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 THE CARNEGIE FOUNDATION

FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TEACHING
S76 FIFTH AVENUE
OFFICE or THE NEW YORK
PRESIDENT

June 7, 1909.

My dear Sir:

I have the honor to inform you that at a meeting of the
executive committee held on June 4, there was voted to you a
retiring allowance computed in accordance with the rules of
the Carnegie Foundation, anmunting to Twenty-Nine Hundred and
Forty Dollars annually, in recognition of your long service
as the president and chief executive officer of the State Uni-

versity of Kentucky.

This retiring allowance will be available at such time

as you may choose to discontinue your active service and will
be sent to you in the form of a monthly check.

In taking this action the executive committee desires at
the same time to express to you its appreciation of your long
service and its best wishes for your continued health and pros-
perity. I

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Sincerely yours,

President James K. Patterson,
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 Lexington, Ky., December 1st, 1909.

Gentlemen of the Board of Trustees of the State University:—

At the midsinter meeting of the Board of Trus—

tees, there is usually little to report and but little to

record of more than transient and current interest. The Uni—
Versity year Opened in September under favorable auspices.

We are still in a state of transition from college to uni—
versity. Departments have been strengthened and enlarTed.
Courses of study have been to some extent re-cast and read-
justed to altered conditions. The standard of admission to
university work has been raised and the minimum number of
units adopted for entrance. The building for Civil Engineer—
ing and Physics has hedn completed, accepted and now occupied.
The buildings for Mining Engineering and for Chemistry are
well under way and it is hoped will he completed and available
for use shortly after the helidays. The equipment for Civil
Engineering and Physics is, however, far from complete. All
the money available from the last legislative appropriation
has been put into construction, leaving equipment to he pro—
vided ior o:t of current annual income. The utmost possible
has been to provide about one—third of the equipment necessary
leaving the remaining two-thirds to be supplied next year and
the year following.

Thus far the health of our student community has
been good. Happily there have been no deaths and no serious
illnesses.

The season of field sports and athletic games has
been successful. The University has in most instances led in
the match games played and earned a reputation for themselves
and for the University. The treasury of the Athletic Associa-
tion shows a handsome surplus, and the teams have distinguished
themselves for manliness and for gentlemanliness, as well as
for skill and endurance.

I have in several reports extending OVer a series of
years referred to the unsatisfactory and unprofitable rela-

tions existing hetWeen the Experiment Station ani the Uni-

 

  

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versity. The relations are sufficiently cordial, and in

diplomatic phraseology, correct. The business relations,

however, are merely nominal. This ought not so to be. The

Experiment Station is by law a department of the Agricultural
College, and the Agricultural College is an integral part

or the University. A part of a part is or owght to be a part
of the whole, but while in theory a part of the University,
it is, as a matter of fact, almost whOlly outside of the
University. The Station conducts on scientific principles
experiments in grains and grasses, in stock breeding and
stock feeding. It conducts these experiments on a plane equal
to those of the best Experiment stations in the country, and
With results commensurate therewith, but practically no bene-
fit accrues to the classes of the Agricultural College of the
University from these result.. They are published in bulle—
tins and distributed among the agriculturists of this and
neighboring states, and thus far serve for purposes of in—
struction to the agricultural community at large. with this
I have no fault to find and no criticism to offer, but the
results obtained, whatever may be their value, whether more

or less ought to be made available by direct instruction

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given to our classes in agriculture by those who conduct ex—
periments in the field and in the laboratory. Not through
the formal printed page, but by the living voice in the class-
room and in the laboratories, processes should be illustrated
and results explained in direct contact with the investigator
and discoverer.

All this, I regret to say, has not been brought ham
to our students in person. The utmost which I have been able
to obtain he half the time of the Professor of Agronomy for
the current year, upon payment of half his salary by the Uni—
versity. Now this, it occurs to me, is far from the original
intention of the organic act. The establishment of Ex eriment

stations was intended to supplement and vitalize, through

 

 

 

 

 

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experiment, investigation and discovery, the confessedly in—
adequate instruction available from text—hooks. Every experi—
ment upon the farm, in the garden and in the orchard, and
every experiment in the stock-yards and stalls, and every
experiment in the chemical and biological laboratory ought to
be Open to the students of agriculture, whose attendance
thereupon should he made not optional but obligatory. Everyone
connected with the Experiment Station should be a teacher,

a bona fide teacher, as well as an exyerimenter and investi-
gator.

