MIN1UTES OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, Jun-5, 1906 Page SO (contid)



     5th. The State would feel more pride in an institution
bearing the name of University than it does in a college.


     6th. With more pride felt and a greater interest attaching
to a University, it would be less difficult to obtain the
necessary appropriation for buildings and Revenue.


     7th. The development and growth of the College during the
period of forty years now completed.






                  DEVELOPMENT

     The growth of the College from year to year is shown as
follows:

     1862. To establish and endow a college, chiefly in instruc-
tion in Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, an Act of Congress appor-
tioned to each State, for each of its Senators and Representa-
tives in Congress, 30,000 acres of the public land.


     1565. The General Assembly of Kentucky having accepted the
State's portion under the conditions prescribed, established the
Agricultural and Mechanical College, making it one of the Col-
leges of the Kentucky University, then recently united with
Transylvania University and located at Lelington, Citizens of
Lexington and Vicinity donating $110,000 to the Curators of the
University to buy a site for the College. The General Assembly
having authorized the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund to
sell the 330,000 acres apportioned to Kentucky, by the mismanage-
ment of the Commissioner's Agent, the State realized for its
land only $165,000.

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     1566. The College opened with a President, four Professors
and a Commandant.


     1878. Dissatisfied with ie management of the College by the
Curators, who were engaged in a long factional strife the General
Assembly severed the connection with the University, and appoint-
ed a Commission to re-locate the College, to provide for its
continuance in operation till re-located, and to prepare "a plan