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Danville, Ky., February 7, 1899

The Board of Trustees of Centre College met at the President's study and was opened with prayer. Members present were: Drs. Blayney, Fulton, Martin, Messrs. Curry, Welsh, Jacobs.

Dr. Fulton and James A. Curry took the oath of office as required.

Rev. William L. Moore, D.D., of New York was unanimously elected a Trustee to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Rev. Samuel A. Mutchmore, D.D.

President Roberts stated to the Board that a friend had offered one hundred and fifty dollars a year

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for five years to be used as prizes for the best prepared applicants for the Freshman classes.

The Board accepted the gift, with thanks of the Board to be returned through President Roberts to the unknown friend. (Mrs. Roswell Miller)

The Board added two scholarships to the $150 and established two prizes:

1st Prize being $100 and a scholarship for the Freshman year, and

2nd Prize being $50 and a scholarship for the Freshman year, to be given under the direction of the President to the two students who pass the best entrance examination for the Freshman Class, and are candidates for the A.B. degree.

The following action was taken in regard to the late Dr. Samuel A. Mutchmore, D.D., L.L.D., of Philadelphia.

The Board of Trustees of the Centre College of Ky. have learned with sincere sorrow of the death of Rev. Samuel A. Mutchmore, D.D., L.L.D., who departed this life at his home in the city of Philadelphia on October 30, 1898.

Dr. Mutchmore was a graduate of this College to whom the institution can point with pride. The indomitable resolution which characterized him in early life and which enabled him unassisted to make his way through college continued with him throughout his whole life and enabled him to overcome obstacles and difficulties which would have discouraged any ordinary man, and to rise to a foremost position of honor and influence in the

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church and the world.

This Board desires to make record of its high appreciation of the character of Dr. Mutchmore as a man of affairs, successful to an eminent degree in his various business undertakings and of the most robust integrity & justice in his dealings with his fellow men; as a philanthropist giving willingly & largely of his means for the building & maintaining of churches and charitable enterprises; as a man of letters writing books widely read & controlling one of the most influential religious journals in this or any other land; as a minister of the gospel whose sincere piety and earnest zeal were evident to the world, who preached a pure gospel with a power that was peculiarly his own & under whose ministrations large numbers were added to the church; and as a man of wide influence & usefulness which was recognized by the church at large in making him Moderator of the General Assembly & a member of various special committees & governing boards of charitable and educational institutions & who was faithful & influential in every position he was called to occupy.

Dr. Mutchmore was for many years a member of our Board & although on account of distance he could not attend always on our meetings, yet he always held himself ready to cooperate with the policies adopted by the Board & even cherished the most lively interest in the welfare that tended to her success. His love was strong even in death.

The Board hereby formally approve

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of the presence of our Chairman at the funeral services of Dr. Mutchmore in Philadelphia & recognizes him as the representative of this body on that occasion, bearing public testimony of our appreciation of the character of the deceased & sorrow for the loss this institution, the church & the world have sustained in his death.

The Secretary is requested to forward a copy of these resolutions to the widow of the deceased, and also furnish it for publication to the "Presbyterian".

On motion the Board adjourned.

John A. Cheek, Secretary

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Danville, Ky., June 13, 1899

The Board of Trustees of the Centre College of Kentucky held their regular annual meeting in the session room of the Second Presbyterian Church of Danville and was opened with prayer by Dr. Blayney. The members present were: Drs. Blayney, Fulton, Smith, Martin, Sutherland, Moore, Messrs. Curry, Ernst, Kinnaird, Humphrey, Welsh

The Chairman presented the resignation of Dr. S. M. Hamilton as a Trustee, which was accepted and Dr. William C. Roberts was elected to fill the vacancy. Drs. Moore, Smith, Roberts, and Messrs. Humphrey, Ernst, and Kinnaird then took the oath of office as required by the Charter.

The minutes of June 7, 1898, October 12, 1898, and February 7, 1899, were read and approved as recorded.

The minutes of the Financial Committee were read and their action approved.

