January 2, 1908
Present - President Hinitt & Professors Fales, Redd, Cheek, Crooks, Gordon, Throckmorton, Blayney, Fulton, Clark & Ramsey. P.G. Caldwell, Howard C. Johnson, William R. McConnell, Henry L. Nichols, James C. Ray, Calvin D. Richards, & William H. Woodcock were dropped from the roll because of failures in studies. Dudley D. Gray, Peyton H. Hoge, & James B. Nourse were allowed to remain but just on probation. Grant W. Cecil & Sprigg C. Ebbert were directed to report to Prof. Cheek & to take all subjects in which they had been conditioned. Adjourned.
Charles G. Crooks, Secretary
January 16, 1908
Present - President Hinitt & Professors Fales, Logan, Redd, Cheek, Crooks, Gordon, Throckmorton, Blayney, Fulton, & Clark. Prayer by Prof. Crooks. The Faculty declined to reopen the case of Mr. [Frederick] Hess who had been suspended. The following resolution, offered by Dr. Blayney, was adopted: Resolved that it shall be contrary to rule for any member of the Faculty to advise with or counsel a student, who has been dismissed by the Faculty, or his student representative concerning past or any possible future action of the Faculty, excepting to refer him to the President or to the Dean. The revised curriculum making the work of Junior & Senior years more largely elective was adopted (See catalogue 1907-8 for group and free electives). Adjourned.
Charles G. Crooks, Secretary
February 21, 1908
Present - President Hinitt & Professors Logan, Redd, Crooks, Gordon, & Clark. The following standing committees of the Faculty were appointed.
Committee on Literary Societies: Profs. Redd, Fulton, Throckmorton
Catalogue Committee: Profs. Crook, Fulton, Clark
Committee on Public Functions & Contests: Profs. Throckmorton, Blayney, Gordon
Conference Committee: Profs. Crooks, Cheek, Clark
Robert G. Richardson was allowed to substitute two terms of Analytic Geometry for one term of Trigonometry. Adjourned.
Charles G. Crooks, Secretary
March 25, 1908
Present - President Hinitt & Professors Fales, Logan, Redd, Cheek, Crooks, Gordon, Throckmorton, Blayney, & Fulton. The following report of the Committee on Literary Societies was adopted:
A credit of one hour per term will be given to members of the Literary Societies who make by attendance & work a total of 20 units in each of three terms of the College session. These units are to be estimated as follows: For each meeting of the Society attended, 1 unit. For performance of literary duties units are allowed according to the following scale: to readers, 1 unit; to declaimers, 2 units; to debaters, 2 units; to reporters on current events, 2 units; to essayists, 3 units; to orators, 4 units. The quality of all literary exercises, for which units are allowed, must be satisfactory to the fellow appointed by the President of the College to attend the meetings of the societies.
Adjourned.
Charles G. Crooks, Secretary
May 9, 1908
Present - President Hinitt & Professors Fales, Redd, Cheek, Crooks, Gordon, Blayney, & Fulton. W.F. Colton was chosen Fellow in German on condition that he take a minor in Centre College in addition to his work in the College of Law. T.G. Watkins was chosen Fellow in English. Major, English. Minor, History & Jurisprudence. E.E. Hume given half Fellowship in German. Major, German. Minor, French. Adjourned.
Charles G. Crooks, Secretary
June 5, 1908
Present - President Hinitt & Professors Fales, Redd, Cheek, Crooks, Gordon, Throckmorton, Blayney, Fulton, & Ramsey. Prayer by Dr. Hinitt. Professors Redd & Blayney were made a committee to report names for presentation to the Trustees for honorary degrees. The following resolution was adopted: No participant in the February Oratorical Contest or in the June Oratorical Contest shall use a speech that he has used in a contest before. Adjourned.
Charles G. Crooks, Secretary
June 8, 1908
Present - President Hinitt & Professors Fales, Redd, Cheek, Crooks, Throckmorton, Blayney, Fulton, & Ramsey. The following report of the Committee on Honorary Degrees was adopted with recommendation to the Trustees that the degrees be conferred.
The Committee on Graduate Degrees recommended the following names for the Degree of Doctor of Laws: Dr. Baxter F. Fullerton of St. Louis, Missouri, Moderator of General Assembly; Dr. James R. Howerton, Professor of Philosophy in Washington & Lee University; & Judge W.E. Settle of the Kentucky Court of Appeals. For the Degree of Doctor of Divinity the names recommended were: Rev. Henry H. Sweets, Secretary of the Committee of Ministerial Education & Relief of the Presbyterian Church U.S.; Rev. H. Hynd Lindsay of Franklin, N.Y.; Rev. Rutherford E. Douglas of Macon, GA. The committee further recommended that the degrees be conferred upon Dr. Fullerton, Dr. Hamerton, & Dr. Sweets without the usual delay of one year.
Madison J. Lee was chosen Fellow in Physics. Major, Physics. Minor, Chemistry.
The prizes were awarded as follows:
Ormand Beatty Alumni Prize to Winchester Stuart, Owensboro, Ky.
The Sidney J. Johnson Prize to Jack H. McChord, Springfield, Ky.
The Henry Barret Boyle Prize to Cecil V. Crabb, Eminence, Ky.
The Honor Scholarships
Junior: Lawrence T. McQueen, Shelbyville, Tenn.
Sophomore: Cecil V. Crabb, Eminence, Ky.
Freshman: Robert D. Andrews, Nashville, Ky.
Winchester Stuart of Owensboro, Ky., was chosen valedictorian.
The following were recommended to the Board of Trustees for degrees:
For Degree of Master of Arts:
James Llewellyn Crenshaw, Dermott, Ark.
Logan Berry English, Cecilian, Ky.
Edmund Shackelford Lee, Covington, Ky.
William Lyne Starling, Hopkinsville, Ky.
For the Degree of Bachelor of Arts:
Harry Burton Boyd, Columbus, Ga.
Henry Lander Crockett, Carlisle, Ky.
William Enoch, Mt. Sterling, Ky.
Fred Akin Glass, Booneville, Ky.
Charles Kincaid Hay, Danville, Ky.
William Higgins Hopper, Stanford, Ky.
Edgar E. Hume, Frankfort, Ky.
Coleman Hamilton Lassing, Union, Ky.
Dewitt Collins Lee, Covington Ky.
Robert Caldwell McChord, Lebanon, Ky.
Bruning McConnell, Ashland, Ky.
Robert Gibson Richardson, Somerset, Ky.
Winchester Stuart, Owensboro, Ky.
William Henry Wadsworth, Maysville, Ky.
Thomas Graham Watkins, Louisville, Ky.
Albert Daniel Wingate, Danville, Ky.
James Craddock Wood, Munfordsville, Ky.
For the Degree of Bachelor of Science:
George Woodson Morris, Fulton, Ky.
Joseph Walker Wallingford, Mt. Carmel, Ky.
Howard Stuart Warner, Vicksburg, Miss.
Adjourned.
Charles G. Crooks, Secretary
September 8, 1908
Present - President Hinitt & Professors Redd, Cheek, Crooks, Gordon, Throckmorton, Blayney, Fulton, Ramsey, Rainey, & Farwell. Profs. Fulton & Blayney were appointed to prepare & report a new edition of the Hand Book of College Legislation. Adjourned.
Charles G. Crooks, Secretary
September 9, 1908
Present - President Hinitt & Professors Redd, Cheek, Crooks, Gordon, Blayney, Fulton, Clark, Ramsey & Farwell. Voted that Jackson C. Davis, James A. Lee, William C. McClure, & Henry A. Webster be registered as Freshmen & required to take first all work in which they have conditions, & then take whatever other work the schedule will permit. Profs. Blayney & Redd were appointed to prepare resolutions expressive of the Faculty's regard for Dr. James V. Logan who died during the summer vacation. Adjourned.
