Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1867 [PAGE 16]

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16 A competitive examination, thus uniform in character and thus fairly conducted, can not but react with a most healthful stimulation upon the public school interests of the state ; and this stimulation will be increased by a publication of the names of the schools in which the successful candidates were prepared, and the teachers by whom they were taught. In case any counties shall neglect to send students on their scholarships, the Regent may be authorized to award such scholarships, for the year, to suitable candidates from other counties.

CHARGES FOB TUITION, AND OTHER EXPENSES.

The committee would rejoice if the condition of our funds and the provisions of the law would permit the University to be made free to all citizens of the State, and they cordially recommend that its tuition be made thus free at the earliest practicable moment; and that from the outset the charges be made as light as as consistent with justice to the institution itself. The charges in American Colleges range from a few dollars per annum to several hundreds. In Yale College the annual fees amount to $85. The annual fees at Harvard are $133. At the Michigan University each student pays a matriculation fee of §10, and an annual fee of $5. At the Michigan Agricultural College the tuition is free for citizens of the State. Students from other States pay $20 per annum. All students pay a matriculation fee of $5. The proposed fees for the Cornell University are $20 a year for tuition ; matriculation fee $15. The committee recommend that the academic year be divided into two semi-annual sessions, as nearly equal as may be, and that the tuition and other fees for each session be fixed at the following rates:

For tuition to students from other States, $10 per term For incidentals, care and warming of public rooms, etc., $5 per t e r m . . For room rent, $6 per term $20 per annum ..10 " " 12 " "

They recommend, also, that a matriculation fee of $10 be charged to each student on first entering the institution. This fee is never charged a second time, but once paid, entitles the student to all the privileges of membership at any time thereafter. Students on the " honorary scholarships " will pay the matriculation fee and charges for room rent and incidentals, but will be charged nothing for tuition.

BOAEDING DEPARTMENT.

The building is provided with the necessary rooms for a boarding department. It is believed that in a short time we may wholly dispense with this department, even if it must be opened at the outset. Suitable boarding houses will doubtless soon spring up in the neighborhood, and the rooms in the University building may be appropriated to more public and proper uses.

STUDENTS' ROOMS.

There are in the University buildings sixty-six rooms designed for students' dormitories, each dormitory being calculated to accommodate