Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1870 [PAGE 43]

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EXPENSES. Tuition in the Agricultural, Mechanical, Engineering, Chemistry and ( Military courses are free. Tuition, in other courses, to students from Illinois, per annum $15 00 Tuition, in other courses, to students from other States, per annum 20 00 Fee for incidentals, per term 2 50 Room rent for each student, per term 4 00 Room rent is only charged to students who room in the University building. Each student is required to pay a matriculation fee of $10 on first entering the institution. This entitles him to membership till he completes his studies. Honorary and prize scholars pay no tuition fee, but pay all other fees. All bills due the University must be paid, and the Treasurer's receipt be shown to the Regent before the student can enter the classes. The annual expense of a residence at the University, exclusive of books and clothing, will be nearly as follows : Tuition, room rent and incidentals, from .$19 00 to $ 34 50 Board, from 54 00 to 180 00 Fuel and lights, from ,...' 10 00 to 15 00 Washing, 75 cents per dozen 10 00 to 15 00 Total., : $93 50 to $244 50 Many young men reduce the expense to within $90 per year, and pay this by their labor during the year. It ought to be known that any young man can 'pay his way through college who is willing, for the sake of an education, to practice steadily the virtues of industry and economy.

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LADIES' DEPARTMENT. The Trustees have voted to admit female students as soon as suitable accommodations can be provided. Ladies already attend the lecture course, and early preparations will be made to afford them the full benefits of the institution. GOVERNMENT. The University is designed for men, not children, and its government rests in an appeal to the manly feelings and sense of honor of its students. If any student shall show himself so weak or corrupt that he cannot, when thus treated, refrain from vicious conduct, he will receive permission to leave the institution, where his presence can only injure others, without being of any benefit to himself. But no pains will be spared to counsel the inexperienced, to admonish the careless, and save the tempted. Especially will it be an object to establish and maintain that high toned, refined, and honorable sentiment, which is at once the best safeguard against meanness and vice, and a constant inspiration to nobleness and virtue.