STATUTiES AND TAWS 
 
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 KENTUCKY UNIYERSITY, 
 
 ENACTED FEBT^TTARY 4, lbo8. 
 
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 STATUTES AND LAWS 
 
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 KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY, 
 
 CONTAINING 
 
 -'^ THE CHARTER 
 
 PASSED BY THE LEGISLATURE OE KY., 
 
 AND APPROVED JANUARY 16, 1858. 
 
 ALSO, 
 
 THE LAWS AND REGULATIONS 
 
 ADOPTKD BY THG BOARD OF CURATORS, FKB. 4^, 1858. 
 
 HAREODSBUEG, KY.: 
 
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 ESTABLISHED 1858 
 
CHARTER 
 
 KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY. 
 
 "Whereas, an Institution of learning, known and called by 
 the name of Bacon College, was founded by certain members of 
 the body of the "Disciples of Christ," denominated Christians, 
 and was chartered by the Legislature of Kentucky in the year 
 1836; and whereas, said Institution, after a series of unsuccess- 
 ful eiforts for its permanent endowment and establishment, sus- 
 pended its regular collegiate operation ; and whereas, in view 
 of the educational wants of the said body of Christians in Ken- 
 tucky, and of their wishes for the permanent success of said 
 Institution, known and expressed at various times, a plan for 
 its full endowment and re-organization has been presented and 
 prosecuted by Jno. B. Bowman, of Mercer county, K}^., which 
 has resulted thus far in the raising of $150,000 of Endowment 
 Fund ; and whereas, it is desired to establish a first-class Uni- 
 versity upon a more modern, American and Christian basis, 
 and to carry out such design, it is necessary to amend and 
 extend the provisions of the Charter of said Institution ; 
 therefore : 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General Assembly of the Common- 
 wealth of Kentucky, That said Institution known and called by 
 the name of Bacon College, and located at Harrodsburg, in the 
 count}'' of Mercer and State of Kentucky, shall be, from and 
 after the passage of this act, known and called by the name of 
 Kentucky University. 
 
 Sec. 2. And he it farther enacted, That John B. Bowman, James 
 Taylor, John Aug. Williams, Ben. C. Allin, A. G. Kyle, A. H. 
 Bowman, J. A. Dearborn, D. W. Thompson, A. G. Yivion, P. B. 
 Thompson, Wm. A. Cooke, G. D. Eunyon, A. Gallatin Talbott, 
 P. B. Mason, C. T. Worthington, G. W. Givens, James C. Stone, 
 A. G. Herndon, E. C. Graves, Wm. Morton, Joseph Wasson, 
 
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 John Curd, W. W. McKenney, W. L. Williams, John Allen 
 Grano, John I. Sogers, Zachery F. Smith, Eobt. C. Eice, Theo- 
 dore S. Bell and Enos Campbell, shall be, and they and their 
 successors in oflSce are hereby constituted a body politic and 
 corporate, to be known by the name of the Curators of Ken- 
 tucky University, and by that name shall have perpetual suc- 
 cession and existence, and a common seal, which seal they may 
 change and alter at pleasure, and by the aforesaid name, and in 
 their corporate capacity, may sue and be sued, plead and be 
 impleaded, contract and be contracted Avith, answer and be 
 answered, in all courts of law and equity. And the same, in 
 their corporate name, are hereby invested with the legal right 
 to all the property and estate, real and personal, as well as all 
 the rights and claims heretofore vested in the Trustees of the 
 said Bacon College ; and may, in said corporate name, sue for 
 and recover the same in as full and ample manner as the said 
 Trustees of Bacon College could have done prior to this act. 
 
 Sec. 3. For the purpose of promoting the cause of education 
 in all its branches, and extending the sphere of science and 
 Christian morality, the Curators aforesaid, and their successors, 
 shall have power from time to time to establish and endow 
 fully, in said University, any departments and professorships 
 which they may deem necessary to carry out the aforesaid 
 objects. They and their successors shall furthermore have full 
 power, in their corporate capacity, to hold by gift, grant, de- 
 vise, demise, or otherwise, any lands, tenements, hereditaments, 
 moneys, rents, goods, chattels, or interests of any kind what- 
 ever, which may be given, granted, demised, devised to, or pur- 
 chased by them, for the use and benefit of said University ; also, 
 may sell, lease, rent and dispose of the same, or any part 
 thereof, in any way whatsoever they may adjudge most useful 
 to the interests of said University. 
 
 Sec. 4. They shall also have full power to select and employ 
 any officers and agents they shall deem proper; also, such 
 president, professors, instructors and tutors, as they may from 
 time to time consider necessary ; also, to make, ordain, establish 
 and execute, or cause to be executed, all such by-laws, rules 
 and ordinances, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws 
 of the United States, or of this State, as they may think neces- 
 sary for the welfare of said Institution, for their own govern- 
 ment, the good government of the professors, instructors, tutors, 
 agents, oflScers and students of the same, and generally to do 
 
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 all acts necessary and proper to promote the welfare and pros- 
 perity of said University. 
 
 Sec. 5. The permanent officers of the Board of Curators shall 
 consist of a President, Secretary, Treasurer and Executive Com- 
 mittee, all of whom shall be annually elected by the Curators 
 from their own number, except the Treasurer, who may be 
 elected out of the Board. 
 
 Sec. 6. The Secretary of the Board shall keep a fair and cor- 
 rect record of all the proceedings of the Board, in a good and 
 substantial book, which record shall be signed by the President 
 and Secretary before the adjournment of each meeting, and 
 shall at any time be subject to the inspection and examination 
 of any member of the Board, or any donor of the Institution. 
 He shall file away and carefully preserve all such documents 
 and papers, pertaining to his office and to the Institution, as 
 may come into his hands, which shall upon his death, resigna- 
 tion, or removal from office, be delivered up to the Board, and 
 he shall perform such other duties as the Curators may pre- 
 scribe. 
 
 Sec. 7. The Treasurer, before he enters upon the duties of his 
 office, shall enter into a bond with ample securit}^, in the pen- 
 alty of one hundred thousand dollars, for the faithful discharge 
 of the duties of his office. He shall take charge of all the funds 
 of the Institution ; he shall pay over all money that may come 
 into his hands upon the order of the Board, indorsed by the 
 President thereof; he shall pay out no money except uj^on such 
 order of the Board ; he shall render a true account current of 
 the state of his office to the Board of Curators at its annual 
 meeting, which account must be accompanied by the certificate 
 of the Executive Committee, signed by each member thereof, 
 and stating that it has been examined, and that it is correct, 
 after which it shall then be published ; and no person shall be 
 eligible to re-election as Treasurer, until such report is made, 
 examined and approved by the Board of Curators. He shall, 
 furthermore, when his term of service expires, or he shall 
 resign his office, or be removed therefrom, deliver up to the 
 Executive Committee, or their order, all the books and papers 
 pertaining to his office, and in each and every particular account 
 for and pay over all money or other thing of value which may 
 come into his hands as Treasurer. He shall also permit his 
 books to be examined at any and all times by the Executive 
 Committee, or any donor of the Institution. The bond of the 
 
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 Treasurer shall be placed in the hands of the Secretary of the 
 Board, and shall be renewed upon a re-election to the office, 
 which bond shall be made paj^^able to the Curators of said 
 University. 
 
 Sec. 8. For the ownership and control of said TJniversitj^, at 
 least two thirds of the Board of Curators shall always be mem- 
 bers of the Christian Church in Kentucky. At no time shall 
 any member of the faculty be a member of the Board. 
 
 Sec. 9. An annual meeting of the Board of Curators shall be 
 held during the commencement week of the University, at 
 which time they shall cause to be published a general account 
 of the condition of the Institution. A meeting shall be called 
 at any other time by the President of the Board, at the sugges- 
 tion of any three members thereof, or of the President of the 
 University. Nine members shall constitute a quorum for 
 ordinary business, one of whom shall be President pro tern., 
 in the absence of the President of the Board, and less than 
 a quorum shall have the power of adjourning from day to day, 
 or to any future day, until a quorum shall be had. 
 
 Sec. 10. A majority of all the Curators shall have power to 
 remove a Curator from office for any cause they may deem suf- 
 ficient, and shall have power also to define the qualifications of 
 a Curator ; and whenever any Curator shall absent himself from 
 two successive annual meetings of the Board, without assigning 
 a sufficient reason therefor, his seat shall be declared thereby 
 vacant, and the Board shall at its next meeting proceed to the 
 election of a new Curator to fill such vacancy. All vacancies by 
 death, resignation, or removal from office, or otherwise, shall be 
 filled b}^ a quorum. 
 
 Sec. 11. No less than a majority of the whole Board shall 
 have power to appoint the President, professors, instructors, 
 tutors, and all other officers and agents, to fix their compensa- 
 tion, or increase or diminish the same, to remove the same from 
 office for sufficient cause, and to fill all vacancies in the same, 
 whether by death, resignation, removal or otherwise. Provided, 
 a vacancy may be filled by a quorum until a meeting of said 
 majority shall be held. 
 
 Sec 12. The Curators, upon the recommendation of the Presi- 
 dent and faculty of the University, shall have power to grant 
 such literary honors as are usually granted b}'' the best colleges 
 and universities in the United States, and such other honors 
 as the Board and the faculty may think necessary, and in 
 
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 testimony thereof, to give suitable certificates or diplomas, under 
 the seal of the corporation, and every such diploma shall en- 
 title its possessor to all the immunities and privileges which by 
 any law or usage are allowed to the possessors of diplomas 
 granted by any college or university in the United States. 
 
 Sec. 13. All the provisions of the charter of Bacon College, 
 heretofore enacted, which are in conflict with the provisions of 
 this act, are hereby annulled and repealed. 
 
 Sec. 14. All lands, money, or other property, which may, by 
 donation, devise, deed of gift, or otherwise, be contributed to 
 said University, shall be strictly applied according to the in- 
 structions given by the donor or testator ; and all money thus 
 donated as a permanent endowment fund shall he principal, and 
 shall be, as the same accrues, invested in good, safe, profitable 
 and permanent stocks, which shall remain forever intact, and 
 the amount whereof is to be in no respect or in any manner 
 whatever diminished, subject, however, as necessity may de- 
 mand, to investment and re-investment in such stocks. The 
 proceeds of such stocks, either in the form of dividend, or in- 
 terest, or rents, shall be a fund in the hands of the Treasurer, 
 subject to the order of the Board of Curators, and shall be used 
 as the Board may direct, for the purposes of the University. 
 
