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ESS than three-score years ago, among the many colleges west of the Alleghenies, University of Kentucky had its beginning. Nature could not have provided a better location than the heart of the Bluegrass, famous for its pasture lands and horses, its hospitality and friendship. The heavens sent the rain, the sun shone upon the earth, the birds sang, the flowers grew, Jupiter nodded, and Athena smiled; and ere the morning sun had far advanced the Potter's Shop was started.
Its path of progress has not been strewn with flowers, nor cheeks been kissed by every breeze. Assailed by storm and blast alike, it has stood the test. "The rains came, the waters descended, and the wind beat upon that house, but it fell not." Its base was laid on firm ground. Jealous, rivals have sought to hinder, but their thorns have brought forth roses dripping with dew. Their hindrances have been of little significance and consequence. The growth has been slow and steady; day by day a board was nailed and a plank was laid, until the shop was completed.
The potter gave his life to the building of the shop and the forming of Kentucky's shapeless clay. The pots turned out have been carrier afar, for Kentucky's soil is conducive to the making of men. From her soil have come the Breckenridges, the Clays, and Calhouns. The University of Kentucky has become the leading Potter Shop of Kentucky in standards of merit. The field is boundless from which to draw, and "State"  always gets the best.
It does not excel in numbers nor in wealth, but it puts on its outturned products a stamp of worth which bears them far and well among the children of men. Merit is its motto; and its aim is an open road and a fair fight for all. It gives every mass of clay a chance to help shape and mold himself. He is essentially instrumental in his own making, it matters not where he may be, but here he is given an unusual chance to show his initiative and originality. If an individual has been here for four years and has been marred in the making, it is the fault of the pot, and not the potter. Over every classroom door might well be put the lines:
"Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act  well   your  part,   there   all   the  honor   lies."
Though yet still young, "State" has sent many able men into many lands. It always holds its own- among rivals, often outclassing them on every hand, and bids fair to become the leading University of the South. In a few years we hope to see it take a place of merit among the leading universities of the land, a "Potter Shop" of unusual rank, turning out vessels of purest clay, bearing nature's noblest stamp, women among women, and men among men.
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1916