University of Kentucky - Kentuckian Yearbook (Lexington, KY)

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PRESIDENT JAMES KENNEDY PATTERSON VICE-PRESIDENT JOHN HENRY NEVILLE

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I Officers of the University President Vice-President . Commandant David C. Frazee................Business Agent and Secretary Mtss Margaret Isadora King........................Registrar Clarence W. Matthews.-.............Secretary of the Faculty Faculty vmes Kennedy Patterson, Pli. D., LL. D., F. S. A. rofessor of History, Political Economy, and Metaphysics. James Garrard White, A. M., I’rofessor of Mathematics and Astronomy. John Henry Neville, A. M., LL. D., I’rofessor of Greek and Latin. Walter Kennedy Patterson, A. M., Principal of the Academy, Joseph William Pryor, M. D., Professor of Anatomy and Physiology. Frederick Paul Anderson, M. E., Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Clarence Wentworth Mathews, B. S., ■rofessor of Botany, Horticulture, and Agricultui Arthur McQuiston Miller, A. M., Professor of Geology and Zoology. Merry Lewis Pence, M. S.. Professor of Physics. Alexander St. Clair Mackenzie, M. A., F. B. S. L., Professor of English and Logic. Charles Joseph Norwood, Professor of Mining Engineering. Philip W. Corbusier, Lieut. IT. S. A. Commandant and Professor of Military Science and Tactics. Milford White, B. C. E., M. S., Professor of Pedagogy. Alexander Massey Wilson, M. E., I’rofessor of Electrical Engineering. Alfred Charles Zembkod, A. M., Professor of French and German. Franklin Elliot Tuttle, A. M., Ph. L)., Professor of Chemistry. Walter Ellsworth Rowe, C. E., Professor of Civil Engineering. Leon Kaufman Frankel, M. E., Professor of Machine Design.

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History of the University IE State University of Kentucky owes its origin to an act of Congress, July 2, 1862, donating to each state, for each of its senators and rep- resentatives in Congress, thirty thousand acres of public land, the revenue of which should provide colleges for instruction in agriculture and mechanic arts—not to the exclusion, how- ever, of other arts and sciences. The State of Kentucky received under this allotment three hundred and thirty thousand acres, and three years later obligated itself to establish an A. and M. college through the acceptance of the gifts and conditions of this act. The citizens of Lexington and vicinity donated the sum of one hundred and ten thousand dollars to buy a site for the col- lege, and it was located in this city by the General Assembly as one of the colleges of Kentucky University. 'I1 he connection with Kentucky University continued for thirteen years, when the act making it one of the colleges of that University was repealed and its separate existence established upon a new and broader basis. The City of Lexington again offered to secure its location, the city park and thirty thousand dollars in city bonds were supplemented by the County of Fayette with twenty thousand dollars in county bonds. These offers were accepted by the General Assembly and in 1880 the first buildings were erected upon the spacious grounds so soon to be converted into the beautiful campus of a first-class university. From its very birth, expansion has been the watchword of the institution’s guardians. Immediately after its connection with Kentucky University was severed, the classical and normal departments and academy were added. There had been a sub- stantial increase in the number of students and the graduates exceeded in proportion the number of the first commencement. Meanwhile the income of the institution was increased by the Legislature to more than double its former sum, and this was augmented later by a Federal appropriation equal to an endow- ment of half a million dollars. Not until more recent years, however, has the growth of the University been most phenomenal and its scope of work more extended. In 1891 the Department of Mechanical Engineering was established in its present quarters; and Electrical Engineer- ing added six years later. The Department of Anatomy and Physiology was also established in 1891; and the Department of Physics three years afterward. The close of the old century and the opening of the new, witnessed the erection of several of our most ornamental and im- portant buildings, viz.. Science Hall (1898), Patterson Hall for the ladies (1903), and Alumni Hall (1903). The General As- sembly. recognizing the growing needs of the institution, again appropriated a sum to the amount of fifteen thousand dollars per annum for defraying expenses, and in 1907, Congress again made an additional appropriation of twenty-five thousand dollars per annum. The increase of students from year to year has equaled the most sanguine expectations of those who have watched the growth of the institution and had its welfare at heart; the total number