6 STATE COLLEGE OF KENTUCKY. _}.
the General Assembly ratified the selection of a site made by a majority of the commission, '
and located the College permanently in Lexington.
1SSo. To provide teachers for the Common Schools of the State and for other schools,
the General Assembly added to the College a Normal Department, which should admit,
besides other students, one from each representative district every year free of tuition.
1880. Further to endow the College and to enable it to purchase apparatus, machinery,
implements, and a library; to maintain the Normal Department, and to defray other neces»
sary expenses, the Gent-:ralAssembly imposed a tax of one-half cent on each hundred dollars
of the assessed value of all property in the State liable to taxation 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 C0m1nandant’s House reconstructed,
1887. To enlarge by experiments and to diffuse the knowledge of agriculture, an act of i
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.
189o. The Second Dormitory completed.
1890. For " the more complete endowment " of Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges,
an act of Congress appropriated to each State $15,000 for the year ending june 3o. 1890, and
the same su1n with an increase of 5I,OOD per annum for ten years, after which the maximum
of $25,000 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 per cent.
1891. The Department of Mechanical Engineering established.
1892. The Mechanical Building and Workshops completed.
1894. Greenhouses for the Experiment Station built.
| 1895. The Annex to the Mechanical Building and the lnsectarium for the Station built,
1897. The Department of Electrical Engineering established. Additions made to the `
Greenhouses and lnsectarium.
IXQB. The Building for Natural Science completed,
1898. Sixty-four and a half acres added to the Experimental Farm, making 113 in all. ·
1900. Sixty thousand dollars appropriated by the General Assembly for a Dormitory
I for Young \’Vomen, for a Gynasium and Drill Room, and a Hall for the Y. M. C. A. `
1901. Ninety acres added to the Experimental Farm, making 203 in all. The Build»
ing erected containing the Gymnasium, the Drill Room, and Halls for the Societies and r
the Y. M. C. A. The Young Women’s Dormitory built. ·
]z1cn·a.vt·zy" Pm/rrr/y—Tl1e property of the College is estimated to be worth $600,000 more
than it was in 1580.
]»zw·m.w· ry' 7l.·nuhu:·:—-Before 1880 the College had six Professors ; it now has sixteen
Professors and sixteen Assistants.
lzrcrmn ry" Courses-—Before IBSO the College offered a single course of study leading to —
a degree; it now offers eight.
lm.·»·1·.r.w of Strzdwz/.x·—r'I`l1e number enrolled during the session of' IBQK VQQ was about 480,
considerably the largest till then in the history of the College ; last session the number was ‘
563; this session it is 614. ,
lm;rt·tzx1.· ty' Grm/1nzlt·s—No fact more distinctly marks tho growth of the College than
the increase in the number of its graduates. More students were graduated in INQ7 than
were graduated in the first seventeen years, and the number of those graduated during the
last seven is greater than tl1at of the first thirty,
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