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STATEMENT
OF THE
TERMS OF ADMISSION,
COURSES OF INSTRUCTION, EXPENSES, &c.
AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.
MATRICULATION.
To be admitted as a student of the University, the applicant must
be at least sixteen years of age; but the Faculty may dispense with
this requirement in favor of one who has a brother, of the requisite
age, entering at the same time.
If the applicant for admission has been a student at any other
incorporated seminary, he must produce a certificate from such seminary,
or other satisfactory evidence of general good conduct.
There is no prescribed course of studies in this institution.
Every student may select the schools he will attend; but, in the
academic department, he is required to attend at least three, unless,
upon the written request of his parent or guardian, or for good
cause shown, the Faculty shall allow him to attend less than three.
Students are permitted to exchange schools, with transfer of fees,
within one week after admission; thereafter no exchange is allowed,
except by leave of the Faculty, and then without transfer of fees.
The session commences on the first of October, and continues,
without interruption, until the Thursday before the fourth day of
July.
The mode of instruction is by lectures and text-books, accompanied
by daily examinations.
Literary Department.
I.—SCHOOL OF LATIN.
PROF. PETERS.
The subjects taught in this School are the Latin Language and
Literature, with the history of Rome. The School is divided into
two classes, Junior and Senior.
The Text-Books are—
1. Junior Class—Cæsar, Virgil, Terence, Ovid, Sallust.
2. Senior Class—Cicero, Horace, Livy, Juvenal, Tacitus.
Grammars.—Zumpt's, Gildersleeve's, Harrison's Exposition of the
Laws of the Latin Language.
Lexicons.—Andrew's, or Freund's Leverett.
History.—Browne's Roman Literature, Liddell's Rome, Long's
Atlas.
Instruction is given by lectures and by examinations upon the
portions of text assigned for recitation. The exercises of render
ing Latin into English, and English into Latin, in writing, consti
tute a prominent feature in the course. In addition to the portions
of the several authors read in the lecture room, a course of extra
and parallel reading is required in each class.
Sanskrit.—The Professor of Latin will also give instruction in
Sanskrit.
Text-Books.—Monier Williams' Grammar, Yates' Lexicon, selections
from the Mahâ-Bhârata.
II.—SCHOOL OF GREEK.
PROF. GILDERSLEEVE.
The School is divided into three classes: Junior, Intermediate,
and Senior.
The Junior Class is intended especially for those who desire to
make a thorough review of the inflections and to acquire a practical
familiarity with the great principles of the language. The only
author read in this class is Xenophon.
Grammar.—Kühner's Elementary.
The authors read in the Intermediate Class are principally: Lysias,
Xenophon, Herodotus, Homer, and Demosthenes; and in the Senior,
Thucydides, Sophocles, Euripides, and Plato.
Grammars.—Hadley's, Kühner's, Goodwin's Moods and Tenses.
Liddell and Scott's Lexicon, Smith's History of Greece, Browne's
Greek Literature.
A private course of parallel and preparatory reading is also prescribed
for each class.
The Post Graduate Department has been instituted for the benefit of
graduates and others who wish to pursue a more extended course
of reading. The authors read in this department are such as are
either by their form or subjects less suited for the regular school,
e. g., Æschylus, Aristophanes, and Aristotle.
Hebrew.—The Professor of Greek will also give instruction in
Hebrew whenever the demand for such instruction is sufficient to
make the institution of a course of lectures expedient.
Grammar.—Deutsch's.
In the examinations of candidates for graduation in Latin and
Greek, the passages given for the written translations are selected,
not from the portions of authors which have been read and explained
in the lecture-room, but from the classic writers at will.
III.—SCHOOL OF MODERN LANGUAGES.
PROF. SCHELE DE VERE.
The subjects taught in this School are:
1. The French, German, Italian, and Spanish languages.
2. The Literature of these languages, and the History of each
idiom, embracing the general principles of the formation and growth
of languages, and of Comparative Grammar and Philology.
3. The Anglo-Saxon language, and, in connection with it, the
History and Laws of the English language.
Graduation in French and German is required for the degree
of A. M.
Text-Books.—French—Junior Class—The Professor's Grammar
and First Reader, Télémaque, Charles XII.
Senior Class—The Professor's Advanced Grammar, Reader,
Molière, Racine, Voltaire, Saintine's Picciola, Spiers and Surenne's
Dictionary.
German.—Junior Class—Whitney's Grammar, Whitney's Reader,
Schiller's William Tell.
Senior Class—Whitney's Grammar, Adler's Dictionary, Schiller's
Works, Gœthe's Autobiography, Jean Paul's Walt and Vult.
Spanish.—The Professor's Grammar, Seoane's Dictionary, Velasquez'
Reader, Don Quixote, Calderon's El Principe Constante.
Italian.—Bacchi's Grammar, Monti's Reader, Manzoni's I Promessi
Sposi, Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, Pellico's Le Mie Prigioni,
Dictionary.
Anglo-Saxon.—Shute's Manual of Anglo-Saxon, The Professor's
Studies in English.
IV.—SCHOOL OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY.
PROF. M'GUFFEY.
Books requisite for the Class in Mental Philosophy:
1. Hamilton's Lectures on Metaphysics.
2. Hamilton's Lectures on Logic.
3. Schuyler's Principles of Logic.
4. Cousin's True, Beautiful, and Good.
5. Jouffroy's Ethics.
6. Stewart's Active and Moral Powers.
7. Alexander's Moral Science.
8. Butler's Analogy and Sermons.
The above books are used in the order named.
Three lectures each week are given.
V.—SCHOOL OF HISTORY, GENERAL LITERATURE
AND RHETORIC.
PROF. HOLMES.
This School is divided into two distinct classes—one of History,
and one of Literature and Rhetoric. To each, two Lectures in the
week are regularly devoted; but exercises in literary composition
are required from the members of the Literary Class. Each study
may be pursued separately.
In the Historical Class the successions, revolutions and various
aspects of the principal nations of the world are considered in such
a manner as to afford a general and connected view of the progress
of political and social organizations. Institutions and laws are noted
as the manifestations of different phases of society; an attempt is
made to discover and elucidate the conditions of historical advancement,
and to refer the changes of nations and governments to the
operation of regular principles.
In the absence of appropriate Text-Books, the following are employed
for study and reference:
Schmitz's Manual of Ancient History; Smith's History of Greece;
Gibbon, Abridged by Smith; Taylor's Manual of Modern History.
For reference: Long's Ancient Atlas; Appleton's (College) Atlas,
or Chambers' Atlas; Blair's Chronology (Bohn's edition).
