. 6 STATE COLLEGE OF KENTUCKY.
1890. For ‘* the more complete endowment" of Agriculture and Mechanical Cqllcgm
an act of Congress appropriated to each State $15,000 for the year ending june go, 1390.;,;],1
the same sum with an increase of $I,00O per annum for ten years, after which the maximum
_ of $25,ooo should continue without change. Of the amount thus annually appropriated, the
College receives 85 per cent. and the school of the colored people at Frankfort I5 pm- Cem
· 1891. The Department of Mechanical Engineering established.
1892. The Mechanical Building and Workshops completed. :
1894. Greenhouses for the Experiment Station built. V`
1895. The Annex to the Mechanical Building and the Insectarium for the Station built. `
1897. The Department of Electrical Engineering established. Additions made to the i
Greenhouses and Insectarium. ~
1898. The Building for Natural Science completed.
1898. Sixty-four and a half acres added to the Experimental Farm, making II] in all. A
Increase ty Pr0perty—T11e property of the College is estimated to be worth $5oo,ooon10re  
than it was eighteen years ago.
Incrsrzrerf Tmc/zcr:—Before 1880 the College had six Professors; it now has sixteen .
Professors and eleven Assistants.  `
lmrmse ty" C`m¢r.vz.r—Before 1880 the College offered a single course of study leading to ‘
a degree; it now offers eight. `
Increase qf.Stud2nIs—The number enrolled during the session of 1898-99 is about 4Eo, · A
considerably the largest in the history of the College. .
Incrmse ty" G¢·ur{ualt·.r—No fact more distinctly marks the growth of the College than
the increase in the number of its graduates. More students were graduated in 18971lmn V
were greduated in the first seventeen years, and the number of those graduated during the
last fave is greater than that of the first twenty-seven. _
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