University of Kentucky - Kentuckian Yearbook (Lexington, KY)

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V.,. , . E I , ' 5 K ,, f f ' g 572 1- 1 Q i i V, , , 5 5 i 3 N Y Y s W X , x i 1 V? President Patterson relaxed on the porch of his home, now the offices of the College of Arts and Science. john Augustus Williams was the first presiding officer of the coliege that evolved into t6day's University. i 19,

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President Henry S. Barker taking a stroll across campus in 1911, L . l Dr. Herman L. Donovan signs a diploma,one of the many issued during his fifteen years of office. K Stalwart Educators Built the University The following ir zz brief hirtorical outline of the develop- ment of the Univerrity of Kentucky. The Historical :kettle ir in clareuological order with pictures grouped according to mbject matter. ln comparison with most of the state universities east of the Mississippi River, the University of Kentucky is a young institution, The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentuckywas chartered on February 22, 1865, as a part of Kentucky- University, which then 'absorbed Transylvania The college opened its doors in October. 1866. The Agri- cultural and Mechanical College was, at that time, beginning its illustrious history. It was founded as a result of an act of Congress, the Morrill Land Grant Act, which, through the sale of a donation of land amounting to 330,000 acres in Kentucky, would provide sufficient capital to being a state institution which would teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts. The older Kentucky University was the continuation of Bacon College, a denominational school which was begun in Georgetown in 1836, This school was moved to Harrodsburg in 1839, and abandoned for financial reason in 1850. Through the earnest efforts of john B. Bowman, it was re- vived in 1859 under the name of Kentucky University. The College building was destroyed by fire in 1864 which forced Kentucky University to begin looking for a new location. By the time the university admitted its first students, Bowman had raised funds to purchase Ashland, Henry Clay's old home, as well as Wbodlands, an adjoining estate, as a campus and experimental farm. Finally, in 1878, the governing board of the University removed Bowman from his position of regent by the simple expedient of abolishing the office. ,Huis x .f.' 'xx x KX xxxr'

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'W Even though the stress on physical fitness didn't come until 1960, this 1908 sophomore gym class opened with group exercises. Class Facilities Have Served Special Interest Two hundred and twenty men students comprised the en- rollment of the college in its second year, and in the third year, the first term of the presidency of Patterson, there was an enrollment of 285 students. W. B. Munson, graduating this year, was the first student to receive a B.S, degree from the Agricultural and Mechanical Department, A look into the minutes of the faculty in the opening year of President Patterson's administration will partially serve to show the close supervision placed upon the students at that time. From the minutes of October 8, 1869: mA number of students absent at 9 p.m. roll call last night were put on limits of 20 days. From October 20, 1869: resolved that students rooming at the Woodlands be prohibited from visit- ing each other's rooms after 6 pm. during study hours at night. Kentucky University flourished with a growing enrollment for several-years, and it appeared that the institution was going to overshadow every rival in the Mississippi valley. Yet during this time, factional strife had arisen among the curators, dissatisfaction being born from the facts that Ken- tucky University was influenced by denominational control. The University was financially embarrassed in 1873 when some of the stocks, upon which the institution depended, for its continuance, were failing to pay dividends. Kentucky University was completely reorganized and the state Legislature of March 13, 1878 separated the Agricul- tural and Mechanical College from the institution. A commis- sion was appointed in 1879 to re-locate the A. and M. College and devise a plan for a first-class university. Thus the culmination of the separation of the schools which were subsequently to be known as Transylvania College and the University of Kentucky were enacted. Three models of the human form surround a 1902 anatomy lecture class. le!