er, were those of a university chaplain and “Director of Religious Life.” Every faculty member, as had always been the custom, was expected to maintain contact with students outside the classroom. Because he was often away from the campus lecturing and cultivating friends for the University, Dr. Bryan had the Trustees appoint Professor Melbourne S. Read Vice President to act in his absence. Frank L. Shepardson, Principal of Colgate Academy until it was discontinued in 1912, was made Treasurer of the University to succeed the late William W. West. In an attempt to get the College qualified forinclusion in the Carnegie Foundation pension plan by demonstrating that it had no denominational ties, the composition of the University Board of Trustees had been altered in 1908 by eliminating the provision of the Compact of 1893 which required the Baptist Education Society to select five members. The fact that the Trustees were none-the-less required to maintain a Baptist theological seminary re-