I have dwelt longer upon this subject than I in-
tended, hecause it is one that lies near to my heart. I have
succeeded, I think, fairly well in building up the engineer—
ing and classical and scientific side of the institution, but
the development of the agrimlltural side, to which for years
I have given much care and much thought, has not been commen-
surate with my efforts, nor equalled my expectations. So far
as benefits to the Agricultural College and its classes are
concerned, our Experiment Station might as well he established
at Paducah or Covington or Ashland, as at Lexington. Indeed,
it seems to me that the purpose has been not only to differ-
entiate, but to isolate and to establish an independent entity,
rather than to work in harmony with the other departments of
the agricultural college, as a department co-ordinate there-
with.

Perhaps the most noteworthy feature of the present
academic year thus far has been the completion of the Carnegie

Library, the installation of two or three important ccnsign~

ments of books and its prOSpective openong in the near future

to the students and faculty of the University. There are upon
the shelves more than 3,000 well selected volumes, represent-
ing many departments in literature, and science, with a toler—
ably liberal collection of the best writers in fiction. The
object has been to supply material for historical and literary

research, illustrative of the sources of civilization and the

growth and development thereof. General and special history,

 

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"~ancient and modern literature, economics and sociology, science

in its varied applications to productiVe industry, are all
represented in the nucleus of what promises to become a large

and valuable collection. The activities of the human mind

along the principal lines of psychology, metaphysical specula-

tion and religious development and growth have not been lost
sight of. A liberal supply of material to aid in study and
investigation along these lines has been included in the list
of purchased books.

The dedicatory services were held in the Chapel of
the University and in the Library Building on the 24th of
November. The address of dedication was delivered by Dr.
Henry S. Pritchett, Chairman of the Carnegie Foundation for
the Advancement of Teaching. In addition to the brief intro-
duction of the speaker by the President of the University,
eloquent addresses were delivered by Governor Willson, Hon. Cass-
ius h. Clay, Mr. R. C. Stoll and Judge Henry S. Barker, represent
ing the Board of Trustees. The address of Dr. Pritchett, one
of the best ever delivered in the University Chapel, and the
complementary addresses incident thereto, will be published
in appropriate permanent form, copies of whichwill be sent to
Mr. Carnegie, to Dr. Pritchett, to Governor Willson, the mem—
bers of the Board of Trustees, the members of the faculty,
to the State Library, and the Libraries of each of the hand
Grant Colleges and Universities established under the Act of
1868. Our grateful acknowledgments are due to the great philan—
thropist, Mr. Andrew Carnegie, who by his liberal donation
made possible this noteworthy epoch in the history of the
State University of Kentucky.

When I look around me and see the wonderful progress
that has been made since 1880, how one department has been es—
tablished after another and suitable buildings provided for

each, how the circumscribed limits of agriculture and the

mechanic arts have grown and developed into the proportions

 

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of the greatest State University in the South, I cannot but
stand astonished at the wonderful results which have been
achieved within that brief period. The foundations of an
institution commensurate with the dignity and importance of

its origin and of its relationship to education: in Kentucky
have been well laid. The General Assembly of the Commonwealth
and the Educational Commission appointed by it to re-cast the
legislation relating to the common school, the high school, the
State University, and the denominational colleges and univer-
sities of Kentucky recognize generously and gully the headship
and leadership of the State University. If, under the adverse
conditions which prevailed during the greater part of its ex-
istence and against which it had to struggle for vitality and
permanency, it has succeeded in winning the vantage ground
which compels this recognition of educational priority and
precedence,what dreams of greatness and of usefulness arise

in attempting to forecast its future?

To you, gentlemen, is committed the management and

oversight and the control of the State University of Kentucky.

My prayer is that you will be enabled, under Providence, to
rise to a full conception and apprehension of the opportunities
and the possibilities placed before you, and that are another
thirty years have passed, with departments enlarged and
strengthened and the material facilities for rendering edu—
cation effective increased and multiplied, with a largely in—
creased liberality on the part of the Commonwealth, this State
University in which you and I feel a legitimate pleasure and
pride, will take rank with the great institutions of the coun-
try in the number of its matriculates and the thoroughness of
the work done by its alumni.

Esto perpetua.