The report of the Treasurer was read and approved and ordered recorded. Authority was given the Financial Committee to write off such subscription notes as the Committee may feel are not collectable.

The Faculty report was then presented by the President and was as follows:

The Honorable Board of Trustees of Centre College

Gentlemen,

It affords me great pleasure to present to you as the representative of the Faculty my first annual report. "The Lord hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad." The life and health of the Professors were graciously preserved throughout the year. Though the heat was intense and protracted in the autumn and the winter unusually severe, yet all were able to perform their

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duty with fidelity and efficiency.

The conduct of the students throughout the year was most exemplary. There was no insubordination or outbreak requiring discipline. They were put at the beginning of the year upon their own honor and they proved true to the trust. The extreme heat at the beginning of the Fall term prevented a number of students from entering with vigor upon their duty, especially that required of them in the Gymnasium. The unusual number of stormy weeks in winter caused some irregularity in the attendance on chapel and the classroom, but on the whole a goodly degree of faithfulness characterized the work of the students as well as that of the Professors. We regret to say that three students were a few months ago dropped from the College roll for irregularity and inattention to their studies.

Two sad accidents occurred which cast a deep gloom not only over the College but over the whole community. During Winter three or four students went to a neighboring pond to skate. On returning Mr. John Watson Brown of Gratz, Ky., was struck by the locomotive of a fast train and instantly killed. He was a lovely lad, and as some of his classmates declared, the best prepared to enter into the presence of God. In the month of May a few students went out to Dicks River to fish and before casting their lines went in swimming. On account of the unexpected freshet in the river there was an undercurrent they did not notice, that drew McDonald Smith Gordon of Fannittsburg, Pa. to the bottom and he was drowned. The general impression among the students is that he risked his life to save a fellow student.

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Like Mr. Brown he was one of the best prepared for death of all his classmates. Everything was done that could minister consolation to the bereaved families. None of the friends of the young men who lost their lives feel that the College is responsible for either of the two accidents. The death of these two young men produced a profound impression upon all the students, if not a desire to be ready to meet their God.

I am happy to inform the Board that I have been most cordially received by all the ministers and the members of our churches in a number of towns and cities of Kentucky. Formal receptions were given me not only in Danville but also in Louisville, Lexington, Frankfort, and other places. I have preached in not a few of the pulpits of the Southern Branch of our church and addressed four or five high schools and academies. Assurances have been given me in all these places that students will be sent the coming year to Centre College. From these assurances, as well as from much general correspondence, hopes are entertained that our accessions this fall will be large.

Though no formal or systematic effort at raising money was inaugurated last year, yet we are happy to state that $2,500 have been obtained from the citizens of Danville for the improvement of the campus, $1,000 from the Rev. Dr. William L. Moore of New York City to establish a scholarship to be named hereafter, and $150 a year from Mrs. Roswell Miller for at least five years as a prize for the student who passes the best entrance examination into the Freshman Class. Valuable promises have been received

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that will probably afford substantial aid in the future.

To be more specific the attention of the Board is called to the following items, namely,

The Faculty and its work

As has already been stated, every Professor performed his duty to the satisfaction of the President, the examining Committee of the Synod, and the students. A few fathers known to be scholarly men have expressed their unqualified approbation of the work done in our class rooms. The examining committee of the Synod spoke in the highest terms of what they heard in the recitation rooms. Each professor has most cheerfully performed the miscellaneous duties allotted to him. The greatest harmony of views and action have prevailed in Faculty.

Two new Instructors or Professors as they are called by courtesy were added to the Faculty during the last year, namely Prof. Clarence McCheyne Gordon, Ph.D., and Prof. Charles Swain Thomas, A.M. They have proved themselves worthy of their predecessors and endeared themselves both to the older members of the Faculty and the students. Prof. Gordon was an honor man in Princeton University, received the Science Fellowship of $600 and the degree of Ph.D. at Gottengen, Germany. He took a postgraduate course in Harvard after he returned from Europe and was at the close of it made Instructor in Physics in that University. He is a Christian gentleman of the highest order - the son of a Presbyterian minister who himself took second honor in Princeton College. It is the judgement of the Faculty and the students that the College has made a most valuable acquisition

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by securing Prof. Gordon. I unhesitatingly recommend that the Board make him at this meeting a full Professor of Physics and Chemistry.

