, the majority of
the high schools in the counties where they had not existed
before the passage of the high eohool,aot, could not tale
graduates of the common school course and :repare then

for the Freshman class of the State University in less than
three or four years. The maintenance of the Academy is thus
imperative, in order to bridge over the interval between

the common schools and the University. We cannot eliminate

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the Academy, however much we may desire to doses, until the

high schools can do the inter~mediate work. The system of “p-

pointment which links the common schools, through the Acauen',

to the University, is the most popular feature in the legisla—
tion which makes the University the head of the educational
system of the Commonwealth. Without it we should have been
unable to hold the half-cent tax in 1895, and without it we
should be unable to prevent its repeal today. It is sincerely
hoped that the high schools will, within a reasonable tine,

tain the necessary efficiency in the work of preparing u“

for the University. Meanwhile we must keep faith with the state
or forfeit both their support and their good will. Twenty~two
percent of the under—graduate matriculates of the State Univer-
sity last year were entered in the Academy, and a veryconeidera—
ble proportion of those who entered the University through the
Academy came as arpointees on competitive examination from their
respective counties.

We rust now either make a bold effort to recover lost
ground and to move forward, or else stand still and fall hope—
lessly to the rear. We have reached a stage when‘it will be.
necessary, in order to justify further appeals to the Legisla—
ture, to showrmore substantial results than we are at present
achieving. We are making good scholars, good scientists, good
engineers, good agriculturiete, but with the means at our dis—
posal we could take care of many more natriculates than we have,
and in order to justify further appropriations we must show
larger results. The University of Illinois has seven or eight

times our income, but it has seven or eight times our number

of students. With twenty percent more of income we oo‘c.lo

readily take care of twice our present numbers, and be it

rexezbered that numbers count for much, both ‘ ' esti—

nation of the Legislature and of the general public, and

it is quite ap3arent that with double bur 3-reeent numbers

or treble, we could with a much more hogeful

success inportune the Le; isla tuee ' further encownent.

An Act was passed by the

nahing an additional appompriation

f:-30, 000. per annun for two y are. A like anount and on

identical conditions was appropriated for each of the nor~
The bill was vetoed by Governor Willscn afta:

the adjournrent of the General As *h'ik ” unfor—

tunate that we were associaued with

a common measure. I feel confident

alone we would have gotten a larger

less risk of a veto. Hang n.embers of the General Aseenbl y

with wh m I had conversation uyon the subject were unani-

mcus in the opinion that we had made a mistake in associ—

ating ourselves with the Normal u heels for the introduc—

tion of legislation in common. When, therefore, we go he~

fore General Assemblies hereafter, whether for none: or

other needful legislation, we should stand

will add that all measures brought before t'

Assembly for the benefit of the University shoula emanate

from the Committee on Legislation a3pointed by tie hoard
of Trustees and from them alone.
For years the financial condition of the Univeréi—

ty lies been a matter of grave concern. While knowing within

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appreciable limits the aggregate income from various
sources, we have not been able to forecast with any de—
gree of accuracy the expenditures for any current year and
we have been quite unable to know, within thousands of dol—
lars, what our obligations were at any time. This is not
as it should be. The responsible officials of any well~
managed corporation should be able and are able to know,

at the close of each dai, exactly how their accounts stand,
viz: Sources of income, incomes realized and realizable,
cash on hand, expenditures, fixed charges, outstanding ob»
linations. The Comptroller believes that he has devised

a scheme which will clarify the situation. If he can bring
order out of the confusion that has reigned for years hast,

he will deserve the thanks of the Board.

There is an estimated deficit of $12,000. or

$15,000. at the close of the present fiscal year, and on
the basis of the budget of 1909—10 an estimated excess of
expenditure over income of $10,000. or $12,000. The budget
committee is now at work in an effort to make income bal—
ance errenditure for the year 1910—11. There are certain
fixed charges which can neither be eliminated nor mater—
ially out down. There are others more elastic, for exw
ample, appropriations for current expenditures in the
various departments of instruction which may be reduced
for the next two years, but in this reduction care must
be taken not to impair efficiency, either in instruction
or administration. One thing, however, is certain, that _
with a deficit for the present year and an embarrassed
exchequer for the next, increase in the existing staff of
instruction or administration is, on any sane hypothesis,

