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Inaugural Dissertations, written by the Medical graduates of
Transylvania. These are bound up in manuscript volumes,
containing in the whole perhaps five and twenty thousand pages,
(possibly more) and carefully preserved in the library of the
institution. Many of them are productions of peculiar merit;
and, united, they embody a much greater amount of historical
and philosophical intelligence respecting the Valley of the Mis-
sissippi, than is any where else to be found. To the future
historian of Medicine in the West, they will serve as docu-
ments of unequalled value. I need not add, that they are the
product of the Medical Department of Transylvania.

IV. The School we'll benefit the West, by retaining at home
largesums of money, which would be otherwise expended on the
education ‘of western youth, in the Schools of the east.

In her fulfilment of this prediction, the School of Transyl-
vania has surpassed immeasurably all anticipation that reason
seemed to warrant, or hope to inspire. A brief exposition
will prove this.

Since the commencement of her operations, in 1819, the
institution has educated thirteen hundred and seventy-one
pupils from the State of Kentucky. Had all these repaired
for education to the School of Philadelphia, attended two full
courses of lectures, and graduated there, each must have car-
ried with him at least a thousand dollars, (many would have car-
ried much more) all of which would have been lost to the State.
For, of all the money that passes the mountains, and makes
its way to the eastern capitals, very little returns. A thous-
and dollars multiplied into thirteen hundred and seventy-one,
gives a product of one million, three hundred and seventy-one
thousand dollars, of which the State of Kentucky would have
been drained, through the channel of eastern education. Sup-
pose the pupils to have attended but one course of lectures in
Philadelphia, and not graduated, the sum they would have ta-
ken from their native State, and bestowed on another, would
have been six hundred and eighty-five thousand, five hundred
dollars. Admit that one third of them only had attended two
courses of lectures and graduated, which is perhaps a fair esti-

 

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mate; in that case Kentucky would have lost, by the measure,
about a million of dollars. So much then has the School of
Transylvania saved. already to her parent State.

Shall I be told that, had not the School of Transylvania
been erected, half the number of thirteen hundred and seventy~
one Kentuckians would not have devoted themselves to medi-
cine? and that therefore the sum specified would not have been
thus transported to the east? Be it so. The alternative is
the greater evil of the two. If Kentucky had not been drain-
ed of her money by eastern schools, her young men would
have remained uneducated. Comparative ignorance therefore
would have accompanied her saving of wealth. And that ig-
norance would have been more discreditable to her present
and future generations, than the hoarding of ten millions of
dollars could compensate. Nor would it have discredited her
only——~it would have deeply injured her. She must have had
physicians of some kind. These then would necessarily have
been either unlettered and many of them unprincipled empirics,
or eastern young men, educated in eastern Schools, where a
competent knowledge of Western complaints could not be im-
parted to them. The consequence is plain. Lamentable un-
skilfulness in practice must have prevailed for a time with eve-
ry new-come physician from the Atlantic Schools, and abun-
dant suffering and mortality have been the issue.

But the School of Transylvania has not merely saved money
to the State of Kentucky; she has also brought into it a very
large amount, which would not otherwise have reached it.
She has educated from the surrounding States (several eastern
States included) nineteen hundred and fifty-seven pupils. Of
these, a great number have attended two and some three
courses of lectures; and not a few of them have resided in the
State, from eighteen months to two or three years. On an av-
erage, therefore, they must have expended in the State at least
five hundred dollars a piece—--I doubt not considerably more.
Five hundred multiplied into nineteen hundred and fifty-seven,
gives nine hundred and seventy-eight thousand, five-hundred.
So many dollars then has the School of Transylvania brought

 

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of that body of Christians who contributed so largely to the founding of
the original Kentucky University, and who own so large a part of the
University as now constituted, and the committee are not able to see
much hope of reconciliation under the present management.

3d. The purely agricultural and mechanical advantages heretofore de—
rived have been meager, and we see no prospect of their being increased.

4th. On the other hand, the State, by virtue of her contract with the
University, has advantages which should have their weight. She has, as
long as the contract exists, the right to use the lands of the University;
she has the privilege of having State students attend the College of Arts;
she has the privilege of the apparatus, 850., of Transylvania University.
These advantages, however, are impaired somewhat by the fact that the
two places, the Agricultural and Mechanical Department and Transylva-
nia, are situated about one and a half miles apart; and she has the advan-
tage of the buildings of the Agricultural and Mechanical Department.
As long as the present alliance continues, the foregoing are some, but not
all of the advantages and disadvantages of the connection. '

If a severance is had, it is the conclusion of the committee that many
difficult and delicate questions, touching the rights of various partiesin
interest in Kentucky University and Transylvania, will spring up for
- settlement, not affecting the Agricultural and Mechanical College, but
iiafiecting Transylvania University and..the power of the State to exercise -
any control thereover so long as Kentucky University sees proper to stand
by the compact between them.

But without giving more of the testimony elicited, or more specifically
the conclusions reached by the committee upon the various branches
involved in the investigation, we are satisfied that the facts justify us
in the following recommendations:

1. The repeal of so much of the act of February 28, 1865, as establishes
the Agricultural and Mechanical College as one of the Colleges of Ken- ‘
tucky University, and assumption by the State of the absolute control
over the fund heretofore contributed to the Kentucky University; said
repeal to take effect at the termination of the present scholastic year.

2. The appointment of. trustees or commissioners, vested with authority
to settle any outstanding-difi'erences that may exist between the Agricul~
tural and Mechanical College and Kentucky University.

3. The appointment of a commission, for the purpose of locating the
Agricultural and Mechanical College at some convenient and suitable
place, under such restrictions as may seem best; but with the condition
that it never be placed under the control of any religious sect or denom-

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foregoing recommendations, together with provisions for carrying the '
same into effect, the passage of which they recommend.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
P. P. JOHNSTON, Chairman,
GEO. VVRIG-HT,
D. G. MITCHELL,
DAVID R. MURRAY,
FRANCIS L. CLEVELAND,
J. T. TARTAR,
O. U. MCELROY,
I'M. KASH,
R. L. SPALDING,
J. S. OWSLEY,
HENRY GEORGE,
M. HAMILTON.