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ciation now has more than five hundred members. The first man was graduated in 1869. This is a record of which any college might well be proud. These graduates constitute a strong body of men and women. But few of them have failed to come up to the high expectations that followed them from their homes and their Alma Mater. With such a record the State College has little to fear in the future. The period of her probation is over. She may now enter upon her career with the confi- dence of mature years. The General Assembly has recently shown its appreciation by voting fif- teen thousand dollars additional income to the College. No account of the State College would be com- plete without mention of the man to whose efforts is due its present prosperous condition—-President James K. Patterson. It may almost be said that the College owes its very existence to President Patterson. In 1880 when the half-cent tax was imposed, the sectarian institutions in the state combined to test the constitutionality of the Act. President Patterson represented the State College and won, although the ablest lawyers in the State were employed by the other side. Again in 1890, an effort was made in the Constitutional Conven- tion to abolish the half-cent tax and a second time President Patterson won. The devotion with which President Patterson has applied himself to the interests of the State College is almost incon- ceivable. He became the official head of the insti- tution in 1869. In length of service he is surpassed by few, if any, college presidents in the United States, in ability he is surpassed by none. A man of great executive and business ability, of profound scholarship, a speaker of great power—his talents are too many to enumerate. President Patterson stands without a peer in Kentucky today. The State College attests the greatness of its builder.
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new location by donating the city park of fifty-two acres and $30,000 in bonds, Fayette County supple- menting the donation by $20,000 in bonds. In 1880 the General Assembly imposed a tax of one- half cent on each hundred dollars of the assessed value of all property in the State liable to taxation for State revenue and belonging to its white inhabi- tants. In the same year the Classical and Normal Departments, and the Academy were added. The Department of Civil Engineering was added in 1887; that of Mechanical Engineering in 1891. The Department of Mining, Engineering and Domestic Science have recently been added. The property of the State College including eleven large build- ings is estimated to be worth $800,000. The management of the State College has espe- cially shown breadth and liberality in providing a number of courses of study, so as to meet the requirements of as nearly all students in the Com- monwealth as possible. The view is taken that students in the various departments—Classical. Agricultural, Normal, Engineering and Scientific, —will necessarily be broadened by associating and reciting with each other. They each learn some- thing from the other. They gain a correct know- ledge of the varied pursuits of a great industrial and economic people. Students thus educated form the basis of an intelligent citizenship. Men with such training make able legislators and administrative officials, understanding all the con- ditions and interests existing among the people. Although the State College is now well equipped, has an ample working income, a strong Faculty, and splendid courses of study, she has not always been thus provided. Beginning in a very humble way she has fought for every concession made her. She has had to contend with religious and sectional and factional prejudice. She now stands pre-eminent among all the educational insti- tutions in the Commonwealth. She has an estab- lished position. Her graduates in Classics stand high in Harvard and Oxford; her graduates in Science take high rank in Johns Hopkins arid Col- umbia; her graduates in Pedagogy fill with credit, positions as' teachers, principals and superintend- ents; her graduates in Engineering and Agricul- ture rank with those of the best Technological and Agricultural schools in the United States. No other Land Grant College has done such high grade work with so small an income and under such unfavorable conditions. There can not be assem- bled in the State a representative body of men, busi- ness or professional, in which former State College students are not prominent. Bringing together annually, eight hundred young men and women from every county in the Commonwealth, and turning out yearly seventy-five graduates, to be leaders in their respective localities the influence that the State College has, is beyond determination and must increase. There is nothing to which age adds more dignity and value than to a well man- aged educational institution. The Alumni Asso- 16
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