 Sec. 15. For maintaining and carrying out effectually the 
 discipline of said University, Be it further enacted, that if, by any 
 person, money be lent or advanced, or any thing sold or let to 
 hire, on credit, to or for the use of any student or pupil under 
 twenty-one years of age, at the said University, without the 
 previous permission, in writing, of his parents or guardian, or 
 the authorized officers of said Institution, nothing shall be 
 recovered therefor by action of debt, and there shall moreover 
 be forfeited to the Institution twenty dollars and the amount or 
 value of such money or other thing. Where such selling, let- 
 ting, lending or advancing is by an agent, such forfeiture shall 
 be by his principal, unless the principal shall, within ten days 
 after he has knowledge or information of the selling, letting, 
 lending, or advancing, give notice in writing to the President, 
 or other head of the Institution, that it was done without his 
 knowledge or consent, in which case the forfeiture shall be by 
 the agent. 
 
 Sec. 16. If any person so violate the last above-named section 
 of this act, as to be liable to the forfeiture thereby declared, he 
 shall moreover be fined not less than fifty nor more than three 
 
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 hundred dollars, and upon conviction he shall be bound by the 
 court in a sum not less than five hundred dollars, with at least 
 two sufficient securities, to be of good behavior for one year; 
 and any subsequent violation of the section aforesaid shall be 
 held to be a forfeiture of the recognizance. 
 
 Sec. 17. It shall be the duty of the judge of the Mercer Cir- 
 cuit Court to give the fifteenth and sixteenth sections of this 
 act in charge to the grand jury at each and every term of said 
 court, and the penalties imposed in the above-named sections 
 for a violation or violations of any of the provisions thereof, 
 shall be recovered by indictment found by the grand jury ; 
 one half of the aforesaid penalty to go to the attorney of the 
 commonwealth. 
 
 Sec. 18. That if the President, or any agent, or the Treasurer, 
 or any other officer of the Board of Curators of the University, 
 without the authority of the Board properly given and entered 
 of record, as before directed, appropriate any of the funds of 
 the Institution to his own use, or that of any other person, or 
 shall wilfully fail to make correct entries, or shall knowingly 
 make false entries upon the books of the Institution, with the 
 intent to cheat or defraud the same, or any contributor to the 
 funds thereof, or to hide or conceal any improper appropriation 
 of said funds, the person so offending shall be deemed guilty of 
 felony, and shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to con- 
 finement in the jail or penitentiary of the State for a period of 
 not less than one or more than twenty years. 
 
 Sec. 19. The Board of Curators of Kentucky University shall 
 consist of not less than thirty members, a majority of whom 
 shall at all times reside out of the county of Mercer, and in any 
 county of this State where the sum of fifteen thousand dollars 
 may be subscribed to the endowment fund of the University, 
 there shall be a representation of at least one member in the 
 Board. 
 
 Sec. 20. This act to take effect from and after the date of its 
 passage. 
 
L^A\^8 
 
 KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY. 
 
 According to the fourth section of the preceding Act of 
 Incorporation, the following Laws for the government of Ken- 
 tucky University, were passed by its Board of Curators, at their 
 first meeting, on the 4th of February, 1858. 
 
 AETICLB I. 
 
 OF THE BOARD OP CURATORS. 
 
 1. The annual meeting of the Board of Curators shall be 
 held on the day next preceding the Annual Commencement, be- 
 ginning at nine o'clock, A. M., at which time officers shall be 
 elected, and the ordinary business of the Board transacted. 
 Meetings may also be held by adjournment, and special meet- 
 ings may be called by the President, according to the ninth 
 section of the Charter. But in the latter case, a written notice 
 of such call, stating the object of the meeting, shall be given by 
 the Secretary to each member of the Board, at least ten days 
 before said meeting, and no other business than that named in 
 the notice of said meeting, shall be transacted without the con- 
 sent of at least two-thirds of the members present. 
 
 2. The officers of the Board, as defined in the fifth section of 
 the Charter, shall consist of a President, Secretary, Treasurer 
 and Executive Committee. These shall all be elected by bal- 
 lot, and shall continue to discharge the duties of their re- 
 spective offices until their successors shall be regularly ap- 
 pointed. 
 
 3. It shall be the duty of the President, at each meeting of 
 the Board, to call the members to order at the precise time ap- 
 pointed for said meeting. He shall preside at each meeting of 
 
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 the Board, and decide all points of order, subject to an appeal 
 to the Board. He shall appoint all committees ordered by the 
 Board, unless otherwise directed. He shall sign all orders on 
 the Treasurer, and all other acts of the Corporation ; and he 
 shall see that the business of the Board is not interrupted by 
 conversation on matters not before them. 
 
 4. In the absence of the President, the Vice-President shall 
 act as President, and discharge, for the time being, all the duties 
 of his office. 
 
 5. The Secretary shall keep legible and correct minutes of 
 the transactions of the Board, with the names of all the mem- 
 bers present. He shall give the proper notice of each meeting ; 
 preserve in a separate book all by-laws, rules and regulations 
 passed by the Board ; preserve on file all papers and documents 
 belonging to the Board, and in general do all their writing as a 
 body. 
 
 6. In the discharge of his duties as prescribed by the Char- 
 ter, the Treasurer of the Board shall keep separate accounts of 
 the Endowment Fund, the Tuition Fund, the Beneficiary Fund, 
 the Library Fund, the Building Fund, the Janitor's Fund, and 
 the General Fund. 
 
 The Endowment Fund shall consist of such donations to the 
 University as may be given for the specific purpose of endowing 
 the Institution. The Tuition Fund shall consist of such fees as 
 the Board of Curators may require to be paid for tuition by the 
 students attending the University. The Beneficiary Fund shall 
 consist of donations given by benevolent individuals and asso- 
 ciations, for the special purpose of educating indigent and 
 worthy young men at Kentucky University. The Library 
 Fund shall consist of Matriculation fees, of fees for the degree 
 of A. M., of fines for the injury of books, and of such other funds 
 as may be appropriated for the increase of the Library and 
 Apparatus. The Building Fund shall consist of such gifts, 
 grants, donations and bequests as may be made for the increase 
 or improvement of the University grounds or buildings. The 
 Janitor's Fund shall consist of all charges for servants' hire, 
 fuel, lights, and other incidental expenses. And the General 
 Fund shall consist of all donations, fines, rents, and other pro- 
 ceeds of the University not otherwise appropriated. 
 
 For the present and till specifically applied, these funds shall 
 all be appropriated according to the order of the Board, subject 
 only to the limitations of the Charter. 
 
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 7. Whenever a member wishes to communicate with the 
 Board, or to debate any subject before them, he shall rise and 
 address the Chair, and no interruption shall be permitted, un- 
 less by a call to order, or with the consent of the speaker. No 
 member shall speak more than twice on the same subject, nor 
 more than fifteen minutes at any one time, without the special 
 leave of a majority of the members present. 
 
 8. Every motion, except for adjournment, shall be made in 
 writing, if required by any member ; and if seconded, shall be 
 stated by the President previous to its discussion. If the mo- 
 tion be not amended, it raay, with the permission of the Chair, 
 be withdrawn by the mover and seconder at any time prior to 
 the final decision. Any member may call for the division of a 
 question when it is susceptible of it. 
 
 9. Motions acted on and negatived, shall not be recorded 
 unless required by the Board. 
 
 10. On the call of two members, the yeas and nays shall be 
 taken on any matter before the Board, and recorded with the 
 vote of each member opposite his name, 
 
 11. A motion to lay a subject before the Board on the table, 
 shall be decided without debate, and if decided in the afiirma- 
 tive, it shall not be called up again for action until an adjourn- 
 ment shall have intervened, unless by the consent of all the 
 members present. 
 
 12. A motion to adjourn shall always be in order, unless 
 when a member is speaking, or the Board are voting; and it 
 shall always be decided without debate. 
 
 13. No member present shall withdraw from the meeting 
 without permission from the Chair, nor shall any one withdraw 
 from the business of the session, or decline voting on any ques- 
 tion, unless excused by the Board. 
 
 14. All questions shall be decided by the vote of a majority 
 of the members present, subject only to the limitations of the 
 Charter. 
 
 15. At each annual meeting, the Board shall appoint five 
 gentlemen distinguished for their moral excellence and general 
 attainments in literature and science, who, with the Executive 
 Committee, shall constitute the Board of Visitors for the en- 
 suing year. During the period of their appointment they shall 
 have free access to the recitation or examination of any class in 
 the University. 
 
 16. The minutes of the proceedings of each day during any 
 
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 meeting, shall be read at the commencement of the session of 
 the following day ; and the whole proceedings of each meeting 
 shall be read before the final adjournment. 
 
 17. Every meeting of the Board shall be opened and closed 
 with prayer. 
 
 18. No alteration shall be made in these laws, unless at a 
 regular stated meeting of the Board. 
 
 19. The Order of Business shall be as follows : 
 
 1. KoU call. 
 
 2. Prayer. 
 
 3. Eeading and adopting the Minutes of the preced- 
 
 ing meeting. 
 
 4. Eeport of the President. 
 
 5. Eeport of the Treasurer. 
 
 6. Business Eeport of the Executive Committee. 
 
 7. Eeports of other Committees. 
 
 8. Eeports of Agents. 
 
 9. Unfinished Business. 
 
 10. New Business. 
 
 11. General Eeport for publication. 
 
 12. Prayer. 
 
 AETICLE II. 
 
 OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 
 
 1. The Executive Committee shall consist of five members 
 of the Board, three of whom, at least, shall reside in Harrods- 
 burgh, or in its immediate vicinity ; and the same number shall 
 constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. 
 