I am, with much respect,

Your obedient servant,

 

 Presented to the Board December 14, 1909.

the Board of Trustees of the
State Univerait3 of Kant xcky.
Gentlemen;—
I think the time
relieve me of the bufd ‘ ‘ official auge
adminiatration of .‘a .‘ orsity of Kentucky. I
1‘?ve served vou fait mlly for tie loot forty years and
more, and think that I have now earno my rotiromant. How
the Etate University has grown, the small boy innings from whfih
it set out, tho Mi abilities atta nod to its connection with
a denominational ins titution, its severance thatofrom aftor
a period c; ' =' years, its ra-establiahmont upon an
independent basis, its amall endowment, 1+3 stru5g1{m for
exi: tence, the clouds that overshadowed it and the storms
which threatened to Submerga it, are more or less familiar
to you all. 10W it stood tJe fierce nslaught of redoubtu
able ices, 0“,“.rano strength from o , ~; +3 how it
:rz3*ka.y in tho estimatiw ", T 1 3 :4 convorted
its most invetorate enemies ' I = adding to

endnwnsnts, its 1.3 ,ds, its buildings, its laboratories,
is equally well known.

The State Univorsity is now an integrafi part of
the Conrmnwealth, aimed by the oonotitution, head of
the educational w low of Kantuoky, an honored menbor
Aonooiofion ' ,‘ . ' Colicgoo and Universities, anfi
doing, .- U o.;. a tn negro, work equal to the beat
them aha exporicr to most of them. It has survived "the
winter of L; ”:9 , as grown from inf fiLC" 6c na-
turity, and hag learned the lessons of endurance and ya-
fiance and fiisoretion and hope.

Now that the State University of Kentucky has
agtained its majority, and I have possea the three score

years and ten, I can with dignity axd with honor rotire from

the field, carrying with me a shield battered and pierced

 

 

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with many a syear, but never abandoned tc an enemy. I how
have the honor to tender formally to ihia honcrable Board
my rasig nation of the Presidency of this University, ta
take effact at such date as may up; fi' ez3ortuna, hetwaan
firat day of January lfilO and '~~ ;i =. may of July

the aa:;e year.

recommenaaticn of the ccmuittt

diticns of my ratirement, ccufljticns honorahla and generous,

cr which I thank you 5.; erely. ‘ pray Gad that in ‘au:

wiadom you may select

ful, wise in cuns- vigorou'
ruling w th justice and with dignity, gentle; gamercus an:
manly, yura in morals and of incorrultible integ ri‘ ty. I
thank you for year generous sympathy and sugport and confi—
dence dur ing all the long yeara of peril, of H‘i
cf ulti;

ncere regard,

Gratefully and affc,tisnate1y,

chr chadient servant,

 

 Presented to the Board December 14, 1909.
To the Board of Trustees of the
State University of Kentucky.

Gentlemen;-

\
I think the time now opportune to ask you to

relieve me of the burden of the official supervision and
anninistration of the State University of Kentucky. I

have served you faithfully for the last forty years and
more, and think that I have now earned my retirement. How
the State University has grown, the small beginnings from whih
it set out, the disabilities attached to its connection with
a denominational institution, its severance therefrom after
a period of thirteen years, its re~establishment upon an
independent basis, its small endowment, its struggles for
existence, the clouds that overshadowed it and the ntorme
which threatened to submerge it, are more or less familiar
to you all. How it stood the fierce onslaught of redoubt-
able toes, gathering strength from every contest, how it
grew gradually in the estimation of the public and converted
even its most inveterate enemies into friends, adding to

its endowments, its lands, its buildings, its laboratories,
is equally well known.

The State University is now an integral nart of
the Commonwealth, recognized by the constitution, head of
the educational system of Kentucky, an honored member of the
Association of American Colleges and Universities, and
doing, according to its means, work equal to the best of
them and euyerior to most of then. It has survived "the
winter of its discontent", has grown, from infancy to ma-
turity, and has learned the lessons of endurance and pa—
tience and discretion and hope. .

Now that the State University of Kentucky has
agtained its majority, and I have passed the three score
years and ten, I can with dignity and with honor retire from

the field, carrying with me a shield battered and pierced

 

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with many a spear, but never abandoned to an enem . I how
have the honor to tender formally to this honorable Board
my resignation of the Presidency of this University, to

a:e effect at such date as may appear oprortuno, between
'Le first day of January 1910 and the first day of July
of the same year.