Prof. Thomas fills the chair of English and French. He was called from a Professorship in the same department in the University of Indiana. Like Professor Gordon he is a Christian gentleman of the best type. The Faculty would be glad to welcome him as one of their number. I therefore cordially recommend him to the full Professorship of the English Language and Literature. I further recommend that Prof. William Hallade Johnson, M.A., be retained for the coming year as a Professor of Logic and Psychology at the same amount of compensation as heretofore, viz. $800 a year. When it was intimated that there was a possibility of Prof. Johnson being dropped a petition signed by all the members of the four classes was handed to me asking the Board to retain him. Prof. Johnson is very popular with the students. He is not only a painstaking Instructor but a constant attendant on the students religious and literary meetings.

The instruction, to a large extent, was like that of preceding years. All must feel that the curriculum should be enlarged and strengthened as soon as practicable. A chair of Modern Languages, including Spanish, should in my judgement be established at this meeting of the Board, though we may not for a year or more be able to pay the salary of a Professor. The next catalogue should show that the Board intends to have

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that important department taught by an expert.

There is imperative need of a second Professor in physics and chemistry who shall teach the application of the principles of those departments to the mechanic arts. By this is not meant that it is our purpose to go far into the province of technology. I am not prepared at present to recommend the establishment of such a chair, but I would suggest that the executive committee or the committee on the curriculum, should it be appointed, be empowered to appoint an assistant at a small compensation for the year in case the number of students demand it. I trust that a part if not all of the appropriation asked by Prof. Gordon will be granted him.

In addition to his thorough and satisfactory work in the classroom Prof. Fales takes good care of the library and is preparing with great pains the general catalogue which will appear next year. He is modest in his demands on the treasury of the Board, namely $150, and I hope it will be granted him.

No appropriation has been asked or communication received from the other Professors, but it is due to them that I state that their work is thoroughly satisfactory.

I am sorry to state that Mr. Winter has resigned his place as Instructor in Physical Culture. He is a true Christian gentleman, faithful, hardworking, and popular with the students. He is not dissatisfied with his work in the College but goes to New York to study medicine. The Board will be glad to know that the executive

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committee has in view a successor to Mr. Winter, a man who is in all respects his equal, if not his superior. It is the intention of the Committee to put under the new instructor in Physical culture not only the gymnasium, but the baseball and football teams. The out door sports have not been for two or three years altogether satisfactory. It is hoped that we shall be able to put them on a better footing the coming year.

In the absence of a paid instructor in Elocution, the Rev. John Lapsley McKee, D.D., has kindly given valuable instruction in that department free of charge. Some of the students speak in high terms of the help he gives them and others feel that a younger man should be employed. I trust the Board will acknowledge by a formal note the valuable free services given the College by Dr. McKee. His name in the catalogue is a great value to the College.

Academy

This is probably the best place to notice the work done in the Preparatory School by Messrs. Bosley and Acheson. Both are admirable teachers. They expect to send fifteen or twenty students to the coming Freshman class. Mr. Acheson is engaged to go to Harrodsburg next year and Mr. Bosley is negotiating with Mrs. Hogsett a union of the two academies. Meanwhile he has made a proposition to the Board of Trustees for his services the coming year. In view of the uncertain condition of the Academy, I would recommend the appointment of a committee of the Board to take the whole matter under advisement and arrange its affairs

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for the coming year, only one member of the Committee to be from Danville.

Law School

It is greatly to be regretted that Hon. John W. Yerkes has sent in his resignation as a Professor in the Law School. The number of students was smaller last year than during some of the preceding years, but the work done was equally high and thorough. I would recommend that the tendered resignation of Mr. Yerkes be not accepted, and that a committee be appointed to wait on him, persuade him to remain, and if this cannot be effected to secure a suitable man to take his place.