In the Class of Literature and Rhetoric, the English Language,
English Composition, Rhetoric and the English Classics, with the
History of English Literature, are studied.
The origin, growth and philological peculiarities of the Language
will be considered; the various influences, domestic and external,
by which it has been brought to its present condition, will be explained;
the general principles of Rhetoric and Criticism will be
taught; the lives of the most eminent authors in the language will
be treated in their historical order and connection; and the critical
much of the time of the student. The class will also be required
to practice Literary Composition.
Text-Books in this department are very deficient. The following
will be used for the present:
Angus's Hand Book of the English Tongue; Jamieson's Grammar
of Rhetoric; Shaw's Complete Manual of English Literature,
Ed. Smith and Tuckerman; Student's Specimens of English Literature,
Ed. Shaw and Smith, London:
Shakspeare's Complete Works; Milton's Poetical Works.
POLITICAL ECONOMY.
In the Class of Political Economy, temporarily connected with
this School, the Text-Books, heretofore and still used, are Say's Political
Economy, Mill's (J. S.) Political Economy. Two lectures a
week are given.
Scientific Department.
VI.—SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS.
PROF. VENABLE.
This School embraces two distinct departments or courses:
1. Pure Mathematics.
2. Mixed Mathematics.
I. Pure Mathematics.—In the course of Pure Mathematics there
are three classes, Junior, Intermediate, and Senior.
In the Junior Class are studied the Theory of Arithmetical Operations
and Notation, Algebra, Geometry and Geometrical Conic
Sections, with discussions of the Ancient Geometrical Analysis, the
Theory of Transversals, and other subjects of Modern Geometry.
The preparation desirable for this class is the thorough study of
Arithmetic, of Algebra through Equations of the Second Degree,
and of the first four books of Legendre or Euclid.
In the Intermediate Class the studies are Plane and Spherical
Trigonometry with Applications, Analytical Geometry of two Dimensions,
the Theory of Equations and Elements of Descriptive
Geometry.
In the Senior Class the subjects of study are Analytical Geometry
of three Dimensions, the Differential and Integral Calculus with
applications to the Theory of Probabilities, and the Determination
of Mean Values and Centres of Gravity, and the Calculus of Variations.
and on some points in Controversial Mathematics, with brief
discussions of the elements of Trilinear Coördinates, of the Theory
of Determinants, the Theory of Complex Fractions, and of the
principles of the Method of Quaternions.
Text-Books in Pure Mathematics:
1. Junior Class—Venable's Higher Arithmetic, Robinson's University
Algebra, Legendre's Geometry. For reference and examples,
Todhunter's Algebra, Pott's Euclid, Taylor's Conic Sections.
2. Intermediate Class—Snowball's Trigonometry, Law's Logarithms,
Puckle's Conic Sections (Analytical Geometry), Church's
Descriptive Geometry. For reference, Todhunter's Theory of Equations.
3. Senior Class—Aldis' Solid Geometry, Courtenay's Calculus,
Todhunter's Differential and Integral Calculus.
II. Mixed Mathematics.—This course is designed for those students
who may desire to prosecute their studies beyond the limits
of the Pure Mathematics. It embraces Applications of the Differential
and Integral Calculus to selected portions of Mechanics, Physics
and Physical Astronomy. There is one class in the Mixed
Mathematics.
The instruction in each class in the School of Mathematics 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 each class is
also tested by his beig required to perform written exercises, in
which the principles acquired are applied to the solution of particular
problems.
Any student entering the school has the privilege of attending all
or any of the classes, and if prepared to enter an advanced class,
may often find it highly advantageous to review his previous studies
by attendance on a lower class also.
In the Junior Class there are three lectures each week; in the
Intermediate Class, two lectures each week; in the Senior Class,
three lectures each week.
In the Class of Mixed Mathematics, three lectures each week.
VII.—SCHOOL OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.
PROF. SMITH.
There are three classes in this School.
1. The Junior or General Class, which meets three times each
week throughout the session of nine months. The object of the
course of lectures to this class is to furnish the student with a comprehensive
view of Modern Physics, and to make him familiar
with its methods of investigation. With the design of laying a
thoroughly scientific basis for the course, a large space is given at the
force. These doctrines are established, and their leading consequences
are traced, without the use of mathematical symbols.
Guided by these truths, the teacher discusses, in the light of experiment,
the structure of matter according to the received atomic
hypotheses, and the equilibrium and motion of solids and fluids.
These topics, with various applications, occupy the first half of the
course of lectures.
The remainder of the course is devoted to Molecular Physics, and
treats of Capillarity, Osmose, Wave Motion, Sound, Light, Heat
and Electricity. In this, as in the previous portion of the lectures,
the established laws of motion and force are kept steadily in view,
and an attempt is made so to present and discuss the phenomena as
to convince the student that the entire body of Physics is a coherent
and harmonious system of mechanical truth.
Text-Book.—Silliman's Physics.
2. The Senior Class.—This class meets twice a week, and studies
Mechanics and Astronomy.
Text-Books.—Parkinson's Mechanics, Norton's Astronomy.
MINERALOGY AND GEOLOGY.
3. These subjects are assigned to a separate class, which the members
of the other classes in the School may attend without payment
of an additional fee. In this class the lectures commence with
General Mineralogy, which is treated with especial reference to
Geology, to which it is designed to be an introduction. In the lectures
on Geology, the specific identity of ancient and modern Geological
causes is pointed out; the present action of these causes,
whether atmospheric, aqueous or igneous, is considered, and their
effects in the past history of our planet are examined. The illustrations
are drawn, as far as practicable, from the Geological structure
of Virginia.
The students have an opportunity of familiarizing themselves with
the minerals, rocks and fossils exhibited in the lectures.
Text-Books.—Dana's Manuals of Mineralogy and Geology.
VIII.—SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY.
PROF. MAUPIN.
The course of lectures in this School commences with such an
exposition of the phenomena and laws of Heat, Light and Electricity,
as is rendered necessary by their relations to chemical
changes and chemical theories.
The subject of Chemistry proper, is then taken up and presented
in the following order:
1. The history of the Metalloids and their combinations with each
other, and, in connection therewith, the exposition of the principles
of the Chemical Nomenclature, Symbols and Notation.
2. The general principles of Chemical Philosophy—including the
Simple and Current Affinity, &c.
3. The Metals—their combinations with the Metalloids, and their
saline combinations.
