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I THE KEH TOCKI.M History of Kentucky State University The State University of Kentucky owes its origin to nn act of Congress, passed July '2nd, I8 i'2, by whirli each state in tile Union was given 80,000 acre of land for each of its Senators and Repre- sentative in Congress. Kentucky received a her allotment of Public Land 300,000 acres, which had it been judiciously ami economically managed, would by this time have produc'd mi annua) income of more Ilian §100.000. It was. however, so administered, by the Commissioner appointed for the purpose of disposing of the land that only $105.- 000 were realized from the original magnificent endowment. This being invested in Kentucky State Hoads, now produces an income of only $9,5)00. In 1805 the General Assembly of Kentucky passed an Act establishing the Agricultural and Mechanical College, hut it made the grievous error of attaching it to a denominational institution instead of placing it upon nn indc] cndciit footing. Thirteen years later, its connection with Kentucky University was dissolved by the Legislature and the question of its relocation was submitted to a Commission appointed for that purpose. Pros. James K. Patterson who had become President of the institution in 1801», appealed to the citizens of Lexington and the County of Fayette to make an effort to retain it here. The City of Lexington offered the City park of fifty-two neres as a site for the college, and voted $80,000 in City Bonds. This was supplemented bv $20,000 in County Bonds from the Fiscal Court of Fayette County. These offers were accepted by tlie General Assembly, and Lexington and Fayette County retained in their midst, the germ of wlint was destined to lie one of the greatest educational institutions west of the Alleghenies. In 1880, the first buildings were erected upon the spaciou grounds, so soon to Ik- transformed into a beautiful University Campus. During the some year, the proceeds of a tux of one- twentieth of a mill for the further endowment of the college was obtained from the Stale. Two years later, the denominational colleges of this state made a united effort to procure the rej cal of this tax. on the ground that they would in the future lie unable to compete with a college organized, administered and sustained by liberal appropriations from the State. Failing in this, they next attacked the Constitutionality of the Act. Pres. Patterson person- ally conducted the light on the part of State College and won the case in the Chancellor’s Court in Louisville, and in the Court of Ap| eals of the Commonwealth, maintaining tlie Constitutionality of the Act against some of the ablest members of the Bar. namely, Judge I.indtey, Col. Bennett 11. Young. Judge Humphreys, and James Trabuc. From its very birth, progress has been the watchword of Ilios.- into whose hands the destiny of the Institution was intrusted. Immediately after it establishment upon nn independent basis, a policy of expansion and growth was institutes! which lias lieen persistently followed until now, Kentucky has at tlie head of her system of Education, a University of which she may well he proud Pres. Patterson resigned the presidency in 1910, after a splen- did service of forty-one years. Judge Henry S. Barker of the Supreme Court of Kentucky succeeded him. A man of sell ■l.-.rly attainments coupled with great executive ami judicinl ability. Presi- dent Barker is especially fitted for the position which he now so ably fills. Through his kind, genial manner, and loving di |iosillon, hr has secured for himself a place In the hearts ami live of every member of the Student Body. [ 100C
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I » THE KEH 1 4 President Henry S. Barker PlIKSIUKNT HkNHY S. BahKKR President Barker came before the Student Body of Kentucky Stntc University for the first time on Wednesday, before Thanks- giving during November. 1910. This was n great dnv foe Stale University and a great day for the students. Tills wan live day before the great football gome of the year, tile day when college spirit was at it» highest temperature. It was a day when the exuberance of youth was being fell by all the boys, ami hence a time when the councils of a father” needed to bo spoken. At this psychological moment. President Barker walked into the chapel, while tlic air was being rent with yells which came from the throats of them. w1k at first glance swore allegiance to the new president. And when he rose to greet his new disciples, the silence was intense, all awaiting the first words of counsel from this wise counselor. And the wools that he spoke from the abundance of bis heart on this occasion, won the love of all who had assembled. His very personality is one which awakens in the heart of every student a desire to follow the footstep of the Judge. It lias been this personality of tlic man, this ] erpetual smile on his face, the words of honesty proceeding from an honest heart, and the grand and lasting friendship which one feels in the grasp of his manly hand, that have caused the wonderful changes that have come over live nature of tlic school. The immorality of the past lias changed into the morality of the present: noises and disturbances of the |vast have become tranquillities for today. Wrong lins be- come right: ami class fights hue gone ns history. Evil have been overcome by good, mid it -seems that now every student is writing an ode to duly. These wonderful changes lisvc not come by evolution. Evo- lution does not conic in rapid strides but by gradual development, ami these change in the atmosphere of the institution have come from the change in the individuals who make the institution: the changes in the individual have come from the contact with a forceful leader, whose every thought is “A Greater Kentucky State.” And hence, our growth of an enrollment of 600 students to an enrollment of 1300 students. Not too much can lie said for President Bnrkcr. A man in every sense: a graduate of the school of viieriencc. He is an enthusiast in all that is vital toward making a man. He goes to all athletic games, and sits aiming the boys. In brief, he is a man, a lovable, magnanimous man. 14
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