College Home

Messrs. Baird & Mills had charge of the College Home during the year - one taking charge of the boarding and the other of the dormitory department. The management of the Home has met our highest expectations. It is not easy to satisfy the students with board especially when they pay but $1.75 a week for it. In this case I am happy to say there have been no complaints so far as my knowledge goes. Mr. Baird will remain through the coming year, which will be glad news to all the students connected with the Home.

Students and Their Studies

Considering the uncertainty until commencement day as to whether or not the College was to have a President the last year, the number of matriculations is considered satisfactory. The whole number admitted into the College is fifty-nine.

The Freshman class is the largest in the history of the College. From present in-

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dications the entrants the coming year will be much larger. But it is not safe to play the role of a prophet in regard to the number of students. If the training given in our high schools and academies would warrant I would suggest a slight advance in our course of study both Classical and Scientific. But it is not wise to put the course of study in our College beyond the power of their feeders to furnish the requisite preparation. This kind of adjustment must be a matter of time.

Athletics

Some difficulty was experienced last year to secure full attendance at the gymnasium of the two lower classes but it is said that it was better the preceding year. The athletic exhibition at the close of the term was pronounced by those capable of judging the best they had ever witnessed. It is hoped that a more general attendance will be secured next year.

The football and the baseball games fell far short of what we looked for. By some strange fatality our teams were beaten badly a number of times. Our men are physically light and unable to cope with the robust representatives of some other Institutions. The Faculty experiences much difficulty in excluding from the games all ball players who are not bona fide members of College. Our out door sports call for some readjustment that I am not prepared at present to define. Another year may witness a decided improvement in this department if it can be put in the hands of a responsible director. I would suggest however the appointment of a strong committee to take the whole matter into consideration & adjust it.

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Library

The Library is in excellent condition. Prof. Fales deserves the highest commendation of the Board. Valuable pamphlets are in danger of becoming worthless on account of not being bound and properly catalogued. Of pamphlets we have - 4,124 - 613 were added last year. The whole number of books in the Library is 12,988.

Literary Societies

Complaints have been made that many of the students fail to connect themselves with either of the two literary societies. And those who do, do not show the interest which they ought in a department so important in a College. Some of our leading students have promised to devote more time next year to the work done in our literary societies.

Religious Societies

While the meetings of these societies are not largely attended, the spirit manifested by a number of their members is excellent. Men from abroad have been invited to address them with the view of awakening an interest in their members. Some of the meetings have been beneficial and uplifting. With all the stimulus afforded by our societies the attendance at church on the Lord's day is far from being satisfactory. The students are allowed to attend the church of their choice, and the pastor is notified of it, but he does not keep a watchful eye over them or report any delinquencies to me. I know not at present any special remedy for this. The time may come when in self-defense we shall be compelled to worship in our chapel. But the time for this is not yet.

Grounds & Buildings

Ours is one of the most extensive and beautiful campuses in America. It contains 43 1/3 acres of undulating land lying in the heart

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of the city of Danville. But little effort has been made to improve and beautify it. Its condition for years has had an air of neglect. Parents have noticed this and hesitated to send us their sons. To remove this difficulty, I have obtained from the citizens of Danville a subscription amounting to $2,500 towards putting up new fences, weeding out worthless and unnecessary trees, and building a carriage way and walks through the grounds. We have already begun the improvements and hope by Fall to have them completed. We desire if possible to close Walnut Street and offer in exchange for it a street in the rear of the College.

The buildings are in tolerably good state of repair. A few hundred dollars would put the chapel, the recitation rooms, and the halls of the main building in a satisfactory condition. I would recommend in this connection the discharge of Capt. Hensen because he is not needed and the appointment of two janitors more efficient than those who are at present in the employ of the College.

Degrees Recommended

The Faculty recommend the following gentlemen who have performed the work required by the College for the degree of

M. A.

Mr. Chas. Eugene Bates	Class of 1898
Robert Gibson Shearing	Class of 1898

M.S.

