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Additional Schools.

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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. 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 of sufficient experience 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. As the number of students increases, it is found more and more difficult to furnish the labor needed, and students cannot count so certainly upon finding employment.

GENERAL DIRECTIONS TO STUDENTS.

Young men or women desiring a liberal education, and living at a distance from College or University, are often puzzled to understand precisely what they will be required to know and do in order to gain admission. To such, these words are addressed : 1. Notice that a College or a University (which is properly a collection of Colleges) is designed for the higher education only, and not for the study of common branches. None of the common branches, such as Arithmetic, Geography, English Grammar, Reading, and Spelling, are taught in this University. These must all be finished before you come. 2. In order to pursue profitably the true College studies, and to keep pace with the classes, you must be ready to pass a strict examination in the common branches just mentioned, and in certain other preparatory studies, differing with the different Colleges of the University. (See pages 22 and 23.) 3. If well prepared only in the common branches above named, you may be admitted, not to the College, but to the Preparatory Classes, in which you will study the other prepar-