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KENTUCKY STATE COLLEGE.  courses leading to the bachelor's degree. Connected with the college is an agricultural experimental station, with a farm of 48 acres. The faculty in 1902 numbered 42, and the attendance was 611, including 379 collegiate, and 17 graduate students. The library contained 5000 volumes.  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.  KENTUCKY WARBLER. One of the most beautiful of the American wood-warblers (Geothlypis formosa), migratory and numerous in summer in the southeastern parts of the United States. It is clear olive-green, bright yellow below; head and neck of male black, with a yellow stripe above and behind the eye. In the female the black is replaced by dusky olive. Its terrestrial habits lead it to haunt thickets near streams for the most part, and its nest is made on or near the ground. See, and Colored Plate of.  KENT′VILLE. The capital of King's County, Nova Scotia, Canada, on the Cornwallis River, 55 miles northwest of Halifax (Map:, K 4). It has mills and factories, and is the headquarters of the Dominion Atlantic Railway. It is a favorite angling and shooting resort. Population, in 1901, 1731.  KENYON,, (1863— ). A distinguished English classical scholar and paleographist, born in London. He graduated at New College, Oxford; was made fellow of Magdalen College (1888) and assistant keeper of MSS. in the British Museum (1889—). Mr. Kenyon has done valuable service in the cause of classical studies by his publications of texts discovered in papyri belonging to the British Museum. The most important of these are: Aristotle's Constitution of Athens (1891); Herondas (1891); Hyperides (1891-92); Bacchylides (1897); and other classical texts. He has also published: Paleography of Greek Papyri (1899); Handbook to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament (1901); and various works on biblical manuscripts. Besides these he has edited the poems and letters of the Brownings. He has received the degree of Litt.D. from Durham, and Ph.D. from the University of Halle.  KENYON, (1784-1856). A British poet and philanthropist. He was born on the island

of Jamaica, West Indies; was left an orphan while a schoolboy in Bristol, England; and was educated at the Charterhouse, London, and at Peterhouse College, Cambridge. He became the associate and friend of Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Charles Lamb, the Brownings, and numerous other celebrities, including Bayard Taylor and James T. Fields, and, possessed of great wealth, was the helpful and unostentatious benefactor of many of the more needy of his literary friends. His poetical works include: A Rhymed Plea for Tolerance (1833); Poems for the Most Part Occasional (1838); and A Day at Tivoli, with Other Verses (1849). He was twice married, and his second wife is the ‘Nea’ of some of his most graceful verses. He was widely known for his hospitality, his generosity, and his charities. Eighty legatees were mentioned in his will, which included various benevolent institutions and many of his friends.  KENYON COLLEGE. A college under the control of the Protestant Episcopal Church, incorporated in 1824 at Worthington, Ohio, under the name of the Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the Diocese of Ohio, and removed to Gambier in 1827. After many changes of place, three institutions were established—a theological seminary, a college, and a preparatory school. The corporate name was changed in 1891 to Kenyon College. In 1903 Kenyon had a faculty of 28, and a student enrollment of 109 in the college, 24 in the theological seminary, and 70 in the grammar school. The library contained 35,000 volumes. The buildings and grounds were valued at $300,000, and the whole amount of property under the control of the college at $846,000. The endowment was $501,000, and the gross income $33,000. In 1901 Senator Hanna, of Ohio, gave $60,000 for the erection of a new dormitory. Kenyon has been known as one of the first and best colleges west of the Alleghanies. It has had many distinguished graduates, among them Rutherford B. Hayes, Edwin M. Stanton, Henry W. Davis, and Stanley Matthews.  KE′OKUK. A city and one of the county-seats of Lee County, Iowa, 160 miles southeast of the State capital, Des Moines; at the confluence of the Mississippi and Des Moines rivers; and on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, the Toledo, Peoria and Western, the Wabash, and other railroads (Map:, F 4). It is at the foot of the Des Moines Rapids of the Mississippi, around which a canal eight miles long with three sets of locks, built by the Federal Government at a cost of between seven and eight million dollars, and opened in 1877, provides a navigable waterway. With these transportation facilities, both by rail and by water, Keokuk has developed into an important wholesale and jobbing place, and, as the centre of a fertile agricultural section, controls an extensive trade in farm products. The river falls 21 feet in 12 miles, affording at this point great possibilities for water-power, estimated at from fifty thousand to five hundred thousand horse-power, which is now being developed. The industrial establishments include lumber-mills, powder-works, canning and pickle establishments, a poultry-packing plant, tin-can factory, stove-works, garment factories, boot and shoe factories, a cereal factory, and flour-mills. The city, locally known as the ‘Gate City,’ <section end="Keokuk (Iowa)" />