 | Catalogue of the University of Virginia |  |
A STATEMENT
OF THE
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION, EXPENSES, &c.,
IN THE
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.
MATRICULATION.
To be admitted into the University, the student must be sixteen
years of age; but the Faculty are authorized to dispense with this
requisition in the case of application for admission by two brothers,
one of whom is under the age of sixteen.
If the applicant for admission has been a student at any other
incorporated seminary, he cannot be received but on producing &
certificate from such seminary, or other evidence satisfactory to the
Faculty, with respect to his general good conduct.
Every student is free to attend the schools of his choice, and no
other than he chooses; with the condition that he shall attend at
least three professors, unless he has the written authority of his
parent or guardian, or the Faculty shall for good cause shown
allow him to attend less than three. Should he be twenty-one
years of age, or more, he is exempt from this condition.
Before a student matriculates, he is furnished with a copy of
the laws, which he is required to read. On matriculating, he
signs a written declaration, that he will conform to those laws,
and if he be a resident student, that he has deposited with the
Patron all the funds in his possession.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
The session commences on the 1st of October, and continues
without interruption until the 29th of June.
The mode of instruction is by lectures and text-books, accompanied
by daily and stated examinations.
In each school there are three regular lectures a week, besides
many others suited to the several subjects into which the school is
divided.
SCHOOLS.
I.—ANCIENT LANGUAGES.
PROFESSOR HARRISON.
ASSISTANT INSTRUCTOR, EDWARD S. JOYNES, A. M.
In this school are taught the Latin and Greek Languages; the
Greek and Roman History, Geography, and Literature; and the
Hebrew Language. The instruction is given partly by lectures
and examinations, and partly by comments on portions of the
text-books appointed to be read by the students.
In Latin there are two classes, a Junior and a Senior, and so in
Greek.
The text-books used in the several classes are chiefly the following:
1. In the Junior Latin Class: Zumpt's Latin Grammar, the
Professor's Exposition of some of the laws of the Latin Language,
Virgil, Horace, Cicero's Orations and his Epistolæ ad Diversos,
Terence, and Cæsar's Commentaries; the last chiefly with a view
to the written exercises.
2. In the Senior Latin Class: Zumpt's Latin Grammar, the
Professor's Exposition, Horace, Juvenal, Livy and Tacitus.
3. In the Junior Greek Class: Kühner's Elementary Greek
Grammar, Xenophon's Anabasis, an oration of Demosthenes,
Herodotus, and a play of Euripides or Æschylus. The Greek-English
Lexicon of Liddell and Scott is that preferred.
4. In the Senior Greek Class: Kühner's Larger Greek Grammar,
Euripides, Sophocles, Thucydides, and Homer.
5. For the Roman History, studied in the Senior Latin Class,
Arnold's History of Rome is used as a text-book. Niebuhr's
History of Rome, and the History of Rome published by the Society
for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, and the maps of
ancient Italy published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful
Knowledge, or Findlay's Ancient Atlas, are recommended.
6. For the Ancient History of Greece, studied in the Senior
Greek Class, the History of Greece published by the Society for
the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, or Thirlwall's, or Grote's
History of Greece, and the maps published by the Society for the
Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, or Findlay's Ancient Atlas, are
recommended.
It is expected of the students of Latin and Greek, that they will
read in their rooms such authors and parts of authors, prescribed
by the Professor, as cannot be read in the lecture-room;—e.g.
Cicero's Epistles to Atticus, his Orations (selected), and Treatise
De Republica, Sallust, Virgil, Terence, Plautus, Æschylus, Sophocles,
Euripides, Aristophanes, Demosthenes, Æschines, Thucydides,
Plato, &c.
As an essential part of the plan of instruction, the students of
each class are required to furnish written exercises. These consist
in the conversion of Latin or Greek into English, and of English
into Latin or Greek. The exercises are examined by the Professor
and the errors marked; they are then returned to the students,
and the corrections stated and explained in the presence of the
class.
