The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-08-03
From the Ort1d Mercury.
University of Mississippi----Twelfth
Annual Session.

The Twelfth Annual Session of this Insti-
tuition will commence on Monday, the third
day of October next. This University offers
advantages to young men seeking thorough
education, unsurpassed anywhere in the
United States, and unequalled in the South
Its apparatus and arrangements for the illus
tration of physical science and chemistry, are
entirely unrivalled. In mineralogy it possesses
a cabinet of select specimens, every one o.
which is choice and valuable, having been col
lected during life devoted to the science, by
one of the first mineralogists Of the country
Its collection of shells surpasses in variety and
beauty any other public collection on this
continent.
1t has Faculty Of eight Professors-every
chair being now full-almost all of them be
ing men Of long experience in instruction, ant
all of them being well and favorably known
to the public.
The buildings of the University are ten in
number, all constructed of brick, upon the
centre of section of land devoted exclusively
to the Institution, lying Immediately west Of
the corporate limits of Oxford. The location
is in the highest degree healthfni. No dan
iperous epidemic sickness has ever occurred at
ffse e ss1NsTssfy cssfs1ds u0I las any
sickness occurred there which could be as
cribed to local influences.
The government of the University is mild
but efficient. Every effort is made to cult
vate manly tone Of feeling among the stu
dents, and to keep alive among them an ele-
waited tone Of morality. 1t is believed that
no institution of learning in the country has
ever been characterized by higher degree of
good order and attention to study, than have
distinguished the University Of Mississippi,
during the more recent years Of its history.
The University is moreover surrounded by
a population whose practical regard for reli-
gion and morality is well known, and is not
surpassed anywhere in the Union.
1t is also easily accessible, being immediate
ly on the line of the Mississippi Central Rail-
road, which is now completed to Grenada, and
will, in a few months, open uninterrupted
communication throughout the entire length
of the State.
The accommodations for the comfort Of
students are ample. The dormitories afford
rooms for more than two hundred persons !;
and two spacious boarding houses have been
erected on the grounds by the Trustees, which
will both be open in October next.
A spacious Gymnasium is now in progress
of construction, and will be ready for use in
the fall,-in which all the most approved APP
paratus for encouraging bodily exercise, and
promoting physical development, are intro
duced The Board have also directed the
purchase of books, explanatory Ct the various
exercises of the Gymnasium, and of the pur-
poses of the several mechanical eontrivances
employed in it, to be made for the use OF the
students.
In connection with the University is De-
partment of Law under the charge of Prof.
w. f. STEARNs, in which young men are
fitted for the Bar, and especially for practice
in the State of Mississippi The Diploma of
Bachelor of Laws given in this school, IS by
act of the Mississippi Legislature in itself
license to practice in all the courts of the
State.
TERMs.-Tuition, $40 per annum. Fuel
and Attendance, $25 to those who lodge
elsewhere. &
Tuition in the Law Department-$5o.
Board in the College boarding houses and in
private families, about $l2 per month.