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     The roll called (call) showed the following:

     Present: Messrs. T. Carpenter, F. A. Hopkins, C. B. Nichols,

               X. G. Crabbe, L. L. Vialker, D. P. Smith, Pres.

               Patterson, C. hi. Clay, R. L. Stout and R. C. Stoll, - 10

     Absent:  Governor Willson, and Messrs. H. S. Barker, B. MI. Brooks,

               T. L. Edelen, Gov. Ws. H. Cox, C. B. Terrell,

               Hywel Davies and R. N. Wathen, - eight.

     There being a quorum present the business was proceeded with.

     Upon direction of the Chairman the Secretary read the minutes of the last

meeting of the Board, which after being read, without objections stood approved

as read.





     At this point the Secretary upon the direction of the Chairman read the

minutes of the Executive Committee of meetings held since the last meeting of

the board, which without objection stood approved as read,





     President Patterson made a report of the Special Committee appointed with

reference to the establishing of a medical school in connection with the University

of Louisvillo, -which report is as follows:

      President Patterson only made an oral report.

      Upon motion of Mr. Walker, duly seconded and carried the report made by

President Patterson was received and the motion taken by said committee as shown

by said report was approved, and the committee consisting of MIr. Stoll, President

Patterson and Mr. Davies, were given power to act on the said report.



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     Regular December meeting of the Board of Trustees of the State University

Of Kentucky, held at the Presidentfs room, Gymnasium Building, college grounds,

Lexington, Kentucky, on December 14th, 1909 at ten o'clock A. M.

     Governor Willson being absent upon moticn of President Patterson, duly seconded

and carried mr. C. M. Clay was elected temporary chairman.

     Mr. Clay took the chair.

     The roll called showed the following:

     Present: Messrs. T. Carpenter, F. A. Hopkins, C. B. Nichols,

               J. G, Crabbe, L. L. Walker, D. P. Smith, Pres. Patter-

               son, C. M. Clay, R. L. Stout and R. C. Stoll, - 10

     Absent:   Governor Wi"lson, and Messrs. H. S. Barker, B. I.I. Brooks,

               T. L. Edelen, Gov. W. H. Cox, C. B. Terrell,

               Hywel Davies and P. N. Wathen, - eight.

     There being a quorum present the business was proceeded with.

     Upon direction of the Chairman the Secretary read the minutes of the last

meeting of the Board, which after being read, without objection, stood approved

as read.



     At this point the Secretary upon the direction of the Chairman read the

minutes of the Executive Committee of meetings held since the last meeting of

the board, which without objection stood approved as read.



    President Patterson made a report of the Special Committee appointed with

reference to the establishing of a medical school in connection with the University

of Louisville, which report is as follows:

    President Patterson only made an oral report.

    Upon motion of Mr. Walker, duly seconded and carried the report made by Presi-

dent Patterson was received and the motion taken by said committee as snown by

said report was approved, and the committee consisting of Mr. Stoll, President

Patterson and Mr. Davies, were given power to act on the said report.



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     Upon motion of President Patterson duly seconded and carried the minutes

of the faculty and the minutes of the special faculties were referred to the Com-

mittee on Minutes of the Faculties with direction that if any matter shown in the

minutes should be brought before the board it should be done by this Committee.





      At this point Mlr. Nichols read to the board the report of the Special

Committee appointed by the Execuitve (Executive) Committee which is as follows:

      Mr. Nichols made an oral report (Resolution follows)





      Upon motion of Mr. Walker, duly seconded and carried the Legislative Com-

mittee were instructed to take up the matter of interest paid by the University

on appropriations which were not paid by the state at the time fixed by the

various acts, and asking the legislature to reimburse the University for such

interest, and to take such other actions as the committee may deem proper in the

premises; and it was further ordered that it shall be the duty of the Business

Agent to furnish the Legislative Committee with the amount of interest so paid

out by the University, and upon what money said interest was paid, and when the

appropriations from the state were due, and when they were paid, and such other

facts as the committee may desire.

     At this point upon motion of President Patterson, duly seconded and carried

the board adjourned to meet at 2:30 o'clock of the sae day.





     Board met pursuant to adjournment and in addition to the members present as

above stated Governor Willson came into the meeting and took the chair.