7. Hebrew: The text-books are Biblia Hebraica, Nordheimer's
or Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar, amd Gesenii Lexicon Manuale
Hebr. et Chald., or Sauerwein's edition of Rehkopf's Lex.
Hebr. Chald.
In the written translations required as a test of the qualifications
of candidates for degrees, the passages used are selected by the
committee of examination, not from the portions of authors which
have been read and explained in the lecture-room, but at will
from the classic writers generally.
II.—MODERN LANGUAGES.
PROFESSOR SCHELE DE VERE.
ASSISTANT INSTRUCTOR, S. E. W. BECKER.
The subjects taught in this school are:
1. The French, Italian, Spanish and German Languages, and
the English in its Anglo-Saxon form.
2. The Literature of these Languages and the history of each
idiom.
3. The History and Geography of Europe, from the fall of the
Roman Empire to the present day.
Instruction, also, is given in Comparative Philology and the
principles of the Science of Language. The influence of the
history of nations on their language and literature is explained
and exemplified by extracts from their respective authors, and
constant attention given to the connection between Philology and
Ethnology.
There are three classes in French and two in German, one for
beginners, the others for more advanced students; and the same
Opportunity is also given, in private, to practice speaking the languages.
The method of instruction is by lectures, examinations,
written exercises, and comments on the text books as read in the
lecture-room; the principal classic authors in each language being
used for this purpose.
Two degrees in this school are required for the degree of A. M.
III.—MATHEMATICS.
PROFESSOR COURTENAY.
ASSISTANT INSTRUCTOR, ALEXANDER L. NELSON.
In this school there are four classes.
Of these, the Junior commences with the theory of Arithmetic,
the student being supposed to have rendered himself practically
familiar with its various rules before entering the University. The
elements of Algebra are then taught, and after the first difficulties
are mastered, the subjects of Algebra and Synthetic Geometry are
pursued simultaneously.
In the second or Intermediate Class, the course of Algebra,
commenced in the preceding class, is completed, and there are
taught successively the theory of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry,
with the application of the former to the measurement of
heights and distances, and of the latter to Nautical Astronomy,
the theory and practice of Land Surveying and Levelling, Navigation,
and Descriptive Geometry, with its applications to Spherical
Projections, Shadows, and Perspective.
The Senior Class begins with the subject of Analytical Geometry,
and subsequently studies the Differential Calculus, concluding
the course of Pure Mathematics with the Integral Calculus.
There is also a class of Mixed Mathematics, designed exclusively
for such of the more advanced students as may desire to
study the subjects taught therein.
The course embraces the mathematical investigation of the general
laws of equilibrium and motion, both of solids and fluids,
with a variety of applications, especially to Physical Astronomy.
The instruction in each class is conveyed partly by lectures,
and partly by the systematic study of approved text-books, the
student being assisted by full and frequent explanations from the
Professor, and being constantly subjected to rigid examinations.
The progress of the student in every class is also tested by his
being required to perform written exercises, in which the principles
acquired are applied to the solution of particular problems.
The text books used are:—For the Junior Class, Lacroix' or
Davies' Arithmetic, Davies' Bourdon's Algebra, and Legendre's
Geometry and Trigonometry, Davies' Surveying and
Descriptive Geometry. For the Senior Class, Davies' Analytical
Geometry, Young's Differential Calculus, and Young's Integral
Calculus. For the class of Mixed Mathematics, Pratt's Mechanical
Philosophy.
Any student entering the school has the privilege of attending
all or any of the classes, as he may elect, and if prepared to enter
an advanced class, may often find it highly advantageous to review
his previous studies by an attendance on a lower class also.
IV.—NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.
PROFESSOR FRANCIS H. SMITH.
There are three classes in this school: the Junior and Senior
classes of Natural Philosophy, and the class of Geology and Mineralogy.