4. Organic Chemistry—including the general principles of Organic
Analysis, and the detailed consideration of the series of Hydrocarbons,
Alcohols, Ethers, Organic Acids and Bases, &c.
The processes for detecting Poisons, and the means of counteracting
their effects, are presented in their proper connections; and
throughout the course the applications of the facts and principles of
Chemistry to Medicine, Agriculture and the Arts are duly noticed.
The whole subject is presented in the lights of the modern Theories
of the science, which have recently gained so strong a foothold
throughout the Chemical world—the object being to place the student
in a position not only to enter, understandingly, upon any of
the practical applications of the science to which his attention may
be turned, but to keep pace with its development and progress.
Text-Book.—Fownes' Chemistry, last edition.
IX.—SCHOOL OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS, ENGINEERING
AND ARCHITECTURE.
PROF. BŒCK.
The School is divided into three classes.
1. Junior Class—Theory and use of Engineering Instruments,[*]
Land Surveying[*] and Levelling,[*] Construction of Roads, Railroads
and Canals, Elements of Spherical Astronomy and Geodesy, General
Theory of Projections,[*] Orthogonal Oblique and Axonometric
Projections,[*] Field Practice,[*] Topographical Drawing,[*] Constructive
and Free-hand Drawing,[*] Drawing of Ornaments, etc.
Text-Books.—Mahan's Civil Engineering. Notes of the Professor.
2. Intermediate Class—Higher Geodesy and Spherical Astronomy,
Building and Architecture, Theory of Building Materials,[*] Foundations,[*]
Masonry and Framing,[*] Strength of Materials[*] and its practical
application to entire Constructions, Theory of Arches and
Domes, Construction of Roofs, Bridges and Tunnels, Private and
Public Buildings, Warming and Ventilation of Buildings, Perspective,
Shades and Shadows,[*] Stone Cutting, Orders and Styles of
Architecture, Free-hand Drawing continued, Drawing, Shading and
Coloring of Architectural Details and of Entire Buildings, Architectural
Design.
Text-Books.—Brunnow's Spherical Astronomy. Notes of the Professor.
3. Senior Class—Theory of Machinery and Machines,[*] Steam Engine,[*]
Hydraulic Engineering,[*] Mining Engineering,[*] Drainage,
Projection of Maps, Free-hand Drawing continued, Mechanical
Drawing and Design.[*]
Text-Books.—Weisbach's Theory of Machines. Notes of the Professor.
4. Class in Agricultural Engineering, Land Surveying and Levelling,
Road Making, Building Materials, Strength of Materials and
Application to Rural Constructions, Rural Architecture, Agricultural
Implements and Machines, Drawing and Design.
For the use of students in this school a commodious Drawing
Hall has been fitted up, and ample collections of Field Instruments
and Models, illustrating the principles of Hydraulic, Architectural
and Mechanical Engineering, have been provided. These models of
admirable workmanship were constructed for the University in the
widely known establishment of Schröder, of Darmstadt, Germany.
The subjects marked by the asterisk are those required for the students of
Mining Engineering in this school. (See Degrees, page 45.)
X. SCHOOL OF ANALYTICAL, AGRICULTURAL AND
INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY.
PROF. MALLET.
This School having been created with a view to the growing demand
for scientific knowledge in its applications to the useful arts
and to the development of the natural resources of the country, the
endeavor is made to render the teachings of the Chair as practical
as possible, while basing them upon sound principles of general science—thus
presenting the opportunity of preparation for such positions
as those of the miner and metallurgist, the chemical manufacturer,
the farmer, the dyer, bleacher, tanner, analytical chemist, &c.
The system of instruction consists of a course of Lectures upon
Technical Chemistry, and a course of Practical Work in the Chemical
Laboratory, either of which may be attended separately.
A.—Lectures.
In connection with this course there is but one class, the students
attending which hear three lectures each week throughout the session.
Amongst the more prominent subjects discussed are: The production
of Materials of very general application, including the Metallurgy
of Iron, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Tin, Silver, Gold, &c., the preparation
and properties of Alloys, and the processes of Electro-Metallurgy,
the manufacture upon the large scale of Acids, Alkalies, Salts,
Glass and Porcelain; the production and preservation of Food, including
the Chemistry of Agriculture, the processes of Bread
Making, Wine Making, Brewing and Distilling, the manufacture of
Sugar and Vinegar, the curing of Meat, the examination of Potable
Dyeing, Calico Printing, Tanning, and the preparation of India
Rubber; the Chemistry of those arts which afford us Shelter, embracing
the examination of Building Materials, Lime Burning, the
manufacture of Mortar and Cements, the Explosive Agents used in
blasting, as Gunpowder, Gun Cotton, Nitro-Glycerine, &c., Paints
and Varnishes, Disinfecting Materials, &c.; Heating and Ventilation,
the different kinds of Fuel and modes of Burning them; Illumination
by artificial means, Candles, Lamps, the preparation of
Petroleum, the manufacture of Illuminating Gas, Matches; the
Chemistry of Washing, the preparation of Soap, Starch and Perfumes;
the Chemical relations of Printing and Writing, the manufacture
of Paper, Ink, Artists' Colors, Photographic Materials, &c.
The lectures are illustrated by suitable experiments, and by such
specimens, models, drawings, &c., as the various subjects require.
Amongst books which can be usefully referred to in connection with
different parts of this course may be mentioned: Muspratt—Chemistry
as Applied to Arts and Manufactures; Richardson and Watts—Chemical
Technology; Ure—Dictionary of Arts and Manufactures; Dumas—
Traité de Chimie Appliquée aux Arts; Wagner—Die chemische Technologie;
Johnston—Agricultural Chemistry; R. Hoffmann—Theoretisch-praktische
Ackerbauchemie.
The subjects germane to Agriculture are treated of at different periods
of the lecture course, and cannot well be brought together
with a due regard to system, but the discussion more particularly of
soils, manures, &c., will be brought forward in January or February
(this year in February), with a view to the convenience of farmers
or others, not regular students of the University, who may desire
to attend this portion of the course separately. Such persons are
freely invited to thus temporarily join the class for the purpose in
question.
B.—Laboratory Course.
This is arranged for three classes:
1. The First Class meets twice each week during the session, on
each occasion spending from two to four hours in practical experiment
in the Laboratory. A regularly arranged course of practice
in Chemical Manipulation is first pursued; Qualitative Analysis is
then taken up, and, the means of detecting the most important
chemical substances having been learned, students are required to
find out for themselves by analysis the constituents of unknown
materials presented to them. Special attention is given to sub
stances having useful applications in the Arts or connected with
Agriculture. Towards the close of the session the elements of
Quantitative Analysis are taught, so far as the limitation of time will
permit.
2. The Laboratory will be open to the Second Class on five days
of each week during the whole of the working hours of each day.
A full course of instruction in Practical Chemistry, including the
Products, &c., will be given; and students will be assisted and
encouraged to undertake original research.
3. The Third Class is one specially intended for students of Medicine,
and will meet for lessons of two hours each once in the week
for four months of the session. To this class the practical applications
of Chemistry to Medicine will be taught—the detection of
Poisons, chemical and microscopical examination of Animal Products,
urine, blood, &c.
Amongst the works recommended to laboratory students are:
Fresenius—Qualitatire and Quantitative Analysis; H. Rose—Handbuch
der analytischen Chemie (also in French translation); Greville Williams—
Handbook of Chemical Manipulation; Wöhler—Examples for Practice in
Chemical Analysis; Bolley—Handbuch der technisch-chemischen Untersuchungen;
Odling—Practical Chemistry for Medical Students.
The Diploma of Graduate in this School will be conferred upon
such students as attend with diligence the Course of Lectures and
the Second Class of Laboratory Instruction, and give evidence on
examination of satisfactory attainments in the same. For the requirements
in this school for the degrees in Mining and Civil Engineering,
&c., reference is made to the general notice of Degrees.
Very ample and liberal provision has been made by the Board of
Visitors for the material means of illustration of the teachings of
this Chair. A new Laboratory building, of one hundred and twenty
feet in length, by forty-five feet in width, specially designed for the
purposes it is to serve, has been erected, containing twelve rooms—a
lecture-room, rooms for general analytical work, for furnace operations,
for evaporations and experiments with gases, balance rooms,
private laboratory, store-rooms for apparatus and reägents, &c.,
fitted with double windows for the preservation of uniform temperature,
and amply supplied with gas, water, and all proper laboratory
fixtures. All necessary apparatus, chemicals, minerals, models,
&c., and an unusually fine collection of specimens illustrating the
various arts and manufactures as practiced on the great scale, have
been procured from England, France and Germany.
It may safely be said that the University of Virginia is in this
department inferior in material preparation for instruction to no
institution of learning in America, and, in some respects, is probably
superior to any.
With a portion of the means supplied by the donation of the late
Mr. Samuel Miller of Lynchburg, the Board of Visitors of the
University have established, in connection with this School, two
scholarships, each of five hundred dollars per annum, and tenable for
two years (one to be filled and one vacated in each year), to be competed
for at a special examination upon the whole of the subjects
taught in the school, to be held near the close of each session—candidates
for this examination to be graduates of the School. Scholars
thus elected will be expected to continue their studies under the
Professor of the School during the term of their scholarships, and
performance of analyses and researches, &c., as may be required of
them. It is hoped that thus the opportunity may be afforded such
students of becoming thoroughly competent chemists, worthy of
public confidence in regard to all the purposes which their special
knowledge may subserve, and that even during their tenure of the
scholarships in question they may be able to render useful service in
the examination and analysis of agricultural and other materials of
general interest. They will be subject to no charge for tuition in
this School during the two years, but will be expected to defray the
expense of material they may consume in the Laboratory.
Agricultural Department.
PROFESSORS MALLET AND BŒCK.
The late Samuel Miller, of Lynchburg, having, by deed, given in
trust one hundred thousand dollars, for the establishment of a Department
of Scientific and Practical Agriculture at the University
of Virginia, the Trustees met the Rector and Visitors of the University
on the 17th of September, 1869, and arrangements were
made for putting the said department in operation.
The Trustees nominated, and the Visitors elected, J. W. Mallet,
Ph. D., M. D., Professor of Analytical and Agricultural Chemistry,
and L. J. Bœck, Ph. D., Professor of Mechanics and Engineering as
applied to Agriculture.
The organization and entire control of the Agricultural Department
belonging to the Board of Visitors, with the exception of the
right and duty of the Trustees to nominate the Professors to be
employed in the same, the said Board has proceeded to set apart
certain lands belonging to the University as an Experimental Farm,
to be conducted in conformity with the directions of the Professors
of Agriculture.
The foundation of two scholarships, in connection with the School
of Analytical and Agricultural Chemistry, has also been authorized,
with the view of securing the more thorough training of students, of
aptitude and zeal for experimental investigations, in those branches
of knowledge and inquiry upon which the progress of scientific agriculture
in this State must chiefly depend. Selections for these
scholarships will be made from graduates of the school, upon com
petitive examination—one to be appointed at the close of each ses
sion for the term of two years next succeeding.
The donation of Mr. Miller consisting largely in State stocks, not
being limited to the income of the fund, the department,
for the present, is restricted to the provisions above indicated. But
it is expected that the income will, at an early day, be sufficient to
enable the authorities to enlarge its scope and operations by the establishment
of one or more Professorships of Natural History.
Students in the Agricultural Department may, of course, avail
themselves of the benefits of instruction in any of the schools of
the University, on the same terms as other students.
Medical Department.
JAMES L. CABELL, M. D.,
PROFESSOR OF COMPARATIVE ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY AND
SURGERY.
Text-Books.—Dalton's Physiology, Huxley's Elements of Physiology
(American edition), and Erichsen's Science and Art of
Surgery, edition 1869.
JOHN STAIGE DAVIS, M. D.,
PROFESSOR OF ANATOMY AND MATERIA MEDICA.
Text-Books.—Wilson's Anatomy and Wood's Therapeutics.
S. MAUPIN, M. D.,
PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY AND PHARMACY.
Text-Books.—Fownes' Chemistry and Parrish's Pharmacy.
JAMES F. HARRISON, M. D.,
PROFESSOR OF MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE, OBSTETRICS AND
PRACTICE OF MEDICINE.
Text-Books.—Taylor's Medical Jurisprudence, Meigs' Obstetrics,
and Flint's Practice of Medicine, last edition.
J. EDGAR CHANCELLOR, M. D.,
DEMONSTRATOR OF ANATOMY.
The Medical Department is organized on the same general plan
as the other departments of the University, the distinctive features
of which are comprehensiveness and thoroughness of instruction,
and the graduation of the student upon satisfactory evidences of
attainments only, without regard to the length of time he may have
been attending the lectures. An experience of more than forty
years has fully attested the excellence of the plan. The scholarship
of the alumni of the institution and the value of its degrees are now
freely conceded by cultivated and liberal men throughout the
country.