 2. They shall have full power, for and in behalf of the 
 Board, to do and transact all business which the Board might 
 rightfully do, and which shall be proper and necessary to be 
 done in the interim between the meetings of the Board ; pro- 
 vided, however, that the acts, doings, proceedings and appoint- 
 ments of said Committee, so far as they relate to the legitimate 
 business of the whole Board, shall have full force and effect 
 only until the next meeting of the Board, unless at said meet- 
 ing they shall be approved by the Board ; and all their drafts 
 on the Treasurer must be indorsed by the President of the 
 Board, and attested by the Secretary. 
 
 3. They shall choose a Chairman and a Secretary, and keep 
 in a permanent book a record of all their proceedings, which 
 
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 shall at all times be subject to inspection by any member of the 
 Board or Faculty. During the session of the University they 
 shall meet on the second Monday of every month, precisely at 
 two o'clock, P. M., and as much oftener as they themselves may 
 direct; and they shall make a full report of their proceedings 
 at each annual meeting of the Board. 
 
 4. The Committee shall frequently examine the University 
 grounds and buildings, and order any necessary repairs upon 
 the same. They shall, in conjunction with the Faculty, appoint 
 tutors, and supply any vacancies that may occur in the Board 
 of Instructors between the meetings of the Board of Curators. 
 They shall see that the laws of the Institution are executed by 
 the Faculty and observed by the students ; and especially that 
 the provisions of the Charter are not violated by any one. And 
 whenever necessary, they shall institute, or cause to be insti- 
 tuted, in the name of the Corporation, suits for the recovery of 
 damages done to the grounds, buildings, or appurtenances of 
 the University, or for dues accruing to the same from any other 
 source whatever. They shall examine and adjust all accounts 
 which any person or persons may have with the University; 
 and they shall audit the Report of the Treasurer on or before 
 the da}'' next preceding the annual meeting of the Board. They 
 shall examine the class rolls of the Faculty, and attend all the 
 public examinations of the students, either as a body, or by 
 appointing at least two of their number, who shall act with the 
 honorary members of the Board of Visitors. They shall also 
 act as a Committee of Nomination, and prepare business for the 
 Board at their annual meetings. 
 
 Besides the report of their own proceedings, they shall also 
 prepai'e and submit to the Board, at each annual meeting, a 
 General Rej)ort, embracing a particular account of the state of 
 the treasury, library, apparatus, museum, grounds, buildings, 
 and such other matters as will constitute a fair statement of the 
 labors and transactions of the past year, and the existing con- 
 dition of the University. This report, as approved by the 
 Board, or an abstract thereof, shall, together with a brief notice 
 of the closing exercises of the session, be published by the 
 Committee, as the report of the University for the preceding 
 year. 
 
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 AETICLB III. 
 
 OPTHEFACULTY. 
 
 1. The officers of instruction shall consist of a President, 
 Yice-President, and such regular Professors, Professors extra- 
 ordinary^, Instructors and Tutors, as the Board of Curators 
 shall from time to time appoint. But the President and regu- 
 lar Professors only shall constitute the Faculty. 
 
 2. To them shall be committed the government of the Insti- 
 tution. They shall have authority to adopt and execute, at 
 their discretion, such measures not inconsistent with the Char- 
 ter and statutes of the Board, as they may deem expedient and 
 necessary for securing the full benefit of the prescribed course 
 of study, and the due exercise of discipline. 
 
 3. They shall meet at least once every week to inquire into 
 all infractions of the laws ; to call delinquents to account ; to 
 communicate with each other in reference to the attention, pro- 
 ficiency and demeanor of each student; and to transact any 
 other business pertaining to the interests of the University. 
 
 4. Besides the regular meetings of the Faculty, the Presi- 
 dent, or any two Professors, may call a special meeting when- 
 ever, in their judgment, the exigencies of the Institution require 
 it. And in all cases, when due notice of a meeting shall have 
 been given, the majority of the Faculty shall constitute a 
 quorum for the traiisaction of business. 
 
 5. Every matter brought before the Faculty shall be decided 
 by the votes of a majority of the members present. But in 
 case the votes be equally divided, the President may, in addi- 
 tion to his vote as a Professor, give the casting vote as the 
 presiding officer. 
 
 6. The Faculty shall keep a regular account of their pro- 
 ceedings, and communicate all their decisions officially. And 
 BO member shall anticij)ate the legal action of the Faculty by 
 expressing in the presence of a student, an opinion on the 
 merits of any question that is a proper subject for their joint 
 consideration. ISTor shall he at any time, under such circum- 
 stances, object to any law of the Board or action of the Faculty. 
 
 7. At the annual meeting of the Board of Curators, the 
 Faculty shall recommend to them, for the regular degree of A. 
 B. or A. M., such of the students of the University as shall 
 have completed in a satisfactory manner the course of studies 
 hereafter prescribed, and as shall have faithfully observed and 
 
Kentucky University. 15 
 
 respected all the other rules and regulations of the University. 
 They shall also recommend any of the Alumni of the Univer- 
 sity, or other persons who may be esteemed worthy, to receive 
 any honorary degree in the Liberal Arts. And having received 
 the mandamus of the Board, they shall, on the day of the An- 
 nual Commencement, proceed, through their acting President, 
 to confer said degrees according to the tenor of said mandamus. 
 
 8. Every member of the Faculty shall reside in Harrods- 
 burg, or within the immediate precincts of the University ; 
 and he shall engage in no pursuit or occupation that will inter- 
 fere with the regular and faithful discharge of his official duties. 
 He shall labor not only to discharge in a becoming manner the 
 duties of his own Department, but also to elevate to the utmost 
 of his power the moral and literary character of the Uni- 
 versity. 
 
 9. Besides the business meetings of the Faculty, they shall 
 have Educational meetings, for the purpose of discussing all 
 questions pertaining to the theory and practice of Education, 
 and especially for the purpose of examining all matters that 
 may have any practical bearing on the reputation and success 
 of Kentucky University. They shall keep a record of their 
 proceedings at said Educational meetings, and cause to be en- 
 tered in a separate chapter, for convenient reference, their 
 decisions on all questions of practical importance. 
 
 10. They shall keep a Matriculation Book, a University 
 Eegister, a Book of Eecords, a Book of Degrees, a Minute Book, 
 a Statute Book, and an Educational Journal. 
 
 In the Matriculation Book each applicant for admission into 
 the University shall write his name under the Matriculation 
 Pledge, before he shall be recognized as a student of the same. 
 In this book shall also be recorded the time of each student's 
 entering and leaving the University. In the University Reg- 
 ister shall be entered the name and age of each student, the 
 number of his studies during the session, and the name and 
 address of his parent or guardian. In the Book of Records 
 shall be entered, at the close of each session, the standing of 
 every student with respect to conduct, industry and scholar- 
 ship. In the Book of Degrees shall be recorded the name and 
 residence of all who receive diplomas in any school of the 
 University ; also, of all who receive the regular degree of A. 
 B. or A. M., or any honorary degree in the Liberal Arts. In 
 the Minute Book shall be kept a regular account of the acts 
 
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 of the Facultj^, at all their business meetings. The Statute 
 Book shall contain all the by-laws, rules and regulations passed 
 by the Faculty. And in the Educational Journal shall be re- 
 corded a synopsis of the proceedings of the Faculty at their 
 Educational meetings. 
 
 11. No change of text-books shall be made in any Depart- 
 ment of the University, unless by a vote of the Faculty. 
 
 12. The salarj^ of each member of the Faculty shall be 
 fixed by the Board of Curators, and shall in all cases be paid 
 semi-annually. The fiscal year shall begin on the first day of 
 July and end on the last day of June. 
 
 13. The Board reserve to themselves the right to dismiss 
 any Professor, whenever, in their judgment, the interests of 
 the University may require it. But the emolument of no faith- 
 ful Professor shall be diminished without six months' previous 
 notice ; and no Professor shall resign without the permission 
 of the Board, except at the end of a session, and after having 
 given at least three months' notice of his intention to do so. 
 
 14. It shall be lawful for any and every member of the 
 Faculty to attend the meetings of the Board and of the Execu- 
 tive Committee, and to speak, but not to vote, on any question 
 under consideration. 
 
 AETICLE lY. 
 
 OPTHEPRESIDENT. 
 
 1. To the President shall be committed the general superin- 
 tendence of the interests and reputation of the University, 
 which he shall endeavor to maintain and promote by every 
 exertion in his power. He shall have the right to direct, rule 
 and govern the University according to the laws of the Board 
 and the regulations of the Faculty ; and in all cases of emer- 
 gency he shall also have authority to adopt and to execute, at 
 his own discretion, any measures not inconsistent with this 
 code, which he may think necessary in order to the prompt and 
 faithful discharge of his official duties. 
 
 2. He shall be ex officio President of the Faculty, and the 
 executive officer of the University. He shall confer all de- 
 grees, and preside at all examinations, commencements, and 
 other public meetings of the Universit3^ 
 
 3. He shall have a right to be present at the recitation of 
 any class as often as he may think proper, and in concert with 
 
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 the Professor of each school, he shall regulate the instructions 
 of the same in subordination to the course of study prescribed 
 by these laws. To him also, as well as to the Executive Com- 
 mittee, it belongs to see that the rules and regulations of the 
 Board are duly and faithfully observed by all the Professors, 
 Instructors and Tutors of the University. 
 
 4. To the President shall also be committed, in a special 
 manner, the religious instruction of the students. He may, 
 however, call upon any of the Professors to lead in the morning 
 services of the chapel, or to render any other assistance in this 
 department of his official duties that the interests of the Uni- 
 versity may seem to require. 
 
 5. He shall exercise a general oversight over the character 
 and conduct of the students. And whenever the case may in 
 his judgment require it, he shall, either personally or through 
 the Faculty, communicate to the parent or guardian of any 
 student, such information as he may think necessary. 
 
 6. It shall furthermore be the duty of the President to make 
 to the Board, at their annual meeting, a written report of the 
 actual state of the University, embracing in detail every thing 
 that he may think important to be communicated, in relation 
 to any of its departments, with such suggestions as, in his 
 judgment, would have a tendency to promote the interests of 
 the Institution. 
 
 7. In the absence of the President, his duties shall devolve 
 on the Vice-President, and in the absence of the latter, the 
 senior Professor present shall occupy the place, and exei'cise all 
 the functions of the President. 
 
 AETICLE V. 
 
