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          In one of the students' petitions anneared the
     following resolution:-

     "Chaiiman, Board of Trustees:

          We, the undersigned students desire to appear before
     the Board of Trustees, and present petitions which we
     have, and given hearing anan request that the meeting be
     thrown open till this is done."

          So much of this memorial as requests the privilege of
     presenting petitions and being heard upon the same, having
     been granted, upon the appearance of the petitioners, the
     Governor said:

               You have requested a hearing and the privilege
          of presenting petitions and memorials to the Board
          of Trustees of the State University.  That privilege
          has been cheerfully accorded you.  You have also
          requested that this meeting be thrown upen until
          this is done. It is surprising that the manifest
          impropriety of such a request did not occur to you
          I will not say the impertinence of such a demand.
          It is for this Board to determine whether its
          meeting shall be executive or public, and any
          expression from the student body in the nature of.
          criticism, express or implied, of the conduct of
          the trustees of this University is unbecoming -in
          the extreme.  It is not the province of students
          to pass upon the oronriety of the acts and doingsP
          of the trustees of this University or of its
          President or Professors.  Your memorials will be
          heard.  I hope, however, that it will not be n.ec-.
          essary that I should further admonish you that
          while it is eminently proper that you express -tbo
          the Board of Trustees your regret at the possible
          loss of a trusted and beloved preceptor, or, if
          you so desire, give any reasons why the Denartment
          of Civil Engineering should be preserved as a sena-.
          rate and distinct department of the University,
          you are not expected, and I am sure you will not,
          by way of memorial or by way of discussion of any
          memorial, attempt to sit in judgment upon your
          superiors or to indulge in any criticism of their
          conduct or motives.  I admonish you in advance, that
          if such a thing should be attempted, it will not be
          tolerated.

    Mr. C. T. Dbtson, spokesman for the students then began
the reading of a memorial which appears here in full:

    To the Honorable Members of the Board of Trustees, Univer-
    sity of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky., November 17, 1916..



     We the undersigned students of the University of Ken-
tucky, hereby petition your honorable body to reconsider