University of Kentucky - Kentuckian Yearbook (Lexington, KY)

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THE PRESIDENT. K-VJLTCKY STATK ( 'OLLEG 1), or, moro })roperlv shaking, The Univ rsitv of Kentucky,” owes its existence today not-only to the Land Grant Act of Congress in the year 1S02, or to the sporadic generosity of the General Assembly in succeeding hut to the untiring efforts and shrewdness of dames K. Patterson. There are lew men among College presidents today who could have so ably performed such work as ho has done since the birth of the institution, forty-four years ago. There are College Presidents noted for their erudition, others valued for their business acumen, hut few there are who possess both. Of these few, Pres- ident Patterson is one of the most prominent, A man of deep learning, yet possessing a vast knowledge of current affairs; a man of letters, yet a master of commercial technique: he has steadily lifted the plane of college education in Kentucky, until the university of which he is president stands far above other educational institutions in the state and among the foremost in the South.