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STATE STUDENTS.

To render education at the University, available to meritorious
young men of limited means, the Visiters have provided that one
student from each senatorial district of the Commonwealth, shall
be admitted without payment of Professor's fees, or University
charges, fines and penalties excepted.

The advantage is meant to be restricted to those who are not
themselves, and whose parents are not, in a situation to incur the
expense of education, otherwise.

Their connection with the University is to continue two years,
but for extraordinary proficiency the Board may prolong the term.
They stand, in all respects, except expense, on the same footing
as other students, enjoying the same privileges, and subject to the
same laws.

With a view further to reduce the expenses of such students,
the Visiters have made provision, at the expense of the University,
that the sum paid by them for board, shall not exceed sixty dollars
for the session of nine months.

The whole expense, independently of clothes and pocket-money
is estimated as follows:

       

Board, including diet, lodging, washing and attendance for the session,	$60 00
Fuel and lights,	15 00
Text-books, in 3 academic schools (average,)	25 00
	$100 00

The cost of text-books in the Medical Department is about
$35, and in the Law-school, about $55.

Text-books in any of the schools may be procured on reasonable
terms, at a book-store near the University.

The selection of students, in this foundation, is made by the
Visiters, at their annual meeting, which takes place in June.
Applications for vacancies, accompanied by proper testimonials,
should reach the University by the 25th of that month. They
may be addressed to the Chairman of the Faculty.

☞ Persons interested will be pleased to observe the following
particulars:

1. The applicant is requested to state his age, which must be
over sixteen years, and to designate the several schools of the
University, he may wish to enter, observing that the enactments
require him if under the age of twenty-one years, to attend at least
three, unless, for good cause, the Faculty permit him to attend a
less number.

2. In order to be admitted, the applicant must exhibit satisfactory
testimonials; 1st. Of irreproachable moral character; 2nd.
Of capacity, as well by partial cultivation, as original vigour of
mind, to profit by the instruction given at the University; 3rd. If
he desires to enter the schools of Mathematics, or of Natural
Philosophy, that he possesses a familiar acquaintance with all the
branches of numerical Arithmetic, or if he desires to enter the
School of Ancient Languages, that he is qualified to commence
the study of the higher Latin or Greek authors; and 4th. That
neither he, nor his parents are in a situation to incur the expense
of his education without aid.

☞ Vacancies exist in the following districts, and will be filled
at the meeting of the Board of Visiters in June, 1847.

Third District.—Harrison, Wood, Ritchie, Lewis, Braxton
and Gilmer, and parts of Taylor and Doddridge.

Fourth District.—Kanawha, Mason, Jackson, Cabell, Wayne,
Logan, Nicholas and Fayette.

Eighth District.—Berkeley, Morgan and Hampshire.

Eleventh District.—Rockingham and Pendleton.

Thirtieth District.—Greensville, Brunswick and Dinwiddie.