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I KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY. 7
`: The state is entitled to send to this college three properly prepared
d students each year from each representative district. The site of this
R college is the Ashland and Woodland estates, purchased at an expense
‘ of $145,000, the funds for which were raised by Mr. Bowman as a
l ‘ condition of its location by the legislature.
. These several interests constitute the basis of the University as at
Y present organized. It is confidently expected that this basis will be
`     enlarged by Mr. Bowman in the farther prosecution of his work.
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· L O C A T I O N.
The several colleges of the University, with their numerous build-
I ings, are located on the splendid estates of Ashland, the homestead of
Henry Clay, including "Woodlands," and of old Transylvania, em-
bracing in all four hundred and hfty acres of beautiful grounds in and
` ii ‘ near the city of Lexington.
_ The city, containing 22,000 inhabitants, is located in the midst
of the far-famed Bluegrass region of Kentucky, and is noted for its
healthfulness and its superior social and religious influences, affording
to students, who can board in the best private families, most favorable
advantages for culture and rehneincnt.
It is easily accessible by two daily trains from Louisville, and three
from Cincinnati, each city less than roo miles distant; and it is ex-
pected to be soon in more direct communication with the East, via the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, and with the South by the completion
‘ J of the Cincinnati Southern Road to Chattanooga.
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ORGANIZATION.
Kentucky University embraces several colleges, each under the
immediate government of its own faculty and presiding officer. 'l`he
general supervision of the University as a whole is committed to the
Regent, who is elected from among the Curators, and is sx-rejiyia chair-
man of the Executive Committee. He is the representative of the