The Medical Department of the University aims at thorough
work in its special province, to wit: the instruction of the student
in the principles of medicine, and his discipline in the modes of
acquiring and applying knowledge. Thus, whilst the only solid
foundation of professional attainments is laid, the mental faculties
are expanded and strengthened for that growth in knowledge, usefulness
and distinction, to which every one who enlists in an honorable
and responsible profession should aspire. The organization and
arrangements by which these aims are successfully accomplished
may be briefly stated:
The length of the session (nine months) renders it convenient and
eligible to distribute the subjects of instruction among a smaller
number of Professors than in other medical schools of the United
States, whose sessions are only four or five months' long. Thus, to
one Professor is assigned Comparative Anatomy, Physiology and
Surgery; to another, Human Anatomy and Materia Medica; to a
third, Chemistry and Pharmacy; and to a fourth, Medical Jurisprudence,
Obstetrics, and the Practice of Medicine. This distribution
renders it practicable to bring the different subjects to the attention
of the student in their natural and successive order. The arrangement
of the lectures is such that he acquires a competent knowledge
of Anatomy, human and comparative, Physiology and Chemistry,
before he enters upon the study of the principles and practice of
Medicine and Surgery, which can only be studied properly in the
lights shed upon them by the former. The instructions in Materia
Medica and Pharmacy are also given in due relation to the progress
of the student in Chemistry.
A feature in the course of medical instruction at this University,
worthy of note, is the space given to Comparative Anatomy and
Comparative Physiology. The structure and functions of the organs
in the human system can, in fact, be fully understood only by comparisons
running through the whole animal series. The comparison
of extensively varied types of animal forms, all executing substantially
to ascertain what are the essential constituents of each organ, and
what the essential conditions of its action. By this process knowledge
is made positive by experiments ready prepared by nature,
which are much more trustworthy than any that may be specially
contrived by man.
The introduction of Pharmacy into the course of instruction is
another feature of interest, serving, as it does, to initiate the student
into an art which he will find of value when he comes to the practice
of his profession.
Favored, as the student is, in the comprehensiveness, scientific
basis and order of his studies, he is not less favored by arrangements
which give ample time for the preparation of every lecture,
and address motives to him for such preparation. Each Professor
gives three regular lectures a week, with occasional extra lectures,
making the average weekly aggregage not over fonrteen, or a little
more than two a day. The student, therefore, is not over-burthened
with lecture room attendance. He has time for study in his private
room, to consult books and compare their teachings with the oral
instructions of his Professors, and to digest and systematize his
acquisitions from both sources. The daily examinations, which precede
every lecture, supply the stimulus to regular and active study,
serve as summary reviews of what he has already heard or read, and
as correctives of any misconceptions he may have fallen into in his
hearing or reading. The daily examinations constitute a very
valuable part of the exercises of the Institution, and are taken into
account in determining the fitness of a student for graduation.
The equipment of the Medical Department in apparatus, specimens
and drawings is extensive and excellent. The collection of
paintings for the illustration of the lectures on anatomy, physiology
and surgery, several hundred in number, is unequaled by anything
of the kind in the United States, or perhaps abroad. A skillful
artist was diligently engaged for six years in executing them, under
the direction and critical supervision of the Professors. They
delineate the tissues, muscles, heart and blood vessels, brain, spinal
marrow and nerves, the organs of sense, the thoracic, abdominal
and pelvic viscera, and indeed all the structures and organs of the
human body with admirable accuracy and distinctness, are of
great value as helps to lucid instruction in the branches to which
they relate. In all the other branches, the appropriate means of
illustration of every topic of discussion are likewise at hand, and
are duly utilized.
The Department furnishes every facility for the study of practical
anatomy that can be furnished in similar institutions elsewhere.
Adequate provision is made for the supply of subjects, and each
student has the opportunity, by actual dissections, under the
guidance of the Demonstrator of Anatomy, of acquiring a practical
knowledge of the structure of the human body in all its parts.
The University offers no facilities for clinical instruction. There
connection, is this a source of regret. The aim of the Medical
Department is to lay a thorough foundation for medical acquirements
and to indoctrinate the student in the principles of the profession.
When well versed in the principles of medicine, he is
prepared to profit by clinical instruction, and not before. The value
of clinical instruction is freely conceded; but it is an unprofitable
use of time for the first-course student to give his attention to it.
No class of medical students are more eager than those who have
attended the full course of medical lectures at this Institution to
seek instruction at the bedside of the sick, whether under the
guidance of the private practitioner, or under the more ample, varied
and systematic teachings of clinical lecturers in public hospitals;
and none, it may be safely said, are better qualified to profit by it.
In proof may be adduced the fact that a large proportion, much
larger than any influence save that of merit could secure, find their
way to eligible and responsible positions on the house staffs of the
great city hospitals after leaving this University.
The degree of Doctor of Medicine is conferred upon such students
as prove their fitness for the same by rigid and searching
examinations. It has ever been the policy of the Institution to
make its honors testimonials of merit, and not certificates of attendance
on a prescribed course of instruction. In accordance with this
policy, the degree of Doctor of Medicine may be conferred upon a
first-course student, if found worthy of it. Not only is it within
the reach of the intelligent, diligent and persevering to graduate in
one session of nine months, but, in point of fact, many do thus
graduate. A longer time, however, is often devoted to the necessary
preparation, and wisely, when circumstances permit. It is not an
unusual case that an academic student, looking forward to medicine
as his profession, conjoins a part of the medical with his academic
studies during one session; and during the next, entering as a medical
student proper, he is enabled to graduate, at the close thereof,
with comparative ease. But the majority of the students who
attend medical lectures in this Institution do not graduate here.
They spend one session in reaping its well known advantages, and
subsequently resort to the city schools to secure their degrees and
profit by the facilities afforded for clinical instruction. As a class,
the excellence of their preparation is recognized in all the leading
city schools of this country, and this appreciation generally proves
a ready passport to success in achieving their special objects.
The University of Virginia is resorted to by many of the young
men of the South, and by some from other sections, seeking higher
culture in literature and science, as well as in the learned professions.
They bring with them the well-marked characteristics of a manly,
sincere and generous people, and form a fraternity, the source of
pleasant recollections and beneficial influences in after life. The
opportunity thus afforded of forming associations with contemporaries,
who are to be the cultivated and leading men of their day
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those who are preparing for the medical profession. This consideration,
in addition to the ample facilities for special and professional
instruction, as the tastes and purposes of the student may dictate,
will, it is believed, continue to invite to the Medical Department not
only Southern students, but also students from the North and West,
who may wish to attend an Institution comprehensive in its plan
and organization, catholic in its teachings, and national in its spirit.
