OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY



zoology, and entomology, and Professor A. E. \Ienke, agriculture and
organic chemistry and veterinary science.
     The popularity of the several departments offered to prospective
 students was attracting attention, and it was necessary to build at
 this time, just one year after the organization of the department, a
 building for the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineer-
 ing, and the course of study was increased and improved by Profes-
 sor Anderson, who drew to his force with other scholars, engineers
 and artists, Joseph Dicker, who during his twenty-five years of ser-
 vice has been associated with the growth of the institution and with
 its success. rhe building now occupied by the Mechanical and
 Electrical Engineering College was completed and dedicated in 1892.

     The name of the institution was changed to State University in
1908, and the College of Law was established, with W. T. Lafferty,
who had formerly been comptroller and discharged the duties of the
office until 1916, as dean of the new College. Associated with him
are Judge Lyman Chalkley, Reuben Hutchcraft, Judge Charles Kerr,
James R. Bush, J. Embry Allen and George Vaughn.
    January 15, 1910, James Kennedy Patterson, president of the
Agricultural and Mechanical College since its independent existence,
resigned the position and became President Emeritus of the Univer-
sity. During the interim that followed Professor James E. White,
vice-president and Dean of M\en, acted as president.
    the last of the students enrolled in the Academy graduated in
1911, and the Academy passed into history, removing the last vestige
of preparatory methods from the curriculum.
    Henry Stites Barker was elected president of the University at
this period of its progress, and the several Colleges of Mechanical
lnd Electrical Engineering, Mining Engineering, Civil Engineering,
Arts and Science, Law, and Agriculture were placed under the direc-
tion of deans. M\iss Anna J. Hamilton became Dean of Women and
assistant on the English faculty, and Professor Melcher became Dean
of Men. Miss Aubyn Chinn was placed in charge of the department of
home economics. With the abolition of the academy and the building
up of the several colleges and numerous departments, the institution
became known as the University of Kentucky, and by the action of
the late Legislature it now enjoys that title legally.
    Professor Joseph H. Kastle, an alumnus and former professor
of chemistry, returned to the faculty in 1912 and was made dean of
the College of Agriculture and director of the Experiment Station in
1913, succeeding the former director and dean, Professor M. A. Sco-
ville, whose death occurred August 15, 1912, and whose life had been
devoted to the upbuilding of scientific agriculture in the State.



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