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THE KENTUCKY ALUMNUS 9 l
tee no evil consequence if any Alumnus in arrears should decide to send him in ,
two or four dollars to square up his account. But don’t overwhelm him.
. It is suggested that all delinquent members whose names begin with “A" send
him a check on Ianuary 1, the succeeding letters following on succeeding days.
In this way the shock will be distributed over a month and no evil effects will _
= follow. 1
All together now, let’s give the locomotive yell. l
A D1z1.1NQUaNr. ~
SKETCHES OF THE ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF THE
STATE UNIVERSITY A
BY JAMES K. PATTERSON, PH. D., LL. D., F. R. H. S., Pmzsrnranr-EM12R1rUs. `
CHAPTER I.  
I have been requested by the editor of this magazine to prepare for its  
pages some sketches or reminiscences of the more important incidents connected i
with the origin and growth of the State University, formerly the Agricultural ll
and Mechanical, or State College of Kentucky, incidents with which I was more f
or less closely and personally concerned.  
To enable the reader to accompany me intelligently, it is expedient to begin  
at the beginning. ,
First in the order of time, is the Transylvania University from its origin `
until 1865; second, Kentucky University until 1865; third, the consolidation of .
Transylvania University and Kentucky University in 1865 under the corporate `
designation of Kentucky University; fourth, the alliance during the pleasure of ,
the Commonwealth of the Agricultural and Mechanical College with Kentucky
University as one of its colleges, 1865 to 1878; fifth, the dissolution of this
alliance in 1878 and the establishment of the Agricultural College on an inde- l
pendent basis.  
In consenting to prepare these sketches, I made it clear to the editor that .
I should not attempt to write a continuous history of the State University, leav-
ing this to my literary executor, from papers now in my possession, but only
some of the more important incidents in a corporate life full of interest and
. fraught with important results, I said to him that in these sketches, or reminis-
i cences, it would be impossible to eliminate the personal element in as much as
I was closely identified with much that will be embodied in them. I am the
only living person who was personally contemporary with and closely identified
· with much of what will be recorded. My connection with these educational
interests came about as follows:
Immediately after graduation from Hanover College, Indiana, in 1856, I
became Principal of the Presbyterian Academy in Greenville, Muhlenburg