You have boon kind enough to grant me, upon the

reoommenflation of the committee appointod t! name the conw

ditions of my retirement, conditions honorable and generous,

for which I thank you sincerely. I pray God that in your
wisdom you may select a successor, able, scholarly, 3kill~
ful, win, in counsel,
ruling with justice and with dignity, gentle; generous and
manly, pure in morale and of incorruptible integrity. I
txank you for your generous sympathy and support and confi—
dence during all the long years of peril, of discipline and
of ultimate triumph.

With since 6 regard,

Gratefully and affectionately,

Your obedient servant,

 

  

 Irosiéient ?attor.on read to the Boara his resignation as
President of tho Un‘vor :1ty oh oh . as follows:

To the Board of Trustees of the

State University of Eontuoky.

Gentleman:-

I think the time now Opportune to ask you to relieve
mo of the burden of the official supervision ano administration
of the State Un.?eruity of Kentucky. 1 have SoxVed you faith-
fully for the last forty years and more. pnd think that 1 haVe'

to

now cornea. my re;iromont. How the btote hniversity hao grown.
the amo11 beginnings from which it set out. fihe disabilities
attach d to its connection with a denominational institution,
its servoronoo therefrom after a period'of thirteen yoara. its
re-eotsbliohmono 320:2 an indopondefih basis, its smol1 onoowmont,
its otru33loo for xistonoe. the ol uds fihat overshadowed it

and the storms 'hioh threatened to submerge it. are more or loos
familiar to you all. H w it stood the fierce onslaught of
redoubtnhlo does, gathcri ng. atrongth fr.om every contest hon it
grow gradually in the est.m: ti on of tho pu $316 and converted
even ita most invotorake enemies into friends, adzlng to ifis
endowments, its lando, its buifidingo, ito laboratories, is
equally well known.

Who State University is now ano.integr&1port of the
Commonwealth, recognized by the conotfi ution, head f the
educational syo on of X entuéky. on honored member of the
Association of American Colleges and universities. anfl doing.~

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superior to most of them. It has surviVed "the winter of its
discontent", has grown from infancy to maturity, and has learned
the lessons of endurance and patience and discretion and hope.

Now that the State University of Kentucky has attained its majority,
and I have passed the three scores year and ten, I can with safety
and with honor retire from the field, carrying with me a shield
battered and pierced with many a spear, but never abandoned to an
enemy. I now have the honor to tender formally to this honorable
Board my resignation of the Presidency of this University to take
effect at such date as may appear opportune, between the first day
of January 1910 and the first day of July of the same year.

You have been kind enough to grant me, upon the recommendation
of the committee appointed to name the conditions of my retirement,
conditions honorable and generous, for which I thank you sincerely.

I pray God that in your wisdom you may select a successor able,
scholarly, skillful, wise in consul, vigorous and tactful in
administration, ruling with Justice and with dignity, gentle, generous,

and manly, pure in morals and of incorruptible integrity. I thank you

for your generous sympathy and support and confidence during all the

long years of peril, of discipline and of ultimate triumph.
With sincere regard,
Gratefully and affectionately,

Your obedient servant,

 

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After the reading of said resignation there was some suggestion
among the members of the Board as to the propriety of accepting said
resignation at this time. and some doubi as to whether it should be
done on account of the smallness of the meeting, but President Patterson
insisted that he wanted the resignation acted upon, and thereupon Judge
Barker moved and it was duly seconded and carried that the Board accept
the resignation of “resident Patterson under the terms and conditions
as Specified and set out in his resignation, which resolution after
remarks by various members of the Board was carried unanimously.

Upon motion of T‘roi‘. Crabbe. duly seconded and carried the
chair was directed to appoint a committee to prepare and present at
the next meeting of the Board a response to the resignation of

President Patterson.

The Chair thereupon appointed as such committee, Judge Barker,

Jr. Clay and firof. Crabbe.

Mr. Stoll moved that President Patterson be authorized to call
a Special meeting of the Board of Trustees and consider the election
of a new President at any time in his discretion, and said motion
was seconded by Mr. Nichols.

. Theroupon Hr. Clay moved as a snbstitute that the matter of

considering the election of a new President be deferred to the
regular June meeting.

upon the substitute motion of Mr. Clay the vote stood three
for the resolution and five against it and the substituted motion

was lost.

Upon the Vote being called for on the original motion same was

carried.