The Junior course commences with an exposition of the leading
doctrines of equilibrium and motion, so far as they can be
established by an easy deduction from admitted axioms, aided,
when necessary, by simple geometrical theorems. Notice is
taken of the application of these doctrines to machinery, and to
the figure and motions of the planetary bodies. This is followed
by an account of the structure and physical properties of fluids,
including a discussion of the laws of their pressure and motion,
with their applications, and the theory and construction of the
principal Pneumatic and Hydraulic machines. The relations
between the several forms of matter, and the laws of Endosmose
and Capillarity, are then presented. The latter part of the
course is devoted to Acoustics, Optics, Heat, Electricity and Magnetism.
Full and frequent experimental illustrations of the subjects
taught are given, whenever practicable.
The course of study in the Senior class embraces a mathematical
discussion of the doctrines of Statics and Dynamics, the
laws of Friction and Strength of Materials, concluding with Pur
Astronomy.
The class in Mineralogy and Geology is first occupied with a
study of the formation, properties and localities of the leading
minerals, and the simpler methods of recognition and analysis.
This is succeeded by a presentation of the leading facts and
generalizations of geology, illustrated by sections and diagrams.
Throughout the course, specimens of the most important minerals
and rocks are exhibited.
Text-Books.—Elements of Mech. Philosophy, by Professor
W. B. Rogers; Lardner's Hand-books; Smith's Mechanics;
Dana's Mineralogy; Lyell's or Richardson's Elementary Geology.
V.—SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY AND PHARMACY.
PROFESSOR S. MAUPIN.
In this school there are three regular meetings of the class
weekly, of one hour and a half in duration. One hour is
usually devoted to the lecture, and half an hour to the examination
of the class on the preceding lecture.
The course of lectures commences with the consideration of
the imponderable agents: Heat, Light and Electricity. These
agents play an important part in chemical changes, and due
space is given to their consideration.
The subject of inorganic Chemistry is then taken up. The
nomenclature, and chemical symbols and notation are explained.
The non-metallic elements, together with their combinations
with oxygen and with each other are considered. The general
principles of Chemical Philosophy then pass in review, including
Affinity, the Lau's of Combination, the Atomic Theory and
Theory of Volumes, Electro-chemical Decomposition, &c.
The consideration of the Metals comes next in order. After
noticing their general properties, the general characters of their
salts, Haloid and Amphide, the Binary Theory of salts, the
doctrine of Crystallization, Isomorphism, &c. , they are taken
up individually. Their history and properties are given, and
their combinations with oxygen and other non-metallic elements,
together with their saline combinations, are considered.
The concluding part of the course is devoted to Organic
Chemistry, including a notice of the more important products of
vegetable and animal life, the modifications of organic compounds
by artificial processes, their transformations by the action
of ferments and other agencies, the doctrine of compound radicals,
&c. , &c. Throughout the course, the applications of the
facts and principles of the science to Medicine, to Agriculture
and other arts, are noticed and illustrated.
Text-books recommended—Fownes and Rogers' Turner.
The course of instruction in Pharmacy, designed for the benefit
of the students of Medicine attending this school, commences
about the first of April, and occupies the time devoted to
one of the regular meetings of the class weekly, until the close of
the session.
VI.—MEDICINE.
PROFESSOR HOWARD.
In this school are taught the Principles and the Practice of Medicine,
Obstetrics and Medical Jurisprudence. To allow the me
dical student time to attain proficiency in Anatomy and Physiology,
Chemistry and Materia Medica, before he is required to apply
these branches in the study of the Principles and the Practice of
Medicine, the course is opened with Medical Jurisprudence,
which is followed by Obstetrics, and both are completed before
the Principles or the Practice of Medicine are entered upon.
MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE.
The lectures on this branch show the aid which legislation and
the administration of the laws derive from medicine, and consist
chiefly in the application of the principles of medical science to
the elucidation and administration of the laws, and the legal decisions
in cases of insanity, every variety of mental impairment,
crime, &c. , &c.
Text-Books—the Professor's Outlines, and Beck or Taylor.
OBSTETRICS.