☞ In addition to the usual course of Medical Lectures, a special
course, for such medical students as may desire to pursue it, of
sixteen (16) lessons in the practical applications of chemistry to
medicine (the detection of poisons, chemical and microscopic examinations
of animal products, urine, blood, &c.,) will be given by the
Professor of Applied Chemistry, at a charge of $20 tuition fee and
$5 for laboratory material consumed. Attendance on this special
course is optional with the student.
☞ The expenses of the Medical student amount to $386 per
session of nine months, commencing 1st of October. (See expenses,
page 47.)
Law Department.
This Department is organized with a view to acquaint the student
familiarly and practically with the principles of his profession. The
instruction is as thorough as possible, and is given partly through
text-books and partly through lectures, with daily examinations upon
both.
A Moot-Court, in connection with other instruction, tends to perfect
the student in the details of practice. Under the immediate
supervision of the Professors, he is required to pronounce opinions
upon supposed cases; to devise and institute remedies, by suit or
otherwise; to conduct suits at Law and in Equity 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 Department comprises two Schools, each of which is divided
into two classes, and the course of study is as follows:
SCHOOL OF COMMON AND STATUTE LAW.
PROF. JOHN B. MINOR.
Junior Class.—Blackstone's Commentaries, Chitty on Contracts.
Senior Class.—Stephen on Pleading, Kents Commentaries, Law
of Executors, &c.
☞ For Reference.—Virginia Code (1860); Brightley's Digest
of United States Statutes.
SCHOOL OF EQUITY, MERCANTILE AND INTERNATIONAL,
CONSTITUTIONAL AND CIVIL
LAW, AND GOVERNMENT.
PROF. S. O. SOUTHALL.
Junior Class.—Vattel's International Law, Lectures on Government,
Federalist.
Senior Class.—Smith's Mercantile Law, Greenleaf's Evidence,
Barton's Suit in Equity, Adams' Equity.
In the Department of Law, the degree of Bachelor of Law is
conferred upon those who, upon examination conducted in writing,
manifest an intimate acquaintance with the subjects taught in all the
classes; and to those who, upon like examination, exhibit a competent
knowledge of International and Constitutional Law, and of the
Science of Government, a certificate of Proficiency is awarded.
The expenses of a Law student, as will be seen from page 47 of
Catalogue, amount to about $356 for a session of nine months, commencing
1st October, 1870.
LICENTIATES.
Any person of unexceptionable character and habits, upon producing
to the Faculty satisfactory evidence of suitable capacity and
attainments, will be licensed by the Faculty to form classes for private
instruction in any School of the University in aid of and in
conformity to the public teachings of the Professor upon any subject
taught therein. The employment, selection and compensation
of any such Licentiate is left to the option of the students.
SCHEME OF LECTURES.
| 8h. to 9h. | 9h. to 10h. | 10h. to 11h. | 11h. to 12½h. | 12½h. to 2h. | 3h. to 4½h. | |
| MONDAY. | Sen. Latin. Sen. Ap. Mat. 8 to 9½. |
Sen. Greek. Jun. Latin. Italian. |
Hist. & Lit. Sen. Nat. Phil. Spanish. Phys. & Surg. 9½ to 11. |
Chemistry. Senior Math. Junior Law. PROF. MINOR. |
Sen. German. Senior Law. PROF. SOUTHALL. Jun. Greek. |
Polit. Econ. Jun. Math. Ap. Ch. Laborato'y. |
| TUES'Y. | Jun. French. Sen. Greek. |
Jun. German. | Hist. & Lit. Medicine. 9½ to 11. Jun. Ap. Mat. |
Jun. Nat. Phil. Anatomy. Senior Law. PROF. MINOR. |
Int. Greek. Junior Law. PROF. SOUTHALL. |
Moral Phil. Ap. Ch. |
| WED'DAY. | Sen. Latin. Sen. Ap. Mat. 8 to 9½. |
Sen. Greek. Jun. Latin. Italian. |
Hist. & Lit. Sen. Nat. Phil. Spanish. Phys. & Surg. 9½ to 11. |
Chemistry. Sen. Math. Junior Law. |
Sen. German. Senior Law. Jun. Greek. |
Jun. Math. Sen. Ap.M. |
| THURS. | Jun. French. | Sen. French. | Hist. & Lit. Medicine. 9½ to 11. Jun. Ap. Mat. |
Jun. Nat. Phil. Anatomy. Senior Law. |
Int. Math. Junior Law. |
Moral Phil. Ap. Ch. |
| FRIDAY. | Sen. Latin. | Sen. Greek. Jun. Latin. Jun. Ap. Mat. |
Hist. & Lit. Sen. Nat. Phil. Phys. & Surg. 9½ to 11. |
Chemistry. Sen. Math. Junior Law. |
Int. Greek. Anglo-Saxon. Senior Law. |
Polit. Econ. Jun. Math. Ap. Ch. Laborato'y. |
| SAT. | Jun. German. | Sen. French. | Min. & Geol. Medicine. 9½ to 11. |
Jun. Nat. Phil. Anatomy. Senior Law. |
Int. Math. Junior Law. |
Moral Phil. Ap. Ch. |
EXAMINATIONS.
The examinations are of three kinds: 1, the Daily examinations;
2, the Intermediate and Final general examinations; and 3, the examinations
for Graduation.
1.—Daily Examinations.
Each Professor, before commencing the lecture of the day, examines
his class orally on the subject of the preceding lecture as
developed in the text-book and expounded in the lecture.
2.—General Examinations.
Two general examinations of each class are held during the session,
in the presence of a committee of the Faculty, which every student
is required to stand. The first, called the Intermediate examination,
is held about the middle of the session, and embraces in its scope
the subjects of instruction in the first half of the course. The
second, called the Final examination, is held in the closing week of
the session, and embraces the subjects treated of in the second half
of the course. These examinations are conducted in writing. The
questions propunded have, each, numerical values attached to them.
If the answers of the students are valued, in the aggregate, at not
less than three-fourths of the aggregate values assigned to the questions,
he is ranked in the first division: if less than three-fourths and
more than one-fourth, in the third division; and if less than one
fourth, in the fourth division.
Certificates of distinction are awarded to those who attain the
first division at one or both of these examinations, and their names
are published or announced in the closing exercises of the session.
The general examinations are sufficiently comprehensive and difficult
to render it impossible for the student, without steady diligence,
to secure a place in the first division. The results, whatever they
may be, are communicated to parents and guardians respectively, in
the final circular of the session.
