University of Virginia Library

ANNOUNCEMENTS.

1886-'87.

The Session begins on the 1st of October, and continues nine months,
without intermission. On Public Day, which is the Wednesday before
the 3rd of July, the Visitors, Faculty, Officers and Students of the University
assemble in the Public Hall, whither also the public are invited.
On this occasion the results of the exmainations are announced, degrees
are conferred, and the session is formally closed.

The University of Virginia is situated in a picturesque and healthful
location among the foot-hills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. It is at
the junction of two great lines of railway, the Chesapeake and Ohio and
the Virginia Midland, and is thus of easy access from every part of the
country. It has a post office, with numerous daily mails; is in communication
by telephone with the neighboring town of Charlottesville; and by
telegraph is connected with every quarter of the world. The climate is
invigorating and healthful, and at all times free from malarial conditions;
while the excellent sanitary arrangements, recently improved and extended
at great cost, are considered the most perfect possible. There is
a copious supply of the purest water; the system of drains and sewers
is complete; and the moderate infirmary fee secures medical treatment
and skillful nursing in a well equipped infirmary under the care of the
Professors of the Medical Department whenever the need arises.

The Courses of Instruction are Academical and Professional. The
former are comprised in two departments, the Literary and the Scientific;
the latter in the five Departments of Law, Medicine, Pharmacy, Engineering,
and Agriculture. In the various Departments there are altogether
nineteen distinct Schools, each affording an independent course under a
Professor, who alone is responsible for the system and methods pursued.