There is, occasionally, complaint that the State is not liberal in the appropriations made for the University. But the figures, I think, will not justify this assertion. In 1866 they amounted to $7,000; in 1876 they aggregated $22,519; while for the year 1886 they reach a total of $63,000. Kansas is young, and has not yet accumulated vast wealth. But surely such allowances as these do not indicate indifference to the welfare of her Child. It is not yet nineteen years since the first building for the University was completed, and the Institution, at that time, had only four students enrolled. Less than thirteen years ago the present main building was occupied, and 239 students were in attendance. During the year just closed, 521 students were enrolled. The growth of the University, it will thus be seen, has kept pace with that of the State. So it will continue in the future. And as Kansas is destined to be the greatest of American States, the University, her Child, will in time rank first among American institutions of learning. I can fairly and truly say, too, that this Child of the State has a pretty large family of bright, intelligent children-young men and women who proudly hail it as their Alma Mater. One meets them, now, in nearly every section of the State, engaged in almost every honorable calling—the law, journalism, medicine, commerce, education. One of the graduates of the University is, for the first time, a member of its Board of Regents. During a rather extended tour I made through the State, last year, I found them scattered far and wide, and I am glad to say that wherever I met them I heard good reports of their conduct. The air on Mount Oread is pure; the winds here are strong and free; and the young Kansans who have marched down from these heights to engage in the battle of life are active, stirring citizens, not only doing honor to their Alma Mater, but contributing their full share to the good work of making Kansas a strong, pure, liberty-loving, law-respecting, and preeminently intelligent American commonwealth.