; REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT or THE COL-
LEGE. ` .
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To fha Honorable Board gf Trusloos of ikc Agricultural
and Ilfechauical College y'Korz!zcky.
Q The Collegiate year of 1880-81 just closed has been
even more encouraging in its results than the preced-
ing. The per centage of increase of last year over the
preceding has been more than maintained in this, as the
following Hgures will show:
Total number of matriculates 1877-8 (last year of connection
li with Kentucky University) ...... . .... . . . . 78
Total number of matriculates 1878-9 ...... . . . . IIS
Total number of rnatriculates 1879-80 .......... 137
Total number of matriculates 1880-81 .......... 234
` li This success as regards increase oi numbers has _
been attained under circumstances embarrassing in the
J extreme, but which render it all the more gratifying.
Our accommodations have been painfully inadequate-
The building on the Woodland estate rented for the
year was found altogether insufficient for the various
departments with their enlarged numbers, though
every room in it, from cellar to attic was occupied.
Additional accommodation had to be found in the
Masonic building, threequarters of a mile distant, three
rooms of which were rented, in which the Commercial,
{Q Chemical and Normal Departments have been carried
i, on during the year. This separation of departments
if necessitated in some instances a duplication of classes,
Q} and a consequent increase of labor to some of the Pro-
fessors. These difliculties will, we trust, all be obviated
" next Autumn when we occupy our new buildings.
l the accommodations of which will be ample for
T 4oo or Soo students in which all duplication of classes