Centre College Special Collections - Board of Trustees Minutes (1894)

Centre College Board of Trustees Minutes (Vol. 4 - 1894)

Danville, Ky., June 12,1894

The Board of Trustees of Centre College held its regular annual meeting in the session room of the 2nd Presbyterian Church. The Chairman, Dr. Blayney, opened with prayer. The following members were present: Rev. J. McClusky Blayney, Gov. John Young Brown, George W. Welsh, William H. Kinnaird, Robert P. Jacobs, James A. Curry, George Nicholas, Edward W. C. Humphrey, Rev. W. S. Fulton, Rev. William C. Young.

John A. Cheek was appointed as Secretary pro tem.

Rev. J. McClusky Blayney, Gov. John Young Brown, and George Nicholas took the oath of office as prescribed by the charter of the College.

The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. The minutes of the several meetings of the Financial Committee held since the last regular meeting of the Board of Trustees were read to the Board and on motion were approved.

The Treasurer's Report for the fiscal year ending April 30th 1894 was read and on motion of Edward W. C. Humphrey was approved and ordered recorded in the financial statement book.

The Faculty Report was as follows:

The Faculty of Centre College would present to the Board of Trustees, and through it, to the Synod the following report for the year ending June 13, 1894.

1st. The Faculty remains the same as last year and every member has with very few absences, attended regularly to the duties of his department.

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2nd. Reports of the Museum, Library, and Scientific fund for 1892 & 93 were prepared by the Professor who has this work in charge; but through some inadvertence were not submitted last year to the Board. These with the reports for the session just closing, and a copy of the annual catalogue are now presented as a part of this report.

3d. Emphatic attention is called to the pre-eminent success which has attended the administration during the year of the College Home. Two years ago, with some apprehension, the administration of the Home was committed to the students themselves. Two students selected by the President were appointed to take executive control. The plan has proved in every respect successful. During the session from 30 to 40 students have had rooms in the Home. For the most part the best order has been preserved. The cost of boarding has been reduced to the small sum of $2.25 per week. It is the purpose of the Faculty to reserve the privileges of the Home for young men of good moral character, studious habits, and limited means.

4th. In January Mr. Walton, the Principal for 8 to 10 years of the Academy, asked to be released from his engagement with the College. The Faculty seemed forced to release him, though by doing so the College would be subjected to a considerable expense in conducting the Academy until the end of the session. Arrangements were made with his two assistants, Messrs. Rupley and Turner, to carry on the school during the rest of the session, the

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Faculty agreeing to supplement the tuition received by $250. We ask the Board to endorse this action. The Academy as thus manned has done well. Indeed we question whether in many years more satisfactory and efficient work has been accomplished. During the coming year Prof. J. M. Rupley will probably be engaged as Principal; and with one assistant, some work being done by several members of the Faculty, we hope to see this most important department placed on a broader and higher plane of service than it has ever been.

4th [i.e. 5th]. Our annual catalogue, a copy of which is presented with this report, will show that the number of students in attendance during the session has been larger by more than a dozen than ever before in the history of the College. This, certainly in view of the unusual monetary stringency, is a matter of great encouragement. The conduct of the students with few exceptions has been good and the same is true of the fidelity in study.

We are not able to record any deep general spiritual interest during the year; and yet a number of students have accepted Christ.

The Young Men's Christian Association has maintained an active, vigorous life. The regular instruction in the Bible has seemingly been blessed and three or four of the graduating class have already decided to become ministers of the Gospel.

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The Faculty recommend the degree of A.B. be conferred upon the following members of the Senior Class:

Degree of A.B.

Thomas Lindsey Blayney, Thomas Bronston Brooke, Horace January Cochran, Frank Douglass Curry, Robert Pollock Dow, Frank James Duffy, Bent Goodloe, Walter William Greer, Albert H. McClure, Joseph T. Monfort, Lawrence Nicholas, Richard Spetnagel, Henry Waller, Thomas Francis Walton.

Degree of B.S. on

Charles Chauncey Bagby, Lemuel Hardin McHenry, Lucien Q. Nelson, Casey McKee Owsley, Meredith E. Prewitt.

