Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-09
D. l7S ALEXANDRIA, VA. MONDAY EVENING. AUG

Painter, of Roanoke College; Rev. w.
W. Moore, of Hampden-Sidney; Rev.
Professor Grammer, DR.. Carmichael,
Dr.. KcKim, sc.
In hive OF The higher learning like
the University of Virginia the life is
nec' ssarily busy busting, concentrate l.,
but amusement is by no means crowd
ed oui; a charming social ACTIVITY per-
mentes every channel of these ancient
cloisters; the studants come in delight
ful social contact with the dOus aid dig
nitaries of The restitution, and a mild
paternal supervision reduces the fric-
tion between governing body and ma
circulate to miuimum.
Que word about the expenses Of a
university course. An erroneous i'm.
preston prevails ii the remoter parts
of the State and in the South that the
University of Virginia is "a rich mans
school" Is this SO? Let us examine
the necessary expenses of student at
this famous pet of Jefferson" remem.
beripg always that the education offer
ed and given is the highest and best 10
the entire South, contributed by a
group of famous sp, C aiiss amid laud-
scape surroundings of exquisite beauty,
at spot second only 10 Mt. Vernon in
noble historic associations.
A Virginia SUDDEN! (Jhere were 2S3
of these at Charlottesville last year. nay
rid himself altogether of tuition fees by
standing examinations in Latin, Greek,
mathematics and Engiish.
nnn o,ooaocn,.,, aynarsoc of on ona-
demic student other than Virginiao,
including fees, tuition and living, are
less than $500 per annum. excellent
board being obtainable at the Universi
ty mess for $ll month
3 The necessary expenses of medi-
cal student q, the University are, for the
first year, $3.50, for the second W ar $3.50.
and for the third year $3.50. These
moderate sums include reasonable al
lowance for books and instruments, be-
side fees, tuition and board at school
which for more than seventy years has
stood at the head Of medical education
in the South.
4. The necessary expenses of law
student at the University are 1910, in
school which has filed the South and
North with distinguished jurists, gov
ernors, congressman. members of State
legislatures and law professors has ed
ucated Cabinet ministers and ambassa-
dors and has sent forth hundreds of ex
perts in the science of jurisprudence.
The prestige of the institution for
high scholarship, sound educational
methods, rigorous examinations, uni
form success for her graduates wher
ever they come in competition with the
graduates of other Southern institutions,
and accomplished and capable teaching,
is so great that her diploma is instantly
recognized as truly letter OF recon-
mendation to any one possessing it for
any walk or vocation of life.
Education at such an institution so
grt at in prestige, so abundant in oppor.
tunilies of all kinds, the Intellectual
centre of great commonwealth which
has impressed its ideas on the whole
country, the beloved and chosen gath
ering place of the elite of the South for
ne, rly a hundred years, cannot be
consi Tered dear at any price, and must,
in view of the rare and numerous ad-
vantages offered by the university, be
at the ra q, above indicated,
as remarkably cheap in the end. Here,
from year to year, representatives oil
the leading families of the South gather
and study in a region beautifully pictur
esque, varied by mountain and valley,
near the homes of Jefferson and Madi
son, Monroe and Writ, Cabell and
George Rogers Clarke and here in the
500 acres of lonely woodland belonging
TO it, the new university with its grand
quadrangle OF new Greek buildings, its
new laboratories and museums, it's new
and nobler rotunda fianked by grace
full balustraded terraces, its new life
and larger facilities, is rising and assum.
ing graudiose proportions hardly i'm
agined even by its tsilustrious founder.