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    · ‘ Lexington and the county of Fayette were accepted by the General
    _;§ ., ` Assembly.
    By the act of incorporation and the amendments thereto, con-
  stituting the charter ofthe Agricultural and Mechanical College
  of Kentucky, liberal provision is made for educating, free of
  A tuition, the energetic young men and women of the Common- V
    wealth whose means are limited. An act of the General Assembly -
    of the Commonwealth of Kentucky approved March` 16th., 1908, —
  changed the style and title of the institution from Agricultural .
    and Mechanical College to that of State University, Lexington, v_
  ‘;*. 2 ‘ Kentucky. The University, with the additional departments which T
  ' A shall, from time to time, be opened as the means placed at, the   A
  ti disposal of the Trustees allow, will, it is hoped, in the not distant {
  _, gi, future do a great work in advancing the educational interests of Y
  Kentucky. Being entirely undenominational in its character, it  
 {ff appeals with confidence to the people of all creeds and of no ~
  ·_;= creed, and will endeavor, in strict conformity with the requirements t
  , of its organic law, to afford equal advantages to all, exclusive  
  ` privileges to none. The liberality of the Commonwealth, in sup-  
Q   plementing the inadequate annual income arising from the pro-
}j _ [ j ° ceeds of the land-scrip invested in State bonds, has enabled the
    _ ' Trustees to begin and carry on, upon a scale commensurate with -
tr",} the wants of our people, the operations of the institution whose
libc; . management and oversight have been committed to them by the ‘
 i , . ` W t- General Assembly of Kentucky. E ~,.
g   . SCOPE OF STUDIES.  
·; ln the act of Congress making provision for the class of insti— ,
_` ‘ tutions to which The State University belongs, it is declared ·"that p ·
Q 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 lf,)
, ‘ mechanic arts, in order to promote the liberal and practical educa-
{ tion of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and profes-
I. sions of life." To the three departments of agriculture, the me-
· c— chanic arts, and military science, contemplated in the act as indis-` _;,
` pensable, an Experiment Station has been added by the United i
‘ . I States, and liberal provision has been made for instruction in all {
I·;i" ` ` branches of science and in the classics, so that this institution is l ‘
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