The lectures on this branch comprehend an account of all
labors, natural, preternatural and instrumental; the professional
assistance to be afforded in each, the treatment of the female before,
during and after delivery, and the diseases of infancy.
The lectures are amply illustrated by specimens and plates; and
all manual evolutions, and the application of instruments, are
demonstrated on the improved phantome of Hebermehl. The
students also practice manual and instrumental delivery on the
manikin.
Text-Book—the last edition of Meigs' Midwifery.
THE PRINCIPLES OF MEDICINE.
The Principles of Medicine, as taught in this school, comprise
General Pathology, and a brief view of General Therapeutics;
also Etiology, Nosology, Semeiology, Diagnosis and Prognosis.
The nature and division of causes are first considered, which introduces
the student to their effects—disease. Pathology proper
is next considered under the two forms, Functional and Structural
diseases. After the student thoroughly understands the nature
of the causes of diseases, their divisions, modes of operation,
and the resulting effects upon function and structure, a general
counteract their effects. And the course on the Principles is then
concluded by the consideration of nosology, semeiology, diagnosis,
prognosis, and the different modes of death.
Text-Books—Wood's General Pathology and General Therapeutics,
in the last edition of his Practice.
PRACTICE OF MEDICINE, OR SPECIAL PATHOLOGY AND SPECIAL
THERAPEUTICS.
As the most natural and practically useful arrangement, all local
diseases are classified and treated of according to their locality,
or the organ or set of organs which they affect; whilst general
diseases are arranged altogether pathologically. Much attention
is given to Physical Diagnosis. Pathological Anatomy occupies
a conspicuous place in the course, and is illustrated by Carswell's
large and splendid colored plates, and, when practicable,
by specimens.
Text-Book—Wood's Practice of Medicine, last edition.
VII.—COMPARATIVE ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY AND
SURGERY.
PROFESSOR CABELL.
The heading indicates the subjects taught in this school, and
the order in which they are discussed.
In the first part of the course, the Professor presents a general
outline of the Animal Kingdom, by demonstrating such of the
leading facts of Comparative Anatomy as may serve to indicate
the natural affinities between the different members of the animal
series, and to furnish a basis for a natural Zoological classification.
In the second division of the course, which is mainly devoted
to the study of Human Physiology, the peculiarities of structure
of inferior animals are again noticed, with reference, especially,
to the varieties of the same organ in different animals, in order to
exhibit the simplest conditions of structure essential to its office,
and to indicate the uses of the superadded parts in the more complicated
forms.
The third portion of the course is exclusively devoted to the
study of the Principles and Practice of Surgery.
Text-Books.—The Professor's "Syllabus of Lectures on
Comparative Anatomy and Physiology;" Carpenter's Elements
of Physiology; Kirkes' and Paget's Human Physiology;
Druitt's Modern Surgery.
VIII.—LECTURESHIP OF ANATOMY, MATERIA
MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS.
DR. J. S. DAVIS.
ANATOMY.
In this class are taught Special and Surgical Anatomy. The
lectures are illustrated by fresh subjects, by wet and dry anatomical
preparations, and by a series of colored drawings.
Text-Book—Wilson's Anatomy.
MATERIA MEDICA.
The course on this subject embraces—
1. General Therapeutics, or an account of the effects of the
various classes of remedies on the organism, their modus operandi,
and their applications to the relief of disease.
2. A detailed account of medicinal agents, in their commercial
history, physical properties, chemical habitudes, pharmaceutical
preparations and effects.
The means of illustration in Materia Medica are ample, comprising
a full series of specimens of medicines in their various
states, and an extensive suit of colored drawings of medical plants,
on an enlarged scale.
Text-Book—Dunglison's Therapeutics and Materia Medica.
IX.—DEPARTMENT OF PRACTICAL ANATOMY.
DR. B. W. ALLEN—DEMONSTRATOR.
This department is abundantly provided with fresh subjects for
the use of the members of the class; the afternoon is devoted
to the dissections; and they are conducted under the constant
guidance of the demonstrator.