Charles G. Crooks, Secretary
September 17, 1908
Present - President Hinitt & Professors Redd, Cheek, Crooks, Gordon, Throckmorton, Blayney, Fulton, Clark & Rainey. Lists of assignments of students reviewed to determine whether any students had failed to report for full work. Adjourned.
Charles G. Crooks, Secretary
September 23, 1908
Present - President Hinitt & Professors Redd, Cheek, Crooks, Gordon, Throckmorton, Blayney, Fulton, Clark, Rainey & Farwell. College Legislation reported by Hand Book Committee. A portion of report discussed, amended, & adopted. The Secretary was instructed to summon James A. Lee & Caldwell R. Walker to be present at a meeting at 2 o'clock on September 25, 1908, to answer charge of breaking a door in Breckinridge Hall. Adjourned.
Charles G. Crooks, Secretary
September 25, 1908
Present - President Hinitt & Professors Redd, Cheek, Crooks, Gordon, Throckmorton, Blayney, Fulton, Clark, Rainey, & Farwell. James A. Lee & Caldwell R. Walker were present & heard concerning breaking of door in Breckinridge Hall. James A. Lee was suspended indefinitely, reinstatement to depend upon future conduct. Caldwell R. Walker was suspended from class privileges for a period of two weeks. Report of Hand Book Committee further considered. Adjourned.
Charles G. Crooks, Secretary
September 29, 1908
Present - President Hinitt & Professors Redd, Cheek, Crooks, Throckmorton, Gordon, Fulton, Clark & Rainey. Report of Hand Book Committee further considered, amended & adopted, & ordered printed (See Hand Book of College Legislation 1908). Profs. Gordon, Clark, & Rainey made a committee to investigate the practice of other institutions in regard to a Senior vacation. Adjourned.
Charles G. Crooks, Secretary
November 18, 1908
Present - President Hinitt & Professors Redd, Cheek, Crooks, Gordon, Throckmorton, Blayney, Fulton, Clark, & Rainey. The following resolutions were reported by Dr. Blayney & adopted. Resolutions of respected adopted by the Faculty of Central University on the death of Dr. James Venable Logan:
It is with feelings approaching awe that the Faculty of Central University find themselves called upon to make record of the character & services of Rev. James Venable Logan, D.D. LL.D. so suddenly called from our midst by death.
Dr. Logan was a graduate of Centre College in the class of 1854 & of Danville Theological Seminary, Class of 1860. He served the church of Harrodsburg as its pastor for eight years & afterwards became editor of "The Free Christian Commonwealth" of Louisville. But it was to the cause of education that the greater part of his life was devoted.
At the time of the organization of Central University at Richmond, Ky., Dr. Logan was one of the most zealous promoters of the movement & among the largest contributors to the cause. He was elected to the chair of Ethics & afterwards made President of the Faculty of that institution, which positions he filled with ability up to the time of the consolidation of Centre College & Central University, at which time he was transferred to the same chair in the consolidated institution, where he labored faithfully to the time of his retirement to the Carnegie Foundation, June last, at his own request. Dr. Logan was a man of a high order of intellectual faculties, a finished scholar, a clear reasoner, a widely read litterateur, an enthusiastic teacher, beloved by his students.
As a Faculty we can speak of him only in terms of affection and veneration. Always faithful to his duties, modest & retiring in his disposition, lenient in his judgements, wise in counsel, a man with whom one might fifer but never contend, genial & companionable, he was a true Christian gentleman beloved by all fortunate enough to know him intimately.
Be it therefore resolved, that the above be spread upon our minutes as an expression of our esteem for our departed colleague & that in testimony of our sympathy a copy be sent to the members of the bereaved family.
Adjourned.
Charles G. Crooks, Secretary
December 8, 1908
Present - President Hinitt & Professors Redd, Cheek, Crooks, Gordon, Throckmorton, Blayney, Fulton, Clark, Rainey, & Farwell. Voted that Mr. DuRelle's father be requested to withdraw him from the institution. Voted also that the parents of Dudley D. Gray & John Whayne be requested to withdraw them from the institution. Adjourned.
Charles G. Crooks, Secretary