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ACADEMICAL DEPARTMENT.
| WILLIAM E. PETERS, LL. D. | Professor of Latin. |
| MILTON W. HUMPHREYS, M. A., Ph. D., LL. D. | Professor of Greek. |
| M. SCHELE DE VERE, Ph. D., J. U. D. | Professor of Modern Languages. |
| JAMES M. GARNETT, M. A., LL. D. | Professor of English. |
| GEORGE FREDERICK HOLMES, LL. D. | Professor of Historical Science. |
| NOAH K. DAVIS, M. A., Ph. D., LL. D. | Professor of Moral Philosophy. |
| CHARLES S. VENABLE, LL. D. | Professor of Mathematics. |
| ORMOND STONE, M. A. | Professor of Practical Astronomy. |
| FRANCIS H. SMITH, M. A., LL. D. | Professor of Natural Philosophy. |
| JOHN W. MALLET, M. D., Ph. D., LL. D., F. R. S. | Professor of Chemistry. |
| FRANCIS P. DUNNINGTON, B. S. | Professor of Analytical Chemistry. |
| WILLIAM M. FONTAINE, M. A., | Professor of Natural History and Geology. |
| ALBERT H. TUTTLE, M. S. | Professor of Biology and Agriculture. |
| WM. H. PERKINSON, Ph. D. | Adjunct Professor of Modern Languages. |
| R. HEATH DABNEY, M. A., Ph. D. | Adjunct Professor of History. |
| ROBERT S. RADFORD, Ph. D. | Instructor in Ancient Languages. |
| J. ELLIOTT HEATH, Jr. | Instructor in French and German. |
| HARRISON RANDOLPH | Instructor in Mathematics. |
| NICHOLAS M. PARRISH | Instructor in Astronomy. |
| JAMES C. SOUTHALL, Jr. | Instructor in Physics. |
| JAMES H. CORBITT | Instructor in Physics. |
| REUBEN M. SEARCY, A. B. | Instructor in Chemistry. |
| CHARLES R. L. FINDLAY | Instructor in Chemistry. |
| CHARLES P. SIGERFOOS, B. S. | Instructor in Biology. |
LITERARY SCHOOLS.
SCHOOL OF LATIN.
Professor Peters.
This School is divided into three classes—Junior, Intermediate and
Senior.
Junior Class.—A student who is able to read Cæsar or Vergil, and
has a proper acquaintance with the Forms, is prepared to enter this
class. The class begins with Sallust or a writer of like difficulty.
work is the study of the Case-relations, the exact force of the
Tenses, and a consecutive outline of the connections in which the Subjunctive
Mood is required. Principles and facts explained are applied
by frequent exercises in Latin Composition. The reading is confined
to selected portions of Sallust, Ovid, Curtius, and Vergil. A limited
amount from each author is prescribed for private reading. For the
examinations, passages are selected for translation from the Latin assigned
as private reading. There are two examinations—the Intermediate,
held about the middle of the session; the Final, at its close.
These examinations are conducted in writing.
Intermediate Class.—Work in this class will be directed to the
acquirement of readiness in translation and syntactical interpretation,
with as little specialistic investigation as is consistent with a general
but sound and permanent knowledge of the language. As an indispensable
auxiliary to this end written exercises in translating English
into Latin and Latin into English will be required. Proper attention
will be given to Roman History and Literature. The metrical work
will be limited to the structure and accurate recitation of the Dactylic,
Anapæstic, Trochaic, and Iambic verses, with the verses occurring in
the odes of Horace. Translation will be confined to Livy, Horace,
Cicero, Seneca, or Tacitus. Selections from each author will be assigned
as parallel reading. There will be two written examinations—
Intermediate and Final.
Senior Class.—This class commences with Juvenal or Livy, and
reads during the session selected portions of Juvenal, Livy, Cicero,
Seneca, Tacitus, or a play of Plautus. The Case-relations are reviewed,
and the Syntax of the Verb is systematically presented. Latin versification
is taken up early in the session and continued throughout the
term. A theoretical acquaintance with this subject is insufficient.
Prompt identification and correct recitation of every variety of Latin
verse is insisted upon. A very prominent place is assigned to Latin
Composition as an indispensable means of acquiring an exact knowledge
of the Language. Portions of the authors read in the Lecture-room
are designated as parallel and private reading. The object of
parallel reading is to enable a student to acquire a more copious vocabulary
than is furnished by the limited amount of Latin read in the
Lecture-room, and to afford a wider field for the application of the
principles explained in the Lectures. In this class there are two examinations—one
occurring about the middle of the session, the second at
its close. The examinations are conducted in writing. For the second
the parallel and partly from Latin which the class has not read. In
this class due attention is given to Roman History and Literature.
Text-Books.—Any approved edition of the authors above named.
Grammars—Gildersleeve's, Syntax of the Verb by the Professor, Printed Lectures
by the Professor on the Latin Cases and Versification.
History.—Liddell's, with Long's or any approved Atlas.
Literature—Bender's, as a Hand-book and Guide, supplemented by Lectures.
The Graduate Course in this School is intended for students who
propose to teach or desire to equip themselves for original investigation
in the language. The scope of the work is such as to familiarize
them with the language in its several periods. An extensive
course of reading is prescribed, and subjects for independent investigation
are from time to time assigned. The Lecture-room exercises consist
in translation and the discussion by the student of the passage translated.
He is invited to propound such questions to the Professor, or to
a member of the class, as he would to a pupil. In addition, a careful
translation from some one of the best Latin prose writers is prepared,
and the student is required at once to write on the blackboard his Latin
rendering of it, and to give his reasons as well for the periods as for
the syntactical constructions employed. Though it requires at least
two years to complete this course, yet one year given to it abundantly
repays the student, as the greater part of the first year of the course is
devoted to the archaic period of the language, which cannot be considered
to any great extent in the under-graduate course.
The work of the Intermediate Class is required for the degree of
Bachelor of Arts.
The work of the Senior Class is required for the degree of Master
of Arts. For the degree of Doctor of Philosophy the completion
of a graduate course is required.
Sanskrit.—The Professor will also give instruction in the elements
of Sanskrit whenever a sufficient number of students desire it.
SCHOOL OF GREEK.
Professor Humphreys.
The School is organized in three classes—the Junior, the Intermediate,
and the Senior. The method of instruction is by lectures, by
daily examination upon the matter of the lectures, and upon assigned
portions of the text-books, and by written and oral exercises.
A full knowledge of the regular Attic inflections and some experience
in translation are necessary as a preparation for the Junior
Class. Two books of Xenophon's Anabasis, or some suitable equivalent,
may be regarded as a proper amount of preparatory reading.
Diligent students inadequately prepared often make good progress
with the aid of a Licentiate.