 





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     Upon motion of Mr. Walker, duly seconded and carried the matter of furnish-

ing the Chemistry building, referred to in a communication from the Dean of the

department of chemistry and which has been presented to the board, is now re-

ferred to the Executive Committee with power to act; and it is further ordered

that any expenditure made by the Executive Committee under this authority shall

not be taken into account under the former resolutions of the Board, in ascer-

taining the amount the Executive Committee is authorized to appropriate between

meetings of Board, such authority being limited to appropriating not more than

000.00.





     At this point JTudge Mulligan came before the Board and made a statement

with reference to the widening of Winslow Street and its effect upon the college

property and his own property, and suggested to the Board that it would be wise

to give to the city such grounds off of the college property as would be necessary

to widen this street.


     After Judge Mulligan had retired Mr. Stoll offered the following resolu-

tion, which was duly seconded and carried.

     Resolved that a committee be appointed to carry out the suggestions of Judge

Mulligan with reference to the widening of Winslow Street; and that this committee

shall have full power to dedicate sufficient land, or portions of land for said

purpose which it is wise and advisable to make; and they are instructed to make

suitable arrangements with the city which shall be mutually satisfactory to the

city and to the University.

     Thereupon the chair appointed as such committee the Executive Committee.




 



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     At this point President Patterson presented a communication from Prof.

Anderson which he read, with reference to appropriations asked by Prof. Anderson

"or the department of mechanical and electrical engineering.

     Without objection the communication from Prof. Anderson was referred to the

Executive Committee with power to act, except that part of the communication that

refers to an application for an appropriation of $175,000.00, for additional

buildings and equipments, which part of said communication was referred to the

Legislative Committee.





     At this point there was informal discussion with reference to appropriations

for the college and to the general financial condition of the college, and with

reference to the condition of accounts and books of same.

     Mr. Stoll offered the following resolution:

     Be it resolved that the Executive Committee be especially authorized and

requested to consider all matters contained in the budget prepared by the President,

and prepare a report upon the same before the specially called meeting, and send

out same to all members of the Board of Trustees so that all may be fully advised at

the next semi annual meeting.

     Said motion was duly seconded by Mr. Carpenter and placed upon its passage

and carried.





     At this point President Patterson made a statement with reference to certain

repairs and improvements in the way of pavements ihich had been required to be

put down, which had cost more than the sum that was now in the fund for repairs

and improvements and moved that the sum of $3089.10 be placed to the credit of

the repairs and improvements out of the general fund to meet the deficit in the

repairs and improvements fund.




 




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     Said motion was duly seconded and placed upon its passage and upon the

roll called the votes stood as follows:

     Ayes:  Messrs. Carpenter, Hopkins, Nichols, Crabbe, Walker,

            Smith, Patterson, Clay, Stoll, Willson, and Barker,       13

     Noes: None.

     The resolution was unanimously carried.

     Judge Barker came into the meeting just about the time this resolution was

offered.





     At this point Mr. Stoll for the committee specially appointed consisting

of President Patterson, M1r. Carpenter, Judge Terrell, Judge Barker and himself

to look into and recommend to the Board the terms of the retirement of President

Patterson as President of the University, made the report of said committee, which

report is as follows:

     To the Board of Trustees of State University,

                                     Lexington,

                                        Kentucky.

Gentlemen:-

           Your committee which was appointed to look into and recommend to the

Board, the terms of the retirement of James K. Patterson as President of this

University, beg leave to make the following report, to-wit:

           Upon the resignation and retirement of President Patterson, that the

University agree:

First: To pay to President Patterson for and during the remainder of his

natural life, sixty (60) per cent of the present salary which he now receives,

which sixty (60) per cent amounts to Three Thousand ($3,000.00) Dollars per

year; that this sum be payable in equal monthly installments.




 






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Second: That President Patterson be designated as President Emeritus of the

University and shall continue a member of its faculty.

Third: That he be permitted an (and) allowed to sit with the Board of Trustees in

its annual and semi-annual sessions and that he be permitted to participate in the

deliverations of the Board, but, without a vote.

Fourth: That he be recognized as an adviser and auxilliary (auxiliary) to the

Vice-President of the University until a new President is selected.

Fifth: That he be given the privilege of representing the University at meet-

ings of the National Associations, Kentucky Teachers Associations, District Asso-

ciations, County Associations and High Schools of the Commonwealth and that when

he does so represent the University, all of his expenses be paid but this privi-

lege of representing the University shall not be exclusive and he shall not

take precedence in such representation over the new President when he is elected

should he be present at such Association.