Joseph George Hackly

Class of 1895

Honorary Degree of A.M.

Rev. John T. Brown of Louisville, Ky.	Class of 1896
Leslie Carroll Bosley, Danville	Class of 1896

The Faculty recommend for degrees in course the following gentlemen, viz.

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For Degree of Bachelor of Law

William Harvey Clarke John Jordan Crittenden Watson Clement Jackson Whittemane

Marion, Ky. Frankfort, Ky. Mayfield, Ky.

For Degree of Bachelor of Arts

George Howard Bruce Joshua Brown Dickson Samuel Jacob Fryer Chenault Huguely Samuel Beriah Jones James Thomas Lapsley Walter Crane Ledyard Joseph Wilkins Mansfield Edwin Weller Mills William Henry Moore Hugh Moore Clarence Reid Ogg Harry Clayton Rogers Frank Adams Shepard Alpheus Winter, Jr. Stephen Lovell Yerkes

Danville, Ky. Conder, Ma. Fern Creek, Ky. Danville, Ky. McAfee, Ky. McAfee, Ky. Danville, Ky. Springfield, KY. Webster Groves, Ma. Parksville, Ky. Parksville, Ky. Mt. Sterling, Ky. Mt. Sterling, Ky. Luin, Ills. Tryon, N.C. Danville, Ky.

For Degree of Bachelor of Science

Ridgely Taylor Backer Herbert Bronner Omar Waller Faulkner James Thomas Hackley John Lafour William Walter Henry Mustaine Joseph White Norwood Wade Hampton Powell Frank Congleton Taylor James Garrett Wood

Lexington, Ky. Louisville, Ky. Maysville, Ky. Stanford, Ky. Harrodsburg, Ky. Hurricane, Ky. Frankfort, Ky. Uniontown, Ky. Carlisle, Ky. Danville, Ky.

For Certificates

Joseph Faulconer Robert Morris Mayer Chas. Sanders Wood

The faculty recommend for adoption a plan for the degrees of Master of Arts and Master of Science. (Plan recommended is on file with Secretary of Board.)

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I would recommend that Professor John C. Fales be continued Dean of the College Faculty without additional salary or increase of work.

For efficiency and convenience I would recommend the appointment of the following committees to act for the Board between its regular meetings and to report at its annual meeting in June, viz.

1. Committee on Finance to consist of three or five members of the Board with the President of the College as an ex officio member.

2. Committee on the Curriculum to consider all changes that may be needed in the course of the studies & to consist as above.

3. Committee on Grounds and Buildings to consider all improvements of the grounds and all plans and contracts for new buildings as above.

4. Committee on Morals and Discipline to act between meetings of the Board on serious or complicated cases of discipline.

Drs. Condit and Waller, members of the Board of Trustees, having arrived on the train from their homes, took their places as Trustees.

The report of the Faculty was taken up and considered seriatim.

The Chair of Modern Languages was established as recommended by the President. Authority was given the President to employ Prof. W. H. Johnson for the coming year at a salary of $800.

The matter of additional instruction in Physics and Chemistry was referred to President and Finance Committee.

The request of Prof. Fales for $150 for the Library was granted.

The employment of an Instructor in the

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gymnasium was referred to the President and the Finance Committee, with the understanding that all out door sports, football and baseball, be placed under one instructor, who is to be under control of the Faculty.

Thanks of the Board were voted to Dr. John L. McKee for his instruction in elocution given to the students; and it was ordered that the name of Dr. McKee be placed in the catalogue next after the name of the President with the title of Vice President Emeritus.

The matter of the Academy was referred to a special committee to be appointed by the Chair, with the President ex officio a member with power to act.

The election of Professors was then taken up. Clarence McCheyne Gordon, Ph.D., was elected to the chair of Physics and Chemistry and Charles Swain Thomas, A.M., to the chair of English Language & Literature. Both elections were by ballot, each receiving 14 affirmative votes. The salary in each case was fixed at $1,600 per annum payable quarterly & beginning with the opening of the next session of the College.

