 | A catalogue of the officers and students of the University of Virginia |  |
REGULATIONS.
LATE ENTRANCE AND WITHDRAWAL.
No abatement is made in the matriculation, tuition fees and room
rent, on account of late entrance, unless the student enter after the first
of January, and no portion of the same is refunded on account of withdrawal
from the University before the close of the session, unless the
withdrawal be rendered necessary by ill health, and occur before the first
of March. The charges for board, fuel, lights, and washing, are estimated
from the time of entrance. Many disadvantages to the student
result from late entrance; therefore prompt attendance at the beginning
of the session is earnestly enjoined upon all who wish to derive the full
benefits of the course of instruction.
PROHIBITION OF CREDIT.
An act of the Legislature prohibits merchants and others, under severe
penalties, from crediting students. The license to contract debts, which
the chairman is authorized to grant, is confined (except when the parent
or guardian requests otherwise in writing,) to cases of urgent necessity;
and these, it is hoped, parents and guardians will as far as possible prevent
from arising by the timely supply of the requisite funds.
PRIVILEGED STUDENTS.
Ministers of the Gospel may attend any of the schools of the University
without the payment of tuition fees. The same privilege will be
extended to any young man preparing for the ministry, on condition
that he shall submit testimonials that he is a bona fide candidate for
the ministry, and unable to meet the expenses of education at the University
without aid.
LIBRARY.
Wm. Wertenbaker, Librarian. F. W. Page, Assistant Librarian.
The Library of the University, originally selected and arranged by Mr.
Jefferson, and since enlarged by purchases and donations, now contains
about 36,000 volumes.
Valuable additions are made from the donation of $1,000 per annum
for five years by W. W. Corcoran, Esq., of Washington, D. C.
Students are allowed the use of the books under the usual restrictions,
and the librarian is present in the library for four hours daily, to attend
to their wants.
Persons at a distance, who may desire to consult this library by correspondence,
can do so on payment of a small charge, proportioned to the
time and labor expended on the research required, copying of titles, or
passages from authors, &c. A letter on this subject, prepaid, and addressed
to Frederick W. Page, Esq., Assistant Librarian, will receive attention.
BROOKS MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY.
This Museum consists of well-selected cabinets of Zoology, Mineralogy
and Geology, arranged in a handsome building, erected for the purpose,
according to the plans of a competent architect. They furnish ample
means of illustration in their several departments. The building and its
various cabinets are the gift of the late Mr. Lewis Brooks, of New York.
A Botanical collection—which formed a part of the original plan of
Mr. Brooks, but had not been provided for before his death—has been
presented by his brothers, the Rev. Lemuel Brooks and Mr. Garey Brooks,
of New York, and is now in its proper place in the Botanical Hall.
INFIRMARY.
There is a well-appointed infirmary connected with the University for
the care and comfort of sick students. Every student on admission deposits
the infirmary fee, ($7.50,) which entitles him, in case of sickness
during the session, to the advice and attention of the infirmary physicians,
(Professors in the Medical Department,) and if necessary, to nursing by
professional nurses, without additional charge.
LITERARY SOCIETIES.
There are two Literary Societies ("the Washington Society" and the
"Jefferson Society") of long standing connected with the University.
They meet weekly in their respective halls for the purpose of cultivating
debate and composition, and occasionally hold public exhibitions.
DISCIPLINE.
Morality and Religion are recognized as the foundation and indispensable
concomitants of education. The dicipline of the University is
sedulously administered with a view to confirm integrity and to maintain
a sacred regard for truth. Great efforts are made to surround the students
with religious influences; but experience has proved that the best
way to effect this result is to forbear the employment of coercion; the
attendance on religious exercises is therefore entirely voluntary. Prayers
are held every morning in the chapel, and divine service is performed
twice on Sunday by a chaplain, selected in turn from the principal religious
denominations.
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
This society seeks to bring new students under good influences, and
furnishes opportunities for Christian work in the University and its
neighborhood. It has been in active operation many years. It has established
and maintained the
STUDENTS' UNIVERSITY READING ROOM.
This is convenient of access, comfortably arranged and furnished, and
supplied with a large selection of the best periodical literature. It is
open to all members of the University upon the payment of a fee to
meet its current expenses.
FRIENDS OF TEMPERANCE.
The Friends of Temperance are represented by University Council,
No. 46, an association which has done good service in guarding young
men against dangerous excesses, and in promoting literary and moral
culture.
