Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-20

MIR. JOHN Is. BOWMAN QAS SScuLSN
for Kentucky a University anda pro-
gressive system of university educa-
ton nearly akin to that so hand
somely endowed by Mr.. EZRA Cor
NELL, ofNew York. He has not been
able to donate so much money to his
scheme as MI. CORNELL, but he has
given quite as much energy, hearty
devotion and time. Since 1866 he has
been engaged in the good work of en-
deavoring to realize what has been
the dream of his life, and now, under
the imposing title of the University of
Kentucky, after the lapse of fourteen
years, Mr.. BOWMAN has the pleasure
ofwitnessing its complete success, and
of participating directly as Regent in
the graduation of the first class. AS
we read the pages of the elegantly
printed catalogue before US we are
surprised at the obstacles encountered
by MI. BOWMAN in the prosecution of
his plan, and gratiied beyond meas
ure at his persistency and indomita-
BILE will expressed in the idea that he
was determined TO secure the greatest
good of the greatest number through
a system of education that wouldcom-
bine all that has been approved by
the educators Of the past, with all that
has been called into existence by the
progressive tendencies of the times
and the practical demands of modern
civilization. To this end the noble
philanthropist and benefactor of his
race, after securing control of the old
time Pennsylvania University and the
State Agricultural College, united
them into the University then at Har-
rodsburg, locating the whole upon
the historic lands of Ashland"
with an endowment of $550,0O0 from
the people of the State, and $4,000
acres of land from the Federal Gov
eminent. The institution thus raised
to the highest plain as to endowment,
for the most thorough usefulness and
utilization of its means has been di-
vided into six colleges, viz: n of
Science, Literature and Art; one Of
Agriculture and Mechanics; one Of
the Bible; a normal College, and one
each of Law and Medicine. These
are divided into schools, presided
over by competent professors, and
arranged upon aPlan and principle in
no degree less excellent than that
which distinguishes its great protG-
type the Cornell University of New
York. Whatever a young man de-
sires to know, whatever is essential to
practical life a4d to fit men for its bat
ties, is here laid down and taught.
If the student is DESTROYS of becoming
a practical farmer, civil or military
engineer, doctor of laws or divinity,
merchant or business man, he has but
10 enter the College where such
speciality is the subject of instruction,
and after three or four years he is
graduated with a diploma that is no
merely ornamental "sheepskin," but
a document that pronounces him a
~sccessful master of art, of science, of
agriculture, trade or mechanics.
Those students who wish to defray
ga portion of their expenses while
" acquiring their education, are re-
Z" quired to labor four hours
" upon the farm, or five hours
" in the shops, six days in the
+" week, for which they will receive
A" from five to ten cents per hour.
4" Job work is sometimes assigned to
" students, for which they receive
wages according to stipulation. All
&c other students are required TO work
"two hours per day Except on drill
" days. in the Horticultural depart
d" ment, receiving no compensation
Every student is enrolled as a men,
Der of the battalion, and all are sub
jected to military discipline, uniform
ity and drill. 1t would be impossible
in the limits of an ordinary newspa-
per article, to convey to the readers of
the APPEAL anything like a thor
comprehensive idea of the
magnitude, scope or e~xcellencies of
the Kentucky University. We mere
" sketch them, INDUCING the hope
that our friends, and the friends of
education everywhere throughout the
will at once put themselves in
communication with Mr.. BOWMAN,
procure copies of the beautifully ar
catalogue, and fill in the pic
5ure for themselves at their pleasure.
Would that Tennessee had a BowMAN
,r a CORNELL to rearrange our State
Institution, and establish it upon a
lasis of usefulness like that which I'M
lerlies the Kentucky and the Cornell
Universities. 1t should be among the
works of the coming Constitu-
ional Convention to interfere In that
by the most speedy and most
borough reconstruction of our Agri-
ultural College.