University of Louisville - Thoroughbred Yearbook (Louisville, KY)

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PHE THOROUGHBRED, £563'% eee ee —— — eee Raymond Asa Kent, President of the University Twelve

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UNIVERSITY OF LOUPYVULTE Dedication aa To Dr. John L. Patterson, whose unflagging courage and fidelity have prompted T ° ° ]| T him to give the best and most fruitful years of his life, this book is respectfully dedicated. ————— nnn Eleven

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ENIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE History of The University The University of Louisville was founded by decree of the City Council of Louisville on April 3, 1837. The School of Medicine was opened in 1837. The corporation was chartered as a municipal university by an act of the Legislature of Kentucky in 1846. Soon after an appropriation for a university had been made by the City Council, the School of Medicine and the School of Law were put in active operation. In. 1908, a coalition of the schools of medicine of Louisville with the University of Louisville was effected, embracing the School of Medicine of the University of Louisville, organized in 1837; the Kentucky School of Medicine, organized in 1850; the Louisville Medical College, organized in 1869; the Hospital College of Medicine, organized in 1873, and the Medical Department of the Kentucky University (now Transylvania College), organized in 1898. ) ; In 1922, an agreement was made between the Louisville City Hospital and the University, whereby the business side of the hospital is placed under the direction of a business manager directly responsible to the Director of Health of the City of Louisville, and the professional side of the hospital is placed under the direction of the School of Medicine. In 1908, the School of Law was reorganized and the faculty was increased. In 1921, the course of instruction was increased from two to three years. Beginning with 1930, the number of full-time instructors was increased from two to three; and beginning with 1931, two years of college work will be required for admission. The College of Arts and Sciences was added to the University of Louisville in 1907, to carry out the founders’ original design of establishing departments for the promotion of science, literature, and the liberal arts. In 1924, upon the organization of the Speed Scientific School, the College of Arts and Sciences became the College of Liberal Arts. The School of Dentistry of the University of Louisville was founded in 1887, as a department of Central University of Richmond, Kentucky. In 1899, its fran- chise was purchased by a group of medical and dental teachers, and the school—re- organized under the name of the Louisville College of Dentistry —became associated with Centre College of Danville, Kentucky. In 1918, this institution was purchased by the University of Louisville, and reorganized as a school of the University. In 1924, Mr. William S. Speed and his sister, Mrs. Frederic M. Sackett, of Louisville, through a gift of $250,000, created as a memorial to their father the James Breckenridge Speed Foundation for the establishment of a school for the study and advancement of the sciences related to engineering. The school is known as the Speed Scientific School, and was opened in September, 1925. The Trustees, in 1924, accepted an offer of Mrs. J. B. Speed to erect a Museum of Fine Arts as a memorial to her husband, Mr. J. B. Speed. The building is in Greek architectural style. The Museum serves the interests of both the University and the community at large. In 1917, a donation of the immediate family of William R. Belknap had made possible the purchase of a tract of land of about eighty acres for a new site for the University. In 1923 this site was sold. In November, 1925, the city of Louisville authorized an issue of $1,000,000 of bonds of the city for the expansion of the plant of the College of Liberal Arts and the Speed Scientific School. With a part of the proceeds of this bond issue together with the proceeds of the sale of the Belknap tract, the Belknap Campus, located at Third and Shipp Streets and Eastern Park- way, and containing forty acres, was purchased. On this campus are located the College of Liberal Arts, the Speed Scientific School, the Speed Museum, the Play- house and the general administration offices. Thirteen