University of Kentucky - Kentuckian Yearbook (Lexington, KY)

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he obtained from the Legislature $35,000 per annum for additional income, $300,000 for buildings and a change of name from State College to State Univer i of Kentucky. President Patterson received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy lrom Hanover College, Indiana, in 1875, and that of Doctor of Laws from Lab aye tic College, Pennsylvania, in 189G. His studies were for years mainly concerned with Comparative Philology, the basis of which was a more or less intimate acquaintance with Latin. Creek, French, German, Gothic, Anglo-Saxon, and Sanskrit. Governor Leslie, in 1875, appointed President Patterson ns a delegate from Kentucky to the International Congress of Geographical Sciences, and to the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Again, lie received like recognition at the hands of Governor Buckner, when selecting a scholar to represent Kentucky at the British Association for the Advancement of Science. 1890. During his long term of office, the gates of the Temple of Janus have not at all times been closed. He has, however, preserved a singular equanimity, worthy of the line inscribed in the Council Chambers of Calcutta—‘‘Mens aetjua in arduis. As a testimonial of his labors in this world, lie will have a monument more lasting than brass; all that education is in Kentucky today, despite its deficiencies, is due to the thrift, the sagacity, the jealous care of ibis fighting Scotsman. 4

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES His Excellency. Augustus K. Willson, Governor of Kentucky, Chairman, Ex-Officio. President James Kennedy Patterson, Member, Ex-Officio. Hon. John G. Crabme, Superintendent Public Instruction. Member, Ex-Officio. TERM EXPIRES JANUARY. 1910. Basil M. Brooks. Esq............................Slaughtersville. ♦David P. Frazer, Esq..................................Lexington. Hon. Frank A. Hopkins,.............................Prestonsburg. Charles B. Nichols, Esq...............................Lexington. Jddok Robert L. Stout ...............................Versailles. TERM EXPIRES JANUARY, 1912. Judge Henry S. Barker ...............................Louisville. Hon. Tiijbis Carpenter .............................Scottsville. Dkwy P. Smith, Esq........................................Cadiz. Hon. Claude B. Tkkrkli..................................Bedford. TERM EXPIRES JANUARY, 1914. Hon. Cassius M. Clay .....................................Paris. Hvwei. Davies, Esq.......................................Kensee. IticnARD C. Stoll. Esq................................Lexington. Louis L. Walker, Esq..................................Lancaster. Richard N. Wathen, Esq..................................Lebanon. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Charles B. Nichols. Acting Chairman. Cassius M. Clay. Claude B. Terrell. IIywel Davies. David . Fra zee, Secretary of Board and Executive Committee. 16 •Deceased.