The committees recommended by the President were created and the President of the College is to be an ex officio member of each committee. Each committee is to consist of three members to be appointed by the Chairman of the Board of Trustees.

John C. Fales was appointed Dean of the Faculty with power to perform such duties as may hereafter be requested of him from time to time by the President of the College.

The recommendations of the Faculty

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and the plan for the degrees of Master of Arts and Master of Science were approved and adopted by the Board.

The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on Rev. Frank J. Cheek of Class of 1876 and on Rev. James W. Skinner of Class of 1880, and the degrees as recommended by the Faculty were conferred on the several persons as stated in their report to the Board.

The Board was invited to take lunch with the President. Recess was taken until 3 o'clock p.m. and it was agreed to meet in the parlor of the President's House.

The Board was called to order at 3 o'clock p.m. and took up the matter of the Law Department.

The Treasurer read to the Board the report of a committee of the Board consisting of Hon. Robert P. Jacobs, Dr. Robert R. Sutherland, and George W. Welsh appointed at a meeting of the Board held June 18, 1897, which was as follows:

At a meeting of the Executive Committee of Centre College held July 1, 1898, present Welsh, Sutherland, and Jacobs. Welsh was called to the chair. In the matter of the salary of Gov. John Proctor Knott as Dean of the Law faculty, referred to said committee for settlement by an order of the Board held June 8, 1897, the following order was made. After a full examination into said matter the committee is of the opinion that Gov. Knott is entitled to receive from the fees paid the Treasurer of the College by the students of the law class an amount (in addition to the salary heretofore paid him) equal to the total amount paid Messrs. Yerkes and Jacobs both for the sessions of 1894-95,

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1895-96, 1896-97, 1897-98, less one half the incidental expenses, and the Treasurer of the College is hereby directed to make settlement with Gov. Knott on this basis.

This action is a settlement for the services of Gov. Knott as Dean of the Law Faculty for the sessions mentioned leaving the future compensation of Gov. Knott as Dean of said Faculty to be settled by the Board.

This order is directed to be certified to the Treasurer.

(signed) Robert R. Sutherland, Secretary, Committee, George W. Welsh, Chairman, pro tem.

After explanation of the effect of the foregoing action of the Executive Committee, the following action was taken:

Resolved that a committee be appointed by the Chair to confer with Gov. Knott to inform him that the Board, owing to the condition of its finances, cannot see its way clear to continue to pay him the same compensation that it has heretofore paid him; to advise him that Mr. Jacobs & Mr. Yerkes have tendered their resignations; and to confer with him and also with Mr. Jacobs & Mr. Yerkes as to the best interests of the Law School.

Further said committee is fully authorized and empowered to confer with Gov. Knott as to his compensation for the past year and to settle & fix his compensation for said past year. The committee appointed to confer with Gov. Knott and Messrs. Jacobs and Yerkes were Drs. Blayney & Roberts and Mr. Welsh.

The question of which were "incidental expenses" in the report of Executive Committee have set forth was referred to the Financial Committee in connection with the Treasurer.

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The matter of janitors and policeman in the Faculty report was referred to committee on Buildings & Grounds.

It was ordered that the chairman of the Board shall be the chairman of the Finance Committee.

The Chairman then announced the members of the several committees as follows:

Committee on Finance: Humphrey, Welsh & Blayney
Committee on Curriculum: Smith, Martin, & Simpson
Committee on Grounds & Buildings: Fulton, Curry & Welsh
Committee on Morals & Discipline: Waller, Humphrey, & Jacobs
Special Committee on Academy: Fulton, Warren, Curry & Blayney

The sisters of Rev. William C. Young, D.D., L.L.D., deceased and late President of Centre College, namely Misses Eugenia Young and Sarah L. Young and Mrs. Zillah Y. Jacobs, having paid to the Treasurer of the College the sum of $11,000, the following action was taken by the Board:

The Board acknowledges the receipts of fifty-five hundred dollars from Eugenia Young, Sallie L. Young, and Mrs. Zillah Y. Jacobs, and paid by them from the estate of William C. Young, deceased, late President of Centre College, and in compliance with his request to them; and which sum the Board receives in trust to pay the annual or semi-annual interest or profit realized therefrom to Carrie Y. Douglass of Woodford County, Kentucky, during her natural life and after her death for purpose

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of endowment of four scholarships in Centre College, one to be called the John C. Young Scholarship, one the Cornelia C. Young Scholarship, one the Lucy Waller Young Scholarship, and one the William C. Young Scholarship.

