` STATE COLLEGE OF KENTUCKY. ·
Kentucky. Being entirely undenominatioual in its character, it will appeal  
with confidence to the people of all creeds and of no creed, and will endeavor,  ,
in strict conformity with the requirements of its organic law, to afford equal  
advantages to all, exclusive advantages to none. The liberality of the Com- Z
monwealth in supplementing the inadequate annual income arising from the · .
proceeds of the land-scrip invested in State bonds, has enabled the Trustees
to begin and carry on, upon a scale commensurate with the wants of our
people, the operations of the institution whose management and oversight
have been committed to them by the General Assembly of Kentucky.  
SCOPE OF STUDIES.  ·
In the act of Congress making provision for the class of colleges to ·`
which the State College partly belongs, it is declared "that their leading  
object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and
including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related  Z
to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in order to promote the liberal and l
practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and pro-  
fessions of 1ife." To the three departments of agriculture, the mechanic
arts, and military science, contemplated in the act as indispensable, a Nor-
mal School has bee11 added by the State and an Experimental Station by the
United States, while liberal provision has been made for instruction in all _
branches of science and in the classics, so that this institution is far more
than an agricultural and mechanical college, embracing, as it does, not `
merely the three original departments, but eighteen others.  ,
THE NORMAL SCHOOL. ·
The Normal Department of the State College exists under the authority
of acts of the General Assembly approved April 23, and April 29, l880,
Section 7 of the first act briefly defines the object for which the Department
was established, "a Normal Department or course of instruction for irregular
periods, designed more particularly, but not exclusively, to qualify teachers
for common and other schools, shall be established in connection with the
College." The second act provides the necessary endowment to make the  
Department effective.
Ten years ago, in order to prepare young men and women for doing the
highest work i11 their chosen profession, the Department of Pedagogy was
established, with a four years’ collegiate course, offering Pedagogy as a major
study. The attendance upon this course has steadily increased, and the
. work done has been of a high order.
THE KENTUCKY EXPERIMENT STATION. ,
The Agricultural Experiment Station of the State College of Kentucky  
was established by the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees lll I  ._
September 1885, when the Department was organized and a Director .
appointed. In 1886 the Station was recognized and named by the General  
Assembly, and in 1887 it became the beneficiary of the first annual appro-