clearly out of the question. To attempt a re—organisation

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of the existing staff of administration, which would involw
additional units or increased expenditure, would be nothing
short of an inexcusable folly. To project the creation of
a staff of administration on the scale of the Universities
of Ohio, Wisconsin, Illinois, California and Cornell, the
income of each of which is seven or eight fold that of ours
and the matriculation in the same proportion, would be pre—
posterous. No predent farmer would think of employing as
many hands to cultivate a ten—acre plot as he would to
cultivate a farm of one hundred acres. Nor would a menu—
facturer think of employing as many operatives in a fac~
tory of small dimensions as in one the capacity of which
is ten times as great. In a bank with a small capital and
a small business, one man may be teller, bookkeeper, cashier
and president, but let the business increase ten fold or
a hundred fold and the principle of the division of labor
becomes applicable and may be erployed with economy and ad—
vantage. Nor would a mine operate: give employment to 500
miners, if a hundred be equal to the requirements of the
mine. We all agree that economy must be practiced, but
each one wishes an exception made in his case, an extra
employee, an extra appropriation, extra equipment; and
the exception once made multiplies automatically. Economy
evaporates in words and at the end of the year we are as

badly off as before retrenchment and economy were discussed

or attempted. We must get down to business principles and

adhere to them, if our corporation is to succeed. Senti—

ment and finding jobs for persons, however deserving, find

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no place in a business enterprise, and I beg to remind you

hat the State University is a business enterprise and you

are appointed to conduct it on business principles. The

most obtrusive needs of the State University of Kentucky
today are a sound fiscal system, efficient administration

and instruction, and the harmonious co—operaticn of all
enployees, from the President of the institution down thruﬂgh
all its grades and all its relations.

Hy policy as Presndent of the University has been
to build up a well—rounded, symmetrical institution, afford-
ing equal advantages and facilities for growth, developnent
and expansion.to all the colleges of the University. I lave
wished especially to see an Agricultural College of such
character and proportions as would command the allegiance
and active suyport of the farners of Kentucky. I have
wished to see Colleges of Hechanical, Electr'cal, Civil

and Xining Engineering well established and adequately
maintained, so manned, organized and conducted that the
State University would be recognized as the great engi—
neering school bf the South. Agriculture and mining will
be for generations to come the predominant industries in
Kentucky and well equipped colleges affording the neces~
sary facilities for education in these industrial pursuits
must become potent factors in the up—building of the Con—'
monweal h.

I have wished to see the College of Science and
the College of Arts so developed that scientists should be

made by the one and classical scholars by the other equal

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to those made by any college of university in the nation,
and the Derartment of Education has been very near to Ly
reart. Its development and expansion is among the most
vite.l questions that the University is called to consider.
The Agricultural College is growing slowly but steadily,

-t would grow more rapidly and attract more liberal

and do more good for the farmers
more active and effective co—operation of the ':~ eiiiont
Station, one of its most essential aewaruy nts . Indirect—
ly and to a very limited extent has the Ex3erine
been of any advantage to tile College of A.’ 3Iicul ture. I
interested farLers and. farmers' ins ‘
of e ental work along agricultural
hoxever, done very little to stimula te amon3
a desire for agricultural education. The A3riculturai
Colle3e has gotten little or nothin3 from the
-_‘ction of its me.tr iculates or in the

which comes from contact vith living agricultural

alists. The A3 rioultural Colleg e has not gotten f

31 shLent and endowment of this Department under th

h-t the Federal GovernLent, the Forwonﬁealun

rsitv liad a right to expect. I give you
a solemn warning now and here in this Ly last official
utterance as President, that you cannot afford lon3er
to neglect this matter and allow things to drift nd
crystallize apart as they have been doin3. The Ex3eriment
Station is by law not a self~contained unit, “*+ an into—
3ral and essential department of the Agricultural

and should bear a ﬁarge part in its up—building an“

opment, instead of standing apart in a quasi—benevolent

attitude. measures for more effective co—operaticn are,
I understand, under consideration, from which let us hope
substantial results may follow. Be it remembered that
land~grant colleges received their original endowment from
Congress with the express purpose and intention that they
should build up strong colleges of Agriculture and the
héchanic Arts. In the latter, as interpreted by the
different phases of engineering, we have achieved our
most n~~ked success. Our graduates in engineering have
been in denand for years. The high grade" of work which
they have been abd are capable of doing places them in
the first rank of engineers in America.

While our scientists and classical scholars have
stood well to the front and take rank as the best, their
numbers are and have been relatively small, the engineers
in nimbers leading the way. Of the two, viz; The College
of Science and the College of Liberal Arts, the former is
the better equipped for work. In Mathematics, Physics,
Chemistry, Botani, Biology and associated subjec