The Board also acknowledges the receipt of the additional sum of fifty-five hundred dollars from Eugenia Young, Sallie L. Young, and Mrs. Zillah Y. Jacobs and paid them from the estate of William C. Young deceased, late President of Centre College, and in compliance with his request to them and which sum the Board receives in trust to pay the annual or semi-annual interest or profit realized therefrom to Mary Y. Rout, wife of Rev. G. H. Rout of Woodford County, Ky., during her natural life, and after her death to Cornelia, daughter of said Mary Y. and G. H. Rout during her natural life if she should survive her mother, and to said Rev. G. H. Rout during his natural life, if he should survive both his wife and daughter, and at the death of the survivor of said persons to be disposed of by the Board for the interest and benefit of Centre College.

The thanks of the Board were extended to the donors for these liberal and generous gifts to the College.

A communication from the sisters of Dr. Young in regard to his will was received and referred to a Committee consisting of Dr. Roberts, Mr. Humphrey, and Mr. Yerkes.

Prof. Gordon's application was referred to the Finance Committee.

The question of employment of canvassers was referred to the President and Treasurer.

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Board took recess until 8 1/2 o'clock next morning to meet at 2nd Presbyterian Church.

Board met at 2nd Presbyterian Church at 8 1/2 o'clock Wednesday morning and was called to order by the Chairman.

Report of Prof. Gordon of fees collected by him and expenditures by him for the laboratory of Physics & Chemistry (both of which are in addition to those shown in the report of the Treasurer) was presented to the Board and was as follows:

Total receipts, $191.68; Expenditures, $172.98, leaving balance in Prof. Gordon's hands of $18.70.

Board ordered that this report be handed to the Treasurer before the 20th of April in each year and by him embraced in his report to the Board.

The following action was taken concerning all previous appropriations by the Board:

All previous appropriations to the respective departments of College work are hereby rescinded and hereafter all appropriations to these departments in excess of special orders of the Board shall be authorized by the Finance Committee.

Report of the Committee to confer with Gov. Knott was received and approved and is as follows:

The Committee appointed to confer with the Dean of the Law Department with reference to his salary, and the Professors of that Department with reference to their offered resignations, reported that they had discharged their duties as far as possible. Owing to the absence of Prof. Jacobs from town the committee were unable to see him. They saw Prof. Yerkes and he agreed to withdraw his resignation which he had felt constrained to offer on account of lack of time to

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discharge the duties of the position.

The Committee called on Gov. Knott and as instructed by the Board informed him that owing to the condition of the finances the Board did not see its way clear to continue his salary at the rate fixed in the adjustment of the committee hearing date of July 1, 1898. After full conference in which Gov. Knott expressed his profound interest in the success of the Law Department and the College, he agreed to accept as his salary for his services to the College $1,600 per annum beginning from date of adjustment before mentioned July 1, 1898, the Board agreeing to arrange to pay promptly the balance due him according to the aforesaid adjustment of July 1, 1898.

The Committee would therefore recommend that Gov. Knott's salary for his services to the College in the Law and Academic departments be fixed at $1,600 per annum to begin from the date of September 1, 1898, and that the Treasurer be instructed to arrange to pay as promptly as possible the balance due Gov. Knott by the adjustment of July 1, 1898.

The report of the committee was unanimously adopted. The Secretary was instructed to furnish Gov. Knott with a copy of this report with the request that if it does not correctly represent his understanding of the conference, he indicate to the secretary the points of difference.

On motion the Board adjourned to meet Tuesday June 12th 1900 at 9:30 a.m.

John A. Cheek, Secretary

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