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L · l   g. 12 THE KENTUCKY ALUMNUS.
Q -   QW GREETINGS FROM 0UR PRESIDENT. j 
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t _ A   - ` A Happy New Year to each and every one of the Alumni. May 1920  
Eg i be the best year for as we Kentuckians phrase it, for "you al1." ’—
I     I am sure we enter upon the year with a larger vision and a greater I
Q   _  sense of opportunity than ever before. We have been amazed in the ii
_    g. past few months at the magnitude of the projects undertaken, the great ;
A     sums promised for various philanthropic, religious and educational enter- t
~   gg prises. Almost all of the large universities and colleges of the country  
  ji are presenting some program and asking for material increase in their  
· IQ     endowments or working funds. Harvard is asking for $14,000,000 endow- i
    , ment to enable her to raise the salaries of her professors. Our neighbor,
j Q` Transylvania, expects to receive about two millions from her Alu1nni and  
p , jj friends in the next few years. Let us not forget the hand that made us.
    Our Alma Mater has not made large demands upon us. Her idea of the  v_
·   j · memorial to Kentucky’s sons fallen in the war was the first of its kind  
·    I; put forth in Kentucky. It has received enthusiastic support, but there  
    is much yet to be done. If every alumnus would do his utmost, the  i
   X! goal would be easily reached. Here is a definite enterprise for us to
_ »     engage in, a task to test our mettle. Perhaps we might regard it as an _;
   if alarm that might arouse some of our slumbering members. It is un-  
  »   doubtedly true that fully half of the graduates of the University of Ken-  .
_     tucky are asleep——they have surely not awakened to their duty and to the  
    opportunities offered to them. It is sadto contemplate the fact that ii
·     only a third or a fourth of all those who have received their equipment for ji
, ‘ ~ life at our University will send in their yearly dues of two dollars, and  '
` : v r~ as for service—it is quite beyond the limits of possibility.  
Y ifi Our memorial building offers then our largest opportunity. The  
. ‘_   f ‘ scholarship funds come next. This year of all others they are sorely  V
L   ` gj needed. When the students came to Lexington in the fall, many of them f
  ·   with the money they had earned themselves to pay their expenses for the  
    year, they found a difficult state of affairs. Room rent was almost  A
‘ -‘    V doubled. Board was much higher. Many boys have found themselves  
‘   ·`   before Christmas with the sum used up they had counted upon to take F
W; j· them through the year. They have had to borrow enough to carry them  
Y V. j  through this semester and will have to leave the University and go to  
  ifi work in the spring. Every loan has been put to work and the treasury {
_ _?   is empty. So if you are raising class funds, try to complete yours and ,. 
· { V y.  send it along. A questionaire sent out by the Faculty Loan Committee  ·
»   shows that a very large per cent of the students at the University 0f  r
X `Q:_ Kentucky earn all or part of their expenses. "Heaven helps those who .·
» _ g help themselves," so let’s emulate the example set us. Z;
QQ] This 1920 is a legislative year. Since the last legislature much has  `
2 _’ been done, our buildings and campus show great improvement; but much  
-1 remains to be accomplished, and if we are to live up to the beginnings we "¢ 
‘ ' ` have made we must have enlarged resources. Sometimes we feel we L, 
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