 OF THE REGULAR PROFESSORS. 
 
 1. It shall be the duty of every Professor to discharge with 
 fidelity the services appertaining to his particular chair. When- 
 ever the subject will admit of it, the teaching shall be by lec- 
 ture and examination, with reference to text-books and collateral 
 authorities, accompanied with written exercises and the solution 
 of problems. Every subject capable of visible illustration shall 
 be illustrated by experiments and diagrams. It is also expected 
 that every Professor will direct his class to such authors as will 
 be most useful in the prosecution of their studies ; that he will 
 not only communicate to them a given amount of knowledge, 
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 but that he will also endeavor to excite in them an ardent love 
 of learning, and that he will, as far as possible, create in them 
 both the desire and the ability to prosecute their studies with 
 interest and profit, after they shall have completed their course 
 at the University. 
 
 2. Every lecture or recitation shall continue just one hour. 
 Two minutes after the ringing of the bell, the exercises will 
 commence. And no class shall be dismissed before the tap of 
 the second bell ; nor shall any be detained longer than this 
 without the consent of the Faculty or President. 
 
 3. Every Professor must also consider himself an officer of 
 discipline as well as of instruction. He is hereby authorized 
 and required to adopt such rules, not inconsistent with this 
 code, as may be necessary for the good order and government 
 of his Department, and to admonish any student who may be 
 guilty of any impropriety in his recitation room. He shall 
 have authority to suspend from his Dejjartment any student 
 who shall be guilty of disrespect toward him, and to report the 
 same to the Faculty. And no such suspended student shall be 
 restored to his standing in the class without the consent of the 
 Professor in charge of the Department. 
 
 4. It shall also be the duty of each Professor to keep a daily 
 record of the attendance, proficiency and demeanor of each 
 student in his class, and to report the same to the Faculty at 
 their weekly meetings. 
 
 5. If a student shall be absent from any exercise, it shall be 
 the duty of the Professor to inquire immediately into the cause 
 of it. If the excuse shall be to him a satisfactory one, he may 
 receive it. But if not, or the student shall have been absent 
 more than once during the same week, then, except in cases of 
 protracted sickness, it shall be the duty of the Professor to cite 
 him to appear before the Faculty at their next meeting. And 
 in no case shall any Professor grant to a student permission to 
 leave the University limits ; nor to a class to omit any exercise 
 in his own Department. All such licenses must be granted by 
 the President or by the joint action of the Faculty. 
 
 6. It shall also be the duty of every Professor to use his 
 utmost vigilance and exertions to carry into complete eifect 
 every law and regulation of the University, whether it relates 
 to his own Department or not. He shall take notice of every 
 violation of law and good order, and at once use the proper 
 means to correct it. If in his judgment private admonition be 
 
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 not sufficient, he shall immediately report the case to the Presi- 
 dent for the action of the Faculty. And in general, he shall be 
 required to co-operate with the President to the full extent of 
 his ability in maintaining the order and discipline of the Uni- 
 versity. 
 
 7. It shall be the duty of every Professor to attend the morn- 
 ing services in the Chapel, and all the public meetings of the 
 University whether literary or religious ; and to see that the 
 students behave with gravity and decorum. 
 
 8. Bach Professor shall have charge of all the Apparatus that 
 properly belongs to his Department ; and shall be responsible 
 to the Board of Curators for any losses occasioned by negligence 
 or inattention on his part. To the Professor of Physical Science, 
 shall be committed the care of the Museum and Cabinet of min- 
 erals. 
 
 9. Immediately after the close of the final examination of 
 each School, the Professor in charge shall report to the Presi- 
 dent and through him to the Executive Committee, the general 
 condition of his Department, with suggestions of such improve- 
 ments as he may think desirable. 
 
 10. It shall also be the duty of each Professor to furnish the 
 Secretary with a list of the names and residences of all the 
 graduates in his School to be entered in the Book of Degrees. 
 And at the close of each term, he shall furnish the Secretary 
 with a list of the names and standing of all the under graduates 
 in his School, with any remarks that he may wish to have en- 
 tered on the Book of Eecords. 
 
 11. The Professors shall take rank by seniority, according to 
 the date of their appointment. 
 
 AETICLE VI. 
 
 OF OTHER INSTRUCTORS. 
 
 1. Professors Extraordinary and other Instructors not em- 
 braced in the preceding Article, shall perform such services as 
 the Board of Curators may require ; and at such times, and 
 under such rules and regulations as the Faculty may prescribe. 
 
 2. The Tutors in the different Schools of the Univei'sity. 
 shall conduct their instructions under the immediate supervision 
 of the Professors of said Schools. And it shall be the duty of 
 the Professor in charge, to review frequently such classes for 
 the purpose of ascertaining their progress and standing. 
 
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 3. Professors Extraordinary, Instructors and Tutors, will 
 not be expected to attend the meetings of the Faculty. But the 
 President may require their attendance whenever he may think 
 it necessary to do so. And in all cases, it shall be their duty to 
 co-operate with the Faculty in every way that they can, to pro- 
 mote good order and to sustain the discipline of the University; 
 and especially shall they be required to report to the President 
 every known violation of law which they may not be able to 
 correct by private admonition. 
 
 AETICLE YII. 
 
 OP THE SECRETARY OF THE FACULTY, 
 
 1. The Faculty shall elect one of their own members to act 
 as their Secretary. And it shall be his special duty, with such 
 aid as he may obtain from other members of the Faculty, to 
 keep a regular account of all their proceedings ; to enter upon 
 the Book of Eecords at the close of each term the reports of 
 the same ; to record in the Book of Degrees, at the close of each 
 session, the names and residences of the graduates, in the several 
 Schools, and also the names and residences of those admitted to 
 any degree in the Liberal Arts ; to write out in due form all 
 such acts of the Faculty as their President may require in the 
 administration of discipline : to record in the Statute Book, all 
 by-laws passed by the Faculty ; to attend to all correspondence 
 which may be ordered by the Faculty, and in general, to do the 
 writing of the Faculty as a body. He shall receive an adequate 
 compensation for his services. 
 
 AETICLE VIII. 
 
 OF THE BURSAR. 
 
 1. The Executive Committee shall appoint some responsible 
 person to act as Bursar for the students of the University. It 
 shall be his duty to receive from the students all moneys or 
 drafts for money which they may bring with them to the Uni- 
 versity ; and to disburse the same in paying their tuition and 
 other necessary expenses, according to the direction of the 
 parent or guardian. He shall keep an account of the money 
 received and disbursed ; and at the close of the session, and at 
 other stated times he shall send a copy of the same to the parent 
 or guardian of each student ; and pay the balance, if there be 
 
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 any, to said parent or guardian, or to his written order. For 
 
 which services, said Bursar shall receive -per cent on all 
 
 the moneys disbursed. He shall give bond and security for 
 the proper discharge of his duties. 
 
 2. Every student under age, shall on his arrival at the Uni- 
 versity, pay over to the Bursar, all moneys or drafts for money 
 which may have been committed to him for the payment of his 
 tuition, books, boarding, and other necessary expenses; and for 
 his doing so, he shall be considered as acting under a pledge of 
 honor. 
 
 3. Each student must also immediately after his arrival, 
 deposit with the Bursar, any fire-arms, dirk, bowie-knife, or any 
 other deadly weapon that he may have in his possession or under 
 his control. 
 
 AETICLE IX. 
 
 OF THE ADMISSION OP STUDENTS, 
 
 1. Every candidate for admission into Kentucky University, 
 
 must, except in extraordinary eases, be at least fourteen years 
 of age, and must be able to sustain a thorough examination on 
 the following Preparatory Course, or on what the Faculty may 
 deem a fair equivalent. 
 
 Ancient and Modern Geography; Outlines of History; English 
 Grammar; Arithmetic; Elements of Algebra ; Latin Grammar ; Latin 
 Reader ; Coesar; Sallust; VirgiVs Bucolics and Georgics ; Greek Gram- 
 mar ; Greek Reader ; and Selections from the Greek Testament. 
 
 2. He must present to the President or Faculty, satisfactory 
 evidence of his good moral character. It is very desirable that 
 students coming from other literary Institutions, should bring 
 letters of honorable dismission. Other applicants should pro- 
 cure a certificate from some gentleman of their acquaintance, 
 whose standing in society will be to the Faculty a sure guaran- 
 tee of their just and honorable intentions. 
 
 3. If the testimonials be satisfactory, the candidate will then 
 be examined, and his exact standing recorded on the Minutes of 
 the Faculty. Each Professor shall be the Examiner in his own 
 Department and shall see that the examination be thorough and 
 satisfactory. 
 
 4. Immediately after examination, the candidate shall pro- 
 cure from the Treasurer of the University, a Quietus or Session 
 Bill, which, when presented to the Faculty will entitle him 
 to matriculate as a student for the entire session ; provided, that 
 
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 he shall have first procured and read a copy of the Laws, and 
 made the required deposits with the Bursar of the University ; 
 and also that he shall have procured suitable boarding. 
 
 5. He shall then be required to subscribe to the following 
 Matriculation Pledge, which he shall in all cases read before 
 signing his name. 
 
 I promise, 07i condition of being admitted as a student of Kentuclty 
 University, on my Faith and Honor that I will ohcy all the laws, rules, 
 and regulations of this Institution : and particidarly that I loill avoid 
 the use of all intoxicating beverages, "profanity, gaming, and all indecent, 
 disorderly behavior, and disrespectfid conduct to the Faculty, and all 
 combinations to resist their authority : as witness my hand. 
 
 6. The Secretary of the Faculty will then enter upon the 
 University Eegister the name and age of the student, and the 
 address of his parent or guardian ; together with such studies 
 as he may select from the different Schools with the advice and 
 consent of the Faculty. These should in general amount to 
 three daily recitations. In some cases this may be too much, 
 and in others two little for the capacity of the student. Due 
 allowance will always be made for the ability and peculiar cir- 
 cumstances of each student. No one will be unnecessarily re- 
 tarded. But any departure from the regular order of three 
 daily recitations, must in all cases be made with the knowledge 
 and approbation of the Faculty. 
 
