University of Virginia Library

Regulations.

LATE ENTRANCE AND WITHDRAWAL.

No abatement is made in the matriculation, tuition fees and room rent, on account
of late entrance, unless the student enter after the first of January, and no portion of
the same is refunded on account of withdrawal from the University before the close of
the session, unless the withdrawal be rendered necessary by ill health, and occur before
the first of March. The charges for board, fuel, lights, and washing, are estimated
from the time of entrance. Many disadvantages to the student result from late entrance;
therefore, prompt attendance at the beginning of the session is earnestly enjoined
upon all who wish to derive the full benefits of the course of instruction.

RULES WITH REGARD TO RENTAL OF ROOMS IN THE UNIVERSITY
BUILDINGS.

To secure rooms in the University Buildings, application may be made by letter
to the Proctor; but if the rent is not deposited with him before the 15th of September,
the room is considered to be unengaged.

PROHIBITION OF CREDIT.

An act of the legislature prohibits merchants and others, under severe penalties,
from crediting students. The license to contract debts, which the chairman is authorized
to grant, is confined (except when the parent or guardian requests otherwise in
writing,) to cases of urgent necessity; and these, it is hoped, parents and guardians
will, as far as possible, prevent from arising by the timely supply of the requisite funds.

PRIVILEGED STUDENTS.

Ministers of the Gospel may attend any of the schools of the University without the
payment of tuition fees. The same privilege will be extended to any young man preparing
for the ministry, on condition that he submit testimonials that he is a bona
fide candidate for the ministry, and unable to meet the expenses of education at the
University without aid.

USE OF LIBRARY.

Students are allowed the use of the books under the usual restrictions, and the librarian
is present in the library for four hours daily, to attend to their wants.

Persons at a distance, who may desire to consult this library by correspondence, can
do so on payment of a small charge, proportioned to the time and labor expended on
the research required, copying of titles, or passages from authors, etc. A letter on this
subject, prepaid, and addressed to Frederick W. Page, Esq., Librarian, will receive
attention.

INFIRMARY.

There is a well-appointed infirmary connected with the University for the care and
comfort of sick students. Every student on matriculation deposits the infirmary fee,

$7.50,) which entitles him, in case of sickness during the session, to the advice and attendance
of the infirmary physicians, (the Professors in the Medical Department,) and,
if necessary, to nursing by professional nurses, without additional charge.

DISCIPLINE AND RELIGIOUS WORSHIP.

Morality and Religion are recognized as the foundation and indispensable concomitants
of education. The discipline of the University is sedulously administered with a
view to confirm integrity, and to maintain a sacred regard for truth. Great efforts are
made to surround the students with religious influences; but experience has proved
that the best way to effect this result is to forbear the employment of coercion; the
attendance on religious exercises is therefore entirely voluntary. Prayers are held
every morning in the chapel, and divine service is conducted twice on Sunday by a
chaplain, selected in turn from the principal religious denominations. The chaplain
for the present session is the Rev. J. T. Whitley.

MONTHLY CIRCULAR.

At the end of every month a circular letter is addressed by the Chairman of the
Faculty to the parent or guardian of each student, in which are stated his absences from
lectures and examinations, and any other irregularities of which he may have been
guilty, together with such further information as to the student's progress and conduct
as it may be deemed proper to communicate, or as the parent or guardian may specially
request. The object of such reports being, on the one hand, to incite the student to
steady diligence, by eliciting the commendation and encouragement of his friends, and,
on the other, to restrain him from idleness and disorder, or to urge him to amendment
by their admonition and advice, their usefulness greatly depends upon the prompt and
judicious attention they receive from those to whom they are addressed. Parents and
guardians, therefore, cannot be too earnest in communicating such advice or encouragement
as the monthly reports may suggest.

DONATIONS TO THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.

Under an act of the Legislature, entitled "A bill to encourage donations to the
University of Virginia, and to constitute the State of Virginia the trustee thereof,"
"any person may deposit in the treasury of this State, or bequeath money, stock, or
public bonds of any kind, to be so deposited, or grant, devise, or bequeath property
real or personal, to be sold, and the proceeds to be so deposited, in sums not less
than one hundred dollars, which shall be invested in certificates of debt of the State
of Virginia, or of the United States, or any other State thereof, for the benefit of the
University of Virginia; and in such case the interest or dividend accruing on such stock,
certificates of debt or bonds, shall be paid to the Rector and Visitors of the University,
to be by them appropriated to the general purposes thereof, unless some particular
appropriation shall have been designated by the donor or testator as hereinafter
provided.—The State of Virginia is hereby constituted the trustee for the
safekeeping and due application of all funds which may be deposited in the treasury in
pursuance of this act."

The legal title of the University is—

"The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia."

ENDOWMENT OF PROFESSORSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS THROUGH
THE SOCIETY OF ALUMNI.

Under an act of the Legislature, entitled "A bill to incorporate the Society of
Alumni of the University of Virginia," this Society is authorized, by the executive Committee,
or in such other way as it may direct, "to raise the sum of five hundred thousand
dollars, to be held in the name of the `Society of Alumni of the University of
Virginia,' to be safely invested, and the net annual income therefrom to be applied to
the benefit of the University of Virginia." It is also empowered "to employ agents to
obtain endowments for scholarships and professorships, to solicit donations, to dispose of
anything of value belonging to the Society, or entrusted to its management for the
purpose of endowing professorships or scholarships, or for accomplishing any of the
other objects of the Society authorized by its charter."

SUMMER COURSES OF INSTRUCTION.

There are courses of instruction given during the vacation in the following subjects,
viz: Common and Statute Law, by Professor J. B. Minor, LL. D; Pure and Applied
Mathematics, by Adjunct-Professor Wm. M. Thornton; Theoretical and Practical
Chemistry, by Professor J. W. Mallet.

These courses form no part of the University Department, but are the private enterprises
of the Professors who undertake them, to whom application should be made by
those seeking fuller information concerning them.