The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-07-01


THoUsAND-DoLLAR DoNATIoN-HEALTH.
FULNEss OF THE sTUDENTs-pRoFEssoR
rRrCE-PERsoNAl1.
Correspondence OF the Richmond Dispaich.l
JUNE 90, 1876.
After the recess this morning the alumni
formed on the lawn and marched into the
hall, escorting their chosen orator, Colonel
F. w. NJ. Holiday, OF Winchester.
GRAFTON OF COLONEL HOLIDAY.
In the absence OF the president Hon.
Marshall Hanger) the first vice-president
Colonel Z. G. Burks) presided, and appro-
priately introduced the orator.
Selecting as his theme "Higher Educa-
ton the Hope OF American Republicanism,"
Colonel Holiday made an able and eloquent
address, which was interrupted with fire.
quent applause.
ALUMNI LUNCH.
After the address the audience was dis
missed, and the alumni remained to partake
of a lunch and chat over many points OF
common interest.
Did YOUR columns allow, there arc num-
Der of things would like to say. Several
l must beg you to make room for.
THE NEW BOARD.
The new Board OF Visitors seems to give
great satisfaction to the friends OF the Uni
Yersity, and to be entering upon It's WORK
with full purpose OF mind and heart TO 40
everything in its power to promote the IN
terests OF the institution.
REGULATIONS FIXED.
The most delicate and difficult question
before them for there was no sort OF diff
Guilty in unanimously deciding that PROBES
sor Price was the man to succeed Professor
Gildcrsleeve) was fixing the regulations
under which young men from Virginia over
eighteen years OF age may await themselves
of free tuition in the academic schools OF
the University under the late action OF the
Legislature.
TRUE HISTORY OF THE MOVEMENT.
Those familiar with the wishes OF the
faculty and the friends OF the University
bill" have been all along satisfied that this
was not movement to lower the standard
at the University or to antagoniZe the col.
leges of the State, but that it was, on the
contrary, an effort to so free the University
from debt and sustain its faculty as to make
them more independent OF tuition fees and
the more able to deny admittance to imma.
ture and rnprepared students.
THE ENTERING WEDGE.
| The regulations adopted will unquestion.
ably remand to the colleges and academies
MANY who now come here utterly UMPIRE.
cared, and they are intended az only the
entering wedge to still further advance OF
the standard OF admission.
TIE REQUIREMENTS. ... go.
This will be readily seen from the exalni-
nation OF the requirements. The following
regulations have been recommended by the
faculty and adopted by the Board OF Visi-
| tors ..-,
All applicants are required to pass salts
factorily once for all an examination in
English grammar and composition, modern
geography. arithmetic, including the four
elementary rules-vulgar and decimal frac.
tons, proportion, and the metric system OF
denominate numbers.
TIE EXAMINATION.
For admission into the several schools
they are required to pass unsatisfactory eX-
animation. :,
1. In Latin-in the grammar, in C;esar's
Commentaries, Firgifs IEneid Books
wi, inclusive, Cicero's orations against
| Catalina. 't.r'nz --
2. In Greek-in Elementary Greek Gram.
mar, Xenophon's Anabasis. Books Nv:
Homer's Had, Books Ill, exclusive OF
the catalogue OF the ships. .~
8. In Modern Languages-theg general eX
animation only.
4. In MISUNDERSTANDING, embracing
the fundamental operations, simple anC
quadratic equations, proportion, progress
sion, and logarithms, geometry, plane ant
solid.
5. In Moral Philosophy-the general ex
animation only.
6. In Hifeory, Literature, ard Rhetoric
in any compendious history of the United
States, or OF Greece, or Rome, or England
I. In Natural Philosophy (class OF phys
ics)-in plane geometry. .....
S. In General and Industrial Chemistry
the general examination only.
0. In Natural History and Agriculture
the general examination only.
ADVANCED CLASS.
The preparation required for the ad
yanced classes in the several schools is indi
Gated by the courses laid down in the cata
| logue. .... ... ..
The examination will be held on the 26tf
of September, and the following days, an(
students applying for admission under the
law are urged to present themselves prompt
ly on the Goth.
| LOCAL EXAMINATIONS.
The Board have also, on the recommends
ton Of the faculty, adopted system OF To-
cal examinations, after the manner of the
English universities. The scheme is simply
this: At designated times and places there
will be examinations held by professors Of
the University, to which all-both male and
female-will be admitted, and upon success
in which certificates of competency to teach
will be given.
| THE NOBLE DONATION. ...
The Board has made full arrangements tc
accept the noble donation Of $4,000 for {
cabinet Of zoology, geology, and mine
ralogy, which an unknown friend in Ro
chester, n. Y, has given the University
and the ground has already been broken
for a splendid building to contain it. :.
SANITARY. .'
The healthfulneSs OF the University dll
ring the past session has been well-nigh
perfect, and the students have been unusu.
ally quiet and studious.
YOUNG MEMS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
The Young Mems Christian Association
has been actively at work during the past
session, having one hundred and six mem.
bers and sustaining four Sundaysehools and
eleven prayer-meetings.
| + - g. t,,,, BIBLE CLASSES. ....s....
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