MINUTES OF TH5 BOARD OF TRUSTEE    -     May 31, 1910

remind you that the State University is a business enterprise and you are appointed

to conduct it on business principles. The most obtrusive needs of the State Uni-

versity of Kentucky today are a sound fiscal system, efficient administration and

instruction, and the harmonious co-operation of all employees, from the President

of the institution down through all its grades and all its relations.

     hEy policy as President of the University has been to build up a well rounded,

symmetrical institution, affording equal advantages and facilities for growth,

development and expansion to all the colleges of the University. I have wished

especially to see an Agricultural College of such character and proportions as would

command the allegiance and active support of the farmers of Kentucky.  I have

wished to see Colleges of Mechanical, Electrical, Civil and Mining Engineering well

established and adequately maintained, so manned, organized and conducted that the

State University would be recognized as the great engineering school of the south.

Agriculture and Mining will be for generations to come the Dredominant industries

in Kentucky and well equipped colleges affording the necessary facilities for educa-

tion in these industrial pursuits must become potent factors in the up-building of

the commonwealth.

     I have wished to see the Colleges of Science and the College of Arts so develop-

ed that scientists should be made by Ithe one and classical scholars by the other equal

to those made by any college or university in the nation, and the Department of

Education has been very near to my heart. Its development and expansion is among

the most vital questions that the University is called to consider.   The Agricul-

tural College is growing slowly but steadily, but it would grow more rapidly and

attract more liberal patronage and  end do more good for the farmers if it had

the more active and effective co-operation of the Experiment Station, one of its

most essential departments. Indirectly and to a very limited extent has the

Experiment Station been of any advantage to the College of Agriculture. It has

interested farmers and farmers' institutes in the results of experimental work

along agricultural lines. It has, however, done very little to stimulate among