Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1871 [PAGE 56]

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48 thoroughness in the common school studies of its students, but will insist on thoroughness in its own proper studies. A regular examination of all the classes is made at the middle and close of each term. A record is kept of the standing of each student at all the examinations, and from this his final certificate of graduation is made up. UNIVERSITY UNIFORM. Under the authority of the act of incorporation, the Trustees have prescribed that all the students, after their first term, shall wear the University uniform. The University cap is to be worn from the first. This uniform consists of a suit of cadet gray mixed cloth, of the same color and quality as that worn at West Point, and manufactured by the same establishment. Students can procure them ready made on their arrival here. The University cap is of dark blue cloth, and ornamented with the initials I. I. U., surrounded by a silver wreath in front. Students will wear their uniform always on parade, but in their rooms and at recitation may wear other clothing.

STUDENTS' DORMITORIES AND BOARD.

There are in the University building about sixty six private rooms, which are rented to the students who first apply. Each room is designed lor two students. These rooms, fourteen feet long and ten feet wide, are without furniture, it being deemed best that the students shall furnish their own rooms. Good private boarding houses are springing up around the University, where either day board or board and rooms can be obtained with the advantage of the family circle. Boarding clubs are maintained by the students, which furnish meals at a cost of from $1 50 to $2 50 per week. Several students have provided themselves with meals in their rooms, at an expense varying from $1 to $1 50 per week. Coal is purchased at wholesale, and furnished to students at cost. •

HOW TO ENTER THE UNIVERSITY. *

In answer to the questions often received, the following explicit directions are given to those wishing to enter the University: 1. You must be over fifteen years of age, and of good moral habits. If unknown to the faculty, you should bring a certificate of character. 2, You must possess a thorough knowledge of the common school branches, arithmetic, grammar, geography, history of the United States, and algebra to equations of the second degree.