X.—MORAL PHILOSOPHY.
PROFESSOR M'GUFFEY.
There are three classes in this school:
The Junior class studies Rhetoric, Belles Letters and Philosophical
Criticism.
Text-Books—Blair's Lectures, Campbell's Philosophy of
Rhetoric, Whately's Rhetoric, Kame's Elements of Criticism,
Cousin's Philosophy of the Beautiful, Milton and Shakespeare.
The Intermediate class studies Political Economy, Statistics,
and the Philosophy of Social Relations, or "Ethics of Society."
Text-Books—On Political Economy, Say and J. S. Mill;
on the Progress of Society, Guizot, Grimké and De Tocqueville.
The Senior class studies Mental Philosophy, Logic, (inductive
and deductive,) together with Theoretical and Practical Ethics.
Text-Books—On Mental Philosophy, Locke, Reid and
Cousin; on Logic, Mill and Whately; on Ethics, Stewart,
Butler and Jouffroy.
The lectures are carried on concurrently during the session, two
a week to each class.
The examinations are on the Professor's lectures and the
text-books above enumerated.
XI.—SCHOOL OF LAW.
PROFESSOR JOHN B. MINOR.
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, JAMES B. HOLCOMBE.
The Board of Visitors, anxious to enlarge the sphere of legal
instruction in the University, have appointed an Adjunct Professor
of Law, to whom is assigned the duty of teaching more extensively
than has hitherto been practicable, the subjects of Equity
and of Commercial Law.
The object will be to acquaint the student familiarly and practically
with the principles of his profession. With this view, instruction
(which is designed to be as thorough as possible) will
be given as heretofore, partly through text-books, and daily examinations
upon the subjects taught, partly by comments intended
to supply what is deficient, and explain what is obscure in the
text, and partly also by independent lectures.
A Moot-court is instituted in connection with the school, upon
a plan which experience has shewn to be well calculated to perfect
the student in the details of practice. Under the immediate
superintendence of the professors he is required to pronounce opinions
upon supposed cases; to devise and to institute remedies,
by suit or otherwise; to conduct suits at law and in chancery,
from their inception, through all their stages; to draw wills, conveyances
and other assurances; and, in short, to perform most of
the functions of a practising lawyer.
The school is divided into three classes, viz: the Junior class,
embracing such studies as are at once essential to the professional
student, and form a highly useful branch of general education;
the Intermediate class, which is occupied exclusively with the
theory and practice of law, as a profession, being adapted to the
elementary attainments beyond the most absolute necessity; and
the Senior class, in which efforts are made to impart a professional
cultivation as liberal as the growing wants of the country shall demand
or allow.
The degree of Bachelor of Laws is conferred upon those who,
upon examination, manifest a familiar acquaintance with the subjects
taught in all the classes; and to those who exhibit a competent
knowledge of International and Constitutional Law and of
the science of Government, a certificate of proficiency is awarded.
The course of study in the several classes is as follows:
Junior Class—Vattel's International Law, Lectures on Government,
Federalist, Madison's Report 1799, Blackstone's Commentaries.
Intermediate Class—Stephen on Pleading, Barton's Suit in
Equity, Lomax's Digest, Smith's Mercantile Law, Greenleaf's
Evidence, Holcombe's Equity.
Senior Class—Story's Equity, Chitty on Contracts, Lomax
on Executors, &c. , Byles on Bills and Notes.
The student is recommended to be provided with the following
books for reference, viz: Gordon's Digest of Laws of United
States, and Virginia Code of 1849.
All the books required can be procured at the book stores near
the University, on reasonable terms.
EXAMINATIONS.
These are of three kinds: first, the daily examinations, which
precede the lectures; second, the public examinations, two in
number, held the one about the middle of the session, the other
at its close; and third, the examinations for graduation, held towards
the end of the session.
I.—DAILY EXAMINATIONS.