MONTHLY CIRCULAR.
At the end of every month a circular letter is addressed by the Chairman
of the Faculty to the parent or guardian of each student, in which
are stated his absences from lectures and examinations, and any other
irregularities of which he may have been guilty, together with such further
information as to the student's progress and conduct as it may be deemed
proper to communicate, or as the parent or guardian may specially request.
The object of such reports being, on the one hand, to incite
the student to steady diligence, by eliciting the commendation and
encouragement of his friends; and, on the other, to restrain him from
idleness and disorder, or to urge him to amendment by their admonition
and advice; their usefulness greatly depends upon the prompt
and judicious attention they receive from those to whom they are addressed.
Parents and guardians, therefore, cannot be too earnest in communicating
such advice or encouragement as the monthly reports may
suggest.
UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPS.
Eleven Scholarships, entitling the successful candidates at a competitive
examination to prosecute their studies for one session at the University
of Virginia without the payment of matriculation fees or tuition
fees, will be open to new-comers from all the States at the beginning of
the next academic year (October 1st). Of these eleven Scholarships
five are in the Academic Department, and two each in the departments
of Law; of Medicine; and of Industrial Chemistry, Civil and Mining Engineering
Latin, Greek, Mathematics, and English. In order to secure positive
attainments the right is reserved to reject any papers that do not reach
the standard required for distinction at the Final Examination in Junior
Latin, Junior Greek, and Junior Mathematics, and do not show a competent
acquaintance with the grammatical and rhetorical structure of the
English language.
VIRGINIA STUDENTS.
Under a late act of the Legislature, students from Virginia over
eighteen years of age are, on examination, admitted into the Academic
Schools without being required to pay tuition fees therein.
The expenses of such students, exclusive of text-books, clothing, and
pocket-money, will be—
| For those who board, from | $232 to $259. |
| For those who mess, | $200.50. |
By authority of the General Assembly, the following regulations have
been adopted by the Board of Visitors as to the General and Special Examinations
for admission of Virginia students into the University:
General Examination.
Applicants are required to pass, once for all, to entitle them to matriculation,
on their first coming to the University, an examination in the
English language and in Arithmetic. In English, they will be required
to show both a practical knowledge of the language, as proved by
orthography and by correctness in composition, and a theoretical
knowledge of the inflections and Syntax. In Arithmetic, they will be
required to know the elementary processes, Vulgar and Decimal Fractions,
Proportion, and the metric system of Denominate Numbers.
Special Examinations.
After passing the General Examination, the Virginia students who
desire to study Latin, Greek, Mathematics, or History and Literature,
will be required to pass the following Special Examinations for each
school:
I. For admission to the School of Latin—the full knowledge of the
Inflections of the language will be rigorously demanded; besides this,
acquaintance with the elementary principles of Syntax, and ability to
translate any passage from Books I and II of Cæsar's Commentaries, or
from Cicero's four orations against Catiline.
II. For admission to the School of Greek—a full and exact knowledge
besides this, acquaintance with the elementary principles of Syntax, and
ability to translate any passage from the first two books of Xenophon's
Anabasis.
III. For admission to the School of Mathematics—the knowledge of
Algebra, embracing the fundamental operations, simple and quadratic
equations, and proportion, and the first three books of Plane Geometry.
IV. For admission to the School of History and Literature: For the
Class of History—Modern Geography, and an Elementary History of
Greece, Rome, the United States, or England; for the Class of Literature—an
Elementary History of England.
For admission to the other Academic Schools, not specified above'
only the General Examination will be required. The preparation required
for the advanced classes, Intermediate or Senior, in the several
schools, is shown by the courses laid down in the Catalogue.
The examinations of Academic Students from Virginia, over eighteen
years of age, for admission under the late act of the Legislature, will
be held on the 26th, 27th, 28th, and 29th of September.
All students that intend to apply for examination under the law are
urged to report themselves promptly to the Chairman of the Faculty before
the beginning of the session, (1st of October) Those that come
later, after the work of the session has begun, will of necessity be subjected
to inconvenience and delay.
The time of the special examinations will be fixed by the several professors,
each for his own school.
