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e ree of Bachelor of Science. .They are
gagos Crawford, Winchester, Tenn; Alfred
Meredith Peter, Fayette County, Ky.; Nich-
olas John Weller, Cave Spring, Ky.; George
Croghan Whately, Jacksonville, Ada.
I beg to express,in conclusion, my
thanks for the hearty and intelligent co-
operation of the Board of Visitors, to whom
the management and control of the Institu-
tion was committed during the provisional
period now brought to a close. To those,
upon whom the weight of responsibility has
chiefly fallen, the Commonwealth, I am sure,
owes a debt of gratitude for the measures so
wisely devised and so ably executed.
They took the Institution under their
care, after its separation from Kentucky Uni-
versity, when in evil plight. There was not
A a cent in the treasury. There were neither
seeds with which to plant the ground, on which
its provisional existence was to be maintain -
ed, nor implements wherewith to cultivate it.
It closed the last year of its connection
with Kentucky University with seventy-eight
matriculates; it closes the present year with
one hundred and thirty-seven. All its obli-
gations are paid up to date. It has paid
oftentimes as much as $125 per month for stud-
‘ ent labor; has made_effective provision for
preparatory instruction; bought some farming
stock, and some machinery for practical me-
chanics, and will close the biennial period
with a surplus, crop included, of over $e,ooo.
The measure °f Success achieved, under
circumstances so discouraging at the outset,
encourages us to hope that, with the aid so
generously given by the city of Lexington add
the county of Fayette whereby grounds and
buildings adequate to its present necessities
will be provided, and with the additional