Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1876 [PAGE 73]

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73 Educational labor is designed as practical instruction, and constitutes a part of the course in several schools. Students are credited with their proficiency in it as in other studies. Nothing is paid for it. Remunerative labor is prosecuted for its products, and students are paid what their work is worth. Those desiring employment must join t h e Labor Classes, which labor from two to fon*~ hours a day. The maximum rate paid for farm, garden and shop labor is ten cents, and for that about the buildings and ornamental grounds, eight cents per hour. Students who desire to earn more can often obtain work extra hours ; or may be allowed to work by the piece or job, and thus by diligence or skill, secure more pay. Some students, who have the requisite skill, industry and economy, pay their entire expenses by their labor; but, in general, young men cannot count upon doing this at first, without a capital to begin with, -either of skill, or of money to serve them till a degree of skill is .acquired.

STUDENTS' GOVERNMENT.

For several years an experiment has been in progress, in self-government of the students of the University. By permission of the Faculty, the general assembly of the students was organized, and a constitution adopted providing for the election of a President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Marshal; for a Senate of twenty-one members, a court consisting of a Chief Justice and two Associate Judges. Under this •constitution, laws are enacted by the Senate, which become valid only when approved by the Regent of the University. All offences against these laws are tried before the Students' Court, and punished by fines according to the class of the offence. Cases which require the severer penalties of suspension or expulsion from the University are referred to the Faculty. Students refusing to pay the fines imposed by the Students' government are suspended from University privileges. The government has thus far rendered important aid in maintaining good order in the dormitories and grounds, in preserving public property, in preventing the visiting of saloons, and in other matters requiring the intervention of authority.

EXPENSES.

The tuition is free in all the University classes. The matriculation fee entitles the student to membership in the University until he completes his studies, and must be paid before he enters. Amount... $10 00 The term fee for incidental expenses is, for each student 5 00 Boom rent in a Universitv dormitory, each student per term * ..$2 00 to 4 00 Each student in the Chemical and Physical Laboratories, and in the Draughting and Engineering Classes, is required to make a deposit rarying from 50 cents to $8, to pay for chemicals and apparatus used, and for any breakages or damages.