University of Kentucky - Kentuckian Yearbook (Lexington, KY)

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We Honor john Augustus Williams who was the first president of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky. It was under him that the first organi- zation of this college was effected in 1866, when it was established in Lexing- ton as one of the Colleges of Kentucky University. Professor Williams attended the best schools of Paris during his boyhood and graduated from the Kentucky University, in 1843. He received the degree of L.L. D. at the Masonic University of La Grange, Kentucky. He was one of the original movers in the organization of the State Teacher's Association and took a prominent interest in everything looking to the educational advancement of the state.

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Foreword Nineteen hundred and forty-two. As our yearbook went to press at the turn of the year, the University of Kentucky began a celebration of the seventy-fifth year since its founding. A few weeks before New Year's, the United States was plunged into the present conflict, the news of it shocking the University faculty and student body. So far there have been few war-time changes, and we continue our work normally. As the cover indicates, our theme this year is the University of Kentucky's Diamond Jubilee-seventy-Five years of dis- tinguished service in student instruction and contribution to the state through experimentation, research, and public ser- vice. In three-quarters of a century, our University changed from an Agriculture and Mechanics College of 190 students to a nationally-known school of over 3,000 students, attending classes in the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Law, the College of Education, the College of Commerce, the Graduate School, and a Department of University Exten- sion. Chronologically, our University first appeared as a part of Transylvania College in 1887, under the name Kentucky Uni- versity. Each of the First three years saw a change in presidents -john Augustus Williams, 1866-67, james Desha Pickett, 1867-68: and James Kennedy Patterson, 1868, 1910. The latter served as president for 42 years. We severed connections with Transylvania College in 1879, and were known for the next thirty years as the State Agri- cultugral and Mechanical College. In 1909, when our president was Henry S. Barker. the name was again changed: this time to State University. The University's present name, the Uni- versity of Kentucky, became known when Frank LeRond McVey was inaugurated in 1917. President McVey remained until his retirement last year. Granny , who is our theme interlocutor this year, will ramble on the divisional pages, discussing the new and the old. She represents an alumna who went to our University from 1886 to 1890.

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We Dedicate To Dr. Herman Lee Donovan who became president of the University of Kentucky July 1, 1941. Dr. Donovan of Maysville. Kentucky, was graduated from Kentucky State Normal School in 1908. He obtained his B. A. degree from the University of Kentucky, 1914, and his M. A. from Columbia, 1920. It was in 1924 that he was a graduate student at the University of Chicago, and he received his Ph. D. degree from George Peabody College for Teachers in 1925.