Certificates be granted to:

Phill Thompson Chinn & Charles H. Holmes.

We recommend that the degree of A.M. in course be granted to:

Henry A. Brown, Class of 1891
W. J. Williams, Class of 1891
Augustus E. Rogers, Class of 1891
Henry M. Faulconer, Class of 1891
Wilson H. Cralle, Class of 1891

On motion the Faculty Report was approved and the degrees and certificates as recommended were conferred.

The report of Prof. John C. Fales on Scientific Department and Library was referred to committee consisting of Edward W. C. Humphrey and Dr. W. S. Fulton.

The question of the extension of the water mains from the city water works through the College grounds was referred to the Financial

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Committee with power to act.

On motion recess was taken until 2 o'clock p.m. and the meeting at that hour was to be held at the President's House.

2 o'clock p.m.

Board met pursuant to adjournment. Dr. Heman H. Allen and Dr. James P. Hendrick, who had arrived on the noon train were present, in addition to those members present at the morning session, and took the prescribed oath of office.

On motion the committee on Female Annex was continued with discretionary powers.

On motion Dr. William C. Young was elected Secretary of the Board.

On motion the matter of a law department was referred to the local members of the Board, as a committee with power to act.

Degrees conferred by the Board were as follows:

Degree of L.L.D. on

Dr. S. A. Mutchmore of Philadelphia
Hon. Claude Matthews, Governor of Indiana
Rev. Dr. David McDill of Xenia, O.

Degree of D.D. on:

Rev. J. C. Randolph
Rev. Maurice Waller
Rev. John B. Worrall

Degree of Ph.D. on:

William T. Knott, Class of 1847

The President supplemented the Faculty report by a full oral state-

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ment with regard to his own labors, and the work, condition & prospects of the College.

On motion the Faculty was instructed to make arrangements for the instruction of the Sub-Freshman Class in English, Latin and Greek, by the Professors of those departments. Dr. Young and Prof. Fales were appointed a committee to secure an instructor in modern languages, if in their judgement the services of such an instructor were needed.

A request of Dr. James T. Lapsley that the Trustees deed a certain house and lot in Pleasant Hill, Mo. to Warren H. Young in consideration of $400, which is to be secured by a trust deed on the property conveyed, was granted; and on motion Dr. Blayney, as chairman of this Board, was directed to sign the deed conveying this property, and affix the corporate seal of the College.

Recess was taken until 9 1/2 o'clock a.m., Wednesday morning and meeting to be held in session room, 2nd Presbyterian Church.

9 1/2 o'clock a.m., Wednesday, June 13th 1894

Board met pursuant to adjournment. The Report of Edward W. C. Humphrey and Dr. James P. Hendrick (who had been substituted for Dr. Fulton) as a committee, to whom Prof. Fales's reports on the Scientific Department and the Library had been referred, was presented and adopted; and is as follows:

The Committee to which was referred the accounts of Prof. Fales as Librarian of Centre College for the years ending June 1, 1893,

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and June 1, 1894, report that they have carefully examined the same and are glad to note an increase in the number of vols. during the two years of 231, making the whole number now in the Library 7,414 volumes.

Your committee have also examined Prof. Fales' statements of receipts and expenditures for the Laboratory for the years ending June 1, 1893, and June 1, 1894, with the accompanying vouchers and find same correct.

We recommend the approval of the reports, and statements, and that the usual annual appropriations to those two objects be made for the coming year.

(signed) James P. Hendrick, Edward W. C. Humphrey

The regular committees were continued for the ensuing year, and are as follows:

Committee on Repairs: Messrs. John C. Fales, George W. Welsh
Auditing Committee: Messrs. Robert P. Jacobs, George W. Welsh
Financial Committee: Messrs. Robert P. Jacobs, George W. Welsh, William C. Young, and John A. Cheek

The minutes of the meeting were read and approved for record.

The Board then adjourned to meet on the Tuesday before Commencement 1895 at 9 1/2 O'clock a.m.

William C. Young, Secretary