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2 STATE COLLEGE OF KENTUCKY. _
disposal of the Trustees allow, will, it is hoped, in the not distantfuture
do a great work in advancing the educational interests 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 advamages to
none. The liberality of the Commonwealth in supplement-
ing the inadequate annual income arising from the proceeds
of the land-scrip invested in State bonds, will, it is believed,
enable the Trustees to begin and carry on, upon a scale commensu-
rate 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.
I Object.
In the act of Congress making provision for the class of colleges
I 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 a1·e related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in order-
to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes
in the several pursuits and professions in life."
. The Normal School. V
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 T of the first act brietiy detines the object for
which the Department was established, "but a Normal Department
or course of instruction fi r irregular periods, designed more particu— ‘
larly, 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 Depart-
ment eiiective.
The number of students annually enrolled in the Normal School has
exceeded expectation. As they come from all parts of the State, and
many of them return well prepared for the profession of teaching,
they must greatly promote the efficiency of our common schools.
_ generally. and demonstrate the wisdom of the General Assembly in
providing an inexpensive Normal School, centrally located and easy of
`. access, to keep the State always supplied with well trained teachers.
p The Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station.
This Department of the State College originated in a resolution
of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees, adopted in Sep-
tember 1885, when the Department was organized and a Director