In the daily examinations the student is questioned both upon
the subject of the preceding lecture and such portions of the textbook
as may have been designated by the professor. His preparation
thus tested is noted at the time of examination, and if the
student shall exhibit material delinquency, the fact is communicated
to his parent or guardian in the printed circular which is
sent home at the close of every month.
II.—PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS.
The two public examinations, embracing respectively all the
subjects treated of in the first half, and all those treated of in the
second half of the session, are thus conducted:
The Professor of the school prepares in writing a series of
questions to be proposed to the class, and affixes to them numerical
values, according to his estimate of their relative difficulty.
On the assembling of the class for examination, these questions
are for the first time presented to them; and they are required to
answer in writing in a prescribed time, without communication
with one another or with other persons, and without any reference
to books. Their answers are subsequently carefully examined
and compared, and a value attached to each, not exceeding
that of the corresponding question. In the schools of languages
subjects are also selected for oral examination, and the
values of these exercises marked at the time.
The students are then arranged into four divisions, according
to the merit of their examination, as determined by the following
method: The numerical values attached to all the questions are
added together, and also the values of the answers given by each
student. If this last number amounts to three-fourths of the
first, the student is ranked in the first division; if it be less than
three-fourths, and as much as one-half, in the second; if less than
one-half, and as much as a fourth, in the third; if less than a
fourth, in the fourth division. The examinations are conducted
and the results ascertained by a committee, consisting of the professor
of the school and two other professors. The standing of
the student at these examinations is communicated to his parent
or guardian in the last circular of the session.
Those who attain the first division receive in public, at the
close of the session, a printed certificate of their distinction at one
or both of the examinations, as the case may be, and their names
are mentioned in the published account of the proceedings which
terminate the course.
These public examinations, though less thorough than the examinations
for graduation, are sufficiently comprehensive and
difficult to render it impossible for the student, without steady
diligence, to secure a place in the first division.
III.—EXAMINATIONS FOR GRADUATION.
These are partly oral and partly in writing, and are conducted
by the professor of the school, in the presence of two other professors,
forming with him the committee of examination for the
school. Here the student is subjected to searching interrogations
upon the details and niceties, as well as the leading principles of
the subject, and he is expected to be accurately versed in all the
topics treated of in the lectures and the correlative texts.
As a due acquaintance with our own language is made indispensable
to the attainment of even the inferior honors of the
University, all candidates for degrees are subjected to an examination,
in order to test their qualifications in this respect.
DEGREES.
I.—THE ACADEMICAL DEGREES.
Are, first, that of Proficient in certain special departments of a
school; second, that of Graduate in a school; third, that of Bachelor
of Arts; and fourth, that of Master of Arts of the University
of Virginia.
The degree of Proficient, conferred in a certificate of proficiency,
applies only to those branches of some of the schools which
by the regulations the student is allowed to attend separately.
These are Geology and Mineralogy, Medical Jurisprudence,
Physiology, Political Economy, National Law, Constitutional
Law and Government, and Anglo-Saxon.
The degree of Graduate in a school embraces, in the school of
Ancient Languages, the Latin and Greek Languages; in that of
Modern Languages, any two of the languages taught in the
school, except Anglo-Saxon; in that of Mathematics, all the
studies of the school, except the Mixed Mathematics; in that of
Natural Philosophy the same, omitting Geology and Mineralogy;
in that of Moral Philosophy the same, omitting Political Economy.
The degree of Graduate is also conferred in each of the languages
separately, and in the Mixed Mathematics.
None are admitted to these degrees who fail to give satisfactory
evidence of their attainments at the public examinations and the
examinations for graduation.
II.—THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS OF THE UNIVERSITY
OF VIRGINIA.
This degree is conferred upon such students as have become
graduates in any two of the scientific schools, viz: Mathematics,
Natural Philosophy or Chemistry, and in two of the literary
schools, viz: Ancient Languages, Modern Languages or Moral
Philosophy, having also obtained distinction at an intermediate
and final examination of the Junior class of the two remaining
academic schools. The candidates for this degree have moreover
to satisfy the Faculty of their general literary acquirements by
furnishing an appropriate essay, composed by themselves, on some
subject of literature and science, which they may be required to
read on the Public Day.