 7. It is desirable that all students be present at the begin- 
 ning of the session. And the policy of this Institution requires, 
 that after their arrival (if this should not be before the opening 
 of the session), new applicants for admission shall immediately 
 present to the President their certificates of good standing; and 
 that all students, whether formerly connected with the Univer- 
 sity or not, shall lose no time in procuring their Session Bills, 
 and entering upon their course of study. Any neglect of this 
 regulation, or loitering about taverns, will be regarded as prima 
 facie evidence of the want of those moral and industrial habits 
 that constitute one of the primary conditions of admission into 
 Kentucky University. 
 
 AETICLE X. 
 
 OF THE CONDUCT OF STUDENTS. 
 
 Kentucky University was founded for the education of young 
 men. And it is presumed that every one qualified to enter it in 
 the capacity of a student, will have some acquaintance with the 
 
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 first principles of Christian moralitj", propriety and decorum ; 
 and that it will therefore be unnecessary to burden his memory 
 with a full and complete code of specific rules and regulations. 
 But it will be expected and required of every student: 
 
 1. That he be diligent in study; punctual in his attendance 
 upon recitations, examinations, and all other University exerci- 
 ses ; and that he promptly render a valid and satisfactory reason 
 to the proper oiScer for any delinquency on his part. 
 
 2. That having entered any class he will not leave it without 
 the permission of the Faculty ; and that he will engage in no 
 new study without their consent and approbation. 
 
 3. That he treat all persons, and especially the officers of the 
 University with becoming respect and decorum. 
 
 4. That he do not trespass on the premises of any other per- 
 son ; and that he in no way deface or injure the property of the 
 Uuiversity. 
 
 5. That he attend no exhibition of immoral tendency; and 
 that he frequent no bar-room, tippling-house, nor any other 
 place where intoxicating liquors are sold. 
 
 6. That he neither introduce upon the premises nor use any 
 kind of intoxicating beverages ; and that he abstain from the use 
 of tobacco, in the University Buildings. 
 
 7. That he neither keep in his possession, nor use fire-arms, 
 a dirk, a bowie-knife, or any other kind of deadly weapon. 
 
 8. That he abstain fromprofanity, the desecration uf the Lord's 
 Day, all kinds of gaming for a reward or prize of any kind, and 
 from card-playing even for amusement ; and also from whatever 
 else is inconsistent with good order, good taste, and good morals. 
 
 9. That he attend public worship every Lord's Day; and 
 prayers in the University Chapel, every morning. 
 
 10. That he go not beyond the immediate precincts of Har- 
 rodsburgh, during the session, without permission from the 
 Faculty ; or in cases of emergency, when this can not be ob- 
 tained, without the .consent of the President. 
 
 11. That he carefully observe and respect all the rules and 
 regulations contained in the other articles of this code, respect- 
 ing fees, societies, boarding-houses, et csetera. 
 
 12. That he shun and discountenance all disorderly combina- 
 tions and associations of students or citizens ; and that he 
 co-operate with the Faculty in every honorable way that he 
 can, to jDromote the interests and rejDutation of the University. 
 
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 AETICLE XI. 
 
 OP DISCIPLINE. 
 
 1. It is the design of the Board and Faculty of Kentucky 
 University, that its discipline shall as far as possible be strictly 
 parental. They sincerely hope that all severe and disgraceful 
 punishments may be avoided ; and that, in most cases, the ends 
 of discipline may be secured by proper appeals addressed to the 
 reason and the conscience. 
 
 2. But to maintain good order, and to secure the very import- 
 ant objects for which the Institution was founded, the Faculty 
 may inflict, at their discretion, and according to the character of 
 the offense, any of the following penalties for the violation of 
 laws : 
 
 1. Private Admonition. 
 
 2. Public Admonition. 
 
 3. Complaint to Parent or Guardian. 
 
 4. Suspension. 
 
 5. Fines for damages. 
 
 6. Dismission. 
 
 7. Expulsion. 
 
 3. No student shall be publicly dismissed or expelled with- 
 out an opportunity of being fully heard in his own defense ; and 
 in all cases of expulsion, the action shall not be final till con- 
 firmed by the Executive Committee. But whenever the Faculty 
 are satisfied, that owing to habitual idleness, profanity, or any 
 other cause, the presence of a student in the University is un- 
 favorable to its prosperity, and to the welfare of the other 
 students, they may dismiss him privately, or require his parent 
 or guardian to remove him immediately from the Institution. 
 
 4. In all such cases, the delinquent shall forfeit the fees of 
 the session. Only in cases of protracted sickness will any al- 
 lowance be made for absence ; and then, only the tuition fee for 
 the remainder of the session will be refunded. 
 
 5. A student dismissed by the Faculty shall leave the Uni- 
 versity immediately and return to his home. And if he shall 
 delay on or about the University premises, beyond what the 
 Faculty may regard as a reasonable time for his departure, 
 (which in ordinary cases, shall not exceed a few hours), they 
 shall have power to change his sentence of dismission into ex- 
 pulsion. 
 
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 AETICLE XII. 
 
 OP THE COURSE OF STUDY AND INSTRUCTION. 
 
 The course of instruction in the University shall for the 
 present be divided into the six following Schools or Depart- 
 ments : 
 
 /. ScJiool of Bihlical Literature and Moral Philosophy. 
 
 The design of this school is to give to all the students of Ken- 
 tucky University, and esijccially to the more advanced classes, 
 a thorough knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, in their gram- 
 matical, logical, historical and chronological order. Every 
 thing that has any tendency to create in the mind a sectarian 
 bias will be carefully avoided. The words of inspiration will 
 be studied and taught in their proper connection ; and the main 
 portions of both the Old and the New Testaments will be made 
 subjects of the most critical and profound investigation. 
 
 The full course of instruction in this school will extend 
 through a period of two years, and embrace the following sub- 
 jects : 
 
 1. The main portions of the Pentateuch, with lectures on the 
 Geography, Chronology, Archaeology and Literature of the 
 Ancient Hebrews. 
 
 2. History of the Israelites from Moses to Christ, with lectures 
 on the Laws, Manners, Customs and Literature of other 
 Oriental Nations. 
 
 3. Selections from the Prophecies, with special attention to the 
 Prophetic Symbols, the Laws of Figurative Language, and the 
 General Principles of Interpretation. 
 
 4. Greeh Exegesis. — One or more of the Gospels, and some of 
 the Epistles. 
 
 5. History of the Primitive Church, with a critical analysis of 
 the principal Addresses recorded in the Acts of the Apostles. 
 
 6. An Analytical Research into the Principles of Moral Philoso- 
 phy, as they are revealed and taught in the Old and the New 
 Testaments, 
 
 7. Evidences of Christianity, with lectures on the Canon, In- 
 Bpiration and History of the Bible.- 
 
 8. Original Essays and Discussions by the Senior Class, with 
 strictures by the Professor. 
 
 9. Hebrew Exegesis, optional. 
 
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 //. School of Mathematics. 
 
 In this Department, very special attention shall be given to 
 the mental discipline of the students. The development of the 
 intellectual powers, and the formation and cultivation of correct 
 habits of thinking and reasoning, by a constant reference to the 
 logic and philosophy of Mathematics, shall be made the para- 
 mount objects of every recitation. 
 
 Prominence shall also be given to the great practical utility 
 of Mathematics. As far as possible, every principle demon- 
 strated shall also be illustrated by some useful application of it 
 to the Arts. The recitations shall be conducted with the aid of 
 well-selected text-books ; and the Professor shall also give such 
 additional illustrations and explanations as may be necessary 
 in order to impart to the student a thorough philosophical and 
 practical knowledge of all the subjects taught. 
 
 The full course of instruction will occupy three years, and 
 comprehend the following subjects: Philosophy of Arithmetic; 
 Algebra; Plane, Solid and Spherical Geometry; Application of Al- 
 gebra to Geometry ; Original Problems; Plane and Spherical Trigo- 
 nometry ; Practical Exercises in Mights and Distances; Mensuration; 
 Surveying and Navigation ; Practical Exercises in Surveying, Leveling 
 and Topography; Analytical Geometry; Differential and Integral 
 Calculus; Civil Engineering (optional); Mechanics, and Astronomy. 
 
 III. School of Ancient Languages. 
 
 In this School shall be taught the Latin, Greek and Hebrew 
 languages, and also Grrecian and Roman History, G-eography 
 and Literature. It will be the duty of the Professor in this 
 Department, not to confine himself to mere grammatical analy- 
 sis, but to conduct the students to the study of the higher jirin- 
 ciples of interpretation ; and particularly to cultivate in them a 
 taste for classical beauty; and an acquaintance with the phases 
 of civilization, and the leading political, philosophical and 
 religious events to which the authors severally refer. Frequent 
 exercises in written translations from the Classics into the 
 English, and from the English into the Classics, will also be 
 required of all the students in this Department; and it shall be 
 the duty of the Professor to see that every translation is correct 
 in grammar and orthography, and that the whole is strictly 
 vernacular. 
 
 The course of study will be the following, or what the Faculty 
 may consider a fair equivalent : Virgil's jEneid; Cicero's Select 
 
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 Orations ; Livy ; Cicero de Officiis ; Horace ; Tacitus ; Cicero's Tuscu- 
 lan Bispufatinns ; Arnold's Latin Prose Composition; Latin Prosody ; 
 Latin Theses; Roman History and Geography; Roman Antiquities ; 
 Xcnophons Anabasis; Heredotus ; Demosthenes de Corona; Thucy- 
 dides ; Homer s Iliad; Xenophons Memorabilia; Plato's Georgias ; 
 Sophocles or Euripides; Long inns de Sublimitate; Arnold's Greek 
 Prose Composition ; Greeh Prosody ; Greek Theses ; Grecian History , 
 Geography and Antiquities; and the Hebrew, the study of which, 
 however, shall be optional. 
 
 It is not expected that all the above works will be read 
 entire ; but so much, at least, will be required as will enable the 
 student to translate them with facility, and as may be necessary 
 to ^ive him a just idea of the character and merits of each 
 work, and of all the peculiarities of the author. 
 
 IV. School of Physical Science. 
 
 The design of this Department is to give to the student a 
 \QTy thorough and extensive knowledge of the laws, principles 
 and operations of the material world, organic and inorganic. 
 The daily recitations will be accompanied with familiar lectures, 
 and a very full course of experiments on all subjects which are^» 
 susceptible of being thus illustrated. 
 
 Much time and attention will also be given to the subject of 
 Practical Analysis, the Laws of Health, the Principles of Agri- 
 culture, and the general applications of Chemistry to the Arts ; 
 while the benevolent designs of the Creator, in the constitution 
 of Nature, will be kept constantly before the minds of the 
 students. 
 
 The course of study and instruction in this School will extend 
 through a period of at least two years, during which there will 
 be five recitations every week. The full scheme embraces the 
 following subjects : 
 
 Hydrostatics ; Pneumatics ; Acoustics ; Heat ; Electricity ; Mag- 
 netism; Optics; Galvanism; Chemical Philosophy ; Inorganic Chem- 
 istry; Organic Chemistry; Mineralogy; Botany; Physiology; Zoology; 
 Geology, and Agricultural Chemistry. 
 
 V. School of Belles Lettres. 
 The primary object of this Department is to make the stu- 
 dent thoroughly acquainted with the laws, principles and 
 usages of the English language, and to enable him to speak and 
 
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 to write it according to the style and usage of our best modern 
 speakers and writers. 
 
 For this purpose, every student in this school shall be very 
 thoroughly drilled in the structure of sentences, the nature and 
 principles of figurative language, the different qualities of a 
 good style, and also in the arts of Composition and Elocution. 
 Written exercises on such topics as the Professor shall prescribe, 
 and brief critiques on portions of the best English Classics, will 
 be required throughout the entire course. 
 
 Instruction in History and Intellectual and Political Science 
 will also for the j)resent be connected with the course in Eng- 
 lish Literature and Belles Lettres. The full scheme will occupy 
 a period of four years, and embrace the following subjects : 
 
 English Syntax and Prosody ; History and Structure of the English 
 Language; Elements of Rhetoric; Art of Criticism; Elocution; In- 
 tellectual Philosophy ; Logic ; Philosophy of Rhetoric ; Critiques on 
 Selections from the best English Classics; Original Essays and Ora- 
 tions; Forensic Disputations; History; Political Economy, and Con- 
 stitutional and International Law. 
 
 VI. School of Modern Languages, 
 In this School shall be taught the French, Grerman, Italian, 
 and Spanish languages. The labors of the Chair will, till other- 
 wise directed, be divided as far as practicable, among the Pro- 
 fessors of the other Departments. Other Schools will be opened 
 as soon as the funds of the Institution will justify it. 
 
 AETICLE XIII. 
 
 OF PUBLIC SPEAKING. 
 
 1. For the improvement of the student in the arts of com- 
 posing, speaking and reasoning, the Faculty may require occa- 
 sional public exhibitions, particularly of the higher classes. 
 
 2. On the day of Commencement, the candidates for degrees 
 shall perform such exercises as shall be assigned to them by the 
 Faculty; and no candidate shall refuse to do so under the pen- 
 alt}^ of being refused his diploma. 
 
 3. Nothing indelicate, profane, or immoral, nor what is of a 
 purely partizan and sectional character, shall at an}^ time be 
 delivered on the public stage, under penalty of such punishment 
 as the Faculty may determine. And to prevent any unpleasant 
 
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 occurrence of this kind, every student shall submit to the Pro- 
 fessor of Belles Lettrcs, or some other member of the Faculty, 
 the whole of what he proposes to read or speak, and shall not 
 fail to observe whatever corrections he may suggest. This reg- 
 ulation has reference to all public performances, whether ap- 
 pointed by the Faculty, or by the Literary Societies. 
 
 AETICLE XIV. 
 
 OF EXAMINATIONS AND THE SCALE OF MERIT. 
 
 1. There shall be at least two classes of examinations for the 
 students of Kentucky University. The first shall be a daily 
 examination, in connection with the daily lecture or recitation. 
 The second shall be a public examination of all the classes at 
 the close of the session. And in addition to these, the Faculty 
 shall also appoint such other examinations as they may think 
 expedient. 
 
 2. The Professor of each School shall conduct the daily ex- 
 aminations in his own Department, in such a way as he may 
 think best ; and immediately after the examination, he shall 
 affix to the name of each student examined a number desig- 
 nating the value of his examination. P'or a perfect recitation, 
 the number shall be one hundred per cent of the prescribed 
 maximum; and for a less perfect recitation, it shall be such a 
 percentage as will express its true relative value. 
 
 3. The public examinations shall be either written or oral, 
 as the Faculty may determine. But thc}^ shall in all cases 
 be made real tests of scholarship, and efficient means of dis- 
 tinguishing the meritorious from the undeserving, and of 
 conferring honorable rank on young men of promising attain- 
 ments. 
 
 4. At the close of each public examination, the Professor in 
 charge shall make out an estimate of each student's perform- 
 ance, according to the same scale of numbers, and submit it to 
 the Faculty and Board of Visitors present, a majority of whom 
 shall have power to ratify or change the report according to 
 their knowledge and sense of justice in each particular case. 
 
 5. From this and the daily reports of proficiency, the schol- 
 arship of each student shall be determined in the following 
 manner: The Professor shall first take the average value of 
 each student's daily examinations; to this he shall add the 
 value of his public or term examination, and half this sum 
 
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 shall be entered on the Book of Eecords, and sent to the parent 
 or guardian of said student, as the report of his scholarship or 
 proficiency in study during the term. 
 
 6. The general conduct and industry of each student shall 
 be estimated on the same scale, from all the facts of which the 
 Faculty may have certain knowledge, and in whatever way 
 they may find to be most convenient. The result of their reck- 
 oning shall be entered on the Book of Eecords, and a true copy 
 of the same sent to the parent or guardian of the student, at 
 the end of the term, or oftener, when the case may seem to 
 require it. 
 
 AETICLE XY. 
 
 OF GRADUATION. 
 
 For the accommodation of young men who may wish to 
 qualify themselves for the various callings and pursuits of life, 
 and who may be unable to complete a liberal course of study, it 
 shall be provided that a student may graduate in any School 
 on the following conditions : 
 
 1. That he shall have been at least one year a student of the 
 University, and that he shall have completed in a satisfactory 
 manner all the required studies of said School, or what the 
 Faculty may judge to be a fair equivalent; the standard of 
 graduation in each School being not less than fifty per cent of 
 the prescribed maximum. 
 
 2. That he shall have habitually observed and respected all 
 the other rules and regulations of the University. 
 
 3. That he pay to the Professor in charge a fee of three 
 dollars. 
 
 He will then be entitled to a certificate of graduation, signed 
 by the Professor, and also by the President of the University, 
 in which may be stated his grade of scholarship in said School, 
 and likewise his general standing with respect to conduct and 
 application to study. 
 
 When any student shall have thus graduated in the Schools 
 of Biblical Literature, Mathematics, Ancient Languages, Physi- 
 cal Science, and Belles Lettres, he shall then receive, free of 
 charge, the regular degree of A. B.; provided that he shall have 
 paid all University dues, and that, up to the time of his taking 
 the degree, he shall have faithfully complied with all the laws 
 and regulations of the University. 
 
 The candidate for the degree of A. B. may, with the advice 
 
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 and consent of the Faculty, be permitted to study Civil Engi- 
 neering, the Hebrew Language, or any one of the Modern 
 Languages, instead of the Calculus. But whenever a student 
 proposes to graduate in only one School, he shall be required to 
 study all that is included in its prescribed course, optional 
 studies only being excepted. 
 
 A student may also be admitted to the regular degree of A. 
 M. on the following conditions : 
 
 1. That he shall have first received the degree of A. B., and 
 been at least one year a student of the University. 
 
 2. That his Term Eeports for conduct, industry and scholar- 
 ship, while a student of the University, shall have been at least 
 seventy five per cent of the prescribed maximum. 
 
 3. That he shall have studied at least three of the elective 
 branches, instead of one, as in the prescribed course for the 
 degree of A. B. 
 
 4. That he pay to the Library Fund a fee of ten dollars. 
 Other bachelors of three years' standing, may receive the 
 
 honorary degree of A. M. on the payment of ten dollars to the 
 Library Fund; provided, that they shall have maintained a vir- 
 tuous and exemplary character, and that they shall have been 
 admitted to some of the learned jjrofessions. Candidates for 
 this honor should apply to the President at least one week 
 before the Annual Commencement. 
 
 ARTICLE XVI. 
 
 OP RELIGIOUS AND LITERARY SOCIETIES. 
 
 1. No society of any kind shall be formed by the students 
 of the University, without the consent of the Faculty, nor until 
 its constitution shall have been submitted to them for their 
 approval. 
 
 2. Such as the Faculty may approve, shall be subject to the 
 laws and regulations of the University; and their property 
 shall be under the care and guardianship of the Board. 
 
 3. They shall carefully observe and respect all such regula- 
 tions as the Faculty may prescribe, respecting their times of 
 meeting, the length and character of their exercises, etc. 
 
 4. They shall have power to adopt their own rules for the 
 management of their business during the prescribed period of 
 their meeting ; provided, that these shall not be inconsistent 
 with the laws of the Board, or the regulations of the Faculty. 
 
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 5. There shall be no literary contests between any societies 
 connected with the University. 
 
 6. Anj^ society which shall fail to observe and respect the 
 above laws, may be suspended for a time, at the discretion of 
 the Faculty. 
 
 AETICLB XYII. 
 
 OF THE LIBRARY. 
 
 1. The Library shall be under the direction of the Faculty, 
 who shall appoint one of their own number, or some other 
 suitable person, to act as Librarian. 
 
 2. It shall be the duty of the Librarian to take good care of 
 all the books, charts, etc., belonging to the Library; to arrange 
 them in proper order, and to keep a catalogue of all the books 
 presented or purchased for the use of the Library. 
 
 3. He shall also carefully register all books taken from the 
 Library, noting the name of the borrower, the title of the book, 
 the time when borrowed, and when returned. 
 
 4. One week before the annual meeting of the Board of 
 Curators, the Librarian shall make to the Executive Committee 
 a written report, in which he shall state the condition and wants 
 of the Library; the number of books received during the year; 
 the number lost or injured, and any other matters pertaining to 
 the Library, that may seem to require their attention. It shall 
 also be his duty to collect all fines for injuries done to the 
 Library. 
 
