Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-03-06
KENTUCKY MILITARY INSTITUTE

This Institution, lately so HourshIng and pop n
uar, re-opened on the lst Monday of March 1851 6.
to continue twenty weeks, until vacation resuming III
its annual sessions the I'd Monday of Septem lIk
ber Col R t P Allen has been appointed to the VI
Superintendency, assisted by Col w Morgan, late
Joint Superintendent of the Western Military Insti-
tute, and able and efficient Faculty. Both super
ntendents graduated with distinguished honors at West
Point, served regularly in the army, and have attained
high position in practical engineering and in the in
struction and government of youth.
The institute offers rare advantages to those seek
ing education emnently scientific and practical;-
among them-a of study unusually full in Math-
ematics and its applications to Mechanics Machines,
and Construction in Natural Science and its appHca-
tons to the Arts Agriculture and Mines in ancient
and Modern Languages, and in English Literature =
adding Bookkeeping for the business man gov
eminent, all that its name mports-the decpline fa-
citated by every door of quarters being visible from
the commandments Office A position accessible by
steamboats, Frankfort, yet retredsx miles in the
countryan elevated locality unsurpassed in the West
for heathfuness with permanent brick buildings ele
giant, extensive and commodus erected two years ago
at very heavy cost: Apparatus and instruments,
fully adequate to the wants of the lecture-room and
the field Instruction. theoretical and practical, in
Plane and Geodetc Surveying, Levelling, and all
branches of Civil Engineering: with drawing field
practice and use of instruments.
The Institute suspended under the pressure of
debts incurred in building barracks cassrooms, soc
ety-rooms, chapel &C.. these liabilities have all been
discharged, and it re-opened uRtrammeed and with
advantages unequdlleu by any institution OF the KIM
in the West.
The charge for tuition board washing, fuel, lights,
&c, is S160 per annum payable semi-annualy in ad
vance. Two dollars per semi-annual session is added
surgeons fee. With the cooperation of parents,
all expences be kept within 1925 per session );
which will be required to be deposited with Col.
E. H. Taylor Cashier of the Branch Bank of Kentucky
at Frankfort who has been appointed by the Board,
Treasurer of the Institute.
Address either of the Superintendent at "Kentucky
Military Institute, Frankfort, Kentucky
| P. DUDLEY, Adjt Gen. and
President of the Board.
JOHN L. HELM,
]. SPEED SMITH,
JOHN w. RUSSELL,
d. THOMPSON,
Frankfort, KY, 1851. Visitors
ACADEMIC STAFF
Col R. T. P ALLEN A NJ Superintendent and Professor Of
Mathematics and Natural Science
COL E. w. MORGAN, Joint Superintendent and Professor Of
| Mechanics and Engineering.
LIT Col f. A. HALL A NJ Professor Ancient gudges
NJ AUGUSTA COPPINS, Professor Of 1odern languages.
JACOB T. DICKINSON, M d. Surgeon and Professor Of An
dtomy and Physiology.
CAPT ADCoCK A. B., assistant Prof Of Mathematics.
| E. Fl. TAYLOR, Esq, Treasurer.
| MAJ. r. n. ALLEN Quarter Master.
MAJ. JOHN NOURSE, Adjutant and Accountant
| WATSON & PHYTHIAN, Consulting Physicians