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KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY. .

 

  

The Executive Committee of Kentucky University
takes pleasure in announcing to its friends and pa-
trons that, in accordance with the recent action of
the Board of Curators, the organization of the sev-
eral colleges has been completed for the next year,
and they will open as usual on the second Monday in
September with a corps of twenty-five able professors
and instructors, and with the most liberal advantages
for cheap and thorough education, either general or
professional.

I The College of Arts will open with a full course of
instruction in the ancient classics and other branches
of study necessary for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.

The State Agricultural and Mechanical College
will offer increased facilities for scientific and techni-
cal education, including practical instruction in agri-
culture, horticulture, and the mechanic arts. In this
college young men who desire it can defray a portion
of their expenses by labor, receiving compensation
according to their skill and industry.

Each legislative district in the state is entitled to
send three properly prepared students to this college
free of tuition. They will be received upon the rec—
ommendation of the county judge until their ap—
pointment can be ratified by a majority of the magis-
trates of the county or district.

The military department is also connected with this
college, admission to which is optional with all stu-
dents of the University. Instruction will be given in
accordance with the regime of the best military
schools of the country. A uniform of cadet-gray
cloth will be needed, which can be obtained here at
akCOSt not exceeding that of an ordinary suit. Pre-
paratory instruction will be given by competent tu-
tors to such students as could not obtain the advan-
tages of good high schools in their respective locali-
ties.

The Law College, with a faculty embracing such
names as Madison C. Johnson, R. A. Buckner, J. B.
Huston, and Wm. C. P. Breckiuridge, with accom—
plished adjuncts, offers advantages unsurpassed, we
believe, by any law college in the country.

The Transylvania Medical College has been fully
organized, with a faculty of seven professors, skilled
in the respective departments, with the distinguished
Professor Robert Peter, so long and favorably known
in connection with old Transylvania University,
as the presiding Officer. The establishment of hos-
pitals in the city of Lexington will afford the neces—

 

sary clinical advantages, and with the daily recitations
in the class-room, and the lectures at the bedside of
the patient, together with a valuable medical library
of over 7,000 volumes, a good anatomical museum,
and the very moderate fees, we believe no college in
the Southwest will offer better facilities for a thorough
medical education.

The Commercial Iollege will furnish to young
ladies and gentlemen liberal advantages for a practi-
cal business education.

The School of Biblical Literature, as establish
and endowed in the early history of the Universit
will be continued until the endowment of the College
of the Bible can be completed and a full faculty sus-
tained. In addition to the regular instruction in said
school, a course of lectures will be delivered by emi-
nent biblical scholars, as the wants of students may
demand; and to such as may complete the course pre—
scribed a certificate of graduation will be given. This
course of ii‘istruction, together with the advantages
offered in the classical and scientific colleges, in the
way of cheap board and free tuition, will enable
young men to prepare themselves thoroughly for the
work of the Christian i‘uii'iistry. The University,
located on the splendid estate of Ashland, the home
of Henry Clay, and old Transylvania, has been the
leading institution in patronage in the Southwest
since the war. During that time it has had an aver-
age annual attendance of more than five hundred
students, representing each year twenty—five different

‘ states and foreign countries. With the above com-

n‘ehensive organization with its able faculties and
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varied course of study, and cheap advantages in the "

way of board and tuition, with assets amounting to
more than half a million dollars, and with the present
prospects of increased patronage from all sections Of
the country, induced by the broad, liberal policy which
the governing authorities have endeavored to main-
tain, we feel justified in assuring the friends and pa-
trons Of the institution that a brighter future lies
immediately before it, and that it will move on stead-
ily in its career of great usefulness to the country.
For further information address Regent J. B. Bow—
man, Lexington, Ky.
J. B. BOWMAN, Regent and Uhm’n,
Tues. MUNNELL,
GEO. STOLL, Ja,
JNO. S. WILSON,
JAs. M. GRAVES.