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     In the opinion of President Hughes, the University of
Kentucky will have 6,000 students by 1940, and 7,000 by
1950.  These figures are much beyond any estimates made
by the officers of the University.   The figures of the
local administration must place the student body in 1940
at about 5,000.   This may be too low a figure, but in
any event, the University of Kentucky is bound to have
increased enrollments.   The point is what is to be done
about it.   In this present year, with about 3,500 stu-
dents in residence, the facilities of laboratory, library,
staff and buildings are rather crowded; what would the
University do with 5,000, much less 6,000, students in
1940? It appears therefore, as a matter of prudence,
good sense and the right kind of statesmanship for the
University to take thought of tomorrow and to do what
it can to meet the calls that will be made upon it.


MEETINGr OF LEGISLATURE

     The meeting of the legislature in 1938 is a very
important event in the immediate future of the Universi-
ty.  At that time requests should be made so that the
University will do sortthing more than hold its own.
This has been the Puroose for the past five years, but
such a policy cannot result in anything more than a grad-
ual decline of prestige and effectiveness.   No one looks
upon such a result with anything but regret.   Some prog-
ress has been made in the construction of new buildings
that will give more space for operations, but there must
be additional funds for salaries, additions to the staff
and equipment, and particularly for the purchase of books,
if graduate work is to be successfully developed in the
field of the doctor of philosophy.   The legislature should
be told very frankly what the situation is, and asked to
remedy it by a generous appropriation for annual support.
In addition, requests should be made for buildings that
will supplement those already on the campus or about to be
built.


REPORT ON SMALL CLASSES

     Something can be done to change the attendance of
students in classes.   While Doctor Hughes' report on this
matter overstresses it, nevertheless, there are too many
small classes conducted in the colleges.    This can be
remedied by limitations upon num hrs, the staggering of
courses in alternate years and spreading the enrollment
over the whole day and lessening the strain on the second,
third and fourth hours.   I have asked a committee con-
sisting of Professors Gillis, Ligon and Koppius to work
on this problem.   The purpose of the study is to reduce
teaching loads, to reduce the number of classes and to
make more use of the teaching staff.