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rollment of approximately fifty-five thousand (55,0o0e) and a total income of over

seventeen million dollars ($17,000,000.00), or an average per student of about three

hundred and ten dollars ($310). In other words, our University having the same Stan-

dards for admission and graduation, educates its students at a cost of fifty per cent

of the cost per student of the other twenty-two (22) state universities.

     The one hundred and two (102) universities in the country have an average per

capita cost of two hundred and fifty-five dollars ($255.00), while Kentucky spends only

one hundred and fifty(dollars) collars ($150.00). hEven at those colleges in. the United

States and Canada that spend only ten thousand dollars ($10,000) to fifty thousand

dollars ($50,000) per annum in salaries, their student per capita cost is one hundred

and eighty-seven dollars ($187), and their teaching is largely academic, while our

fully two-thirds of our students attend the Engineering and Agricultural Schools.

     The student cost at a school of technology is fully double that of student cost

in an academic college.

     Ratio of teachers to students - (Given by Carnegie Foundantion)

     California                      One teacher to          8.5 students
     Wisconsin                       One teacher to         12.0 students
     Columbia                        One teacher to          7.3 students
     Harvard                         one teacher to           7.0 students
     Yale                            One teacher to           9.0 students
     Pennsylvania                    One teacher to           9.8 students
     Leland Stanford                 One teacher to          8.5 students
     Michigan                        One teacher to         15.0 students
     Illinois                        One teacher to          8.7 students

     Now, in the Kentucky State University, we have, today, fourteen hundred (1400)

students and only seventy (70) professors, instructors, etc., or an average of one

teacher to twenty (20) students.

     An inquiry directed to the various universities of the country elicited the

reply that fifteen (15) hours per week of actual class room teaching is the mexiimum

of work that a university professor should do. Indeed, several of the great institu-

tions, notably the University of Illinois, wrote that they would not accept the work

of an institution where more than fifteen (15) hours per week were required in the

class room.   Our instructors are in the class room on an average of eighteen hours



JTune 9, 1915