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REGULATIONS.
LATE ENTRANCE AND WITHDRAWAL.
No abatement is made in the matriculation and tuition fees and room
rent on account of late entrance, unless the student enters 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.
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 fees to the Professors. The same privilege
will be extended to any young man preparing for the ministry, on condition
that he shall 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.
LIBRARY.
Wm. Wertenbaker, Librarian. F. W. Page, Assistant Librarian.
The Library of the University, originally selected and arranged by Mr.
Jefferson, and since enlarged by purchases and donations, now contains
about 36,000 volumes.
Valuable additions are made from the donation of $1,000 per annum
for five years by W. W. Corcoran, Esq., of Washington, D. C.
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, &c. A letter on this subject, prepaid, addressed
to Frederick W. Page, Esq., Assistant Librarian, will receive attention.
BROOKS MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY.
This Museum consists of well-selected cabinets of Zoology, Mineralogy
and Geology, arranged in a handsome building, erected for the purpose,
according to the plans of a competent architect. The collections have
been made, mounted, and arranged by Professor Henry A. Ward, of
Rochester, N. Y. They furnish ample means of illustration in their several
departments. The building and its various cabinets are the gift of
the late Mr. Lewis Brooks, of New York.
A Botanical collection—which formed a part of the original plan of Mr.
Brooks, but had not been provided for before his death—is now in course
of preparation, at the expense and as a gift of Mr. — and Mr. —.
LITERARY SOCIETIES.
There are two Literary Societies (the "Washington Society" and the
"Jefferson Society") of long standing connected with the University,
They meet weekly in their respective halls for the purpose of cultivating
debate and composition, and occasionally hold public exhibitions.
DISCIPLINE.
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 performed
twice on Sunday by a chaplain, selected in turn from the principal religious
denominations.
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
This Society seeks to bring new students under good influences, and
neighborhood. It has been in active operation many years, but has recently
established the
STUDENTS' UNIVERSITY READING ROOM.
This is convenient of access, comfortably arranged and furnished, and
supplied with a large selection of the best periodical literature. It is
open to all members of the University upon the payment of a small fee
to meet its current expenses.
FRIENDS OF TEMPERANCE.
The Friends of Temperance are represented by University Council,
No. 46, an association which has done good service in guarding young
men against dangerous excesses, and in promoting literary and moral
culture.
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. The object of such report being, on the one
hand, to incite the student to steady diligence, by eliciting the commendation
and encouragement of his friends, and, on the other, to restrain
him from idleness and disorder, or to urge him to amendment by their
admonition and advice. The usefulness of these circulars greatly depends
upon the prompt and judicious attention they receive from those
to whom they are addressed. Parents and guardians, therefore, cannot
be too earnest in communicating such advice or encouragement as the
monthly report may suggest.
UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPS.
Eleven Scholarships, entitling the successful candidates at a competitive
examination to prosecute their studies for one session at the University
of Virginia without the payment of matriculation fees or tuition
fees, will be open to new-comers from all the States at the beginning of
the next academic year (October 1st). Of these eleven Scholarships
five are in the Academic Department, and two each in the departments
of Law; of Medicine; and of Industrial Chemistry, Civil and Mining Engineering
and Agriculture. The examination is uniform, and embraces
Latin, Greek, Mathematics, and English. In order to secure positive
the standard required for distinction at the Final Examination in Junior
Latin, Junior Greek, and Junior Mathematics, and do not show a competent
acquaintance with the grammatical and rhetorical structure of the
English language.
VIRGINIA STUDENTS.
Under a late act of the Legislature, students from Virginia over
eighteen years of age are, on examination, admitted into the Academic
Schools without being required to pay tuition fees therein.
The expenses of such students, exclusive of text-books, clothing, and
pocket-money, will be—
| For those who board, from | $232 to $263. |
| For those who mess, from | $191 to $200—or less. |
By authority of the General Assembly, the following regulations have
been adopted by the Board of Visitors as to the General and Special
Examinations for admission of Virginia students into the University:
General Examination.
Applicants are required to pass, once for all, to entitle them to matriculation,
on their first coming to the University, an examination in the
English language and in arithmetic. In English, they will be required
to show both a practical knowledge of the language, as proved by
orthography and by correctness in composition, and a theoretical
knowledge of the inflections and Syntax. In Arithmetic, they will be
required to know the elementary processes, Vulgar and Decimal Fractions,
Proportion and the metric system of Denominate Numbers.
Special Examinations.
After passing the General Examination, the Virginia students who
desire to study Latin, Greek, Mathematics, or History and Literature,
will be required to pass the following Special Examinations for each
school:
I. For admission to the School of Latin—the full knowledge of the
Inflections of the language will be rigorously demanded; besides this,
acquaintance with the elementary principles of Syntax, and ability to
translate any passage from Books I and II of Cæsar's Commentaries, or
from Cicero's four orations against Catiline.
II. For admission to the School of Greek—a full and exact knowledge
of the Attic Inflections, especially of the verb, will be rigorously demanded;
besides this, acquaintance with the elementary principles of Syntax, and
Anabasis.
III. For admission to the School of Mathematics—the knowledge of
Algebra, embracing the fundamental operations, simple and quadratic
equations, proportion and progressions, and of Plane Geometry.
IV. For admission to the School of History and Literature: For the
Class of History—Modern Geography, and an Elementary History of
Greece, Rome, the United States, or England; for the Class of Literature—an
Elementary History of England.
For admission to the other Academic Schools, not specified above,
only the General Examination will be required. The preparation required
for the advanced classes, Intermediate or Senior, in the several
schools, is shown by the courses laid down in the Catalogue.
