STATE COLLEGE OF KENTUCKY. 5
and is well furnished with modern conveniences for work in this branch A
of engineering. · I · I
d, lo. Two large brick dormitories on the campus afford boarding eon-
stone veniences for students who wish to lessen expense 1n this direction.
Stern Other buildings on the campus are a brick dwelling for the President
f the and a cottage occupied by the Commandant.
nd is Science Hall, built during the year 1897 for the Departments of
ls, to Natural Science, is 96 x gy feet, of pressed brick trimmed with Bowling
l has Green limestone. The wide halls, the numerous and spacious lecture-
rown rooms, laboratories and offices in its three stories are conveniently ar-
bility ranged, well lighted, and the rooms well furnished. .
Ficul- On the Experiment Farm are a brick dwelling occupied by the
o1‘th· Director of the Station, and the usual farm buildings for the care of
tand, tools, the protection of stock, and the like.
From the appropriation of $60,000 made by the General Assembly
tolas- during the last session a Dormitory for young women, a Gymnasium
ment and Drill Room, and a Hall for the Y. M. C. A. are to be built and
sixt 1- made read for use it is ho ed earl in the next session of the Colle e.
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. DEVELOPMENT
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¥P€Fl· The growth of the College from year to year is shown in the follow-
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C1'Op 1861. To establish and endow a college, chiefly for instruction in agriculture and the
mechanic arts, an act of Congress apportioned to each State, for each of its Senators and
Representatives in Congress, 30.000 acres of the public land.
1865. The General Assembly of Kentucky having accepted the State’s portion under I ·
1+0 the conditions prescribed, established the Agricultural and Mechanical College, making it
ident one of the colleges of Kentucky University, then recently united with Transylvania Uni·
versity and located at Lexington, citizens of Lexington and its vicinity donating $110,000 to
HSE the Curators of the University to buy a site for the College. The General Assembly having
and authorized the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund to sell the 33o,ooo acres apportioned to
)thgr Kentucky, by the mismanagement of the Commissioners’ agent the State realized for its
l ‘ land only 5165 ooo.
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Cie; , 1866. The College opened with a President, four Professors. and a Commandant.
l x878. Dissatisfied with the management of the College by the Curators, who were en-
` gaged in a long factional strife, the General Assembly severed the connection with the Uni-
rthe versity, and appointed a commission to re-locate the College, to provide for its continuance
four in operation till re-located, and to prepare " a plan for a first-class University." Kentucky
Pm University claiming and retaining the former site of the College, the sole property left the ‘
two latter after tl1e severance was an income of $9,900 derived from the land grant.
I 188o. The City of Lexington offering the City Park of tifty·two acres as a new site for
Tw the College, and also s3o,ooo in bonds, and the County of Fayette offering $20,000 besides,
hug, ` the General Assembly ratified the selection of a site made by a majority of the commission,
pilfi and located the College permanently in Lexington.
VC is 1880. To provide teachers for the Common Schools of the State and for other schools,
HON , tl1€.Gcncral Assembly added to the College a Normal Department, which should admit,
besides other students, one from each representative district every year free of tuition.
l IBBO. Further to endow the College and to enable it to purchase apparatus, machinery,
tllef V implements, and a library; to maintain the Normal Department, and to defray other neces-
mk, Safy expenses, the General Assembly imposed a tax of one-half cent on each hundred dollars
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