MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES,Jun-X,1907 Page 140(cont'd)



     Met pursuant to adjou nment at nine o'clock A. M. June
5th, 1907 at the same place.


     Mr. D. P. Frazee in the chair.

     Present: Messrs. Brooks, Carpenter, Clay, Frazee, Kin-
kead, Lafferty, Metcalfe, McOhord, Nicholas, Patterson and
Smith.

     Absent? Messrs. Beckham, Barker, Bell, Hopkins and
Stout.

     There being a quorum present, business was proceeded with.





     At this point the committee on Presidentts Report, through
its Chairman, Mr. Clay, Makes its report.  The President's
Report, on which said Conmittee reported is as follows:


     To The Hon. Board of Trustees,
          Of the Agricultural and Mechanical
College of Kentucky.
     Gentlemen:-
        The State College of Kentucky grows apace. The year
just closed has been the most prosporous in the history of the
institution. The matriculation for the year is, including
the Summer Schools, 936, supassing that of all preceding
years. The Commonwealth of Kentucky has shared in the general
prosperity of the country. People of all classes have con- P.
sequently been able to provide a larger number of their sons
and daughters with the means of education. There has been a
very remarkable and a very general awakening of interest in
educational matters all over the South. This has taken shape
in a simultaneous movement for better schools and better systems
of education. Each State has applied itself to the problems
connected with improvement, more thorough courses of study,
better teachers, better salaried, better school-houses, and
equipnments and perhaps most important of all, subjects of in-
struction designed to fit the pupil for special pursuits, pro-
fessions and avocatious life. They go farther and address
themselves to the problems connected with high school educa-
tion, college education and univ ersity education. There
has been a general uplift all along the line.