The Faculty of the University, prompted by their experience of the
preliminary examinations of the present session, wish most earnestly to
call the attention of the public, and especially of their brother teachers
in Virginia, to the importance of accuracy and thoroughness in the elements
of education, especially in English orthography and composition,
in elementary geography and history, in arithmetic, and in the inflections
of the classical languages. Students that are well grounded in these
elementary studies can do well from the first, and can advance themselves
steadily from class to class; but looseness and inaccuracy of knowledge
in these lead only to prolonged and disheartening failure. The stress of
the preliminary examinations will, therefore, be laid upon accuracy in
elementary knowledge.
Note.—In the Schools of Greek and Mathematics, young men are
advised to prepare themselves at least for the intermediate classes.
DONATIONS TO THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.
Under an act of the Legislature, entitled "A bill to encourage donations
to the University of Virginia, and to constitute the State of Virginia
the trustee thereof," "any person may deposit in the treasury of this
State, or bequeath money, stock, or public bonds of any kind, to be so
deposited, or grant, devise, or bequeath property, real or personal, to be
sold, and the proceeds to be so deposited, in sums not less than one
hundred dollars, which shall be invested in certificates of debt of the
State of Virginia, or of the United States, or any other State thereof, for
the benefit of the University of Virginia; and in such case the interest
or dividend accruing on such stock, certificates of debt or bonds, shall be
paid to the Rector and Visitors of the University, to be by them appropriated
to the general purposes thereof, unless some particular appropriation
shall have been designated by the donor or testator as hereinafter
provided.—The State of Virginia is hereby constituted the
trustee for the safekeeping and due application of all funds which may
be deposited in the treasury in pursuance of this act."
The legal title of the University is—
"The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia."
ENDOWMENT OF PROFESSORSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
THROUGH THE SOCIETY OF ALUMNI.
Under an act of the Legislature, entitled "A bill to incorporate the
Society of Alumni of the University of Virginia," this Society is authorized,
by its Executive Committee, or in such other way as it may direct, "to
raise the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, to be held in the name
of the `Society of Alumni of the University of Virginia,' to be safely invested,
and the net annual income therefrom to be applied to the benefit
of the University of Virginia." It is also empowered "to employ agents
to obtain endowments for scholarships and professorships, to solicit donations,
to dispose of anything of any value belonging to the Society or
entrusted to its management for the purpose of endowing professorships
or scholarships, or for accomplishing any of the other objects of the
Society authorized by its charter."
GYMNASIUM.
A society, organized among the students for the promotion of physical
culture, under the name of the "Squibb Gymnasium Association," has
been in successful operation during several sessions.
RIVES BOAT CLUB
Was founded upon a liberal gift from F. R. Rives, Esq., of New York
GIFTS HAVE BEEN MADE TO THE LIBRARY
During the year ending March 10, 1881, by
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DONATIONS TO THE COLLECTIONS OF THE SCHOOL OF
GENERAL AND APPLIED CHEMISTRY.
Chas. Pratt & Co., New York.—Collection of their products, including paraffine
wax, etc., from Pennsylvania petroleum.
John Wyeth & Bro., Philadelphia.—Collection of their fluid extracts, elixirs, and
other pharmaceutical products.
Dr. J. P. Hale, Charleston, W. Va.—Specimens of "bittern" from the salt-works
of Kanawha and Mason counties, W. Va.
Prof. Walter N. Hill, U. S. Torpedo Station, Newport, R. I.—Permanent
magnet of tungsten steel.
D. Himel, Esq., Labadieville, La.—Fresh cane-juice and open pan sugar.
Ihlee & Horne, London, England.—Collection of specimens illustrating manufacture
and use of Balmain's "luminous paint."
DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM.
1. Fossil leaves from Red Buttes, Dakota, from Dr. Thos. A. Cunningham, U.
Army.
2. Pyrite crystals and Slate with Dendrites, from North Carolina, from Samuel
Paul.
3. Quartz crystals with bubbles and Tourmaline crystals, from North Carolina, from
Samuel B. Paul.
4. Fragment of Cleopatra's Needle, from James G. Bain.
5. Silver ores from New Mexico, from C. G. Bell.
6. Iron ores from Franklin county, Va., from Major R. F. Mason.
7. Impressions of Crinoid Stems in Flint, from Capt. W. A. Sale.
8. Mexican Turquoise and Gold Quartz from New Mexico, from Eli H. Chandler.
9. Collection of Silver ores from New Mexico; Gold ore from Arizona; from Prof
Schele De Vere.
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