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LADIES' BOARDING HALL.

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U N I V E R S I T Y

U N I F O R M S .

Under the authority of the act of incorporation, the Trustees have prescribed that all the male 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.

DORMITORIES

AND

BOARD.

There are in the University building about seventy private rooms, which are rented to the students who first apply. Each room is designed for two students. These rooms, fourteen feet long and ten feet wide, are without furniture, it being deemed best that the students shall provide their own furniture. Private boarding houses are springing up around the University, where either day board, or board and rooms can be obtained, with the advantages 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. 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, and such other studies as you find marked under qualifications for "admission," under the College you wish to enter. 3. You should enter at the beginning of the year; but you may enter at any other time if prepared to pass an examination upon the studies of the classes you wish to enter.

LADIES'

BOARDING

HALL.

It is expected that the old University building will be thoroughly refitted and devoted to the use of lady students, and to the Schools of Domestic Science aud other schools for women, when the new building is fully prepared and occupied. But a year must elapse before the transfer can be effected. To meet the demand for a Boarding House, where young ladies may find suitable accommodations and care, arrangements are in progress to open near the University a large Boarding Hall, which will afford good rooms for about 40 students, with parlor, dining room, kitchen, laundry and music room. The whole to be under the charge of a competent Steward and Matrun.