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     The new administration has been anxious to see that it
continues to build the program of the University on the
splendid foundation laid down during the previous adminis-
trations of President RcVey and President Cooper.   We have
been scrupulous about carrying out commitments made by our
predecessors.   We have also attempted to keep the Uni-
versity moving in the direction they had charted its course.

     These are troublesome times.   Everly college and uni-
versity in the land is feeling the impact of the war upon
its program.   It will be easy for an institution to lose
its way during such an emergency as we find ourselves in
to ay. The one thing that a university must keep in
mind is that it is essentially an educational institution.
It must recognize and lead the public to appreciate that
education must go on regardless of the war.    In many
respects the education of youth is more important to the
nation today than it is in peace times.    If this war should
go on five, seven, or ten years as some have predicted it
may, where are we to get the young doctors, engineers,
chemists, physicists bacteriologists, mathematicians
and leaders that are so essential to fill the gaps that
are certain to be made as a result of the casualties that
will occur?   It is the primary work of the university to
prepare the younger generation that is constantly coming
on for the technical services, and for the leadership
that is so essential in carrying on the functions of soci-
ety both in times of war and peace.    Here at the Universi-
ty it is my purpose to keep before our faculty and the
public the fact that this is primarily our works that it
is   fundamental to the best interest of society, that
education like life must go on.


ENROLLMENT

     At this meeting of the Board of Trustees it has been
the policy of the president to report the enrollment for
the second semester of the academic year.    The first
table is a comparative study of the enrollment for 1940-41
and 1941-42*   It will be observed that we have 17.6%
fewer students today than were enrolled a year ago. There
has been a falling off of 24.1% in the enrollment of men.
This is the result of so many men being called into mil-
itary service.   The largest loss in enrollment is in the
Graduate School where 39.6% of the students have fallen
out.   This is to be expected since they are the older
students in the University and are already prepared to take
up important positions both in military life and in indus-
try.

     The second table is a study of the enrollment by
sexes and by colleges and classes.