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would tend to give the Committee background on the

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particular item I brought to your attention.

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DR. BARD: Dr. Kuhn, I would like to ask you

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a question as a member of the Commission rather than as

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one who will have some comments on higher education in

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terms of the institution which I represent at this end

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of the table. Would you, in this discussion of higher

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education, be willing to see this as a discussion which

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would embrace not alone the University of Maryland, but

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all aspects of higher education? In a short statement?

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I agree that we couldn't have the long statement, for

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example, that existed in the 1864 Constitution on

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education, such as what Mr. Burgess referred to just

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before your statement. How would you see this, Dr. Kuhn?

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DR. KUHN: It would seem to me that we would

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have to be sure in any language that it really did give

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this authority to the Board to manage the affairs of the

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institution, and I am making this a very brief statement,

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but this involves very many things. I think if we re-

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duced this to a question of whether one simple statement

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giving the opportunity for the boards involved and the