[Footnote 34: Of Doctor Drake, Doctor S. D. Gross says: "Emphatically a self-made man, he possessed genius of a superior order and successfully coped with his colleagues for the highest place in the school (Transylvania). Of all the medical teachers I have ever known he was, all things considered, one of the most able, captivating, and impressive. There was an earnestness, a fiery zeal about him in the lecture-room which encircled him, as it were, with a halo of glory." (Autobiographical sketch of Doctor Short, Page 10.)] [Footnote 35: Mostly from _Collins' History of Kentucky_, second edition.] [Footnote 36: _Lexington Reporter_, March 5, 1821: "$17,000 are to be expended in Europe this year for the Medical Department. Doctor Caldwell (the agent) is already on his way. $5,000 only is the gift of the Legislature, while $6,000 rest upon the responsibility of Lexington alone and $6,000 upon that of _six individuals_ in the town who have generously stepped forward in this manner to anticipate the too cautious bounty of the Legislature."] [Footnote 37: The oration at the laying of the corner-stone was made by William T. Barry. The Trustees of Transylvania at that time were John Bradford, Thomas Bodley, Charles Humphreys, Benjamin Gratz, Elisha Warfield, James Fishback, John W. Hunt, James Trotter, Elisha I. Winter, George T. Chapman, William Leavy, Charles Wilkins, and George C. Light.] [Footnote 38: The same year, October 13, 1828: "The Board joined in a procession to the Episcopal Church, where the Reverend Alva Woods, D. D., was publicly installed as President of the Transylvania University." One thousand copies of his inaugural address to be printed for the Board.] [Footnote 39: Edward Everett, in a letter of introduction to Sir Walter Scott presented to Mr. Holley when intending to visit Europe, says of him: "As a philosopher, a scholar, and a gentleman he has left no superior in America."] [Footnote 40: See Pages 405-7, Autobiography of Doctor Charles Caldwell.] [Footnote 41: See Autobiography.] [Footnote 42: He was Dean of the Faculty.] [Footnote 43: It has been said that Doctor Caldwell was the first person of note to take up the study of Phrenology in this country.] [Footnote 44: Of Doctor Caldwell, Doctor Gross says: "A more majestic figure on the rostrum could hardly be imagined. Tall and erect in person, with a noble head and a piercing black eye, he was the _beau ideal_ of an elegant, entertaining, and accomplished lecturer. He was eloquent, but too artificial, for he had cultivated elocution too much before the mirror." (Autobiographical sketch of Doctor C. W. Short, Page 10.)] [Footnote 45: Doctor Caldwell says (1834): "This institution has been in operation _fourteen_ years.... According to its record book its classes and the degrees conferred by it have been as follows: