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University of Virginia annual announcements, with a catalogue of the officers and students of the University of Virginia

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Calendar 1888.
  
BOARD OF VISITORS.
  
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.
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INSTRUCTORS, LICENTIATES AND OFFICERS.
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CATALOGUE OF STUDENTS.
  
NUMBERS IN THE SCHOOLS.
  
NUMBERS BY STATES.
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STUDENTS MATRICULATED SINCE THE ISSUE OF THE CATALOGUE.
  
NUMBERS IN THOSE SCHOOLS TO WHICH MATRICULATES HAVE BEEN ADDED SINCE THE ISSUE OF THE CATALOGUE.
  
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
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ACADEMICAL SCHOOLS.
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LITERARY DEPARTMENT.
  
SCHOOL OF LATIN.
  
SCHOOL OF GREEK.
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SCHOOL OF MODERN LANGUAGES.
  
French.
  
German.
  
Spanish.
  
Italian.
  
Anglo-Saxon.
  
SCHOOL OF ENGLISH.
  
CORCORAN SCHOOL OF HISTORICAL SCIENCE.
  
SCHOOL OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY.
  
GRADUATE COURSES.
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SCIENTIFIC DEPARTMENT.
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SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS.
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I. Pure Mathematics.
 II. 
II. Mixed Mathematics.
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SCHOOL OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.
 I. 
I. General Physics.
 II. 
II. Practical Physics.
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SCHOOL OF GENERAL AND INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY.
 I. 
I. General Chemistry.
 II. 
II. Industrial Chemistry.
  
SCHOOL OF ANALYTICAL AND AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY AND PHARMACY.
  
CORCORAN SCHOOL OF GEOLOGY.
  
MILLER SCHOOL OF BIOLOGY AND AGRICULTURE.
  
SCHOOL OF PRACTICAL ASTRONOMY.
  
GRADUATE COURSES.
  
COURSES OF LIBERAL STUDY.
  
STUDENTS FROM VIRGINIA.
  
SPECIAL COURSES OF INSTRUCTION FOR TEACHERS IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
  
LOCAL EXAMINATIONS.
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PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS.
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LAW DEPARTMENT.
  
SCHOOL OF COMMON AND STATUTE LAW.
  
SCHOOL OF CONSTITUTIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LAW, MERCANTILE LAW, EVIDENCE, AND EQUITY.
  
EXPENSES.
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MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
  
COURSES OF STUDY IN GENERAL.
  
SCHOOL OF GENERAL CHEMISTRY.
  
SCHOOL OF ANATOMY AND MATERIA MEDICA.
  
SCHOOL OF PHYSIOLOGY AND SURGERY.
  
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, OBSTETRICS, AND MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE.
  
INSTRUCTION IN THE DISPENSARY.
  
ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY.
  
EXAMINATIONS.
  
REQUISITES FOR GRADUATION.
  
EXPENSES.
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DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACY.
  
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
  
EQUIPMENT.
  
DEGREE.
  
EXPENSES.
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ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
  
SCHOOL OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS.
  
METHODS OF INSTRUCTION.
  
DEGREES.
  
EXPENSES.
  
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.
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SCHEME OF LECTURES.
  
INTERMEDIATE ACADEMICAL EXAMINATIONS FOR 1889.
  
FINAL ACADEMICAL EXAMINATIONS FOR 1889.
  
EXAMINATIONS.
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DEGREES.
  
UNTITLED DEGREES.
  
ACADEMICAL DEGREES WITH TITLES.
  
PROFESSIONAL DEGREES WITH TITLES.
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EQUIPMENTS.
  
LEWIS BROOKS MUSEUM.
  
LEANDER McCORMICK OBSERVATORY.
  
CHEMICAL LABORATORY.
  
PHYSICAL LABORATORY.
  
UNIVERSITY CHAPEL.
  
EXPENSES.
  
SCHOLARSHIPS.
  
SOCIETIES OF STUDENTS.
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SOCIETY OF ALUMNI.
  
OFFICERS.
  
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
  
ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONS.
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REGULATIONS.
  
ADMISSION.
  
DORMITORIES.
  
BOARDING HOUSES.
  
EXCHANGE OF SCHOOLS.
  
WITHDRAWAL FROM A SCHOOL.
  
WITHDRAWAL FROM THE UNIVERSITY.
  
ABSENCE FROM LECTURE.
  
MONTHLY CIRCULAR.
  
DISCIPLINE AND RELIGIOUS WORSHIP.
  
CONDUCT.
  
EXCLUSION OF A STUDENT FROM THE UNIVERSITY.
  
PROHIBITION OF CREDIT.
  
PRIVILEGED STUDENTS.
  
LICENTIATES.
  
DONATIONS TO THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.
  
LEGAL TITLE OF THE UNIVERSITY.
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GIFTS
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TO THE LIBRARY.
  
TO THE OBSERVATORY LIBRARY
  
TO THE CHEMICAL LABORATORY.
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DEGREES
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UNTITLED DEGREES.
  
Proficients.
  
Graduates
  
TITLED DEGREES.
  
ENDOWMENT OF PROFESSORSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS THROUGH THE SOCIETY OF ALUMNI.

  
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II. Practical Physics.

This course is for students preparing to become teachers of science,
and for those who, for other reasons, desire to push their studies in
Physics beyond the limits of the under-graduate course. The instruction

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is partly theoretical and partly experimental, embracing the following
topics:

Theoretical.—Reduction of observations; Graphical representation
of results; Interpolation; Method of Least Squares; Essays on prescribed
Physical topics.

Experimental.—In this, the main portion of the course, the student
will learn physical manipulation, and the use of instruments by actual
practice.

(1). Lecture-room Apparatus and Lecture-room Experiments.

(2). Physical measurements and "instruments of precision." Cathetometer;
Spherometer; Dividing Engine; Goniometer; Balance; Syren;
Monochord; Revolving Mirror; Photometer; Microscope; Spectroscope
Diffraction-bench; Polariscope; Electrometer; Galvanometer;
Magnetometer; Meteorological instruments, with daily use of the same.

Text-books.—Chauvenet's Method of Least Squares; Kohlrausch's Physical Measurements.

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