Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-08-20
University Of The State Of Missouri

COLUMBIA, Boone Co., Mo-, July ], 1891.
To the Clerk Of the Iron County Court:
SIR-1t is my duty TO inform you that, under
the provisions of Section o733, Revised Statutes
OF Missouri, 1889, your county is entitled
to send to the departments of the State Uni
versity at Columbia and Rolla, during the
year ending June 4. 1892, six students,
between the ages of Sixteen and Twenty five
years, Under the rules adopted by the Board
| of Curators, students ''shall possess good
moral character, and shall pass satisfactory
examination in arithmetic and in the princi-
pies of English grammar and written
composition, and must pay the fees pre-
scribcd by said act, to wit: On ma
cultriating, in the Academic deaprtment an
entrance fee of ten dollars, and contingent
fee of five dollars; and like contingent fee
at the beginning Of he second half year,
making the whole annual chargetwenty dol
| lars. For the school Of Medicine twenty
dollars for the first year and fifty dollars for
subsequent years. For the school OF Engi-
neering. forty dollars. For tn. Law Schoo.
| fifty dollars for first year students and forty
dollars for second year students. For the Col
lege of Agriculture ten dollars Examination
for admission will begivrn by the English and
mathematical departments on Thursday, Fri
day, Saturday and Monday, September Sd. 4th,
9Th, and 9TH, pre- ,eding the opening of the
Un,crsty. the session, of all the departments
will begin on the
Second Tuesday, (Sth) of September,
and will continue until the first Thursday of
June, (4th) 1S92-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 9th. 1890
The Missouri State Military School is now a
department of the State University, missouri
Rev. Stat, 1889, Secs. 6927- 81. Each Senator
| and Representative In the General Assembly
is expected to appoint one cadet from his dis
trict during the month OF August. These ca
diets after passing the required examinations
will be admitted to the Academic denartments
of the University free of tuition. Two COM
plete uniforms will be furnished by the State
to each cadet.
Ample provision has been made for the
education and care of young women in all the
classes of the University. See catalogue
1891, pages 2-63.
l beg to call your attention to the appended
extract from the law on this subject. You
will please, after giving two weeks publca-
tion 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 at the commencement of the next SEES
sion. If such 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 the University boarding
clubs for male students at $1.75 per week and
udward; in private families at So. 90 to $3.50.
am very respectfully, your ob't serv't,
j. G. BABB Secretary
Board of Cu.ators, 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
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, or Rolla, are required to
make known their intention to me on or be-
fore September /, 1891.
Catalogues of the University can be had on
application to the University Librarian. Col
umbia, Mo. VIM. A. FLETCHER.
Clerk County Court Iron Co., Mo.