Sixth: That the University rent to President Patterson the house and premises

which he now occupies for and during the remainder of his life for an annual

rental of Two Hundred and Forty ($240.) Dollars per year.


                                       R. C. Stoll, Secretary.

     It was thereupon moved and duly seconded that said report be received and

the recommendations therein contained be adopted as the action of Board and after

re arks upon the motion upon the roll call the votes stood as follows:

    Ayes: Messrs.   Carpenter, Hopkins, Nichols, Crabbe, Walker,

           Smith, Clay, Stoll, Willson and Barker, - ten

     Noes: None.

     President Patterson not voting.

     The resolution was unanimously carried.




 





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     At this point the committee on minutes of the faculty presented its report

on the minutes of the faculty and the minutes of the special faculties which is

as follows:

     Having examined the minutes of the Faculty and the minutes of the snecial

Faculties we hereby approve same.

                                    J. G. Crabbe, Chairman.

                                    F. A. Hopkins.





     At this point President Patterson read to the Board his resignation as

President of the University which is as follows:

     To the Board of Trustees of the

                     State University of Kentucky.

Gentlemen:

          I think the time now opportune to ask you to relieve me of the burden

of the official supervision and administration of the State University of

Kentucky. I have served you faithfully for the last forty years and more, and

think that I have now earned my retirement. How the State University has grown,

the small beginnings from which it set out, the disabilities attached to its

connection with a denominational institution, its serverance therefrom after a

period of thirteen years, its re-establishment upon an independent basis, its

small endowment, its struggles for existence, the clouds that overshadowed it

and the storms which threatened to submerge it, are more or less familiar to

you all. How it stood the fierce onslaught of redoubtable foes, gathering

strength from every contest, how it grew gradually in the estimation of the

public and converted even its most inveterate enemies into friends, adding to its

endowments, its lands, its buildings, its laboratories, is equally well known.




 



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     The State University is now an integral part of the Commonwealth, recognized

by the constitution, head of the educational system of Kentucky, an honored member

of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, and doing, according to

its means, work equal to the best of them and superior to most of them. It has

survived "the winter of its discontent", has grown from infancy to maturity, and

has learned the lessons of endurance and patience and discretion and hope. Now

that the State University of Kentucky has attained its majority, and I have passed

the three scores (score) year (years) and ten, I can with safety and with honor

retire from the field, carrying with me a shield battered and pierced with many

a spear, but never abandoned to an enemy.   I now have the honor to tender formally

to this honorable Board my resignation of the Presidency of this University to

take effect at such date as may appear opportune, between the first day of January

1910 and the first day of July of the same year.

     You have been kind enough to grant me, upon the recommendation of the

committee appointed to name the conditions of my retirement, conditions honorable

and generous, for which I thank you sincerely.   I pray God that in your wisdom

you may select a successor able, scholarly, skillful, wise in coanul (counsel),

vigorous and tactful in administration, ruling with justice ancd with dignity,

gentle, generous and manly, pure in morals and of incorruptible integrity.   I

thank you for your generous sympathy and support and confidence during all the long

years of peril, of discipline and of ultimate triumph.

     With sincere regard,

                Gratefully and affectionately,

                           Your obedient servant.


     After the reading of said resignation there was some suggestion among the

members of the Board as to the propriety of accepting said resignation at this

time, and some doubt as to whether it should be done on account of the smallness

of the meeting, but President Patterson insisted that he wanted the resignation



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acted upon, and thereupon Judge Barker moved and it was duly seconded and

carried that the Board accept the resignation of President Patterson under the

terms and conditions as specified and set out in his resignation, which resolution

after remarks by various members of the Board was carried unanimously.

     Upon motion of Prof. Crabbe, duly seconded and carried the chair was directed

to appoint a committee to prepare and present at the next meeting of the Board a

response to the resignation of President Patterson.

     The Chair thereupon appointed as such committee, Judge Barker, Mr. Clay, and

Prof. Crabbe.





     Mr. Stoll moved that President Patterson be authorized to call a special

meeting of the Board of Trustees and consider the election of a new President

at any time in his discretion, and said motion was seconded by Mr. Nichols.

     Thereupon Mr. Clay moved as a substitute that the matter of considering the

election of a new President be deferred to the regular June meeting.

     Upon the substitute motion of Mr. Clay the vote stood three for the resolu-

tion and five against it and the substituted motion was lost.

