DR. A. A. MURPHREE'S GREATEST MONUMENT 103

 "In the National Association of State Universities he had
a double duty: He represented the University as a member of
the land grant institutions, and as a state University. His
trips on the meetings of these groups kept him out a week, but
it was a week splendidly spent for higher education in Flor-
ida."
 At the meeting of the National Association in November,
1927, Dr. Murphree was scheduled to give an important ad-
dress on "The Relations of the University to the State Budget
Commission." Typical of his thoroughness in gathering ma-
terial and mastering the facts in any matter before his atten-
tion, he had sent out a questionnaire to the heads of the univer-
sities in the association, including most of the universities of
the United States, and had carefully tabulated the replies.
His address was a masterful presentation of the subject, and
went into the matter of relations of the administration of
higher institutions of learning and the officials of states who
stand between the taxpayers and the schools.
 With characteristic regard for the future Dr. Murphree
 concluded his address with a suggestion that a more intensive
 and extensive study of the problem should be made by the
 association, and that such a study should find some way of
 determining certain unit costs by which expenses of our uni-
 versities could be compared. "Comparison of such unit costs
 would help to remove our institutions from the clouds of
 doubtful financial economy, which have been largely respon-
 sible for the tresspass of state budget commissions upon the
 financial management and educational policies of so many
 of our state universities."
 The Registration System
 With the expansion of the University there arose problems
 of administration which called out Dr. Murphree's executive
 powers constantly. One such problem was that of an ade-
 quate registration system, to enroll and list properly the more
 than two thousand students that became a part of the student
 body with the 1926 term.
 During that year the president was in close touch with the
 deans of the colleges in regard to a new system of registration,