Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1886-07-02
Missouri Agricultural College aud
University.
COLUMBIA BOONE COUNTY Mo-,
1000

COLUMBIA Boone COUNTY Mo-, !
June %, 1886.
TO Tie CIerk Of Charlton Count.
Court:
SIR:-It il my duty to inform yol
that, the provisions of an Act of tn
General Assembly, approved Apri
l, 1872, wide Sessien Acts, 1872
PIP. 16S-9, and Rev. Stat, 1879
Secs. 1867, 7278], your county i
entitled to send to the department.
of the Missouri Agricultural College
and University, at Columt1i2 ant
RoIIa, during the year ending "nn'
?, 1887, fifteen Students, bet,geeJ
the ages of Sixteen and Twenty-Five
years.
Under these rules adopted by the
Board of Curators, students s'shall
possess a good moral character, and
shall pass satisfactory examina-
tion in photography, reading, writing,
arithmetic and geography; and
must pay the fees prescribed by
said Act, to-wit: On matricuIating
an entrance fee of ten dollars, and
contingent fee of five dollars; and q
like contingent fee at the beginning
of the second half year, making the
whole annual change twenty dollars !;
,Ohich must be paid By euegy student,
except regularly ordained ministers
of the gospel, belonging to any of
the various religious denominations
of this State, and INDECENT young
men preparing for the ministry. For
the schools of Law, and Medicine,
and Engineering, the annual charge
is forty dollars, each. The session
of all the departments, under the
Presidency of SAMUEL S. LAWS,
Ii. D., will begin
ON THE FIRST TUESDAY (7th)
OF SEPTEMBER,
and will continue until the first
Thursday of June, 18S7-except
that of the School of Mines and Me-
talurgy at Rolla, which will begin
Monday, September Goth, and end
June 8, 1887.
Ample provision has been made
for the education and care of young
women In all the classes of the Uni
versity, and course of study spec
tally adapted for them has been
adopted. See catalogue 1886,
page 20.
1 beg to call your attention to the
extract from the law on
this subject.
After giving two weeks publica-
tion to this certificate. you willplease
transmit to me, on or before Sep
tember lst, list of the names of all
the youth of your county who intend
to make application for entrace into
the Agricultural College and Unlver-
sity at the commencement of next
session.
If such a list is not transmitted,
students from other counties will be
allowed to enter IN lieu or those to
which your county is entitled.
Board can be had in clubs in the
college buildings for male students
at 1925 per week; in private fami-
lies at $500 to 81. so.
1 am very respectfully, your obe-
dent servant. J. H. DRUMMoND,
Secretary Board of Curators, Mis-
souri, Agricultural College and Uni
versity of Missouri.
"The Secretary of the Board Curators
shall cause to be transmitted to the Clerk
of each County Court is this State GER
cate, stating the number of pupils that
such county is entitled to send TO the State
University the next scholastic year,
WHICH CERTIFICATE SHALL BE PUBLISHED
BY EACH COUNTY CLERK FOB TWO WEEKS, in
newspaper published in such county.
The expense thereof to be allowed by the
County Court, and paid for out of the
County Treasury"
Persons desiring to enter the
Missouri Agricultural College and
University, at Columbia, or School
of Mines and Metallurgy, at Rolla,
are required to make known their
intention to me on or before Septem-
Der /, 1886.
Catalogues of the Agricultural
College and University can be had
on application to the University Ii
brarian, Columbia, Missouri, or at
my office, or at the office of the
County School Commissioner.
JOHN A. LEE,
Clerk County Court Charlton County,
AT;.oouri