Junior Class.—The work of this class is directed to the acquirement
of a practical familiarity with the simpler Attic prose. The
Grammar is rapidly but carefully reviewed; for translation into Greek,
sentences are given out which involve the vocabulary and the idioms
of the Greek texts studied. The authors read are Xenophon and
Lysias. The Geography and Political History of Greece are taught
in this class.
Intermediate Class.—This class, for which the Junior Course, or
some equivalent, is the appropriate preparation, continues the study of
Attic prose usage, and enters upon the study of the Drama and of
Homer. Weekly exercises for translation into Greek are given, each
being a passage of simple but idiomatic English based on a Greek
author. Selected portions of the Grammar are closely studied, and the
whole Syntax is reviewed. The authors read are Lysias, Plato, Euripides,
and Homer. Instruction in Greek Literature and Antiquities is
given in this class.
Senior Class.—The successful pursuit of the Senior Course demands
such attainments as may be acquired in the two lower classes, or an
equivalent. The authors read this session are Demosthenes, Sophocles,
Thucydides, Aristophanes, and the fragments of the Lyric Poets.
The Syntax of the Greek Verb is discussed, and courses of lectures
are given upon Metres and the History of Greek Literature. The
weekly exercises are partly based on ancient authors and partly specially
prepared or taken from standard English writers.
Text-books.—Liddell and Scott's Greek Lexicon (seventh edition); Veitch's
Greek Verbs; Goodwin's Greek Grammar; Goodwin's Greek Moods and Tenses,
and approved editions of the authors read.
For each class a course of private reading is prescribed, not restricted
to the authors named above.
The state of preparation of a pupil joining the School may often
make it expedient to take two classes at once.
In the examination of candidates for graduation, all the subjects
taught in the School are involved, and the passages set for translation
are selected from the classic writers at will.
The Graduate Course is designed primarily for those who intend
to become teachers of the classical languages, and desire a thorough
introduction to Greek philology as a part of their professional equipment.
With such students the Professor will read and discuss the
more difficult Greek authors. Courses of private reading are marked
out, including important text-books and monographs; and by systematic
lectures, as well as by constant supervision and advice, the Professor
will aid and direct the student's endeavors. As an exercise in
the independent investigation of philological problems, each student is
from time to time expected to prepare a paper, discussing thoroughly
some topic selected by himself.
Candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts are required to
complete the work of the Intermediate Class; those for the degree of
Master of Arts are required to complete the work of the Senior
Class. For the degree of Doctor of Philosophy the completion of
a Graduate Course is required.
Hebrew.—Elementary instruction in Hebrew will be given when
the demand for such instruction is sufficient.
SCHOOL OF MODERN LANGUAGES.
Spanish, Italian and Anglo-Saxon.
Professor Schele De Vere.
There will hereafter be two classes in each of the two languages,
Spanish and Italian.
The Junior Course, which will embrace the work to be done by
candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, consists of lectures on
the elements of grammar and syntax, during which, by practice in reading
aloud and by numerous examples given in illustration of what is
taught, the student is trained in learning how to pronounce correctly.
He is next gradually familiarized with translations from Readers first,
and then from easy authors, while he is made to write exercises carefully
adapted to the lectures. A certain amount of private reading is
also prescribed, and an outline of the history of the language and its
literature closes the course.
The Senior Course, required for graduation and also for candidates
for the degree of Master of Arts, begins with the reading of classic
writers in each language and teaches fluent and prompt translation
into idiomatic English. In illustration and practical application of the
and fully explained to the class. The treatment of the idiom is
now mainly historical, the words, the sentences and the general structure
being exhibited as they gradually develop themselves from the infancy
of the language to its so-called Golden Age.
At stated times the Professor reads aloud so as to train the student's
ear; at others he dictates extracts from foreign writers, for the same purpose,
and to increase familiarity with the language. The course closes
with a series of lectures treating of the history of Spanish and Italian,
and explaining for each idiom its forms, its structure and its spiritual characteristics.
Opportunity is thus given to acquaint the student with the
fundamental laws of the Science of Language, Comparative Philology,
to which due attention is given. Lectures on the Literature of each
idiom finally include sketches of the successive epochs and accounts of
the lives with criticisms on the works of the leading authors. Much
attention is also given to the parallelism between the national development
of a people and its literary proficiency.
In the Class of Anglo-Saxon the study of the language is mainly
pursued in its aspect as the mother of English, furnishing the student
the means of tracing the history of his native tongue from its earliest
beginning. Much attention is given to the illustration of the history of
words, their birth, their fate under the rule of the Norman, and their
subsequent modification. Extracts from Anglo-Saxon writers are read,
and the bearing of their works on the history of our race is explained.
The following text-books are used:
Spanish.—The Professor's Grammar; Seoane's Dictionary; Velasquez' Reader;
Breton's La Independencia; Calderon's El Principe Constante; Lope's Estrella
de Sevilla; Cervantes' Don Quijote; Galdos's Trafalgar; Caballero's La Familia
de Alvareda; Ticknor's History of Spanish Literature. In default of the Professor's
Grammar, now out of print, Knapp's Spanish Grammar will be used.
Italian.—Cuore's Grammar; Foresti's Reader; Manzoni's I Promessi Sposi;
Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata; Pellico's Le Mie Prigioni; Petrarca; Dante's La
Divina Commedia.
Anglo-Saxon.—Shute's Manual of Anglo-Saxon, or Sweet's Primer; The Professor's
Studies in English; March's Anglo-Saxon Grammar (for reference); the
Anglo-Saxon Gospels.
French and German.
Adjunct Professor Perkinson.
There will be two classes in each language.
The Junior Classes embrace the work for the degree of Bachelor
of Arts. Students who desire to enter them must possess an accurate
grammar of the language, and will be practiced in pronunciation, on
which special stress will be laid, and in translation, supplemented by
weekly written exercises, copious parallel reading, and a course in the
history and the literature of the language. The amount of parallel
reading to be done is definite, and is assigned at the beginning of the
session. Special attention is paid to reading at sight.
The Senior Classes comprise the work required for the degree of
Master of Arts. They study the historical grammar of the language,
given by lectures, continue the practice of translation and composition,
and enter more minutely into the study of certain authors and selected
periods. Candidates for graduation will be expected to translate at
sight any passage that may be assigned, and to render selections from
English authors into the foreign idiom.
The text-books in all the classes and the authors to be read vary from
year to year, and are subject to change at any time. The following are
the books for class-work in 1892-'93. Parallel reading will be assigned
in all classes at the beginning of the session.
Junior French.—Edgren's Grammar; Whitney's Introductory French Reader;
La Mare au Diable; Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme; Cinna; Un Philosophe sous
les Toits.
Junior German.—Whitney's Brief Grammar; Joynes-Meissner's Grammar;
Brandt's Reader; Hermann und Dorothea; Wilhelm Tell; Das Bild des Kaisers.
Senior French.—Whitney's Practical Grammar; Polyeucte; Esther; Le Misanthrope;
Taine's Notes sur L'Angleterre; Notre Dame de Paris.
Senior German.—Whitney's Grammar; Heine's Prosa; Iphigenie auf Tauris,
Torquato Tasso, Minna von Barnhelm.
Gasc's French Dictionary.
Adler's German Dictionary.
In the Graduate Course in this School students will read additional
foreign authors, pursue the study of Comparative Philology, and
write monthly essays on kindred subjects, which must give proof of
original research. A thorough knowledge of at least one ancient language,
and graduation in two modern languages, are deemed prerequisite.
Such students will have the choice between the two methods of
comparing idioms—either by tracing out the kinship existing between
several languages, or families of languages, such as the Romanic, the
Germanic, or the Slavic, in their lexical, grammatical, or psychological
nature; or by comparing with each other the different aspects borne
by one and the same idiom in its successive periods of life. The writings
of Diez, Hovelacque, Sayce, Max Müller, and others, are carefully
studied; and the final result of the whole course of study is to
be shown in a concluding dissertation evidencing original thought.
SCHOOL OF ENGLISH.
Professor Garnett.
Instruction in this School is given in three classes;
Class of Early English.—In this class the historical and philological
study of the language is pursued, the class beginning with its oldest
forms, and tracing the language, by the study of specimens, through
its different periods to the formation of modern English. After a
thorough study of the grammar, selected pieces of Old and Middle
English prose and poetry are read, with a view to acquiring a philological
knowledge of the origin and structure of English. Lectures on
the position of English in the Indo-European family of languages, and
on the history of the language, are also given. Two lectures a week.
Text-books.—Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader; Morris and Skeat's Specimens of
Early English, Parts I. and II. For Reference.—Cook's Sievers's Grammar of Old
English; Earle's Anglo-Saxon Literature; Ten Brink's Early English Literature.
Class of Modern English.—In this class the study of the descriptive
history of the language is first pursued, and then Shakspere is
made a special subject of study. The critical study of a play of Shakspere,
with private reading of about one-fourth of the plays, is followed
by similar study of selected works of later authors. Lectures on the
history of the Elizabethan drama are given in connection with the
study of Shakspere. Two lectures a week.
Text-books.—Lounsbury's History of the English Language; for 1892-'93, The
Tempest (Rolfe's Edition); Dowden's Shakspere Primer; Abbott's Shaksperian
Grammar; Thayer's Best Elizabethan Plays. For Reference.—The Globe Shakspere;
Fleay's Shakspere Manual; Keltie's British Dramatists.
Class of Rhetoric and English Literature.—In this class the principles
of Composition and Rhetoric are first studied, and then the study
of the history of English Literature is taken up. Along with study of
the text-books selected works of authors are assigned for private reading.
Essays are required at regular intervals. Lectures on each
subject are given in connection with the text-books when deemed
necessary. Two or three lectures a week.
Text-books.—Genung's Practical Elements of Rhetoric; Genung's Hand-Book
of Rhetorical Analysis; Lectures on the Anglo-Saxon and the Norman Periods;
Nicoll's Landmarks of English Literature; Minto's Manual of English Prose
Literature; Garnett's Selections in English Prose; Ward's English Poets; Hawthorne
and Lemmon's American Literature. For Reference.—Saintsbury's History
of Elizabethan Literature; Gosse's History of Eighteenth Century Literature.
Each class may be attended separately; but graduation in Rhetoric
and English Literature in addition to one of the other classes will be
necessary for a diploma of graduation in the School. Graduation in
one class is requisite for the B. A. degree; graduation in the School,
for the M. A. degree.
Graduate Courses will be arranged to suit the needs of those students
who desire to pursue further either philological or literary
studies. The former will comprise the further study of Anglo-Saxon
and Middle English works, especially of Anglo-Saxon poetry, or the
study of Gothic and the comparative grammar of the Teutonic languages.
The latter will comprise the study of some distinctive period
in English literature, or of some particular writer, or writers, including
the political, social, and literary characteristics of the age under consideration.
In each course a thesis will be required, giving evidence
of independent private study of some subject cognate with the course
pursued, in addition to such examinations as may be advisable. The
selection of the course and subject is left to the student himself, under
the guidance of the Professor. Graduation in one of these courses is
requisite for the Ph. D. degree.
CORCORAN SCHOOL OF HISTORICAL SCIENCE.
Science of Society.
Professor Holmes.
In this class there are two courses, each extending over a half session.
Political Economy.—In the treatment of this department of
knowledge, there is no rigid adherence to the school of Smith,
Ricardo, and Mill. The modification of older doctrines, necessitated
by the increase of productive inventions and productive operations, is
steadily regarded. Attention is paid to the inquiries and criticisms of
Thornton, Cairnes, Jevons, Marshall, etc.; and the altered views propounded
by Laveleye, Walker, and the school of the Cathedrists and
other German schools, are duly considered.
Text-books.—Walker's Political Economy (advanced course); Mill's Political
Economy (abridged).
Science of Society.—The latter half of the course in this class is
devoted to the Science of Society. In this is prosecuted the investigation
of the laws and movements, the growth, decay, and constitution
The necessary organic functions of Society are studied in their several
forms. They are also regarded in their reciprocal relations and in
their conjoint action in successive forms of civilization. All systems
are interpreted; no ideal constitution is contemplated. The course is
descriptive of processes by which experienced results have been
obtained, not speculative in advocacy of theoretic dreams.
This Class is dependent on notes for the Lectures, as no text-book exists.
History.
Adjunct Professor Dabney.
Class of General History.—In this class, which comprises the historical
work required for the B. A. degree, great stress is laid on the
view that the career of man, as revealed in History, is not a mere
jumble of disconnected dates and facts, but a continuous stream, having
its sources and tributaries in the far-off past, its outlet in the remote
future. No attempt is made, however, to traverse in the class-room the
entire length of this stream; for, although constant efforts are made to
impress the vital connection of nation with nation, of generation with
generation, and of anterior with ensuing conditions of historical development,
the lectures are confined to the more important periods, the
student being required to fill the gaps by private reading in a manual
of General History. The periods, and, therefore, the text-books studied,
may be more or less varied each year. Three lectures a week.
Text-books.—Fisher's Outlines of Universal History; Smith's History of Greece;
Froude's Cæsar; Capes's Age of the Antonines; Church's Beginning of the Middle
Ages; Bryce's Holy Roman Empire; Seebohm's Era of the Protestant Revolution;
Gardiner's Thirty Years' War; Dabney's Causes of the French Revolution;
Morris's French Revolution and First Empire.
