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of graduates in the last three years exceeding that of the first thirty. With the close of the present collegiate year four addi- tional buildings will be completed to adorn the campus—a spacious home for the College of Agriculture, Department of Education, Mining Laboratory and Carnegie Library. Such healthful growth indicates the fact that Kentucky will have soon established a State University that will compare favorably in every respect with those of her wealthier sister States. Any historical sketch of the State University would be in- complete without a reference to one man, its present and only President, James Kennedy Patterson, whose ceaseless and de- voted efforts have been the most potent factor in the development of the institution from its infancy to its present condition of vigorous maturity. His administration during the last twenty- five years has witnessed an increase in the number of buildings on the campus from two to twelve; an increase of about forty in the number of instructors, and of students in attendance nearly one thousand. Not only has the College made great advancement along material lines and in the quantity of students, but, what is more important, in the quality of its graduates. For many years past there has been a constant advance in the curriculum of each department, thus raising the entrance requirements to a higher and higher standard. The history of the past year truly indicates that another turning point in the life of the institution has been reached— the transition from a College to the rank of a University. This advance was recognized by the General Assembly in its last ses- sion by a change of title from the A. and M. College to the State University, and an appropriation of two hundred thousand dol- lars, the largest sum that has ever before been received at one time by any educational institution in Kentucky. The bill also provides for the establishment of a College of Law and a College of Medicine and Surgery. With a great University at the head of the school system of our Commonwealth, and a growing liberality toward the cause of education on the part of the Legislature, we may safely predict a higher place for the name of Kentucky in the list of states and a brighter future for her worthy citizenship. PRESIDENT PATTERSON IN HIS OFFICE 19
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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
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