Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-07-20
OXFORD UNIVERSITY.
A Complete Modern Educational InstI.
tutiOs, Of which All Mississfppians
shOuId be Proud.
And which ShOuId Enlist their Efforts
10 MAintafn 1.-The Promise OF the
New Scholastic Year


Special Correspondence of the Appeal
OXFORD, Miss, July 16.-Yor correspond
dent, in common with all Oxonians, takes
great pride in the University over which
General Stewart presides with frmness dig
nifty and skill. 1t il an institution not only
for Mississippians, but for all the people in
this section Of country, and Memphis should
be especially found among its frmest sup
porters.
This institution is located at Oxford, the
county seat OF Lafayette county, Miss. II
is ffty-tve miles south of Grand Junction.
on the Chicago, st. Louis and New Orleans
road. The completion of the road 10 Holly
Springs will bring it within seventy-five
miles OF Memphis. The location is a very
healthy one. Neither cholera nor yellow
fever has ever visited the town or county.
There are absolutely no local causes of sick
ness. The University is situated a mile west
of the public square of Oxford. It has some
ten or dozen large brick buildings, dormi-
tories, chapel, observatory, lyceum, resi-
dences, most of which are situated on a
campus of remarkable natural beauty.
There is library OF 5000 or 10000 volumes
which is being annually increased The
chemical and physical Laboratories are
abnndantly supplied with all the apparatus
and material necessary for the most thorough
instruction and illustrations. The collections
Tor the illustration OF geology and all the
branches OF natural history are quite extern
sive. In the course of another year the OBJ
servatory will be supplied with a refrscting
telescope, equatorislly mounted, of sufficient
size and power and of the best make.
There is high school connected with the
University in which boys Of fourteen years of
age and upward may be prepared for the
Freshman class.
In the collegiate department there is a
corps of eleven professors, by whom are
hn V.ts
German, Spanish and Italian languages and
literatures; the pure mathematics, physics,
including mechanics, acoustics, optics,
astronomy, etc.; chemistry, geology and all
the branches of natural science history polit-
ical economy, metaphysics, logic, moral ecienc
all the subjects usually included in a col
legiate education, and law. The courses of
study lead TO the degrees of E. A, 3. S B.
p. and LII. B, besides which there are spe-
cial courses to meet the wants OF special
students
Young women may be admitted to the
Freshman, or any higher class. Young men
and women may receive as thorough nstruc-
ton in all the above subjects as at any COL
lege or university in the country. The menu
bers of the faculty are graduates Of Prince
ton Williams University OF Virginia, United
States Military Academy and other leading
instructions. They are all men of expert
ence in their busineFs, and without exception
are members of churches. The expenses
are probably less than at any institution of
equal grade in the United States. The only
fees charged to undergraduates are an incl
dental and fuel fee, amounting to So so per
session OF nine months or any part of it.
No tuition fee is charged, exert to law stu
dents. The expenses of living are small.
Young men may room in the dormitories or
in private families, young women only in
private families.
In the law classes students are charged an
annual tuition fee OF $50. The University
was opened in 1S4S, aud has continued in
session to the present time, with the excep-
ton of four years of the late war. 1t has
educated many of the leading public men of
Mississippi.
Memphis and Mississippi belong to each
other. The latter offers TO the former, almost
at her very doors, an institution at which her
children may acquire as liberal an education
as can be obtained any where at very mod
crate cost, and it would be of no little adj
vantage to the young men OF Memphis TO be
educated at the same school with the youth
of Mississippi.