Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-02-28
KENTUCKY MILITARY INSTITUTE

| This Institution, lately so fourishing and pop 4
ular, re-opened the lst Monday of March 1851, 81
to continue twenty weeks, until vacation, resumng Ea
its annual sessions the I'd Monday of Septem- III
Der. Col T P Allen has been appointed to the W
Superintendency, assisted by Col w Morgan, late
Joint Superintendent of the Western Military Inst
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 advantages to those seek
ing education eminently scientific and practcal;-
among them-a course of study unusually full in Math
ematics and its applications to Mechanics, Machines
and Construction in Natural Science and its applica-
lions to the Arts, Agriculture, and Mines in ancient
and Modern Languages, and in English Literature =
adding Bookkeeping for the business A gov
eminent, all that lmports-the decipline IA
ctated by every door of quarters being visible from
the commandments Office A position accessible by
steamboats, to Frankfort, yet retred-sx miles in the
cOuntyan elevated locality unsurpassed in the West
for heathulness with permanent brick buildings ee-
giant, extensive and commodus erected years ago
at very heavy cost: Apparatus and instruments
fully adequate to the wants of the ecture-room and
the field Instruction. theoretical and practical in
Plane and Geodetic Surveying, Levelling, and all
branches OF Civil Eng ineerng. with drawing, field
practice and use of instruments.
The Institute suspended under the pressure OF
debts incurred in building barracks, classrooms soci-
ety-rooms, chapel &c these liabilities have all been
discharged, and it re-opened untrannaeed and with
advantages unequalled by any institution of the kind
in the West.
The charge for tuition board washing, fuel, lights,
&c, is Sl60 per annum payable semi-annually in adj
vance. Two dollars per semi-annua session is added
surgeons fee. With the cooperation of parents,
all expences can be kept within 1925 per session /;
which sum will be required to be deposited with Col.
E. H Taylor, Cashier of the Branch Bank of Kentucky
Frankfort, who has been appointed by the Board,
Treasurer of the Institute
Address either of the Superntendents at "Kentucky
Military Institute, Frankfort, Kentucky
P. DUDLEY, Adj't Gen. and
President of the Board.
JOHN [. HELM,
J. SPEED SMITH,
JOHN w. RUSSELL, :
d. THOMPSON,
Frankfort, KY, 1851. Visitors.
ACADEMIC STAFF
Col R T ALLEN A NJ Superintendent and Professor Of
lLqdtsmqtcs and Natural Science
COL E. w MORGAN, Joint Superintendent and Professor of
IlechqRtcs and Engineering.
Ii Col F. A HALL A NJ, Professor of Ancient Languages
NJ. AUGUSTA COPPINS, Professor of Modern Languages
JACOB T. DICKINSON, NJ D. Surgeon Professor Of An
atonay and Physiology.
CAPT R j. ADCOCK A B.. Assistant Prof of Mathematics
E. H. TAYLOR, Esq, Treasurer
MAJ. r. N ALLEN Quarter Master.
MAJ. JOHN NOURSE, AdjutaRt and accountant
WATSON & PHYTHIAN, Consulting Physicians