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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1871
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49 3. You should enter at the beginning of a term; but you may enter at any other time if prepared to go forward with any of the classes. 4. If doubtful of your ability to enter the department you have selected, write to the Regent, J. M. Gregory, Champaign, and state what branches you have studied, the progress you have made in each, and your wishes as to course and term of study. HOW CAN I PAY MY WAY? In answer to that question which often reaches us from earnest young men, eager for an education, but without means, we reply : 1. Your necessary expenses (except for books and clothing,) will be as stated on the next page, under the head of'" Expenses." 2. During the Spring and Fall terms, and to some extent during the Winter term you can find work either upon the University farm and garden, or in the shops, or for members of the Faculty and other gentlemen. The large increase in the number of students forbids our promising work to all, but much labor will be provided, and an active, earnest and faithful young man rarely fails to find enough to do. Working three hours a day, or eighteen hours a week, will enable you to pay your board, including fuel and lights. Some pay their entire expenses by their labor without at all hindering their studies. If you understand some common mechanical trade, you will much more easily find work and usually at better wages. 3. You should have, to start with, money enough to pay your entrance fee and bills, to purchase books and cap, and to pay for your half of the furniture of the room. This will require about $35. It will be well also to have enough to pay board for two or three weeks till you can get settled. After starting you will easily go through, as your vacations, if well employed, will afford you enough to pay for clothing and books. 4. You will also find numbers of fellow-students who are working their way, and who will, with true brotherly feeling, advise and assist you. Come on without fear. A good education is worth all it will cost you. Eemember that if education costs much, ignorance costs more% Education gives knowledge at wholesale. Ignorance buys it at retail, and often gets cheated in the quality, TERMS. The college year is divided into three term?, of fourteen, twelve and ten weeks. Students are expected in all cases to be present on the first day of the term. Those unavoidably delayed will be required to
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