M}UITES OF TEE BOARD OF HUSTEES



     Ayes: Messrs. Carpenter, Cox, Terrell, Davies, Wathen, Stoll, Eddelen,

                    Nichols, Barker, Regenstein.

     Noes: Messrs. Smith and Patterson.

     Mr. Clay did not vote.




     Mr. Regenstein asked for a vote on his original motion that the minutes of the

Executive Conmittee be approved. On vote, this motion was unanimously carried.





     The President of the University then read his annual report, which is as fol-

lows:

                                         Lexington, EBy., May 23, 1911.

To the Board of Trustees,

         State University.

Gentlemen:-

          I have the honor to submit to you this my first report as President of the

State University of Kentucky.

          I entered upon the duties of my office in January 1911 and as this was

just in-mid term of the present school year, I found the institution fully organized

and the education of the student body in full progress under the able supervision

and direction of Vice-President White.

          Under the circumstances it was not deemed wise or desirable that any

material change should be made in the organization of the institution to take effect

within the present term, and I, therefore, believed it best to occupy the position

of an observer, rather than an active director, in order that I might thoroughly

acquaint myself with the practical working of the institution.   I wuld not have

you believe, however, that I have failed in any instance to give the University the

benefit of my best judgment whenever, in my opinion, the exigency of the occasion



may 30, 1911