6 STATE COLLEGE OF KENTUCKY. ~
Science Hall, built during the last year for the Departments i
of Natural Science, is 96 x Q7 feet, of pressed brick trimmed with  `
Bowling Green limestone. The wide halls, the numerous and
4 spacious lecture-rooms, laboratories, and oflices in its three stories
are well lighted, well furnished, and conveniently arranged.
On the Experiment Farm are a brick dwelling occupied by  _
A the Director of the Station, and the usual farm buildings for the  Y
care of tools, the protection of stock, and the like. K
DEVELOPMENT. ,
The growth of the College from year to year is shown in the  
following summary :  
1862. To establish and endow a college, chiefly for instruction in t
agriculture and the mechanic arts, an act of Congress apportioned to each .
State, for each of its Senators and Representatives in Congress, 30,000 V
acres of the public land. i
1865. The General Assembly of Kentucky having accepted the State’s
portion under the conditions prescribed, established the Agricultural and i
” Mechanical College, making it one of the colleges of Kentucky University, ‘`_ 
then recently united with Transylvania University and located at Lex-
ington, citizens of Lexington and its vicinity donating $110,000 to the  I
Curators of the University to buy a site for the College. The General >
Assembly having authorized the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund to  
sell the 330,000 acres apportioned to Kentucky, by the mismanagement of { 
the C01nrnissi0uers‘ agent the State realized for its land only $165,000.  y
1866. The College opened with a President, four Professors, and a i
Cominandant. `
1878. Dissatisfied with the management of the College by the Cura-  
tors, who were engaged in a long factional strife, the General Assembly
severed the connection with the University, and appointed a commission ‘;
to re—l0cate the College, to provide for its continuance in operation till  _
re—located, and to prepare " a plan for a first-class University." Kentucky ~
University claiming and retaining the former site of the College, the sole `1 
property left the latter after the severance was an income of $9,900 derived  —
from the land-grant. V
I 1880. The City of Lexington offering the City Park of fifty-two acres  
as a new site for the College, and also $30,000 in bonds, and the County of  Q
Fayette offering $20,000 besides, the General Assembly ratified the selec- ii 
tion of a site made by a majority of the commission, and located the  
College permanently in Lexington.  it
ISSO. To provide teachers for the Common Schools of the State and  `
for other schools, the General Assembly added to the College a Normal `