The standing of the student at the daily and general examinations
is taken into account in ascertaining his qualifications for graduation
in any of the schools.
3.—Examinations for Graduation.
The examinations for graduation are held in the last month of the
session. They are conducted, in each school, by the Professor
thereof, in the presence of two other Professors, forming, with him,
the committee of examination for the school.
The candidates for graduation are subjected to searching interrogations
on the details and niceties, as well as the leading principles
of the subject, and they are expected to be accurately versed in all
the topics treated of in the lectures and correlative text.
These examinations are carried on chiefly in writing; but in some
of the schools they are partly oral.
☞ As a due acquaintance with the English language is indispensable
to the attainment of even the inferior honors of the institution,
all candidates for graduation are subjected to a preliminary
examination to test their qualifications in this respect.
DEGREES.
The degrees conferred by the University are Academic and Professional.
The Academic Degrees are:
1. That of Proficient—conferred for satisfactory attainments in
certain subjects of study, to wit: in Anglo-Saxon, the Junior and
Intermediate course of Mathematics, Mineralogy and Geology, Physics,
Physiology, Medical Jurisprudence, Human Anatomy; Botany,
Political Economy, History, Literature, International Law and Government,
and the lecture course of Applied Chemistry.
2. That of Graduate in a School—conferred for satisfactory attainments
in the leading subjects of instruction in the same, to wit: in
the Latin Language and Literature, in the Greek Language and
Literature, in the French Language and Literature, in the German
Language and Literature, Mixed Mathematics, Pure Mathematics,
Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Moral Philosophy, History and
Agricultural Chemistry.
3. That of Bachelor of Letters—conferred upon such students as
have graduated in the Schools of Ancient and Modern Languages,
Moral Philosophy, and History and Literature.
4. That of Bachelor of Science—conferred on such students as have
graduated in the Schools of Mathematics, Natural Philosophy and
Chemistry, and who are also Proficients in the Classes of Anatomy,
Physiology, Comparative Anatomy, Botany, Mineralogy and
Geology, and who have obtained distinctions in the Junior Class of
Applied Mathematics, and made satisfactory attainments in the first
Laboratory class of Analytical Chemistry.
5. That of Bachelor of Arts—conferred on such students as have
graduated in Latin, Greek, Chemistry, Moral Philosophy and French
or German, and have obtained certificates of proficiency in Junior
and Intermediate Mathematics, Physics and History or Literature.
6. That of Master of Arts of the University of Virginia—conferred
upon students who have graduated in the Latin, Greek,
French and German Languages, Pure Mathematics, Natural Philosophy,
Chemistry, Moral Philosophy, and History and Literature,
and who have passed satisfactory general examinations, in review,
on all the subjects embraced in the curriculum.
The candidate for the degree of Bachelor or Master of Arts is
also required to submit to the approval of the Faculty an Essay,
composed by himself, on some subject of literature or science,
which essay must be read by the author on the Public Day, if so
ordered.
The Professional Degrees are:
1. That of Bachelor of Law—conferred for satisfactory attainments
in all the subjects of instruction in the School of Law.
2. That of Doctor of Medicine—conferred for satisfactory attainments
in all the subjects of instruction, except Botany, in the several
schools constituting the Medical Department.
Candidates for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, who have been
previously declared Graduates in Chemistry or Proficients in
Anatomy, Physiology or Medical Jurisprudence, are not required to
stand the examinations on these subjects anew; and the same rule
applies to candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Law, who are
Proficients in International Law and Government.
3. That of Civil Engineer—conferred on such students as have
graduated in the Schools of Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, Applied
Mathematics, and Chemistry or Applied Chemistry (Proficiency
in the Lecture course), and obtained a certficate of proficiency
in Mineralogy and Geology.
4. That of Mining Engineer—conferred on such students as have
graduated in the Schools of Chemistry, Applied Chemistry and
Natural Philosophy, and obtained certificates of proficiency in
Junior and Intermediate Mathematics, in a prescribed course of Applied
Mathematics, and in Mineralogy and Geology.
5. That of Civil and Mining Engineer—conferred on such students
as have graduated in Pure Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, including
Mineralogy and Geology, Chemistry, Applied Mathematics
and Applied Chemistry.
☞ Honorary degrees are forbidden by the laws of the University.
PUBLIC DAY.
On the closing day of the session, which occurs on the Thursday
before the fourth day of July, the Visitors, Faculty, Officers and
Students of the University assemble in the Public Hall—whither
also the friends of the students and the public generally are invited.
On this occasion the results of the examinations are announced,
certificates and diplomas awarded, and addresses delivered by the
Bachelors and Masters of Arts.
EXPENSES.
The charges common to all classes of students, if two occupy the
same room, are as follows:
| Matriculation and library fee, | $25 00 |
| Room-rent, | 15 00 |
| Contingent deposit, | 10 00 |
| Infirmary fee, | 7 50 |
| Fuel and lights, about | 25 00 |
| Board, including diet, room furniture and servants' attendance, | 180 00 |
| Washing, $1 50 per month—per session, | 13 50 |
| $276 00 |
The tuition fees of Academic students attending three schools
(the usual number attended in one session) amount to $75; of Law
students to $80; of students of Civil Engineering to $90; and of
Medical students to $110. Adding tuition fees to the above estimate
of common expenses ($276) gives the aggregate of the necessary
expenses of students, exclusive of text-books, clothing and
pocket-money, as follows:
| Academic students, | $351 |
| Law students, | 356 |
| Engineering students, | 366 |
| Medical students, | 386 |
There is a specific scale of tuition fees for the students of Analytical,
Industrial and Agricultural Chemistry.
For the Lecture course, on the applications of Chemistry to the
Arts, the fee is $25, as in other schools.
For the first Laboratory class $50, and an additional charge of
$10 for Laboratory material consumed.
For the second Laboratory class $100, and a charge of $25 for
Laboratory material consumed.
For the third Laboratory class (special course for Medical students)
$20, and a charge of $5 for Laboratory material consumed.
Each Laboratory student, in whatever course of instruction, will
be required to furnish himself with the more common and generally
necessary articles of apparatus. The cost of a suitable set need not
exceed $15.
All the foregoing items are payable in advance, except board and
washing. One-third ($60) of the board is required on admission,
and the balance in equal instalments at three and six months thereafter.
Washing is paid for monthly, as the service is rendered.
