Even though the stress on physical fitness didn't come until 1960. this 1908 sophomore gym class opened with group exercises.
Class Facilities Have Served Special Interest
Two hundred and twenty men students comprised the enrollment of the college in its second year, and in the third year, the first term of the presidency of Patterson, there was an enrollment of 285 students. W. B. Munson, graduating this year, was the first student to receive a B.S. degree from the Agricultural and Mechanical Department.
A look into the minutes of the faculty in the opening year of President Patterson's administration will partially serve to show the close supervision placed upon the students at that time. From the minutes of October 8, 1869: "A number of students absent at 9 p.m. roll call last night were put on limits of 20 days." From October 20, 1869: "resolved that students rooming at the Woodlands be prohibited from visiting each other's rooms after 6 p.m. during study hours at night."
Kentucky University flourished with a growing enrollment for several years, and it appeared that the institution was going to overshadow every rival in the Mississippi valley. Yet during this time, factional strife had arisen among the curators, dissatisfaction being born from the facts that Kentucky University was influenced by denominational control. The University was financially embarrassed in 1873 when some of the stocks, upon which the institution depended, for its continuance, were failing to pay dividends.
Kentucky University was completely reorganized and the state Legislature of March 13, 1878 separated the Agricultural and Mechanical College from the institution. A commission was appointed in 1879 to re-locate the A. and M. College and devise a plan for a "first-class university." Thus the culmination of the separation of the schools which were subsequently to be known as Transylvania College and the University of Kentucky were enacted.
Three models of the human form surround a 1902 anatomy lecture class.