The New International Encyclopædia/Kentucky University

KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY. An institution of higher learning, chartered in 1837 as Bacon College at Georgetown, Ky. It was removed to Harrodsburg in 1839, and in 1858 was reorganized as Kentucky University under an amended charter. After the destruction of the college by fire in 1864, it was consolidated with Transylvania University, founded in 1783, and took possession of that institution's property at Lexington. The university comprises four colleges: The College of Liberal Arts, the College of the Bible, and the Commercial College, at Lexington; and the Medical Department, at Louisville. Of these the Commercial and Liberal Arts departments are open to women. The Kentucky Agricultural and Mechanical College was one of the colleges of the university from 1865 until 1878, when it began an independent existence. The university is under the control of the Disciples of Christ. It had in 1902 about 60 instructors and 1200 students, an endowment of $300,000, grounds and buildings valued at $500,000. Its library of 20,000 volumes has been turned into the library of the city of Lexington for combined use.