The examinations of Academic Students from Virginia, over eighteen
years of age, for admission under the late act of the Legislature, will
be held on the 22d, 24th, 26th, and 29th of September.
All students that intend to apply for examination under the law are
urged to report themselves promptly to the Chairman of the Faculty before
the beginning of the session, (1st of October.) Those that come
later, after the work of the session has begun, will of necessity be subjected
to inconvenience and delay.
The time of the special examinations will be fixed by the several professors,
each for his own school.
The Faculty of the University, prompted by their experience of the
preliminary examinations of the present session, wish most earnestly to
call the attention of the public, and especially of their brother teachers
in Virginia, to the importance of accuracy and thoroughness in the elements
of education, especially in English orthography and composition,
in elementary geography and history, in arithmetic, and in the inflections
of the classical languages. Students that are well grounded in these
elementary studies can do well from the first, and can advance themselves
steadily from class to class; but looseness and inaccuracy of knowledge
in these lead only to prolonged and disheartening failure. The stress of
the preliminary examinations will, therefore, be laid upon accuracy in
elementary knowledge.
Note.—In the Schools of Greek and Mathematics, young men are
advised to prepare themselves at least for the intermediate classes.
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 its 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 any 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."
GYMNASIUM.
A society, organized among the students for the promotion of physical
culture, under the name of the "Squibb Gymnasium Association," has
been in successful operation during several sessions.
RIVES BOAT CLUB
Was founded upon a liberal gift from F. R. Rives, Esq., of New York.
DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY
During the year ending March 15th, 1879.
W. W. Corcoran, $50,000.
W. W. Corcoran, Esq.—Third Instalment
$1,000 of a gift of $5,000, payable in
annual instalments of $1,000 each.Commonwealth of Virginia.—State Publications.
Eliazur Wright.
J. Duncan Putnam.
Hon. Robert E. Withers.—Public Documents.
Hon. James Taylor Jones.—Public Documents.
John Jay.
Brigadier-General A. A. Humphreys, Chief
of Engineers, U. S. A.—Publications of
his Department.Department of the Interior.—58 Volumes
of Public Documents.Mrs. Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren.
Little, Brown & Co.
Prof. James F. Harrison.
J. G. Cabell, M. D.
Government of Great Britain.—13 Volumes
of the Publications of the Record Commission.Charles S. Smart, State Commissioner of
Common Schools of the State of Ohio.William F. Gill.
Francis W. Upham, LL. D.
Librarian of Cornell University.
American Philosophical Society.
Irby, J. A. McD.
The General Conference of Missionaries,
held at Shanghai, China.Rev. Thompson B. Maury.
Trustees of Anderson College, Glasgow.
His Excellency the Gov. General of India.
—Continuation of the Memoirs and Records
of the Geological Survey of India.Thomas P. James, Commissioner of Agriculture
of the State of Georgia.E. Steiger, (New York.)
Charles Kendall Adams.
The State of South Carolina.—State Publications.
The Secretary of State of New Hampshire.
The Trustees of the Peabody Museum of
American Archaeology and Ethnology.Professor John R. Page.
Rear Admiral John Rodgers, U. S. Navy.
Professor Schele DeVere.
Dr. Arnold Guyot, Director of the E. M.
Museum of Geology and Archaeology of
Princeton College.The Executors of Geo. Allen, Esq., LL. D.
Ellis Spear, Commissioner of Patents.
Bureau of Navigation.—American Ephemeris
and Nautical Almanac, 1881.The Bureau of Education.—Circulars of
Information.Payne, R. L.,
Fay Hempstead.
A. E. Kroeger, St. Louis, Mo.
J. K. Barnes, Surgeon General U. S. A.
Hon. W. W. Corcoran.—Several Gifts,
besides his money donation.Roberdean Buchanan.
Houghton, Osgood & Co.
Dr. John C. Wise.—Collection of Ancient
Coins.Wm. H. Ruffner, Superintendent of Public
Instruction.J. G. James.
Brigadier-General S. V. Benet, Chief of
Ordnance, U. S. A.A. R. Spofford, Librarian of Congress.
Prof. Alexander Hogg.
Post Office Department.
President D. C. Gilman.
John Jay Knox, Comptroller of the Currency.
Winston J. Davie, M. A., Commissioner
of Agriculture, &c., of the State of
Kentucky.Col. Edward Snyder.
John W. Hoyt.
Rt. Rev. Wm. Pinckmey.
Treasury Department, Washington, D.
C.T. S. Denison.
Judge Robert W. Hughes.
James Cochran, Jr.
Geo. P. Rowell & Co.
Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts, and
Letters.John Harrison Stinson.
Société Pour L'Etude Des Questions
D'Enscignement Supérieur.Alfred E. Whitaker, Librarian of Mercantile
Library Association of San Francisco,
Cal.
From the following:
DONATIONS TO SCHOOL OF GENERAL AND INDUSTRIAL
CHEMISTRY.
American Wood Pulp Co.—Specimens of wood used in making paper, of pulp, and of
finished paper from same.
Messrs. Claflin & Campbell, Toledo, Ohio.—A similar series to above, representing
other woods.
St. George T. Bryan, Esq., Eureka, Nevada.—Ores and ore-samples for assay (second
donation).
Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Co., Natrona, Penn.—Cryolite, aluminum hydrate
and sodium aluminate.
American Celluloid Co.—Crude celluloid.
Berlin Aniline Co.—"Malachite green."
LIST OF THE LICENSED BOARDING HOUSES OUTSIDE OF THE
PRECINCTS OF THE UNIVERSITY.
Mrs. McKennie's,
Mrs. Smith's,
Mrs. Boone's,
Dr. Chancellor's,
Mrs. Garth's,
Mrs. Smithson's,
Mrs. Emerson's,
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