Class of English and American History.—In this class the principles
taught in the class of General History will be applied to a more
special field. Such students, therefore, as have already completed the
work in General History will derive most benefit from the course. It
may be taken, however, by others; and, as considerable attention will
be paid to constitutional development, it is thought that the course
will be specially advantageous to first-year law students not applying
for a degree. Three lectures a week. A certificate of proficiency is
awarded to any student passing the examinations.
Text-books.—Green's Short History of the English People; Percy Greg's History
of the United States; Gardiner's School Atlas of English History; Hart's
Epoch Maps Illustrating American History.
The Graduate Course in this School, leading to the degree of Ph.
D., will be varied from year to year, but will always be designed to
train the student in original research and systematic exposition of the
results. Some historical period, with the accompanying social, political
and intellectual development of the people, will be made the subject
of study. Such instructions and directions as may be required to
render those pursuits efficacious will be given throughout the session.
SCHOOL OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY.
Professor Davis.
There are two classes, best taken in two successive sessions.
The Class in Logic studies Deductive Logic and Inductive Logic.
Two lectures a week.
Text-books.—The Professor's Logic; Mill on Induction.
The Class in Philosophy studies Psychology, Ethics, and History
of Philosophy. Three lectures a week.
Text-books.—The Professor's Psychology; Janet's La Morale; Lotze's Grundsatze
der Praktischen Philosophie; Ueberweg's History of Philosophy.
The requisite to the degree of Bachelor of Arts is Graduation in
the Class in Logic only. For the degree of Master of Arts, Graduation
in both Classes of this School is required.
The Graduate Course, requisite to the degree of Doctor of Philosophy,
embraces the History of Philosophy, ancient and modern,
with a special study of Aristotle and Kant, and a course in Physiological
Psychology.
SCIENTIFIC SCHOOLS.
SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS.
Professor Venable.
This School embraces two courses, as follows:
I. Pure Mathematics.
Junior Class.—This class meets three times a week (3 hours), and
studies the Theory of Arithmetical Notations and Operations; Algebra
Theory of Logarithms; Geometry, Plane and Solid; Geometrical
Analysis, with numerous exercises for original solution; Elementary
Plane Trigonometry, embracing the solution of Triangles, with the
use of Logarithms, and some applications to problems of "Heights and
Distances." The preparation desirable for this class is a good knowledge
of Arithmetic, of Algebraic Operations through Equations of
the Second Degree, and of the first three books of Plane Geometry.
Text-books.—Todhunter's Algebra; Venable's Legendre's Geometry, with collection
of exercises; Todhunter's Trigonometry for Beginners.
Intermediate Class.—This class meets twice a week (3 hours),
and studies Geometrical Analysis, with exercises for original solution;
Plane Trigonometry, with applications; Analytical Geometry of two
dimensions; Spherical Trigonometry, with applications; Elements of
the Theory of Equations.
The preparation necessary for this class is a thorough knowledge of
Algebra through the Binomial Theorem and Logarithms; of Synthetic
Geometry, Plane and Solid, with a good training in the original solution
of Geometrical problems; and a knowledge of the elements of
Plane Trigonometry, including the use of Logarithmic tables. A certificate
of proficiency in Junior and Intermediate Mathematics is required
for the B. A. course in Mathematics.
Text-books.—Todhunter's Trigonometry; Puckle's Conic Sections; The Professor's
collection of Exercises in Plane Geometry; Wells's Spherical Trigonometry.
Senior Class.—This class meets three times a week (4½ hours), and
studies Analytical Geometry of three dimensions, through the discussion
of the Conicoids and some curves in space; Differential and
Integral Calculus, with various applications; a short course in the
Calculus of Variations; the Theory of Equations; and lectures on the
History of Mathematics.
Text-books.—The Professor's Printed Notes on Solid Geometry (Analytical);
Todhunter's Differential Calculus; Courtenay's Calculus; Williamson's Integral
Calculus; Todhunter's Theory of Equations.
Graduation in Pure Mathematics is necessary for those students who
make Mathematics one of their studies for the degree of Master of
Arts. Candidates for graduation in Pure Mathematics are required to
pursue in the University the studies of both the Intermediate and
Senior Classes.
II Mixed Mathematics.
This course is designed for those students who may desire to prosecute
their studies beyond the limits of Pure Mathematics. It embraces
an extended course of reading under the instruction and guidance of
the Professor on the applications of the Differential and Integral Calculus
to Mechanics, Physical Astronomy, and selected portions of
Physics. The class in Mixed Mathematics meets once a week. A
diploma of graduation is conferred in Mixed Mathematics.
Text-books.—Price's Infinitesimal Calculus, Vols. II. and III.; Cheyne's Planetary
Theory.
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 progress of the student in each class is tested constantly
by his being called upon to apply the principles acquired to
the independent solution of selected problems.
The Graduate Course includes the course of Mixed Mathematics,
with advanced studies in Modern Higher Geometry, Analytical Geometry
of three dimensions, Infinitesimal Calculus, Higher Algebra, and
Elements of Quaternions. For those candidates for the Degree of Doctor
of Philosophy who select the Mathematics as their chief study, the
graduate course will extend through two years.
SCHOOL OF PRACTICAL ASTRONOMY.
Professor Stone.
The courses in this School are arranged primarily for persons proposing
to become practical astronomers. The courses in General Astronomy,
however, are adapted to the wants of those who expect to
teach, as well as of those who desire to pursue the subject as a part of
their general education; while the course in Celestial Mechanics is
recommended to graduate students in Mathematics. The Senior Class
in General Astronomy meets thrice a week, the other classes twice.
The courses pursued are as follows:
I. General Astronomy.—Junior.—The aim of this course is to give
such a knowledge of the facts, principles, and methods of Astronomy
is the same as that recommended for Intermediate Mathematics.
Text-book.—Young's General Astronomy.
Senior.—This course is intended to elucidate selected portions of
the subject more fully and from a more strictly mathematical point of
view than can be done in the Junior course.
Text-books.—Doolittle's Practical Astronomy; Gauss's Theoria Motus (Davis's
translation).
Candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts are required to
complete the work of the Junior Class; those for the degree of Master
of Arts must pass examination in both classes.
II. Practical Astronomy, including a systematic training in making
and reducing astronomical observations: theory and use of the
instruments of a fixed observatory; methods of reducing observations;
construction of star catalogues.
Text-books.—Chauvenet's Spherical and Practical Astronomy; various memoirs
and volumes of observations in the Observatory Library.
III. Celestial Mechanics, with practice in numerical computations:
general laws of equilibrium and motion; formation and integration
of the differential equations of motion of a system of bodies
subject to the laws of gravity.
