2 STATE COLLEGE OF KENTUCKY. _
By the act of incorporation, and the amendments thereto, `
· constituting the charter of the Agricultural and Mechanical ·
College of Kentucky, liberal provision is made for educating, I
free of tuition, the energetic young men of the Commonwealth J
whose means are limited. The Normal Department, for which  i
provision is also made, is inte11ded to aid in building up the Com- ji 
mon School system by furnishing properly qualified teachers.  
This College, with the additional departments which will, from  K
time to time, be opened as the means placed at the disposal of  
the Trustees allow, will, it is hoped, in the not distant future, do  
a great work in advancing the educational interest of Kentucky.  
Being entirely undenominational 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 advan- ' T
tages to none. The liberality of the Commonwealth in supple- i _
menting the inadequate annual income arising from the proceeds  p
of the land—scrip invested in State bonds, will, it is believed,  .
enable the Trustees to begin and carry on, upon a scale commen-  fl
surate with the wants of our people, the operations of the insti—  {
tution whose management and oversight have been committed  »
to them by the General Assembly of Kentucky.  Q
LEADING OBJECT.  
In the act of Congress making provision for the class of col-  
leges 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 to agriculture and  ·
the mechanic arts, in order to promote the liberal and practical j
education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and ,_ 
professions in life." To the departments contemplated in the  J
` act, a Normal School has been added by the State and an Experi-  i
mental Station by the United States.  Q
I 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, 1880. Section 7 of the first act briefiy defines S
the object for which the Department was established, " a Normal
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