Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-07-26
UNIVERSITY
OF THE
State Of Missouri,
,o1uaB1A. Boone Co. Mo. Jn,v < 1s,

COLUMBIA, Boone Co., No., july 5, 1885,
To the CLERK of the Iron County Court:
SIR-It is my duty to iaform you that, nm
der the provisions of an act of the General
Assembly, approved April Z, 1872, fyfde
Session Acts, 1S72, PIP. 1853, and Rev. Stat.
1879, Sec. 7-61, 126s. your county is entitled
to send to the departments of the State Uni
versity at ColuTubia and Rolla, during the
year ending Ju.,e 3. 1850, five students,
between the ages of Sixteen and Twenty. five
years, Under the rules adopted by the Board
of Curators, students s'shall possess a good
moral character, and shall pass satisfactory
examination in orthography. reading, writing,
arithmetic and geographic" and must paw
the fees prescribed by said act, to wit: On
matriculating, an entrance fee of ten dollars
and contingent fee of five dollars; and 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-
neering. the annual charge is forty dollars,
session Of all the departments. under the
presidency of Samuel 8. Laws, LID, will
begin on the
Second Tuesday, q 1th) of September,
and will continue until the first Thursday of
June, (6th) 1SS9-except that of the school of
Mines and Metallurgy at Rolia, which will
begin and end one week later, and the Law
School which opens October End, 1883.
Ample provision has been made for the
education and care of young women in all the
classes of the University, and a course of
study specially adapted for them has been
adopted. See catalogue 1SS7-SS, pages 81 to
63 and 162 to 1913.
| beg to call your attention to the appended
extract from the law on this subject. You
will please, 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
sion. Ii such list is cot transmitted, students
from other counties will be allowed 10 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 3 25 per week;
in private families at $500 to $3.50.
am very respectfully. your Obit 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 enti-
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 a
published in such county. The ex-
pense thereof to be allowed blythe CountyCourt
and paid for out of the County Treasury"
Persons desiring to enter the State Univer-
sity at Columbia, or RolIa, are required to
make known their intention to me on or be-
fore September l, 1883.
Catalogues of the University can be had on
application to the University Librarian, Col
umhia Mo-, or at nv Office or the office of the
County School Com'r
VIM. A. FLETCHER,
Clerk County Court Iron Co., Mo.