Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-07-11
University Of The State Of Missouri,

COLUMBIA, Boone Co., Mo-, July ), 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 |, 1871 wide
! 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 RolIa, during the
year ending June 5. 1890, five students,
| between the ages of Sixteen and Twenty five
years, Under the rules adopted by the Board
| of Curators, students ''shall possess a good
| moral character, and shall pass a satisfactory
examination in photography. reading, writing,
arithmetic and geography,' and must pay
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 10y 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
each. For the Law School fifty dollars. The
session of all the departments, will begin
on the
Second Tuesday, U0th) Of September.
and will continue until the first Thursday of
June, (5th) 1890 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 LIST, 1889.
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 1885 SO, pages 55 to
So.
beg to call your attention to the appended
extract from the law on this subject. You
Will please, after giving two weeks publica-
tion to this certificate, transmit to me, on or
before September LIST, list of the names of
all the youth OF your county who intend to
make application for entrance into the Uni
versity at the commencement of the next SEES
sion. If such a 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 20 2o per week: |
in private families at $500 to $3.50.
l am very respectfully, your obt serv't,
J. G. BABB 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 |
llshed by each County Clerk for two weeks, in a |
newspaper 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, Rolla, are required to
make known their intention to me on or be-
fore September l, 1889.
Catalogues of the University can be had on |
application TO the University librarian, COL
umhin, Mo-, or at nv Office or the Office of the
Countylschool Com'r.
VIM. A. FLETCHER.
Clerk County Court Iron Co., Mo.