     Upon the vote being called for on the original motion same was carried.





     At this point President Patterson read to the Board his report which is as

follows:

                                     Lexington, Ky., December 1st, 1909.

Gentlemen of the Board of Trustees of the State University:-

              At the midwinter meeting of the Board of Trustees, there is

usually little to report and but little to record of more than transient and

current interest.   The University year opened in September under favorable

auspices,   We are still in a state of transition from college to university.



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Departments have been strengthened and enlarged. Courses of study have been

to some extent re-cast and readjusted to altered conditions.   The standard

of admission to university work has been raised and the minimum number of units

adopted for entrance.   The building for Civil Engineering and Physics has been

completed, accepted and now occupied.   The buildings for LMining Engineering and

Chemistry are well under way and it is hoped will be completed and available for

use shortly after the holidays. The equipment for Civil Engineering end Physics

is, however, far from complete.   All the money available from the last legis-

lative appropriation has been put into construction, leaving equipment to be

provided for out of current annual income.   The utmost possible has been to pro-

vide about one-third of the equipment necessary leaving the remaining two-thirds

to be supplied next year and the year following.

     Thus far the health of our student community has been good. Happily there

have been no deaths and no serious illness.

     The season of field sports and athletic games has been successful.   The

University has in most instances led in the match games played and earned a repu-

tation for themselves and for the University.   The treasury of the Athletic

Association shows a handsome surplus, and the teams have distinguished themselves

for manliness and gentlemanliness, as well as for skill and endurance.

     I have in several reports extending over a series of years referred to the

unsatisfactory and unprofitable relations existing between the Experiment Station

and the University. The relations are sufficiently cordial, and in diplomatic

phraseology correct.   The business relations, however, are merely nomial. This

ought not so to be. The Experiment Station is by law a department of the Agri-

cultrual College, and the Agricultural College is an integral part of the Univer-

sity.   A part of a part is or ought to be a part of the whole, but while in

theory a part of the University, it is, as a matter of fact, almost wholly outside

of the University.   The Station conducts on scientific principles experiments in

grains and grasses, in stock breeding and stock feeding.    It conducts these




 




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experiments on a plane equal to those of the best Experiment Stations in the

country, and with results commensurate therewith, but practically no benefit

accrues to the classes of the Agricultural College of the University from these

results.   They are published in bulletins and distributed among the agricul-

turistb of this and neighboring states, and thus far serve for purposes of in-

struction to the agricultural community at large.   With this I have no fault

to find and no criticism to offer, but the results obtained, whatever may be

there (their) value, whether more or less, ought to be made available by direct

instruction given to our classes in agriculture by those who conduct experiments.

in the field and in the laboratory.  1Not through the formal printed page, but

by the living voice in the class room and in the laboratories, processes should be

illustrated and results explained in direct contact with the investigator and

discoverer.

     All this, I regret to say, has not been brought home to our students in per-

son. The utmost which I have been able to obtain is half the time of the Pro-

fessor of Agronomy for the current year, upon payment of half his salary by the

University.   Now this, it occurs to me, is far from the original intention of the

organic act.   The establishment of Experiment Stations was intended to supplement

and vitalize, through experiment, investigation and discovery, the confessedly

inadequate instruction available from text-books.   Every experiment upon the farm,

in the garden and in the orchard, and every experiment in the stock-yards and stalls

ought to be open to the students of agriculture, whose attendance thereupon should

be made not optional but obligatory.   Everyone connected with the Experiment

Station should be a teacher, a bona fide teacher, as well as experimenter and in-

vestigator.

     I have dwelt longer on this subject than I intended, because it is one that

lies near to my heart.   I have succeeded, I think, fairly well in building up the

engineering and classical and scientific side of the institution, but the develop-



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ment of the agricultural side, to which for years I have given much care and

much thought, has not been commensurate with my efforts, nor equalled my expecta-

tions.  So far as benefits to the Agricultural College and its classes are con-

eerned, our Experiment Station might as well be established at Paducah or Coving-

ton or Ashland, as at Lexington. Indeed, it seems to me that the purpose has been

not only to differentiate, but to isolate and to establish an independent entity,

rather than to work in harmony with the other departments of the agricultural

college, as a department co-ordinate therewith.

