6) STATE COLLEGE OF KENTUCKY.
of the assessed value of all property in the State liable to IHXHUOH fOr State revenue and
belonging to its white inhabitants.
1880. The Classical and Normal Departments and the Academy added.
1882. The College Building, the First Dormitory, and the President’s House completed.
1885. The Commandant’s House reconstructed.
1887. To enlarge by experiments and to diffuse the knowledge of agriculture,2111 act of
Congress established, under the direction of the Agricultural and Mechanical College in
each State, an Agricultural Experiment Station, appropriating for its support $15,000 per
annum.
1887. The Department of Civil Engineering established, an experimental farm of forty
eight acres purchased, and the College greenhouse built.
1889. The Experiment Station Building completed.
1890. The Second Dormitory completed.
1890. For " the more complete endowment" of Agricultural and Mechanical Collgggs G
an act of Congress appropriated to each State $15,000 for the year ending june 30, 1890, and  
the same sum with an increase of $1.000 per annum for ten years, after which the maximum E
of $25.000 should continue without change. Of the amount thus annually appropriated, the I;
College receives 85 per cent. and the school of the colored people at Frankfort 15 per cent.  
1891. The Department of Mechanical Engineering established.
1892. The Mechanical Building and Workshops completed. l’
1894. Greenhouses for the Experiment Station built.
1895. The Annex to the Mechanical Building and the Insectarium for the Station built. I
· 1897. The Department of Electrical Engineering established. Additions made tothe ]
Greenhouses and Insectarium. ` - (
1898. The Building for Natural Science completed.
1898. Sixty-four and a half acres added to the Experimental Farm, making :13 in all. 1
1900. Sixty thousand dollars appropriated by the General Assembly for a Dormitory l
for Young Women, for a Gymnasium and Drill Room, and a Hall for the Y. M. C. A. (
Inc¢·c¢zst·q/”Pr0[$criy—Thc property of the College is estimated to be worth $5oo,o00m0re
than it was in 1880.
]ucrca.rcq" Teachers-Before 1880 the College had six Professors; it now has sixteen —
Professors and eleven Assistants. `
Izzcrmre q" Courses-Before 1880 the College offered a single course of study leading to · ·
a degree; it now offers eight. . ,
lncrt·a..re q" .Slmz'cz1t.t·-—Tl1e number enrolled during the session of 1898-99 was about 450,
considerably the largest till then in the history of the College; this session the numheris 563. `
I2zrrmsuq' Grazz'2¢ulu:—N0 fact more distinctly marks the growth of the College than
the increase in the number of its graduates. More students were graduated in 1897 than
were graduated in the first seventeen years, and the number of those graduated during thc
last six is greater than that of the first twenty·eight.
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