Courses and Expenses, 1870
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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 $60.00
3. Room, Rent, servant’s attendance $20.00
4. Fuel, public and private $16.00
5. Use of Furniture, provided by the College $12.00
6. Board of 39 weeks, at $4.00 per week $156.00
7. Washing at 75 cents per dozen, estimated at $15.00
Charges for Students Not Boarding In College
1. Admission Fee (paid but once, on entrance) $10.00
2. Tuition for the year $60.00
3. Room Rent, servant’s attendance $20.00
4. Fuel, public and private $12.00
5. Use of Furniture $6.00
The Boarding department is presided over by the Principal of the Preparatory Department. Perishable articles of furniture, as crockery and glass, must be provided by students. Students from abroad, whose parents request it in writing, will be allowed to board in private families. In order to maintain the cleanliness of the rooms, it is required that bedding, three pieces at least per week, be washed at the College laundry, at the charge of 75 cents per dozen.
Boarding clubs can be organized by students of limited means; a plain but substantial bill of fare being obtained at less price than can be offered at public or private table.
One-half of all bills must be paid at the opening, and the other half at the middle of the session. The previous settlement of bills is requisite to admission to recitations.
Law School Examination and Graduation
All candidates for graduation, besides the daily examinations of the classroom, are required to pass a general examination, at the end of the course, on all the studies of the two years, in the presence of the Faculty or of such Committee as the Trustees of the College may appoint.
The degree of Bachelor of Laws is granted to students who, having passed both years of the prescribed course in the School, or who on presenting credentials of equivalent study in some Law College or office, and passing one year in the School, shall sustain satisfactory examinations in all of the studies of both the Junior and Senior Classes. The degrees will be publicly conferred, either at the closing exercise of the session of the Law Department, or at the Annual Commencement of the Academical Department, on the fourth Wednesday in June.
Expenses
The entire charge for Tuition, Lectures, use of Library and all facilities of the School, is eighty dollars for a single year, or one hundred and fifty dollars for two years. Students desiring to devote three years or more to the preparation for graduation, giving special attention also to the Subsidiary Lectures of the course, may have this privilege by payment of two hundred dollars for the entire course. Half year tickets of admission to Recitations and Lectures are issued on the second Wednesday in October and February, on payment of forty dollars in advance. Half year tickets to attendants on Lectures and other exercises of the School, who are not candidates for graduation or subjects of examination, are furnished at twenty dollars, invariably in advance. A charge of ten dollars is made for diplomas. Students from abroad can obtain board at prices as reasonable as in any other city. Those preferring it can obtain rooms and board in the College at student’s charges.
Medical Department Location, Time and Plan
The building of this Department, the gift of W.W. Corcoran, is located on H street, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth Streets. The Annual Session begins on the first Monday of October, and ends on the first Monday of March. The College Museum contains rare and valuable collection. The regular Lectures are held in the latter portion of the day, affording the morning hours for study of Text Books, reading in Libraries, or practical Clinical instruction, for which ample opportunities are afforded. At the College, Medical and Surgical Clinics are held on Wednesdays and Saturdays. The Military and other General Hospitals furnish additional facilities.
Expenses
Expenses of full course of Lectures by all the Professors $135.00
Single Tickets $20.00
Practical Anatomy, by the Demonstrator $10.00
Matriculating Fee, payable once only $5.00
Graduating Expenses $30.00
No charge is made for Clinical Lectures. Payment of the fees is required in all cases, and tickets must be taken out at the commencement of the session. Remission or reduction of fees, and taking promissory notes from students, are forbidden by the By-Laws of the College.
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Author or Source: University Bulletin, 1870/71
Document Location: University Archives
Date Added to Encyclopedia: December 21, 2006
Prepared by: Lyle Slovick, Assistant University Archivist
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