POLICY.

It is the aim of the University to meet the educational wants of every student in the State. The courses of study, as laid down, are intended to be the mere outlines of work. In the optional studies and post-graduate course, there is provision for all the demands of higher scholarship which are now made upon the Institution. And it is confidently expected that, by the sale of lands and in other ways, provision will be made for the constant growth of the University as greater demands are made upon it.

It is advisable that students should pursue the prescribed courses, if possible, adding to them as they are able, from the optional studies; but, by special vote of the Regents, the Faculty may excuse a student from any study in either course and substitute for it any other of equal educational value, such action of the Faculty being a matter of record.

GOVERNMENT.

Each Faculty has special care of its own College or Department, but all the instructors teach wherever their services are required. Weekly reports are made by each Professor to the Faculty, of the work in his own department and all cases of delinquency.

The students and Faculty are assembled for prayers daily, fifteen minutes before the morning hour for commencing recitations. At this time, all public announcements are made, and the President also gives directions and instruction to the students in regard to all their general duties as members of the University.

Students are held responsible only for good order and the dilligent use of their time. Those who fail to conform to this simple requirement are at once dismissed. The University is no place for idlers, for disorderly persons or for those who do not propose to give their whole time to the work prescribed for them by the Faculty. The loss of a single recitation not only injures the student, but those connected with him.

Leave of absence will not be granted except in cases of absolute necessity. No student is required to attend any religious exercises of any kind, but all directions in regard to this matter, given by parents or guardians, will be cheerfully followed.

EXAMINATIONS.

At the close of the first and second terms, there is a public examination of all the classes of the University in the studies of the term.

During the week preceding the Commencement, the several classes are examined, in presence of a Board of Visitors, in the studies of the year. Promotion from class to class is made to depend on these examinations.

DEGREES.

Students who complete the course of study prescribed in the College of Letters are entitled to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and, after the expiration of three years from the time of graduation, upon application to the

Faculty, accompanied with evidence of satisfactory proficiency, are recommended to the Regents to receive the degree of Master of Arts.

Students who complete the course of study in the College of Arts, are entitled to the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, and, after the expiration of three years from the time of graduation, on recommendation of the Faculty to the Regents, as in the case of Master of Arts, receive the degree of Master of Science.

Students who complete the prescribed course of study in the Law Department, upon examination and recommendation of the Law Faculty, are entitled to the degree of Bachelor of Laws.

Students who complete the course in Agriculture, are entitled to the degree of Bachelor of Science.

Students who complete the course in Civil Engineering, are entitled to the degree of Bachelor of Science, and after the expiration of one year from the conferring of this degree, upon the presentation of a suitable Project, are entitled to the degree of Civil Engineer. Residence at the institution will not be required during this last year.

Students who complete the course in Mining and Metallurgy, will, under the same conditions, be entitled to the degrees of Bachelor of Science and Mining Engineer.

Students who complete the course in Mechanical Engineering, will, under the same conditions, be entitled to the degrees of Bachelor of Science and Mechanical Engineer.

Graduates of the Female College receive the same degrees as graduates of the other colleges for the same course of study.

CALENDAR.

WINTER TERM begins January 8, 1873, and closes March 26, 1873.

SPRING TERM begins April 2, 1873, and closes June 19, 1873.

ANNIVERSARY OF LITERARY SOCIETIES, Tuesday evening before Commencement.

ALUMNI ADDRESS, Wednesday evening before Commencement.

COMMENCEMENT, Thursday A. M., June 19, 1873.

FALL TERM begins September 3, 1873, and closes December 17, 1873.

CONCLUSION.

It is hoped that the State, fixed in its hearty confidence by the remarkable success of the University since its reorganization, will continue its fostering aid, and meet with a generous response the efforts of the Regents to place our State University among the leading educational institutions of the country. Confidence is a plant of slow growth and can be fostered to maturity only by a wise and timely conservatism, which forbids frequent or radical changes in the management or policy of public institutions.

19-MANUAL.

THE STATE NORMAL SCHOOLS.

HISTORY.

Among the provisions for education in the Constitution of the State, as adopted in 1848, it was provided

"That the revenue of the School Fund shall be exclusively applied to the following objects:

"1st. To the support and maintenance of common schools in each school district. and the purchase of suitable librairies and appurtenances therefor. "2d. That the residue of the income of the School Fund shall be appropriated to the support of Academies and Normal Schools, and suitable libraries and appurtenances therefor."

Thus early was the need of Normal Schools recognized, but nothing was done to make any provision for them until 1857, when an act was passed, providing, "That the income of twenty-five per cent. of the proceeds arising from the sale of swamp and overflowed lands, should be appropriated to Normal Institutes and Academies, under the supervision and direction of a Board of Regents of Normal Schools," who were to be appointed in pursuance of the provisions of that act.

Under this law, the income placed at the disposal of the regents was distributed for several years to such colleges, academies and high schools as maintained a normal class, and in proportion to the number of pupils in the class who passed satisfactory examinations, conducted by an agent of the Board. This phase of normal work received a fresh impetus under the efforts of DR. HENRY BARNARD, who was agent of the Board while he continued Chancellor of the University, and who inaugurated a system of Teachers' Institutes, as a branch of normal work. Considerable good was accomplished in this way, but the educational sentiment of the State demanded the estab lishment of Normal Schools proper.

In 1865, the legislature divided the swamp lands and swamp land fund int two equal parts-one set apart for drainage purposes, the other to constitute a Normal School Fund-the increase of which should be applied to establishing, supporting and maintaining Normal Schools, under the direction and management of the Board of Regents of Normal Schools, with a proviso, that one-fourth of such income should be transferred to the common school fund, until the annual income of the school should reach $200,000.

During the same year, proposals were invited for extending aid in the establishment of a normal school, in money, land or buildings. Propositions wer received from various places, and their merits examined and reported upon by a committee.

In 1866, the Board of Regents was incorporated by the legislature. In Feb