Text-books.—Tisserand's Mécanique Céleste; Dziobek's Mathematischen Theorien
der Planeten-Bewegungen.
A prescribed course in this School, to be agreed upon in a conference
of the Professors interested, will be considered as the equivalent
of the Graduate Course in either Mathematics or Natural Philosophy
for graduates of these schools.
The Astronomical Observatory is situated upon an elevation
known as Mount Jefferson, which furnishes an unobstructed horizon.
The principal building is a rotunda, forty-five feet in diameter, and
contains the great Clark refractor of twenty-six-inches aperture. The
building and instrument are the gift of Leander J. McCormick, Esq.,
of Chicago. The computing rooms are adjoining, and contain clock,
chronograph, etc., and a working library. In a smaller building are a
three-inch Fauth transit and a four-inch Kahler equatorial.
SCHOOL OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.
Professor Smith.
This School includes two courses, as follows:
I. General Physics.
Junior Class.—The object of the course of lectures to this class is
to furnish the student with an introduction to Modern Physics, and to
acquaint him with its methods of investigation. With the design of
laying a thoroughly scientific basis for the course, a large space is given
at the outset to the discussion of the cardinal doctrines of motion, force,
energy, and potential, and to their simpler applications in the pressure
and motion of sensible masses. This discussion, while it is elementary,
is designed to be in harmony with the more thorough mathematical
treatment of the same topics and to be a helpful introduction to it.
With this preparation the student proceeds to the subject of Molecular
Physics, embracing Sound, Light, Heat, and Electricity.
Throughout the course the laws of energy are kept steadily in view,
and an attempt is made to exhibit the evidence, daily becoming stronger
and clearer, for the belief prevalent among scientists that the entire body
of Physics is a coherent and harmonious system of mechanical truth.
Members of the Junior Class are admitted at suitable times to the
Physical Laboratory, where they repeat and extend the experiments of
the Lecture-room. Such exercise is required of candidates for degrees,
but is optional with others. Experience shows that this privilege is
highly valued and extensively used.
Text-books for '91-'92.—The Professor's Syllabus; Everett's Units and Physical
Constants. For Reference.—Anthony and Brackett's Text-book of Physics;
Glazebrook's Practical Physics; Atkinson's Ganot's Physics.
Senior Class.—This class studies selected portions of Elementary
Mathematical Physics. The members of the class are required to spend
about two months in the Physical Laboratory.
Text-books for '91-'92.—Cumming's Theory of Electricity; Emtage's Electricity
and Magnetism.
Candidates for graduation in Natural Philosophy are required to
attend only the foregoing classes.
Class in Electricity and Magnetism.—As a part of the studies of
the third year in Mechanical Engineering, the Professor of Natural
Philosophy conducts a class in the theory of Electricity and Magnetism,
with especial reference to the measurements, required in Electrical
Machines, Electric Lighting, and Electrical Transmission of power.
The instruction is by lecture with associated laboratory exercises. The
preparation required for admission to this class includes a knowledge of
the elements of Electricity and of the Differential and Integral Calculus.
II. Practical Physics.
This Graduate Course is for students preparing to become teachers
of science, or desiring to push their studies in Physics beyond the
limits of the under-graduate work. The instruction is partly theoretical
and partly experimental, embracing the following topics:
Theoretical.—Reduction of observations; Method of Least Squares;
Graphical representation of results; Interpolation; Essays on prescribed
Physical topics.
Experimental.—In this, the main portion of the course, the student
will learn physical manipulation, and the use of instruments by actual
practice in the Physical Laboratory. (1.) Lecture-room apparatus
and Lecture-room Experiments. (2.) Physical Measurements and Instruments
of Precision.
Text-books.—Merriman's Method of Least Squares; Kohlrausch's Physical
Measurements.
The Physical Laboratory consists of four connected rooms, one of
which is also used as a lecture-room. One of them is permanently
darkened, and in two others the light may be excluded at pleasure. A
fourth apartment is so supported on massive piers as to be practically
insulated as regards sensible tremors. The needful appliances, in the
way of fixtures and apparatus for physical experiment and research,
have been so far supplied as to furnish ample opportunities in laboratory
work for undergraduates, and valuable facilities for the advanced
student in Practical Physics.
SCHOOL OF GENERAL AND INDUSTRIAL
CHEMISTRY.
Professor Mallet.
In this School the following courses are offered:
The course in General Chemistry consists of three lectures a week,
throughout the session, to each of two classes, the one formed of the
fundamental ideas of chemical science, the relations of Chemistry to
Physics, the laws expressing the facts of chemical combination by weight
and by volume, the atomic theory as at present viewed in connection with
Chemistry, the chemical nomenclature and symbols now in use, and a
general survey of the descriptive chemistry of the elements and their
compounds, inorganic and organic, are brought forward in order, with
incidental allusion to the applications, in the arts and manufactures,
and in medicine, of the facts mentioned.
Text-books.—Fownes's Chemistry (last edition); Syllabus of the Professor's
Lectures. Recommended for Reference.—Roscoe and Schorlemmer's (or Miller's)
Elements of Chemistry; Bernthsen's Text-book of Organic Chemistry, translated
by McGowan; Watts's Dictionary of Chemistry.
The course in Industrial Chemistry, in which also three lectures a
week are delivered, examines in detail the chemical principles and processes
specially concerned in the more important arts and manufactures,
upon which the development of the natural resources of the
country in large measure depends, the opportunity being thus presented
of preparation for such positions as those of the miner and metallurgist,
the chemical manufacturer, the dyer, bleacher, tanner, sugar refiner,
etc.
Text-books.—Wagner's Chemical Technology. Recommended for Reference.—
Richardson and Watts's Chemical Technology; Muspratt's Chemistry as Applied
to Arts and Manufactures; Ure's Dictionary of Arts and Manufactures; Girardin's
Léçons de Chimie Élémentaire appliquée aux Arts Industriels; Percy's Metallurgy,
etc.
The lectures in both these courses are illustrated by suitable experiments,
and by such specimens, models, drawings, etc., as the various
subjects require. The collections of the University in illustration of
the processes and products of Industrial Chemistry have been procured
at much expense and pains in this country, England, France, and Germany,
and are unusually extensive and good—amongst the best on this
side of the Atlantic.
In both courses there are one or more reviews each week of the subjects
under discussion, involving questions put by, as well as to, the
students; and exercises in writing are from time to time given out to
afford practice in the calculations which are needed by the chemist.
In this School a candidate for the degree of Bachelor of Arts is
required to pass examination in General Chemistry, graduates in
Physics being permitted, however, to omit the work in Chemical
Physics. A candidate for the degree of Master of Arts is required
candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy must in addition
complete the Graduate Course.