 

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Louisville, Ky., December 22, 1909.
To President James K. Patterson,
Lexington, Ky.
Dear Sir:

The Trustees of the State University having received

your letter resigning the presidency of the institution which has

been so long under your fostering care, are unwilling that it should
be answered only in the words of a formal acceptance. They have,
therefore, appointed us a Special Committee to express for the whole
Board the regret we feel that the time has come when the University
must lose your supervising oversight; the deep gratitude we owe you
for the great work you have done for higher education; and the warm
personal affection we bear you, an affection which originating in
the intimacy of our official relations, has grown and deepened as
the years have rolled on.

The history of the State University is a part of the hist-
ory of Kentucky for the last half a century. Nearly all of us
know something of the hard and painful struggle by Which it advanced
from an almost insignificant beginning to its present magnificent
proportions; and we know that to you more than to any other it owes
its final triumph over seemingly insuperable obstacles.

We recall that when it was divorced from all sectarian
alliances and launched upon its career as a purely state institution,
there arose a host of enemies who sought by every means to impede
its progress if not to entirely strangle its life.. These enemies
you met in the Courts Where the constitutionality of the tax for
the benefit of the institution was questioned; in the halls of the
General Assembly where the policy of State aid for a State school

was challenged; in the Constitutional Convention where it was sought

 

 to forever forbid the State to foster higher education - and over-

threw them all.

The endowment of the University is now a permanent fact,

and there will be no reaction from the deep interest the people
feel in higher education.

To your inspiring teaching Kentucky owes her final recogni-
tion of the truth that even measured in money there is no investment
she can make that will yield so great or so sure a return as the
education of her young men and women and returning them back to the
bosom of society with sound morals, sound minds and sound bodies.

Borrowing from your letter: "The State University is now an
"integral part of the Commonwealth, recognized by the constitution,
"head of the educational system of Kentucky, an houored member of
"the Association of American Colleges and Universities, and doing,
"according to its means, work equal to the best of them and superior
"to most of them. It has survived 'the winter of its discontent‘,
"has grown from infancy to maturity, and has learned the lessons
"of endurance and patience and discretion and hope."

Realizing the truth of this statement of the present
status of the University we recognize that it is due to your learn-
ing, your patient toil, your indomitable courage, and so recognizing
we desire to express to you the gratitude of the whole State for the
noble work you have wrought and our deep regret that the duty is cast
upon us of finding your successor. We rejoice, however, that while
we lose your services as President we will still have you with us. as
President Emeritus and as a member of the Board of Trustees,
and that We may in the future still draw upon that fountain of wisdom

and experience that has been so potent for good in the past.

 

 With great reSpect and best Wishes for you and yours,

Your friends,

W3”? 7

 

 

 December Meeting 1909.

Mr. Stoll, for the committee specially appointed, con-

sisting of President Patterson, Mr. Carpenter, Judge Terrell,

Judge Barker and himself, to look into and recommend to the
Board the terms of the retirement of President Patterson as
President of the University, made the report of said committee,

which report as as follows:

To the Board of Trustees of State University,
Lexington, Kentucky.
Gentlemen:-
Your committee which was appointed to look into and
recommend to the Board the terms of retirement of James K.
Patterson as President of this University, beg leave to make the
following report, to—wit:

Upon the resignation and retirement of President Pat—
terson, that the University agree:

First. To pay to President Patterson for and during
the remainder of his natural life, sixty (60) per cent of the
present salary which he now receives, which sixty (60) per cent
amounts to Three Thousand (3000.00) dollars per year; that this
sum be payable in equal monthly installments.

Second. That President Patterson be designated as
President Emeritus of the University and shall continue a member
of its faculty.

Third. That he be permitted and allowed to sit with
the Board of Trustees in its annual and semi—annual sessions

and that he be permitted to participate in the deliberations
of the Board, but without a vote.

 

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Fourth. That he be recognized as an adviser and
auxiliary to the Vice—President of the University until a new
President is selected.

Fifth. That he be given the privilege of representing
the University at meetings of the National Associations, Kentucky
Teachers Associations, District Associations, County Associations
and High Schools of the Commonwealth, and that when he does so
represent the University, all of his expenses be paid, but this
privilege of representing the UniVersity shall not be exclusive
and he shall not take precedence in such representation over
the new President when he is elected, should he be present at
such Association.

Sixth. That the University rent to President Patterson
the house and premises which he now occupies for and during the

remainder of his life for an annual rental of Two H