Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1872 [PAGE 63]

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59 Educational labor is designed as practical instruction, and constitutes a part of the course in the several schools. Students are credited with their proficiency in it as in other studies. Nothing is paid for this class of labor, the instruction given being regarded as a full compensation. Eemunerative labor is such as is prosecuted for its products, and is paid for at rates proportioned to the skill, fidelity and efficiency of the laborers. The maximum rate of wages on the farm and garden, and in the shops, is ten cents per hour. The maximum rate about the buildings and ornamental grounds is eight cents per hour. Students of superior skill and previous practice are allowed work by the piece, and may thus by diligence secure larger rates. Students desiring work are required to join the Labor Classes, which go out to labor four hours each alternate day. Students can often obtain labor for extra hours, if found faithful and efficient as workers. Some students who liave the requisite skill, industry and economy, pay their entire expenses by their labor ; but, in general, young men cannot count upon paying more than one-half their expenses by working, and even this will require much economy in the use of money. If the student can find profitable employment during his vacations, he can often supply all the lack, and provide for his clothing. CALENDAR The University year is divided into three terms, the first of which is fourteen weeks, and the other two of eleven weeks each. Students are expected in all cases to be present on the first day of the term. Those unavoidably delayed will be required to make up all lessons which their classes have passed over in their absence.

Examination for admission Winter term opens Examination for admission Winter term closes Spring term opens Spring term closes Commencement

SUMMER VACATION.

January 2, 187? January 3, 1872 March 2<>, 1872 March 27, 1872 .March 28, 1872 June 6, 1872 June 6, 1872

Examination for admission Opening of fall term Eall term closes

VACATION OF TWO WEEKS.

Sept. Sept. Dec.

10, 1872 11, 1872 18, 1872

Examination for admission Opening of winter term

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