MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES



future by the past, I confidently expect an additional enrollment of from 100 to 200

students during the last half of the present term. That is, I expect an enrollment of

from 1200 to 1300 students by the end of the present term.

      In this connection, I desire to assure the Board that notwithstanding rumors to

 the contrary, this great increase in the number of the student body has not been

 caused by either a lowering of the entrance requirements or by an illegal use of the

 power of appointment. I have tried to follow the statute, but always giving a liberal

 construction in the direction of affording an education to the greatest possible number

 of the youth of the State.  I am of opinion that the intention of the people of the

 Commonwealth of Kentucky in establishing and maintaining this institution was to

 educate the youth of Kentucky and not for the purpose of affording a livelihood for

 the faculty, - and therefore the wider the beneficial circle of the charity is extended,

 the nearer ax will be to the generous spirit of the donors.

     The entrance requirements of the State University are as high and enforced as

rigorously as in any similar institution in the United States.   So far as the appoint-

ing power is concerned, vie have two hundred appointees less than the statute authorizes.

     I feel sure the Board will rejoice to know of the great success achieved by our

agricultural students in the national stock judging contests held in Chicago during the

present collegiate term. In October there were offered at the National Dairy Show six

prizes for the best judges of various strains of dairy cattle.   In these contests

eleven of the foremost state universities of the United States participated; among

these were Cornell, Ohio State, Illinois, Missouri and Wisconsin.   Of the six prizes

contended for, our students were awarded four. If they had received only one prize

or even honorable mention, we would have had just cause to be proud; but instead, our

team, constituting one-eleventh of the contestants, captures four-sixths of the

trophies.   Again, in the present month we sent a team to Chicago to contend for the

prize offered for the best judges of saddle horses; in this contest five state uni-

versities had student teams, with the result that our team was awarded the prize.



_k   December 12, 1911