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    DR. McVEY’S BIENNLAL REPORT.  
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  __ 2 The Needs of the University  
_   g There is no use disguising the fact that the necessities of the Univer-  
;   _   sity are great, especially if is it to represent adequately the educational  
. 3 _   requirements of a spirited people like those that dwell in the Common-  F
  ~  wealth of Kentucky. What seemed adequate two years ago for main-  
` ;     { tenance and construction of buildings for a five year period is now sufficient  
  ‘   to keep only the institution up to its present development without addi-  
    g § tional growth. The University is faced with the care and instruction of a  1
.     rapidly growing student body, the requirements of better salaries, new  
1   ' ' buildings and repairs. Since the Legislature met in 1918, a new world  `
` { Y  has been created. The question is really, how far Kentucky is going to  Q
    meet the problems created by a changed world. A brief consideration  _
  _. i of income and student attendance will show what the University may be  5
f  j expected to face. When and how shall the University take care of its  
_ '_ ,  present student body and get ready for the larger attendance of the next  E
. A . ten years?   A
°   ii  The matter may be put simply. The University has had no general  Q
` i; Q  building appropriations since 1904-1908, when about $400,000 was ap-  
  ·.  propriated in the four years. At that time, the student body consisted  
  Q of 412 colege students and 293 other students, a total of 705. In 1910,  
‘     there were 582 college students and 221 other students, a total of 803.  
` `.; it The student body began to increase, with the growth of high schools  
` [ l   bringing the figures in 1915 to 915 college students, 564 other students,  
.     a total of 1,479. In 1818-19, the total college student body reached  {_
S 5   1,179, and other students, largely S. A. T. C., 1,156, a total of 2,335.  {
» if  This year, 1919-20, the college student body will be the largest in the  i
_ ‘ _~ f_  history of the University. In seventeen years time, 1900 to 1917, the  ;
V Q;  college students have increased 377 per cent. In the past two years, thi? _ 
  increase of the same group has been 23 per cent. Turning now to income. _, 
I { In 1900, the income of the General Fund was $76,991.34. This arose to . 
` `   $107,631.03 in 1904. In 1910, the General Fund income was $132,537.00  I_
  It arose to $220,000 in 1917. By 1924 the University of Kentucky would  i`
—   have no less than 1,600 colege students and as many more short coursé.  
f _   summer school and other attendants, if the conditions permitted it. This  Z
Q year, not less than 200 students were turned away and as many more did  
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