The Graduate Course will consist of laboratory work on subjects
of original investigation. Advanced reading may also be prescribed,
especially in the shape of the literature of particular topics, to be
looked up from various sources and condensed by the student.
For admission to a Graduate Course in the School of General and
Industrial Chemistry, or in the School of Analytical and Agricultural
Chemistry, previous graduation in both the schools named will be
required; but this part of the requirement may be waived, provided
satisfactory evidence be furnished that the student has already made
equivalent attainments elsewhere.
SCHOOL OF ANALYTICAL AND AGRICULTURAL
CHEMISTRY AND PHARMACY.
Professor Dunnington.
The regular work of this School, constituting a complete course in
Practical Chemistry, is arranged in two divisions, as follows:
1. A regularly-arranged course in Chemical Manipulation is first
given. This is followed by Blowpipe Analysis and Fire Assays of
ores of lead, silver and gold. A systematic course in Inorganic Qualitative
Analysis follows, with practice in the analysis of mixtures of
salts, alloys, ores, and so on. Instruction in the elements of Quantitative
Analysis completes this division of the course, which extends over
the first half session.
2. The work of the second division is an extended course of Quantitative
Analysis, both gravimetric and volumetric. The student determines
the composition of ores, minerals, clays, soils, manures, technical
products, and so on. As he advances in the course he is encouraged
to undertake original research and assisted in its prosecution; and in
determining his fitness for graduation, work of this sort is considered
as having great weight.
Five lessons are given each week, and the Laboratory is open to
students six days in the week during all the working hours of the day.
Students may matriculate either for the Full Course or for the First
Course, but candidates for graduation are required to complete the
Chemists, Assayers, or Teachers of Chemistry.
Among the works recommended to laboratory students are: Fresenius's Qualitative
and Quantitative Analysis; Greville Williams's Hand-Book of Chemical
Manipulation; Woehler's Examples for Practice in Chemical Analysis; Foye's
Hand-Book of Mineralogy; A. Classen's Elementary Quantitative Analysis.
In addition to the foregoing the following Special Courses are
given in this School. They are open without additional charge to the
regular students of the School. For fees to others, see Expenses.
1. A laboratory course on Determinative Mineralogy for students
of Engineering, embracing Blowpipe Analysis, Determinative Mineralogy,
and the application of chemical processes to the examination
of potable waters, coal, clays, building-stones, and other materials
employed in Engineering.
2. A laboratory course in Assaying, including all of the above-mentioned
course on determinative mineralogy, together with Fire Assaying
of ores of lead, silver, gold, etc., and practice in volumetric and
galvanic determinations, such as are commonly employed in the valuation
of certain technical products and ores.
3. A laboratory course of twelve lessons in Practical Pharmacy,
including the compounding and dispensing of drugs.
4. A lecture course of twenty-four lessons on Agricultural Chemistry,
including the chemical and physical properties of the atmosphere,
of soils and of plants; the chemistry of the processes of vegetable
life; the chemical composition and preparation of manures, and
so on. This course is open without charge to farmers.
For Reference.—Johnson's and Cameron's Elements of Agricultural Chemistry
and Geology (12th ed.); Johnson's How Crops Grow; Johnson's How Crops Feed.
The Graduate Course comprises practice in the more elaborate processes
of analysis, study of methods, and original investigations in the
composition of rare minerals and technical products presenting scientific
or economic interest.
The Chemical Laboratory is a building planned and erected for
the purpose. It is completely fitted with the most approved appliances,
and stocked with apparatus, models, materials and specimens.
The commodious lecture-room, with work and store-rooms attached, is
provided with every convenience for exhibiting a complete series of
experiments illustrating the lectures on General Chemistry. The large
room assigned to Analytical Chemistry will accommodate fifty working
students, and is furnished with work-tables, gas, water and all
evaporations, assaying, etc., and all requisite apparatus, chemicals,
minerals, materials for analysis, etc., are kept constantly supplied by
home purchase and importation.
The Museum of Industrial Chemistry, contained in the same
building, consists of a very large number of specimens, collected at
much expense and pains in this country and abroad, to illustrate the
products and processes of Chemistry applied to the arts and manufactures,
and is so arranged as to be a most valuable aid to the student of
Industrial Chemistry.
CORCORAN SCHOOL OF NATURAL HISTORY
AND GEOLOGY.
Professor Fontaine.
In this School there are two regular classes—Geology and Mineralogy.
Geology.—This subject is taught during the entire session, and three
lectures a week are devoted to it until the examination in Mineralogy,
which takes place in the latter part of January; thereafter
five lectures a week are given to Geology until the final examination,
which takes place late in April. The aim of the course of instruction
is to give as thorough an exposition of the fundamental principles of
the science as possible, and to teach the student how to use them in
practical work in the field.
Text book.—Le Conte's Elements of Geology. For Reference.—Dana's Manual
and Lyell's Elements and Principles of Geology. The teaching is chiefly by lecture.
Mineralogy.—This subject is studied until the examination in January.
Two lectures a week are devoted to it. Special attention is
paid to crystallography, as well as to the chemical and physical properties
of minerals. In Descriptive Mineralogy, the geological occurrence,
and the importance and relations of the species are made prominent.
Text-book.—Dana's Manual of Mineralogy and Lithology. For Reference.—
Dana's Text-book of Mineralogy. The teaching is chiefly by lecture.
In the Graduate Course of this School subjects will be selected
from one or both of the branches included in the School, and assigned
in the treatment of the subjects chosen.
Candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts are required to
pass in Geology; for the degree of Master of Arts in both Geology
and Mineralogy. For the degree of Doctor of Philosophy the candidate
must in addition complete the Graduate Course.
The Lewis Brooks Museum contains collections illustrating the
main subdivisions of Natural History. Each of the collections is arranged
so as to exemplify the principles of the science, and at the same
time offers a large variety of subjects for advanced study. In Geology
the specimens show all the different kinds of rocks, classified according
to mineral character and the formations in which they occur; the collection
of fossils, plaster casts, maps, etc., is exceptionally fine, and fully
illustrates Historical Geology. In Mineralogy the principles of the
science are made plain by well-chosen suits of specimens, models of
crystals, etc.; the general collection of minerals contains all the important
minerals, and many of the rarer ones, in good specimens.
Zoology is well illustrated by a fine and large collection of mounted
skeletons, stuffed animals, dried specimens, plaster casts, etc. In Botany
the collections contain charts, papier-maché models of flowers and
fruits, sections of wood, etc.; the bulk of the collection is in the form
of an herbarium selected from the most important and interesting
botanical regions of the world. In addition to the above, a beginning
has been made of a collection to illustrate the geology and mineralogy
of the State of Virginia, and this will be increased as rapidly as
possible.
