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1902 The School of Physical Culture added. , M
1902. Thirty thousand dollars additional appropriated bythe General Assembly for
the Young \N0men‘s College Home, making $60,000 in all.
1904. Patterson Hall, thc Young VVomen’s College Home, completed. V
1901. Fifteen thousand dollars per annum appropriated by the General .·\ssembly to
defray the expenses of the College.
1905. The New Experiment Station completed. `
1906. The School of Household Economy added.
. 1907. The Normal School Building (Normal Hall) erected. Agricultural Hall to be
completed by September 1. The Library Building to be completed by Octoher 1. The
Academic (preparatory) Course extended to three years. Forty acres added to the Experi-
mental Farm, making 243 in all.
· Increase of Pru{>er1y.—The property of the College is estimated to be worth $800,000
more than it was in ISSO.
Increase of C0urses.—Before 1880 the College offered a single course of study lead-
to a degree; it now offers seven.
Increase af Teachers.-—Before 1880 the College had six Professors; it now has seven-
teen Professors and thirty-seven assistants.
Increase of .Stua'ents.—The number in 1898-99 was 480, the largest till then in the
history of the College; in 1903-1904 it was 732; in 1906-1907 it is nearly 900.
Increase of Graa’na!es.—No fact more distinctly marks the growth ofthe College than
theincrease in the number of its graduates. More students have been graduated during
the last three years than were graduated during the first thirty.
THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY. n <
Delaware excepted, Kentucky alone of the forty-six States enjoys the
unenviable distinction of having no State University and no equivalent of
one. `While our State is discredited by her educational inferiority in t11is ;· }
and other respects, and especially by her disgraceful illiteracy, it is yet
encouraging to know that there is an earnest and apparently a growing
demand for an institution of higher title, grander proportions and wider
usefulness than the State College. During its forty years the College,
with limited means and in the face of much opposition, has done a work
of inealculable value. The record made by it has long ago justified its
existence and now calls for its expansion; the State has eight hundred thou-
sand dollars invested in it; and its advantages of location are, for Kentucky,
incomparable. Not far from the center of the State; in a region unsur-
. passed for health, fertility and beauty, and supporting a proud, wealthy,
and intelligent people, a people moreover always distinguished for devotion
to education and schools; with ten railways, soon to be increased to thir-
teen, diverging from it, Lexington as the site of the State University offers
attractions that are preeminent and manifold.
The glory of Wisconsin is her system of public schools headed by her
magnificent University, and yet that State has fewer inhabitants and less
wealth than Kentucky. In 1904 Kentucky gave her State College $36,830;
\Visconsin gave her University $471,500; in 1905, $558,000.
. Let us hope that we are in the dawn of a brighter day, and that we are
to have a University on a grand scale. worthy of its chief benefactor, the
City of Lexington, and commensurate with the pride and power of this
great Commonwealth.
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