MINUTES OF TEE BOARD OF 9MUSTES    -



      The demand for our graduates as teachers has been far greater then we have

 been able to supply.   As our High Schools increase in number and efficiency, the

 demand for well-trained teachers will become greater and greater.  We cannot supply

 the demand now and the sad part of the story is that we are doing so little to re-

 lieve this unfortunate situation.   The number of matriculates in our courses for

 teachers is slowly increasing and in these courses we have quite a number of bright

 young men and young women, but for the most part our young teachers are going to

 Ohio, Indiana and other northern states to acquire an education, and Superintendents

 and School Boards in some cities are sending to these states for their teachers.

 Only today I received a letter, which, omitting names, reads as follows:-

 "President of State College,

      Lexington, Kentucky.

 Dear Sir:-

        Has it been called to your attention that the Superintendent of City Schools

 of one of our largest cities      ------shows favor to only Ohio educated teachers?

 If our own schools and colleges do not receive recognition, why shall we support

 them?


 We are preparing well-trained engineers and scientific investigators for Kentucky

 and for other states, but in the matter of training teachers, needed nowhere perhaps

 more than in Kentucky, we are lamentably deficient.

      The question asked by the writer just quoted must be answered.   If we can give

no satisfactory answer to the public, we will find it more and more difficult to

satisfy our people that we deserve the appropriations the State is giving us.    I have

been studying this problem and I hope soon to offer to President Barker some sug-

gestions as to how we may best serve our State in giving to it well-trained teachers

for our High Schools.

     The grounds adjacent to the new Chemistry Building, the Civil and the Mining

Engineering Buildings, have been graded as far as our means would permit, and a

macadam roadway has been constructed leading to these buildings.



December 13, 1910