University of Virginia Library

EXPENSES, &c.

The expenses for the session of upwards of ten months, (commencing the
1st of September, and ending the 4th of July following,) are as follows:

           

Board, including bed and other room furniture, washing and attendance,	125
Fuel and candles, to be furnished by the Proctor, at cost, and 5 per cent. commission, estimated, if only one Student in the dormitory, at $30, if two students in the dormitory, at	15
Rent of an entire dormitory $16; for half, if occupied by two students,	8
Use of the library and public rooms,	15
Fees—if one Professor be attended, $50; if two, each $30; if more than two, each $25—say,	75
Total, exclusive of books and stationary, clothing and pocket money,	$238

In addition to the regular fee, $20 is paid by students who attend the Senior
Class in the School of Law.

The fee for attending the class of Materia Medica in the School of Chemistry;
of Medical Jurisprudence in the School of Medicine; and of National
Law, Government and Constitutional Law, in the School of Law; by those
who do not attend those schools, is $15 each.

Boarding-houses are provided within the precincts for the accommodation of
students; and no student is permitted to board or lodge out of the precincts,
unless in the family of his parent or guardian, or of some particular friend, approved
by the Faculty. Except, that students above the age of twenty years
may reside out of the precincts, in such private boarding-houses as the Faculty
may approve.

Every student resident within the precincts, is required, on matriculating, to
deposit with the Patron, all the money, checks, bills, drafts, and other available
funds, which he shall have in his possession, or under his control, in any manner
intended to defray his expenses while at the University, or on his return
from thence to his residence. Nor shall he matriculate, till he shall have deposited
a sum at least sufficient, after deducting the Patron's commission, (two
per cent.) to pay for the use of his dormitory and the public rooms, to pay
the fees of the Professors whom he may design to attend, to pay three months
board to his hotel-keeper, to purchase the text-books and stationary which he

may want at the commencement, and twenty dollars on account of fuel and
candles, and ten dollars to cover contingent charges and assessments against
him for injuries to the buildings, &c., which two last mentioned sums are credited
in the final settlement of his accounts. In like manner, he shall deposit
with the Patron all the funds which he shall receive while a student of the
University, for the purposes aforesaid. At the end of the first three months of
the session, he shall deposit enough to pay his board and other expenses for the
next three months; and at the expiration of the second period of three months,
he shall deposit enough to pay his board and other expenses for the residue of
the session.

Students resident out of the University, are required, on matriculating, to
deposit with the Patron funds sufficient, after deducting the Patron's commission,
to pay the fees of Professors whom they may propose to attend, the sum
charged for the use of the public rooms, and ten dollars to cover contingent
charges.

The expenses of the students resident in the University, are limited as follows:
for board, the use of dormitory and public rooms, and tuition fees, the
sums before stated; for clothing during the session, not exceeding a hundred
dollars; for pocket money during the session, a sum not exceeding forty dollars;
for books or stationary, whatever the parent or guardian may think fit to
allow; for medicine and medical attendance whatever may be necessary.
These limits are in no case to be exceeded, unless under special circumstances,
the Faculty shall allow it. Resident students are forbidden to contract any
debts whatsoever; but for every thing purchased, they are forthwith to pay, or
to draw upon a fund in the hands of the Patron applicable thereto.

Students wherever resident, are required to wear the uniform prescribed by
the enactments; consisting of cloth of dark gray mixture, at a price not exceeding
six dollars a yard.

The Faculty at their discretion, may allow any man, of undoubted moral
character, above the age of twenty-three years, to attend lectures in any of the
schools of the University, and to reside out of the precincts, exempt from the
rules and regulations prescribed for the government of students; except only,
that he shall pay the usual Professors' fees, and the usual compensation for the
use of the public rooms, and shall observe all those laws of the Institution
which enjoin respectful and orderly deportment. But the privilege so allowed
may be withdrawn by the Faculty, at any time, when in their opinion it has
been used to the evil example of the students, or otherwise to the injury of the
Institution.

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 the lectures he was bound to attend, and any other irregularities
of which he may have been guilty that month; together with such information
as to the student's progress and conduct as it may be deemed proper to communicate.

Religious exercises are performed at the University every Sunday, by a
Minister of the Gospel, residing there, whose services are rendered on the private
invitation of the Professors, Officers and Students.