Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-08-23
UNIVERSITY
OF THE
State Of missouri,

COLUMBIA, Boone Co., Mo-, July 5, 1855.
To the Clerk Of the Iron County Court:
SIR-It is my duty to inform you that, I'M
der the provisions of an act of the General
Assembly, approved April l, 1872, vide
Session Acts. 1872, PIP. 1853, and Rev. Stat.
1879, Sec. 1867, 1868, your county is entitled
to send to the departments of the State Uni
versity at Columbia and Rolla, during the
year ending June q, 1889, five students,
between the ages of Sixteen and Twenty-Five
years, Under the rules adopted by the Board
of Curators, students ''shall possess good
neral character, and shall pass satisfactory
examination in orthography, reading, writing,
arithmetic and geography" and must pay
the fees prescribed by said act, to wit: On
natr cnlating, an entrance fee of ten dollars,
and contingent fee of five dollars; and a like
contingent fee at the beginning of the second
half year, making the whole annual charge
twenty dollars; which must be paid by every
student, except regularly ordained ministers
of the gospel, belonging to any of the various
religious denominations in this State, and
INDECENT young men preparing for the minis
try. For the schools OF Medicine AMI Engi-
neerinse. the annual charge is forty dollars.
each. For the Law School fifty dollars. The
session of all the departments, under the
presidency of Samuel s. Laws, LII D., will
begin on the
Second Tuesday, & 1th) of September,
and will continue until the first Thursday of
June, (6th) 1889 except that of the School of
Mines and Metallurgy at Rolla, which will
begin and end one week later. and the Law
School which opens October End, 1888.
Ample provision has been made for the
education and care of young women in all the
classes of the University, and course OF
study specially adapted for them has been
adopted. See catalogue 1887 So, pages 62 to
90 aud 1872 to 1853.
l beg to call your attention to the appended
extract from the law on this subject. You
will pleas, after giving two weeks publica-
ton to this certificate, transmit to me, on or
before September 1st, list of the names of
all the youth of your county who intend to
make application for entrance into the Uni
versity ar the commencement of the next SEES
sion. II sucf. list is not transmitted, students
from other counties will be allowed to enter in
lieu of those to which your county is entitled.
Board can be had in clubs in the college
BUILDING for male students at 81 25 per week;
in private families at $500 to $3.50.
l am very respectfully, your oht serv't,
j. Fl. DRUMMOND Secretary
Board OF Curators, University of Missouri.
''The Secretary of the Board of Curators shall.
cause to be transmitted to the Clerk of each
County Court in this State certificate, stating
the number of pupils that such county is enIi-
tied to send to the State University the next
scholastic year, which certificate shall be pub
lished by each County Clerk for two weeks, in
newSpa per published in such county. The ex-
pense thereof to be allowed blythe County Court
and paid for out of the County Treasury"
Persons desiring to enter the State Univer
sity at Columbia, or Rolla, are required to
make known their intention to me on or be-
fore Septemb Der /, 1888.
Catalogues of the University can be had on
application to the University Librarian, Col
umbia Mo-, or at nv office or the office of the
County School Com'r.
VIM. A. FLETCHER,
Clerk County Court Iron Co., Mo.