 5. The President, Professors, instructors, tutors, students. 
 Curators, and all resident graduates, shall have the right to 
 draw books from the Library. Other persons may also have 
 the privilege of drawing books therefrom, by obtaining per- 
 mission from the Faculty, and subscribing to an engagement to 
 conform to all the laws and regulations of the same, and to 
 make good all damages or losses thereto, which they may occa- 
 sion or permit. Eut no person shall borrow a book from the 
 Library without the knowledge of the Librarian or President, 
 and no other person shall have a key to the Library. 
 
 6. It shall also be unlawful for any person to carry a book 
 belonging to the Library bej^ond the precincts of Harrods- 
 burgh; and any one who shall violate this regulation, may be 
 deprived of the use of the Library, or required to pa}^ a fine 
 not exceeding one dollar, at the discretion of the Faculty. 
 
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 7. "Whoever shall borrow a book from the Library, shall pay 
 at the discretion of the Librarian for any injury done to it 
 while in his possession. In case of the loss of a volume, the 
 borrower shall be required to replaee the same, or to pay the value 
 thereof in money ; and if the volume be one of a set, he shall 
 either replace the whole set or pay the value of it in money. 
 
 8. All books for the Library shall be purchased under the 
 direction of the Faculty, and deposited in the Library. 
 
 9. The Faculty shall have power to determine on what days 
 and at what hours the Library shall be open, and to make any 
 other regulations for its management that may not be incon- 
 sistent with the provisions of this article. 
 
 AETICLE XVIII. 
 
 OF TERMS, RECESSES AND COMMENCEMENTS. 
 
 1. The University year shall consist of but one session. 
 which shall begin on the third Monday of September, and end 
 on the fourth Wednesday of June. 
 
 2. There shall be an Annual Eecess, commencing on the 
 24th of December, and ending on the 2d of January. Under 
 extraordinary circumstances, the Faculty may also, at their 
 discretion, allow such partial or total suspension of the regular 
 exercises of the University, as may seem to be expedient or 
 necessary. 
 
 3. The Annual Commencement shall take place on the fourth 
 Wednesday of June, when such students as may be found 
 worthy, shall receive the regular degree of A. B. or A. M., on 
 the conditions before prescribed. This shall also be the usual 
 time of conferring honorary degrees. 
 
 AETICLE XIX. 
 
 OF BOARDING HOUSES. 
 
 1. Students will be allowed to select their own places of 
 boarding, subject in all cases to the approval and supervision of 
 the Faculty. But no student shall be permitted to board at 
 any house where intoxicating liquors are sold, or where the 
 rules of propriety and good order are in any other respect dis- 
 regarded. Frequent changes of boarding-houses shall be dis- 
 couraged. 
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 2. Every student shall preserve order and decorum in his 
 own room, and shall be responsible for any disorder in the 
 same, unless he give information, when in his power, of the 
 person or persons by whom it was committed. 
 
 AETICLB XX. 
 
 OF FEES AND CHARGES. 
 
 1. Every student except in the cases hereafter prescribed, shall 
 pay in advance, a Tuition fee of thirty dollars per session ; and a 
 Janitor's fee of four dollars per session. An additional fee will 
 also be charged for instruction in the Modern Languages. 
 
 2. Besides these every new student shall pay, on entering 
 the University, a Matriculation fee of five dollars; and every 
 graduate in any School, shall pay to the Professor in charge, a fee 
 of three dollars for a Certificate of Graduation in the same. A 
 fee of ten dollars will also be required for the degree of A. M. 
 
 3. Students will be charged extra for any damages that they 
 may do to any of the buildings or appurtenances belonging to the 
 University. 
 
 AETICLE XXI. 
 
 OF GRATUITOUS INSTRUCTION. 
 
 1. Indigent and pious young men who desire to qualify them- 
 selves for Teaching or for the Christian Ministry, may be ad- 
 mitted into the University free of tuition. They must, however, 
 in all cases, present to the Faculty satisfactory evidence of their 
 character and circumstances. 
 
 2. They shall also be required to sign a written obligation to 
 devote themselves to the profession of Teaching or Preaching ; 
 or to pay with interest the whole amount of their Tuition fees, 
 if at any time they should wholly abandon it, or make it sub- 
 ordinate to any other calling. 
 
 3. The Faculty may also in cases of extraordinary embar- 
 rassment, grant gratuitous instruction to any student of good 
 moral character. And if at any time, they should find it neces- 
 sar}^ to employ a student of advanced standing and approved 
 character to give instruction to a preparatory class, they may 
 remit his tuition as a reward for the services rendered. 
 
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 AETICLE XXII. 
 
 OP THE GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS. 
 
 1. The Faculty with the Executive Committee shall exercise 
 a general care and oversight over the University Grounds and 
 Buildings ; they shall also assess and collect fines for all injuries 
 done to the same. 
 
 2. During the session, neither the Grounds nor Buildings 
 shall be appropriated to any other purpose than that required 
 by the legitimate business and duties of the Faculty, without 
 their consent. 
 
 3. The Faculty shall appoint a Janitor, whose dnty it shall 
 be to keep the rooms of the University clean and in good order; 
 to attend to the fires required in the same ; to render whatever 
 service may be necessaiy in any of the departments; to wait 
 upon the meetings of the Faculty ; to attend to the ringing of 
 the Bell at the prescribed times; to keep the walks and fences 
 in good order ; to plant and cultivate shrubbery ; and to do such 
 other acts of service in connection with the details of disciiDline, 
 etc., as the Faculty may require. 
 
 4. No meeting of any kind shall be held in the University 
 Buildings later than 10 o'clock, P. M. And it shall be the duty 
 of the Janitor to see that at that hour, the fires are covered, the 
 doors locked, and every thing left in a state of security. 
 
 AETICLE XXIII. 
 
 OP THE TAYLOR ACADEMY. 
 
 1. For the present and till otherwise ordered, there shall be 
 connected with the University a Preparatory and Normal 
 School, under the name and style of The Taylor Academy. It 
 shall be under the general supervision and government of the 
 President, aided by a Principal and as many Assistants as the 
 wants and exigencies of the School may render necessary. 
 
 2. The special design of the Academy is to prepare young 
 men for the University classes and for the profession of Teach- 
 ing. But boys ten years of age, of good behavior, and who 
 can write a legible hand, spell with correctness English words 
 in common use, read plain English prose with ease and pro- 
 priety, solve questions in the four fundamental rules of Arith- 
 metic, and answer Geographical questions respecting the natural 
 features and civil divisions of the Earth, may also be admitted. 
 
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 3. The following shall be the course of study and instruction, 
 subject to such changes and modifications as the President may 
 think expedient, 
 
 FIRST YEAR. 
 
 Spelling and Defining words; Eeading; Penmanship; Modern 
 Geography with the use of the Grlobes and Geographical Charts ; 
 History of the United States ; Mental and Practical Arithmetic ; 
 Arithmetical Tables ; Bible Recitations, and Vocal Music. 
 
 SECOND YEAR. 
 
 Eeading, Writing, and Modern Geography continued ; Out- 
 lines of Modern History; Ancient Geography commenced; Arith- 
 metic; Book-keeping ; English Grammar with constant Practical 
 exercises; Bible Eecitations ; Vocal Music; and Practical Exer- 
 cises in Composition and Declamation, 
 
 THIRD YEAR, 
 
 English Grammar and Ancient Geography continued ; Outlines 
 of Ancient History; Arithmetic completed ; Elements of Algebra 
 commenced ; Latin Grammar ; Latin Eeader ; Instruction in 
 Didactics ; Bible Eecitations ; Vocal Music ; English Composi- 
 tion and Declamation, 
 
 FOURTH YEAR, 
 
 English Grammar completed ; Outlines of Physiology ; Ele- 
 ments of Algebra completed ; Instruction in Didactics continued ; J 
 Latin Grammar continued; Caesar; Sallust; Virgil's Bucolics 
 and Georgics ; Greek Grammar ; Greek Eeader ; Selections from 
 the Greek Testament ; Bible Eecitation ; Vocal Music ; English 
 Composition and Declamation. 
 
 4. The students of the Academy shall, in general, be subject 
 to the same laws that are binding on the students of the Uni- 
 versity, with such additional and special regulations as the 
 President and Principal may adopt for their instruction and 
 government. But all under fourteen years of age, must remain 
 in the rooms of the Academy, and study at least six hours per 
 diem, under the immediate supervision of the Principal and his 
 Assistants, 
 
 5. The Tuition fee and the Janitor's fee shall be the same in 
 the Academy as in the University ; but no matriculation fee will 
 be required of those whose studies shall be confined exclusively 
 to the Academical course. 
 
ADDRESS. 
 
 k: B isr T xj o e: "2" XJnsri-VEH.siT^sr. 
 
 To THE Friends op Education in the West and South : 
 
 Under a late Act of the Legislature of Kentucky, amending 
 the Charter of Bacon College, and remodeling and re-organizing 
 it upon the more liberal and comprehensive plan of a Univer- 
 sity, with the above title, the undersigned were designated as its 
 Board of Curators, and at a late meeting, proceeded to lay out 
 the ground-work of the enterprise in accordance with the pro- 
 visions of the Charter as its organic law. 
 
 We desire to call your attention to the history, aims and 
 objects of this Institution. The brethren of the Christian 
 Church in Kentucky, now numbering some 50,000, and embrac- 
 ing, we may say without boasting, a large share of the wealth, 
 intelligence, and piety of the State, in view of their position 
 and responsibilities, and the broad field of culture lying before 
 them in the Mississippi Valley, have been endeavoring for some 
 years, to establish in their midst a first-class Institution of learn- 
 ing. With a nucleus of some $20,000 worth of property and funds 
 on hand to begin with, which was all that remained of Bacon 
 College, after various unsuccessful eflbrts to build it up, a plan 
 for its permanent endowment has been presented and prose- 
 cuted, which has resulted thus far in securing, in addition to 
 the above, $150,000 of the most solvent and available subscrip- 
 tions which have been affected but little by the financial pres- 
 sure, and which are being promptly paid up as they fall due. 
 
