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,_· "FACTS AND FIGURES"
LOCATION:
A more desirous region could not have been found to locate a state
university. Lexington is in the heart of the famed Kentucky Blue-
grass, the center of America's thoroughbred horse breeding industry,
home of Samuel Riddle's immortal Man o' War, who needs no identifi-
cation, the scene of the world‘s largest burley tobacco auctions
every fall, and the center of Kentucky‘s cultural and social life.
Included among points of interest in the Bluegrass is Colonel E. R.
Bradley's picturesque Idle Hour Farm, breeding grounds for four
Kentucky Derby winners.
The Coldstream Farm, Walnut Hall, Greentree, Spindletop, Dixiana,
and Spendthrift are all within a few minutes' ride of the Univer-
sity campus.
TRANSPORTATION:
The metropolis_of the Bluegrass is located on three major railroad
lines-—the Louisville and Nashville, the Southern, and the Cnesa-
peake and Ohio. Bus lines radiate in all directions from Lexington.
  ENROLLMENT:
p Approximately four thousand students with about twice as many men
as women.
I FOUNDEQ:
The University of Kentucky, a co—educational state—maintained insti-
I tution, was founded in l878 as the Kentucky Agricultural and .
` Mechanical College. From 1865 to l87S it was a part of the
  Kentucky University-—a combined state and church supported school.
‘ Kentucky University grew out of Transylvania University, now
Transylvania College.
COLLEGES:
The University of Kentucky is divided into six colleges--Arts and
I Sciences, Engineering, Agriculture, Education, Commerce, Law, and
the Graduate School.
I ATHLETIC CONFERENCE:
‘ The University is one of twelve members of the Southeastern Confer-
i ence.
; COLORS: Royal Blue and White.
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