These large and carefully-selected collections of geological and mineralogical
objects afford unsurpassed facilities for the full illustration of
the principles taught. As free access to these collections is allowed
the student, he can find in their study an opportunity, rarely obtained,
for gaining a practical acquaintance with natural objects acquired from
various parts of the world, and chosen for their typical character.
These collections are especially useful to students pursuing graduate
courses of study in Geology and Mineralogy.
The Professor, when the number of applicants is sufficient, organizes
a party of Geological exploration. The field work is done in the
month of July, and is entirely optional with the students. Persons
engaged in the study of Geology and Mineralogy may, although not
members of the University class, with the consent of the Professor, and
on paying $25 to the Proctor, join the exploring party.
MILLER SCHOOL OF BIOLOGY AND AGRICULTURE.
Professor Tuttle.
The work of this School is specially designed to meet the wants of
two classes of students—those who desire such knowledge of the principles
of Biology as will prepare them for an intelligent study of the
relation of Biology to Agriculture, as well as of the principles of Agriculture
regarded as a practical application of biological knowledge;
and those who seek such acquaintance with the facts and laws of
Biology and the methods of biological research as will fit them for
independent work as students or as teachers in that department of
knowledge. There are four regular classes, each with two lectures a
week and associated laboratory work throughout the session, as follows:
Botany.—In this course the anatomy and histology of plants, the
elements of vegetable physiology, and the principles of morphology
and classification are successively studied. Special attention is paid
to the groups of plants that are of greatest economic importance, and
to the flora of the region. On account of their great practical importance
in many respects, including their relations to health and disease
in man and in the domestic animals as well, the Bacteria are discussed
and studied at length; attendance upon the lectures and laboratory
work connected with this subject is required of students in the Medical
Department of the University.
Text books.—Thome's Structural and Physiological Botany; Abbott's Principles
of Bacteriology; Gray's Manual.
Comparative Anatomy.—This course is devoted to the Anatomy,
Histology and Embryology of Vertebrates, one or more systems of
organs being specially discussed and examined comparatively both in
the adult and the developing organism, and the normal histology of
man and of the domestic animals being studied in detail. Attendance
upon the portion of the course devoted to Histology is required of
medical students.
Text-books—Parker's Zootomy; Klein's Elements of Histology; Foster and
Balfour's Embryology.
Zoology.—The anatomy, histology, and embryology (together with
the morphological relations indicated thereby) of a series of representative
animals chosen from the principal divisions of the animal kingdom
permit, to the Insects and other groups of economic importance.
Text-books.—Brooks's Hand-book of Invertebrate Zoology; Sedgwick's Translation
of Claus's Zoology.
Practical Biology and Agriculture.—The relations of Biology to
Agriculture are so manifold, and the subdivisions of the latter subject
so numerous, that it would be impossible to exhaust the discussion of
either in the work of any one year. A course consisting in part of
lectures and in part of an equivalent amount of practical work and
collateral reading will be offered yearly; in each case including the
discussion of selected topics pertaining to Economic Botany (such as
the diseases or the parasites of plants, the natural history of cultivated
varieties, and the like); to Economic Zoology (including such subjects
as the life-history and treatment of injurious or beneficial insects,
external or internal parasites, the special anatomy and physiology of
the domestic animals, etc.); and to questions connected with the principles
of Agriculture (such as the laws of growth and nutrition of
crops, the drainage and tillage of soils, systems of rotation and allied
topics).
Text-books for 1892-'93.—Smith's Diseases of Field and Garden Crops: Ward's
Timber and its Diseases; Chauveau's Anatomy of the Domestic Animals; Tanner's
Principles of Agriculture.
Certificates of proficiency are issued to those who complete the
work of any one of the foregoing courses. Candidates for the degree
of Bachelor of Arts who elect Biology as one of their studies are
required to complete the first and either the second or the third of
these courses. Candidates for a Diploma of Graduation in Biology, or
the degree of Master of Arts, are required to complete all three,
with special morphological work in the third course.
Graduate Work for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy will consist
of original investigations of Biological Problems of practical or
scientific interest, under the direction of the Professor. Subjects of
research will be assigned to each student individually.
The Biological Laboratory is well provided with instruments for
the gross and minute dissection of animals and plants; microscopes,
microtomes, reagents, and materials for the staining and mounting of
preparations; apparatus for photography and microphotography, and
other necessary appliances, not only for student work, but for investigation
and research as well. In addition to the large and valuable
collections of the Brooks Museum, an abundant supply of other
is attached to the Laboratory, and students have access to a number of
leading biological and agricultural journals, thus acquiring practice in
the intelligent use of current literature.
ACADEMICAL DEGREES.
The degrees conferred in the Academical Department are Bachelor
of Arts, Master of Arts, and Doctor of Philosophy.
The degree of Bachelor of Arts is conferred upon a student who
has been graduated in the Bachelor of Arts Courses in Latin, Greek
French, German, History, Mathematics, and two of the four sciences,
Physics, Chemistry, Geology, and Biology. The following substitutions
are permitted: Logic for Greek; Spanish or Italian for French;
English for German; Astronomy for Mathematics.
The degree of Master of Arts is conferred on a Bachelor of Arts of
the University of Virginia who has been graduated in four Academical
Schools, elected by himself and approved by the Faculty.
The degree of Doctor of Philosophy is conferred on a student who
has attained the degree of Bachelor of Arts, or its equivalent, at this
University or some other chartered institution of learning, has been
graduated in two of the Academical Schools elected by himself and
approved by the Faculty, has completed Graduate Courses in those
Schools, and has prepared and printed an approved dissertation, showing
independent research or original treatment of a fitting theme from
the School chosen as his major study.
Graduation in a School is prerequisite to admission to advanced work
in that School. But this condition may be waived in favor of graduates
from other institutions of learning.