The contingent deposit is designed to cover any assessments that
may be made against the student during the session for violation of
the rules of the library, damage to books, room, &c. The residue,
less these assessments, which are generally small, and may be nothing,
is refunded to the student on the settlement of his account at
the close of the session.
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, nursing by professional nurses, without additional
charge.
There are three large boarding-houses within the precincts of the
University, and several outside, but in the immediate vicinity. At
these nearly all the students find accommodations, and at charges
essentially the same. A few find accommodations in private families,
mostly with near relatives or intimate friends. A few also, for
the sake of economy, mess together and board themselves.
With the exception of a deduction of 20 per cent. in the tuition
fees in favor of those who enter after the 1st of January, no abatement
is made in the matriculation and tuition fees and room-rent on
account of late entrance, and no portion of the same is refunded on
account of withdrawal before the close of the session—unless the
withdrawal be rendered necessary by ill health, and occur before the
1st 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 courses 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
where the parent or guardian otherwise, in writing, requests) to
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 fees to the Professors. The same
privilege will be extended to any young man preparing for the ministry,
on the following conditions:
(1.) He shall submit, for the consideration of the Faculty, an application,
accompanied by testimonials, relating to the fact of his
being a bona fide candidate for the ministry, to his good standing in
the church of which he is a member, to his intellectual capacity, and
his inability to meet the expenses of education at the University
without aid.
(2.) No Professor shall be required to form a new class or assume
any other additional labor for the exclusive benefit of this class of
students.
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 the 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 report
may suggest.
LIBRARY.
The library of the University, originally selected and arranged by
Mr. Jefferson, and since enlarged by purchases and donations, now
contains about 35,000 volumes.
Among the recent donations may be mentioned those of A. A.
Low and Robert Gordon, Esqs., of the city of New York. Each
of these gentlemen has left a graceful memento of a visit to the
University, in the unsolicited present of a considerable sum of money
for the increase of the library. Such acts of generosity deserve a
grateful record.
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.
SOCIETY OF ALUMNI.
This Association is composed of such former students of the University
as, having finally left the Institution, have 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
Public Hall on the day preceding the Public Day.
LITERARY SOCIETIES.
There are two Literary Societies, of long standing, connected
with the University. Most of the students become members of one
or the other. They meet weekly in their respective Halls, for the
purpose of cultivating debate and composition, and occasionally
hold public exhibitions.
MORALITY AND RELIGION.
These are recognized as the foundation and indispensable concomitants
of education. The discipline 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 to enforce
attendance on religious exercises, which is entirely voluntary.
Prayers are held every morning in the Chapel, and divine service is
performed on Sunday by a chaplain selected, in turn, from the principal
religious denominations. By means of a Young Men's Christian
Association, new comers are shielded, as much as possible, from
vicious connections, and the energies of students willing to engage
in the Christian enterprises of the neighborhood are called into
active exercise.
STATE STUDENTS.
To render education at the University accessible to meritorious
young men of limited means, provision has been made by the Legislature
for the admission of one student from each Senatorial District
of the State, without payment of matriculation and tuition fees and
rents. This provision is meant to be restricted to those who are not
themselves, and whose parents are not, in a situation to incur the
expense of their education at this Institution, without aid.
State students are appointed by the Faculty upon satisfactory
testimonials of fitness. The term of appointment is for two years,
but for extraordinary proficiency it may be prolonged. They stand
in all respects, 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 aid afforded them,
they are required, on admission, to sign an engagement to teach in
some public or private school in Virginia for two years after leaving
the University, the emoluments of such service enuring, of course,
to their own benefit.
The applicant for a State appointment should state his age (which
must be at least seventeen), and designate the Schools of the University
he may wish to enter. He should submit satisfactory testimonials
of irreproachable moral character and of capacity, as well
by partial cultivation as original vigor of mind, to profit by the
instruction given at the University. It should also appear that
neither he nor his parents are able to incur the expense of his education
without aid.
The Faculty will proceed, on the 2d day of July, 1870, to make
appointments of State students for vacant districts. The following
are the districts under the new Constitution, all of which, except
those indicated by an asterisk, will be vacant at the close of the
present session.
☞ Applications should be addressed to the Chairman of the
Faculty.
I. Alexandria, Fairfax and Loudoun.
*II. Fauquier, Rappahannock and Prince William.
*III. Orange, Culpeper and Madison.
*IV. Stafford, Spotsylvania and Louisa.
V. Fluvanna, Goochland and Powhatan.
*VI. Albemarle and Greene.
VII. Buckingham and Appomattox.
VIII. Nelson and Amherst.
IX. Franklin and Henry.
*X. Pittsylvania.
XI. Campbell.
XII. Bedford.
XIII. Halifax.
XIV. Charlotte and Prince Edward.
XV. Mecklenburg.
*XVI. King George, Westmoreland, Richmond, Northumber
land and Lancaster.XVII. Caroline, Essex and King William.
*XVIII. Gloucester, Mathews, Middlesex and King & Queen.
XIX. Richmond city and Henrico.
XX. Norfolk city and Princess Anne.
XXI. Norfolk county and city of Portsmouth.
*XXII. Nansemond, Southampton and Isle of Wight.
XXIII. Greenesville, Dinwiddie and Sussex.
*XXIV. Surry, York, Warwick and Elizabeth City.
XXV. Brunswick and Lunenburg.
XXVI. Chesterfield and Prince George.
*XXVII. City of Petersburg.
XXVIII. Accomac and Northampton.
*XXIX. Hanover, New Kent, Charles City and James City.
*XXX. Cumberland, Amelia and Nottoway.
*XXXI. Frederick, Clarke and Shenandoah.
XXXII. Page, Warren and Rockingham.
XXXIII. Highland and Augusta.
XXXIV. Rockbridge, Bath and Alleghany.
XXXV. Botetourt, Roanoke, Craig and Giles.
XXXVI. Montgomery, Floyd and Patrick.
XXXVII. Grayson, Carroll and Wythe.
*XXXVIII. Pulaski, Bland, Tazewell and Russell.
XXXIX. Lee, Scott, Wise and Buchanan.
*XL. Washington and Smyth.
CALENDAR.
October 1.—Commencement of the Session.
February 22.—Anniversary Celebration of the Washington Society.
April 13.—Anniversary Celebration of the Jefferson Society.
June 25.—Annual Meeting of the Board of Visitors.
June 27.—Final Celebration of the Washington Society.
June 28.—Final Celebration of the Jefferson Society.
June 29.—Address before the Literary Societies.
June 30.—Public Day, Closing Exercises of the Session and Address
before the Society of Alumni.July 2.—Appointment of State students.
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