University of Kentucky - Kentuckian Yearbook (Lexington, KY)

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y? cAarrf Jfcnry jCampkin Was born iii Georgetown, Ky., in [866, and was educated in Grammar School, Jacksonville Fla., and in the College of the Bible. He was graduated from the latter in [804, His knowledee oi ileal culture was obtained under Professor Wm. H. Andrews, of Brooklyn, X. V. I„ [802 he was Instructor™ the Lexington Athletic Club. In [888 al Macon, Ga., he won two medals over W T Robertson who was then champion of Washington, D. C. These medals were won on a Columbia Or- dinary. He then won the championship cup of Florida. His besl time was made in a five mile road , which was sixteen minutes and twenty seconds. Besides his work in the University Professor Lampkin preaches every Lord ' s day. ' 9

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Cransvlvania University and Its Successors. BY M. 1 . M l RY KEMPER, ' ().;. •• ' Ti education forms the common mind. 11 r T HE history of education in and around the historic i ' itv of Lexington must needs occupy a I pari of the history of Central Kentucky. So largely has the influence ol Lexington ' s educational facilities and institutions been fell dur- ing the past century that the little city has been called the Athens of the West, a title not inaptly chosen, for ii has at all times been the centre, intellectual and literary, of tl - Nor are we surprised that it has occupied so conspicuous a position when we reflect upon its surpassing advantages a an ed- ucational center. In fact, from the earliest period ofits settlement Lexington has always enjoyed the reputation which it now holds. Because the earliest settlers of the surrounding country wenl out on the frontier, and their life was one of trial and hardship. Contending in deadly strife with the native Indians and earning a hardy livelihood by the sweat ol their brow-. did not prevent many of them from being men of cul- ture, education, and refinement. Main- who had enjoyed the best society, the finest educational ad- antages, and all the refining influences afforded by their mother States, and having come to Ken tuck} . then only a distant county of Virginia, in quest of fortune and adventure, their fortunes made and their adventurous proclivities gratified, very naturally they turned their attention to the education of their descendants, thus laying, in the very earliest stages of Kentucky history, those broad foundations ol education, refinement and religion upon which is built the grand old Commonwealth of to-day, and which are, indeed, the only bulwarks against the tyranical oppression of rulers and the only means ol attaining the perfect liberties of the people. So soon, indeed, was the attention oi the earlj settlers turned to the education of their children that we find, in the year i 7 s . Transylvania Seminary, char- tered by the Legislature of Virginia. This institution was moved to Lexington i n i7 ss , and from this date schools and colleges have been constantly accumulating in Lexington, gaining tor the city an en- viable reputation throughout the whole country. Transylvania University, or. as it was called in the first charter granted by the Virginia Legisla-