SCHEME OF LECTURES.
| 8—9 | 9—10 | 10—11 | 11—12:30 | 12:30—2 | 3—4:30 | |
| Monday. | Senior Greek. Mineralogy. |
Comp. Anatomy.[1]
Intermed. Latin. Italian.[1] Senior German. |
Junior Latin. General History. Senior Nat'l Phil. |
Senior Math. Chemistry. |
Junior Greek. Anal. Chemistry. Botany.[1] Junior Astron. |
Senior Latin. Ind. Chemistry. |
| Tuesday. | Senior Greek. Geology. Senior French. |
Senior Latin. Junior Math. |
Junior German. Science of Society. Early English.[1] Spanish.[1] |
Junior Nat'l Phil. Eng. and Am. His.[1] |
Int. Greek. Modern English. Anal. Chemistry. Zoology.[1] Senior Astron. |
Moral Philosophy. Agriculture.[1] Junior French. |
| Wed'sday. | Senior Greek. Mineralogy. |
Comp. Anatomy.[1] Intermed. Latin. Italian.[1] Senior German. |
Junior Latin. General History. Senior Nat'l Phil. |
Senior Math. Chemistry. |
Junior Greek. Anal. Chemistry. Eng. Literature. Junior Astron. Botany.[1] |
Logic. Ind. Chemistry. |
| Thursday. | Geology. Senior French. |
Senior Latin. Junior Math. |
Science of Society. Spanish.[1] Junior German. |
Junior Nat'l Phil. Eng. and Am. His.[1] |
Int. Mathematics. Eng. Literature. Anal. Chemistry. Zoology.[1] Senior Astron. |
Moral Philosophy. Agriculture.[1] Junior French. |
| Friday. | Senior Greek. Geology. |
Intermed. Latin. Senior German. |
Junior Latin. General History. Senior Nat'l Phil. Early English.[1] |
Senior Math. Chemistry. |
Int. Greek. Modern English. Anglo-Saxon.[1] Determ. Min. |
Logic. Ind. Chemistry. |
| Saturday. | Senior French. | Senior Latin. Junior Math. |
Junior German. Science of Society. |
Junior Nat'l Phil. Eng. and Am. His.[1] |
Int. Mathematics. Eng. Literature. Anal. Chemistry. Senior Astron. |
Moral Philosophy. Ag. Chemistry.[1] Junior French. |
ACADEMICAL EXAMINATIONS FOR 1893.
| English Literature, Interm. Mathematics, Senior Astronomy | Monday, Jan. 16. |
| General History, Senior Natural Philosophy | Tuesday, Jan 17. |
| Junior Latin, Intermediate Latin, Italian,* Biology* | Wednesday, Jan. 18. |
| Senior Greek, Junior Greek, Polit. Econ., Geology, Jun. Astr., | Thursday, Jan. 19. |
| Senior French, Spanish, Junior French | Friday, Jan. 20. |
| Senior German, Junior German, Botany* | Saturday, Jan. 21. |
| General Chemistry, Senior Mathematics | Monday, Jan. 23. |
| Senior Latin, Junior Mathematics, Zoology* | Tuesday, Jan. 24. |
| Junior Natural Philosophy, English and American History,* | Wednesday, Jan. 25. |
| Moral Philosophy, Determinative Mineralogy* | Thursday, Jan. 26. |
| Mineralogy, Interm. Greek, Mod. English, Early English* | Friday, Jan. 27. |
| Logic, Industrial Chemistry | Saturday, Jan. 28. |
During the Intermediate Examinations there will be a general suspension of
lectures in the Academical Department. The examinations will be held from
9 A. M. to 2 P. M. daily.
| Geology | Tuesday, April 18. |
| Senior Latin I, Junior French, Italian* | Tuesday, May 9. |
| Senior French | Thursday, May 11. |
| Senior Mathematics, Early English,* Modern English | Saturday, May 13. |
| Senior Greek I, Junior German | Tuesday, May 16. |
| Senior German | Thursday, May 18. |
| Logic, Industrial Chemistry | Saturday, May 20. |
| Senior Latin II, Intermediate Latin, Botany* | Tuesday, May 23. |
| Junior Natural Philosophy, English and American History* | Thursday, May 25. |
| English Literature, Junior Astronomy | Saturday, May 27. |
| General Chemistry | Tuesday, May 30. |
| Senior Greek II, Junior Greek, Spanish,* Science of Society | Thursday, June 1. |
| Intermediate Mathematics, Zoölogy* | Saturday, June 3. |
| Senior Natural Philosophy, General History | Tuesday, June 6. |
| Moral Philosophy, Junior Mathematics | Thursday, June 8. |
| Intermediate Greek, Junior Latin, Senior Astronomy | Saturday, June 10. |
STUDENTS FROM VIRGINIA.
In compliance with the statute (Virginia Code 1887, ch. 68, § 1554),
the University offers to white male students from Virginia over the age
of sixteen years instruction without charge for tuition in all the Academical
Schools, except the Laboratory courses in Chemistry and Practical
Physics.
The total University fees of an Academical student from Virginia
are only $42; his necessary expenses amount to but $200, exclusive of
books and stationery; of this about $100 must be paid on entrance.
The Faculty are required by law to be satisfied by actual examination
of the applicant, or by a certificate from some college or preparatory
school, that he has made such proficiency in each branch of study
which he proposes to pursue as will enable him to avail himself of the
advantages afforded by the University. Examinations for admission are
required as follows:
1. For admission to the School of Latin, on forms, syntax and Books i., ii. of
Cæsar's Commentaries, with Cicero's Orations against Catiline.
2. For admission to the School of Greek, on forms, syntax and Books i., ii. of
Xenophon's Anabasis.
3. For admission to the School of Mathematics or Natural Philosophy, on Arithmetic,
Plane Geometry and Algebra through quadratics.
For admission to the other schools a good knowledge of English and
Arithmetic is alone required. The diploma of a college, or the certificate
of a high school, has appropriate weight with the examiners.
White male teachers and superintendents of the Public Schools of
Virginia will be admitted, during the last three months of the session,
to the Schools of the Academical Department of the University without
payment of fees. Applicants will present certificates from the
State Superintendent, or from their respective County Superintendents,
that they have been teachers in the Public Schools. Applicants for
admission are requested to send in their names to the Chairman of the
Faculty not later than March 5th. Lodgings can be had near the University,
or in Charlottesville. The only necessary expenses will be for
board, lights and washing, which will together cost from $3.50 to $5.50
a week. For further information address the Chairman of the Faculty.
EXPENSES.
The necessary expenses of a student in the Academical Department
for the session of nine months are estimated as below for the lowest rate
and for a more liberal scale of living, assuming in each case the ordinary
number of Schools taken.
| Tuition | $75 | $75 |
| Matriculation | 25 | 25 |
| Infirmary | 7 | 7 |
| Contingent deposit | 10 | 10 |
| Dormitory rent | 15 | 30 |
| Servant's attendance | 9 | 9 |
| Furniture for dormitory | 9 | 19 |
| Fuel and lights | 12 | 24 |
| Washing | 14 | 14 |
| Board | 99 | 162 |
| Total | 275 | 375 |
| Payable on entrance | 175 | 215 |
| Reduced charges to Virginians | 200 | 300 |
| Payable on entrance | 100 | 140 |
The contingent deposit of $10 is credited in final settlement. This
deposit is assessed for any damage to property, violation of Library
rules, and so on, which the student himself may commit.
To the above total must be added the cost of books and stationery,
and the cost of a degree, if taken.
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