III.—THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS OF THE UNIVERSITY
OF VIRGINIA.
To merit this, the highest academical honor of the Institution,
the student must have already become a graduate in the following
schools:
ANCIENT LANGUAGES,
MODERN LANGUAGES,
MATHEMATICS,
NATURAL PHILOSOPHY,
CHEMISTRY,
MORAL PHILOSOPHY.
He must, moreover, give proof of an accurate and comprehensive
acquaintance with his entire course of studies, by an examination
on all these subjects, in the presence of the whole Faculty,
at the close of his academical career. And lastly, he must
prepare and submit to the Faculty an essay or an oration, exhibiting
a due degree of literary ability; and this, if so directed,
he is required to read or deliver on the Public Day.
IV.—THE PROFESSIONAL DEGREES
Are that of Doctor of Medicine, conferred on graduates in the
Medical Department, and that of Bachelor of Laws, on graduates
in the School of Law.
To merit the degree of Doctor of Medicine, the student must
prove by his examinations that he has made satisfactory attainments
in Anatomy, Surgery, Human and Comparative Physiology,
Principles and Practice of Medicine, Obstetrics, Materia Medica,
Chemistry and Medical Jurisprudence.
To attain the degree of Bachelor of Laws, he must in the
same manner give evidence of a due acquaintance with the Law
of Nature and Nations, the Science of Government, Constitutional
Law, Municipal Law, including the Common Statute Law, the
principles of Equity and Commercial Law.
Honorary degrees are forbidden by the laws of the University.
THE PUBLIC DAY.
On the closing day of the session, which, unless that day be
Sunday, occurs on the 29th of June, the Visitors, Faculty, Officers
and Students, and the Society of Alumni, assemble in the
Public Hall, whither are also invited the friends of the students
and the public generally. On this occasion the certificates and
diplomas are awarded to the successful candidates, the results of
the examinations are announced, and addresses are delivered by
one or more of the Bachelors and Masters of Arts.
EXPENSES.
The expenses for the session of nine months are as follows:
1. Fees.—If one professor be attended, $50; if two, each $30;
if more than two, each $25. In the school of Law, the fee for
Every student is required to attend three schools, unless, for special
reasons, leave is given to attend but one or two.
Medical students are charged $100 for a full course, viz: $25
for each of four tickets, and are required to pay a fee of $5 for
dissecting material.
For the class of Anglo-Saxon in the school of Modern Languages,
of Geology and Mineralogy in the school of Natural Philosophy,
of Physiology in the school of Anatomy, of Medical
Jurisprudence in the school of Medicine, or of National Law,
Government and Constitutional Law, in the school of Law, the
fee is $15 only.
2. Board and Lodgings.—Board in any of the University
hotels or boarding houses, licensed by the Faculty, $120; for
which sum, diet, bedding, room-furniture and attendance are furnished.
Washing may be had for $8 or $10 for the session.
Rent of an entire dormitory $16; if occupied by two students
$8. Only nine dormitories can, by regulation, be occupied by a
single student. Fuel and candles are furnished by the Proctor at
cost and five per cent. commission, and cost for each of two students,
in the same dormitory, about $20.
3. Matriculation fee, and use of Library and public rooms,
$15.
The expenses of the students resident in the University are
limited as follows:
1. For board, the use of the dormitory, matriculation and tuition
fees, the sums before stated.
2. For clothing during the session, an amount not exceeding
one hundred dollars.
3. For pocket-money during the session, a sum not exceeding
forty-five dollars.
4. For books and stationery, whatever the parent or guardian
may think fit to allow.
5. For medicine and medical attendance whatever may be
necessary.
These are in no case to be exceeded, unless under special circumstances
the Faculty shall allow it.
PROHIBITION OF CREDIT.