 While this is a better pecuniary basis than any Institution in 
 the West has, so far as is known to us^ yet it is but a small part 
 of the amount which we hope, with the Divine blessing, to 
 secure, as the foundation of such an enterjarise as we are pro- 
 jecting. Nor will it be regarded as unreasonable to say, that 
 but little less than a half million of dollars, in the way of En- 
 dowments, Scholarships, Prizes, etc., will ultimately satisfy the 
 
38 Kentucky Univeksity. 
 
 just expectation of those who take liberal views of the great 
 work before us. It is proper to state, that the above subscrip- 
 tions have been obtained from comparatively a few persons in 
 the central counties of Kentucky, and that a large part of the 
 State, to which the work is at present confined, has not as yet 
 been appealed to. But it is the deliberate purpose of Bro. John 
 B. Bowman, who has been prosecuting the plan of endowment, 
 and whose labors have been only temporarily suspended, in view 
 of the financial crisis in the country, to devote his life and ener- 
 gies to it, so long as his labors will be acceptable to his brethren, 
 and they will co-operate with him for the consummation of 
 what has been so well begun. We rejoice in the repeated assur- 
 ances which have been given, that there are many noble-hearted 
 friends throughout the State, who are only awaiting an oppor- 
 tunity to respond to the appeals in its behalf. 
 
 We desire to say, that while we are endeavoring to build up 
 an Institution which will meet the actual and pressing wants of 
 our State and the Church, and while we have strong moral and 
 pecuniary influences of a local character to foster and support it, 
 yet we distinctly avow, that no sectional or sectarian element shall 
 be a constituent of its organization, and that especially will the 
 beneficiary provisions of its Ministerial and ISTormal Depart- 
 ments be liberal and accessible to worth and merit of every 
 creed and latitude. We believe that here in the center of our 
 noble State, ever conservative and Union-loving and cherishing,, 
 and in the heart of the broad Mississippi Valley, we have one 
 of the best stand-points for building up a first-class University, 
 which in the plan and details of its organization, is designed to 
 be commensurate with the educational wants of the people, who 
 are rapidly taking possession of this their glorious heritage. 
 And what is the field before us? This Yalley, whose " Father 
 of Waters " with his various tributaries, drains and laves half 
 of the States and Territories of our vast confederacy, rich in 
 the elements of growth and greatness, capable of being the 
 granary of the world, and the nursery of empires, and the re- 
 alities of whose wealth and resources are even now more than 
 has been fabled of any orient clime, is, in the Providence of 
 God, rapidly developing under the energy and enterprise of our 
 wonderful Anglo Saxon race, whose spirit of conquest, religious, 
 literary, and commercial, is as rapid in its strides as it is insati- 
 able in its wants. While, then, its people are teeming and 
 swarming in from all parts of the civilized world, and are run- 
 
Kentucky University. 39 
 
 ning to and fro with all the activity and elasticity of their giant 
 youth, and while the genius of commerce and ai't is triumphing 
 by the power of steam, and with the speed of lightning, and its 
 voice is omnipotent, whether it is heard humming in the 
 workshop, or whizzing over the broad plains, shall we not, at the 
 same time, lay firm and deep the foundations for the temples of 
 science and i*eligion, whose light shall he seen afar off? Why 
 should we not be as progressive in the cause of education as in 
 our industrial and commercial enterprises, and why should we be 
 dependent upon New England or Old England for our best 
 educational facilities, when we are so rich in ability to have our 
 own, and when our wants, in this respect, are so varied and 
 pressing? It is true that we have, scattered all over the West, 
 scores of unendowed, half-starved, sickly, puny Institutions, 
 called Colleges and Universities, many indeed of which, have 
 their piles of bricks, stones and mortar, making an imposing 
 show. But how many of them, in the way of Endowments, 
 Scholarships, Libraries, Instruments, and literary and scientific 
 men. the true apparatus of an education, are prepared to fur- 
 nish to our young men such a liberal education as the times and 
 the peculiar circumstances of our age and country demand? 
 And above all, how few secure and enforce that effective discip- 
 line, which at the same time is conservative of good morals, and 
 productive of good scholars ! It is to be confessed and regretted, 
 that while our march has been onward and upward in other 
 respects, we have been lacking in this, and have, as yet, to be 
 considered as empirics ; so much so, that it is a problem not 
 solved, whether our Colleges are a curse or a blessing. While, 
 then, we have no spirit of antagonism to any other Institutions, 
 but are kind and catholic in feeling to all. we would not be deemed 
 arrogant in proposing to build upon a more modern basis an In- 
 stitution equal to any in America, — an institution for young 
 men instead of hoys, with a high grade of scholarship, and which, 
 especially, in its ministeral, normal, scientific, and agricultural 
 Departments, will meet the wants of our young giant West. 
 For it does seem that as tlie "Star of Empire" is moving on- 
 ward and westward, there is opened up a special missionary 
 field for the Minister, Teacher, and intelligently educated Farmer. 
 
 We only propose, in our day and generation, to lay ih.Q founda- 
 tion of such an institution, with the full hope and confidence that 
 others to come will build upon and perfect the siiperstructure. 
 
 To such a work, with the help of the Lord, we have come up. 
 
40 Kentucky University. 
 
 With a full sense of tlie difficulties and responsibilities, but witb 
 a firm reliance on His aid, we have begun it. With these com- 
 prehensive views, and looking far into the future, and lifting our 
 minds above any local or selfish influences, we desire to labor 
 for the greatest permanency and usefulness. We will endeavor 
 to proceed slowly, cautiously, measuring every step. We have 
 been fortunate in securing the passage of a charter most 
 liberal and in many respects peculiar in its provisions, and con- 
 taining all the privileges necessary for carrying out the designs 
 of the founders upon the most extended scale. At its late 
 meeting, the Board of Curators enacted the above system of 
 By-Laws, Statute-Laws, Course of Study, etc., for the organi- 
 zation and government of the Collegiate and Academical Depart- 
 ments of the Institution. 
 
 This schedule, while it embraces the principle features of our 
 best American Colleges, makes some important departures from 
 the ordinary course of discipline and instruction pursued in them. 
 
 The first step in the work of organization has been to estab- 
 lish a Primary and Normal Department, which is now in very 
 successful operation under the control of efficient instructors. 
 They have also established for the present, six schools or depart- 
 ments, embracing a regular college course, most of the chairs of 
 which have been already filled by gentlemen eminent for their 
 learning and professional experience, who have been connected 
 with some of the best Institutions of the country, and whose 
 services are at the command of the Board, as they will be needed. 
 The full and complete organization of the Collegiate Depart- 
 ment will be effected at the earliest day that the collection of 
 the funds now falling due will render practicable. They have 
 in their organic law, and in their enactments, thrown around 
 these funds the strongest safeguards, and such an investment of 
 them will be made from time to time as will look to the greatest 
 permanency. 
 
 Such is a brief view of the designs and labors, thus far, of 
 those who have projected this enterprise ; and we congratulate 
 its friends, that all things are moving on in harmony with the 
 great end proposed, and that there is nought else but a future 
 of hope and promise before us. 
 
 Such, friends and brethren of the South and West, is the begin- 
 ning of a work to which we invite your candid and earnest atten- 
 tion, and which, we think, is worthy of the sympathies and 
 co-operation of every Christian and Philanthropist. And we 
 
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 would say, especially to such of our friends as have been richly 
 blessed by a kind Providence with the heart and ability to do 
 a good deed, and who desire, in view of their obligations to God, 
 and the wants of humanity, to find Bomethin g permanent and use- 
 ful, upon which to rest their benevolence, here is an applicant 
 that is needful and will be thankful. We want, yet, endowments 
 of professorships, beneficiary foundations, prize-funds, etc., in 
 order to perfect the great scheme on hand. You who have your 
 thousands to spare, and who would see the fruits of your good 
 works while you live, and you who wish to bequeath a legacy 
 when you die to an heir that will not waste it or forget you, 
 look with charity upon this young, rising Institution, and emu- 
 lating the noble example of those of other States who are so 
 liberally dispensing of their abundance to the upbuilding of 
 other Institutions, bless it, and its grateful beneficiaries will rise 
 uj) in a far, far future and call yoit blessed. 
 
 To such of its friends as have so far nobly responded to its 
 aj)peals, we tender the warmest thanks, and ask them still to 
 stand by it and foster it, and by their hearts' earnest prayers 
 and sympathies, aid. us in our labors; all of which we devoutly 
 pray may redound to the glory of God and the good of our race. • 
 
 Wm. Morton, Chairman. 
 John B. Bowman, James Taylor, 
 
 Jno. Aug. Williams, Ben. C. Allen, 
 
 A. G. Kyle, A. H. Bowman, 
 
 J. A. Dearborn, D. W. Thompson, 
 
 A. G. Vivion, P. B. Thompson, 
 
 W. A. Cook, G. D. Kunyan, 
 
 A. Gallatin Talbott, P. B. Mason, 
 
 C. T. Worthington, G. W. Givens, 
 
 Jas. C. Stone, A. G. Herndon, 
 
 E. C. Graves, Joseph Wasson, 
 
 W. W. McKinney, John Curd, 
 
 John Allen Gano, W. L. Williams, 
 
 Zach. F. Smith, J. I. Eogers, 
 
 Theodore S. Bell, Kobert C. Eice. 
 
 Enos Campbell, 
 
FACULTY (Elect). 
 
 ROBERT MILLIGAI^T, A. M., 
 
 President, 
 
 PROFESSOR OF BIBLICAL LLTERATURE, ETHICS, ETC. 
 
 ROBERT RICHARDSOl^, A. M. 
 
 Vice President, 
 
 PROFESSOR OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE. 
 
 HENRY H. WHITE, A. M. 
 
 PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS. 
 
 JOHK H. ]!^EYILLE, A. M., 
 
 PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT LANGUAGES. 
 
 PROFESSOR OF BELLES-LETTRES, HISTORY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE. 
 
 PROFESSOR OF MODERN LANGUAGES. 
 
 WILLIAM C. PIPER 
 
 PRINCIPAL OF TAYLOR ACADEMY. 
 
 JOSEPH B. MYERS, 
 
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 
 
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