University of Kentucky - Kentuckian Yearbook (Lexington, KY)

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t th 4 1 W .sg.g5gf:. 'f5' -nf' Agriculture students surround their mascot at harvest time in 1904. The suspect is caught and another phase of the Law School's moot crime and trial is complete. This activity was popular in the 1950's. Enoch Grehan, standing, instructs a news reporting class in the School of journalism he founded on campus. A scene from Mechanical Hall's senior drawing room in 1904. 1

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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!

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We are Seven -the slogan of the original seven M and O crew on campus. Prof. john Neville relaxes with a magazine and a cigar in 1912. 4 it . MM The faculty, with President Patterson at right, assembled for the 1910 graduation ceremonies. .l