ily of . THE KENTUCKY ALUMNUS. II  
at the _ I
ij Get Out" Club on Wednesday night in its rooms on Short Street, and also l
f new visited the Y. M. C. A. of Transylvania College. · R
ls and Dr. McVey left Lexington Friday evening for Paintsville, where he ad-
Doint dressed the Eastern Educational Association, returning from there immediately V l
to Washington, to resume his work on hte preparation of his monograph on war  
came Z finances. i
is lhs _‘ Dr. McVey will return to the University to meet with the next regular l
Ocmcli  i session of the Executive Board the second week in November, but will not be  
i° 6m` ¥ able to bring his family with him until the complete renovation of the president’s  
C hw , new home, which includes the addition of several rear rooms.  
ter ul li Dr. McVey complimented highly the student publication of the University, l
fzalk i The Kentucky Kernel, copies of which have been forwarded to him in Wash-  
llle lm I ington, and said that he was greatly interested in its work and influence.  
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. PRESIDENT McVEY MAKES GOOD IMPRESSION. L
meeting I Doctor Frank L. McVey, recently·elected President of the University of  
C. B. A Kentucky, former President of the University of .North‘Dakota, noted author,  
is and ‘ economist and educator, will assume his presidential duties here, after he shall 1
NLE at have finished a monograph he is now preparing for the Government on the  
European war. He has made two visits, each of a week duration, to the Uni-
: ,versity since the opening and an effort has been made to give the incidents of
ioblcms I those two visits to the alumni in this issue. '
ggeiied V ]ust now little is being said in regard to the future of the institution. The
tltpiiig governing board, committees, faculty, alumni and student body are awaiting
plctim _ developments under the new regime. ,
ln the history of the University there has never been a time so frouglit with
‘ uncertain issues and to the arrant pessimist never a time of apparently more
mer my dillicult situations, namely, reduced matricnlation, lack of funds, untoward I
nv mn; , national- conditions and pastlinlluences. het there are many interested in  
_i{\_ the institution who, looking into the situation see greater determination to -
” t' conquer. In the reduced matriculation, they see only signs of quality, "stick-at- »
regs the ltrless" and conservation; in the lack of funds only temporary embarrassment; l
I Plum lll the unhappy national condition, only a glorious opportunity for sacrifice and  
HWS Ol lll the knowledge of the existence of past influences only future annihilation for l
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