MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF ThUStMES   - February 3, 1910

me anxious days and sleepless nights and sorrow of heart and anguish of spirit.

I recall a passage from Tacitus which has been much in my mind during these latter

days, viz. "That while the sovereignty of Rome was being transferred to another,

Galba, ignorant of what had happened, and intent upon the sacrifices, was wearying

by his importunities, the gods of an Empire, now no longer his own." The paralell-

ism is suggestive, except, happily, in the moral aspects, Nevertheless, whatever

its results may be, I will give my successor a loyal support and aid him in every

way I can to make his administration effective and successful.   This I shall do,

because the life and success and good name of the University are with me paramount

to all other interests and considerations, whether public or private, official or

personal.

     Gentlemen of the Board of Trustees: - I will now add verbally what has not

been incorporated in the paper which I have submitted to your consideration, that

when in New York T presented to DR. Pritchett, on behalf of the Board of Trustees

the preliminary conditions for the eligibility of the State University to the bene-

fits of the Carnegie Foundation, viz:

     1st. A certified copy of the formal application made by the Board of

Trustees.

     2nd. The formal approval of the Governor of Kentucky.

     3rd. The joint resolution passed by the General, Assembly of the Comnonwealth

of Kentucky endorsing the application of the Board and the approval of the Governor.

     The President of the Foundation informed me that these were entirely correct in

matter and in form, but he added in substance as follows:

     "If your Board of Trustees elect a man as your successor in the presidency who

has not had the benefit of a collegiate or university education and who has had no

experience whatever in the organization of university work and no administrative or

executive experience thereon, I could not think under these conditions of recommend-

ing at present to the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie

Foundation that the State University be placed upon the list of its beneficiaries."