Courses and Expenses, 1860
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Charges for Students Boarding in College
1. Admission Fee, (paid but once, on entrance) $10.00
2. Tuition for the year, $55.00
3. Room for rent, the servant’s attendance $20.00
4. Fuel public and private, $15.00
5. Use of Furniture, if provided by the College, $10.00
6. Average damages, $2.00
7. Board for 39 weeks, at $3.00 per week, $117.00
8. Washing at 50 cents per dozen, estimated at $10.00
Charges for Students not boarding in College.
1. Admission Fee, (paid but once, on entrance) $10.00
2. Tuition for the year, $55.00
3. Room rent, servant’s attendance, $20.00
4. Fuel public and private, $10.00
5. Use of Furniture, if provided by the College, $6.00
6. Average damages, $2.00
The College buildings are warmed by steam, the most healthful and agreeable heat. Furniture may be provided by the student if preferred.
The annual expense to students boarding in College is about $220; to those not boarding in College, about $85.
Students from abroad, whose parents request it in writing, will be allowed to board in private families. A cheaper table is also furnished by the Steward, when desired at $2.25 per week. In order to maintain the cleanliness of the rooms, for which he is responsible, it is required that bedding, three pieces at least per week, be washed at the steward’s laundry at the charge of 50 cents per dozen.
One half of all bills must be paid at the opening, and other half at the middle of the session. The previous settlement of bills is requisite to the admission to recitations.
Lectures and Charges
The Medical Department, known as the “National Medical College,” is situated in the City of Washington, about two miles from College Hill.
The Washington Infirmary, which is the clinical department of this College, is admirably adapted to the study of diseases and their treatment in its capacious and comfortably furnished wards. Here the various surgical operations are performed by the Professor of surgery and the results of their after-treatment exhibited to the students. The Lecture Room, Museum, Laboratory and Rooms, for the study of Practical Anatomy, used by the Medical College, are in this building, and will compare favorably with those belonging to the other Medical Colleges.
The course of instruction will be such as will secure the fullest advantage to the student in the limited period annually allotted to attendance upon Medical Lectures, the design being as far as possible to render it practical, so that it may fit the student for future professional duties.
The fullest illustrations will be employed in the different departments, and those facts of each branch, from which sound practical philosophy has deduced principles, will be especially dwelt upon, so that such principles may be become fixed in the mind of the student.
The Lectures commence on the third Monday of October, and continue until March
The entire expense for a full course of Lectures by all the Professors is, $95 Single Tickets, $15 Practical Anatomy by the demonstrator, $10 Matriculating fee, payable only once, $5 Graduating expenses, $25.
The requisites for graduating are, that the Candidate shall have attended the lectures of each Professor two full Courses, or one full Course in this school, and one full Course in some other respectable Institution.
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Author or Source: University Bulletin, 1860/61
Document Location: University Archives
Date Added to Encyclopedia: December 21, 2006
Prepared by: Lyle Slovick, Assistant University Archivist
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