Catalogue of the officers and students ... November 1835.

  • University of Vermont
Date:
1835
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Catalogue of the officers and students ... November 1835. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REMARKS, &, c . ADMISSION. Candidates for admission to the University must produce satisfactory testimonials of good moral character, and sustain before one or more of the F acuity an approved examination in the following studies:—Com¬ mon Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Elements of ancient and Mod¬ ern Geography and English Grammar. Those, who propose to pursue the department of Languages, must also exhibit an accurate knowledge of Latin and Greek Grammar, and be able to translate with facility Ja¬ cob’s Greek Reader, and six books of Homer’s Iliad ; Jacob’s Latin Reader, Sallust or Caesar’s Commentaries; Cicero’s Select Orations and Virgil. The Authors here mentioned are preferred; but the amount of knowledge will be regarded rather than the particular books from which it has been acquired. The regular times for the admission of students into the University are on the day preceding Commencement, and that preceding the first day of the autumnal Term. The parents or guardians of such as become members of the Uni¬ versity, or the students themselves, are required to pay the term bills, from year to year, in advance, or to give bonds to the Treasurer for the payment of the same. Commencement is on the first Wednesday in August. There are two vacations—one of four weeks from Commencement;—the other, of eight weeks from the first Wednesday in January. Classes are formed in the University according to the several topics or authors, which arise in the course of instruction. Any student may, at the same time, subject to the advice and control of the Faculty, pur¬ sue the studies of one, two, or more departments in any of the classes thus arranged. But in no case is a student allowed to join an ad¬ vanced class in any department, without exhibiting a satisfactory ac=