     Perhaps the most noteworthy feature of the present academic year thus far has

been the completion of the Carnegie Library, the installation of two or three im-

portant consignments of books and its prospective opening in the near future to the

students and faculty of the University.   There are upon the shelves more than

three thousand well selected volumes, representing many departments in literature,

and science, with a tolerably liberal collection of the best writers in fiction.

The object has been to supply material for historical and literary research, illustra-

tive of the sources of civilization and the growth and development thereof.  Gen-

eral and special history, ancient and modern literature, economics and sociology,

science in its varied applications to productive industry, are all represented in

the nucleus of what promises to become a large and valuable collection.  The activ-

ities of the human mind along the principal lines of psychology, metaphysical specu-

lation and religious development and growth have not been lost sight of.  A liberal

supply of material to aid in study and investigation along these lines has been

included in the list of purchased books.

     The dedicatory services were held in the Chapel of the University and in the

Library Building on the 24th of November.   The address of dedication was delivered

by Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, Chairman of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement

of Teaching. In addition to the brief introduction of the speaker by the President

of the University, eloquent addresses were delivered by Governor Willson, Hon.



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Cassius M. Clay, r.e' R. C. Stoll, and Judge Henry S. Barker, representing the

Board of Trustees. The address of Dr. Pritchett, one of the best ever delivered

in the University Chapel, and the complementary addresses incident thereto will

be published in appropriate permanent form, copies of which will be sent to

Mr. Carnegie, to Dr. Pritchett, to Governor 1.WZillson, the members of the Board of

Trustees, the members of the faculty, to the State Library, and the Libraries of

each of the Land Grant Colleges and Universities established under the act of

1862.   Our grateful acknowledgements are due to the great philanthropist, Mr.

Andrew Carnegie, who by his liberal donation made possible this noteworthy epoch in

the history of the State University of Kentucky.

     VWhen I look around me and see the wonderful progress that has been made since

1880, how one department has been established after another and suitable buildings

provided for each, how the circumscribed limits of agriculture and the mechanic arts

have grown and developed into the proportions of the greatest State University in

the South, I cannot but stand astonished at the wonderful results which have been

achieved with-in the brief period.  The foundations of an institution commensurate

with the dignity and importance of its origin and of its relationship to education

in Kentucky have been well laid.  The General Assembly of the Commonwealth and

the Educational Commission appointed by it to re-cast the legislation relating to

the common school, the high school, the State University, and the denominational

colleges and universities of Kentucky recognize generously and fully the headship

and leadership of the State University.  If, under the adverse conditions which

prevailed during the greater part of its existence and against which it had to

struggle for vitality and permanency, it has succeeded in winning the vantage

ground which compels this recognition of educational priority and precedence,

what dreams of greatness and of usefulness arise in attempting to forecast its

future.



To you, gentlemen, is committed the management and oversight and the con-




 






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trol of the State University of Kentucky. tMy prayer is that you will be enabled,

under Providence, to rise to a full conception and apprehension of the opportuni-

ties and the posibilities placed before you, and that ere another thirty years

have passed with departments enlarged and strengthened and the material facili-

ties for rendering education effective increased and multiplied, with a largely

increased liberality on the part, of the Commonwealth, this State University in

Which you and I feel a legitimate pleasure and pride, will take rank with the

great institutions of the country in the number of its matriculates and the thor-

oughness of the work done by its alumni.

     Esto perpetua.

     I am, with much respect,

                        Your obedient servant,



     On motion of Mr. Stoll, duly seconded and carried the report of the President

was referred to the Committee on President's report.





     Upon motion of Mre Stoll duly seconded and carried it was resolved that in

the event there should be a vacnacy (vacancy) in the office of President of this

University that the Vice-President should assume the duties of President.





     At this point mr. Clay presented a statement from the Alumni Association

which he stated he had been requested to read by Mr. Nichols and which was signed

by T. B. Turner, President of said Association.

    Upon motion of Mr. Stoll, duly seconded and carried said communication was

referred to the Executive Committee.



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     A statement was made by some member of theBoard as coming from Prof. White

that an appropriation was needed to keep in proper repair the room at the Good

Samaritan Hospital which had been furnished by the University.

     Upon motion of Mr. Stoll, duly seconded and carried the matter of making an

appropriation for the hospital room was referred to the Executive Committee With

power to act.

     Thereupon upon motion of Judge Barker, duly seconded and carried the Board

adjourned.

                                          D. C. Frazee
                                              Secretary




 



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