The act of the legislature prohibiting merchants and others,
under severe penalties, from crediting students, is strictly enforced
The license to contract debts, which the Chairman is authorized
to grant, is confined (except where the parent or guardian otherwise,
in writing, requests,) to cases of urgent necessity; and these
it is hoped the parents and guardians will, as far as possible, prevent
from arising, by the timely supply of the requisite funds.
HOTELS OR BOARDING-HOUSES.
Hotels or boarding-houses are provided in the precincts of the
University 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-one years may reside out of the precincts, in such private
boarding-houses as the Faculty may approve.
The charges at the private boarding-houses, being those licensed
by the Faculty, are required by the regulations not to exceed
those of the hotels within the precincts.
The hotel keepers are bound to maintain good order among
their boarders during meals, and to report all cases of misconduct
of which they have knowledge, whether occurring in their own
houses or elsewhere.
KEEPING OF STUDENTS' FUNDS.
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 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 stationery which he
may want at the commencement, 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 purpose 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 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.
PRIVILEGED STUDENTS.
Ministers of the gospel and young men preparing for the ministry,
bringing proper certificates from their congregations as to
character and standing, may attend any of the schools of the
University without payment of fees to the Professors.
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.
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 irregularity 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.
The object of such report 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, the usefulness of these circulars 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.
LIBRARY.
The Library of the University, originally selected and arranged
by Mr. Jefferson, has since been augmented by several valuable
donations, among which the legacy of Mr. Madison, amounting to
587 volumes, that of the late Christian Bohn, Esq., a generous
and enlightened citizen of Richmond, amounting to 3,380 vols.,
and a donation of 234 works presented by an unknown benevolent
lady through the Rev. Dr. Alexander, of Princeton. Through
now numbers upwards of 18,000 volumes, comprising an unusually
large proportion of standard literary and scientific works in
the principal European languages, together with a rich and extensive
collection of engravings.
Students are allowed the use of the books, under the usual restrictions,
and the Librarian is in attendance daily at stated hours
to comply with their orders and to receive the books returned.
SOCIETY OF ALUMNI.
This association is composed of such former students of the
University as, having finally left the Institution, have on nomination
been elected members, at the annual meetings. Its objects
are the promotion of letters and general education, as well as the
renewal from year to year of the pleasing associations of academic
life.
The society holds its meetings at the close of the session. An
orator or an essayist is annually appointed by the society from
among its members, and the oration or essay is delivered in the
Rotunda on the day preceding the Public Day.
LITERARY SOCIETIES.
There are two literary societies formed by the students of the
University, which meet weekly at their own or public rooms for
the purpose of cultivating debate and composition, and hold occasionally
public exhibitions.
RELIGIOUS EXERCISES.
Divine service is performed in the chapel every Sunday morning
and evening during the session, by the Chaplain of the University,
who is appointed in turn from the principal religious denominations.
Students also have the opportunity of attending,
at their choice, daily morning service in the chapel; and on Sundays,
service at any of the churches in Charlottesville.
STATE STUDENTS.
To render education at the University available to meritorious
young men of limited means, provision has been made for the
admission of 32 students, without payment of Professor's fees,
board or University charges.
The advantage is meant to be restricted to those who are not
themselves, and whose parents are not in a situation to incur the
expenses of education.
Their connection with the University is to continue two years,
but for extraordinary proficiency the Board of Visitors may prolong
the term. They stand, in all respeets, except expense, on the
same footing as other students, enjoying the same privileges, and
subject to the same laws.
By way of remuneration to the State for the assistance thus
afforded, they are expected to teach in some public or private
school within the limits of Virginia, for two years after leaving
the University.
The selection of students, on this foundation, is made by the
Faculty on the first day of July, annually. Application for vacancies,
accompanied by proper testimonials, addressed to the
Chairman of the Faculty, should reach the University by the
25th of June.
☞ Persons interested will be pleased to observe the following
particulars:
1. The applicant is requested to state his age, which must be
over seventeen 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 vigor 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 numerial 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.
| Catalogue of the University of Virginia | |