File #110: "1883-1884 Catalog, V.U. Building, Library, Laboratory, Cabinet (Museum), Appliances (Supplies), Admission."

1883-1884 Catalog, V.U. Building, Library, Laboratory, Cabinet (Museum), Appliances (Supplies), Admission.

Indiana--History; Vincennes (Ind.)--History; College Publications

Pg. 18-19. Left page: THE UNIVERSITY BUILDING: Describes the University Building's location at the corner of Fifth and Busseron Streets, the building's contents: Recitation Rooms, Library, Laboratory, Auditorium, Cloak Rooms, Closets, Office, sufficient to accommodate 400 students, along with high ceilings, numerous registers, large windows, and good heat. LIBRARY: Describes the collection (4000 volumes), the recent purchase of 1000 volumes, government publications, and holdings of the Township Library, freely available to students, along with frequent additions to the collection, a Reading Room, local newspapers, magazines, and periodicals. LABORATORY: Describes the apparatus and machines contained in the Laboratory, used for Natural Philosophy and experimental Chemistry. Right page: LABORATORY, cont.: Describes the Chemistry apparatus. CABINET: Describes valuable collections of fossils, bones, teeth, building stones, specimens of minerals and coal, tusk and bones of the Mastodon, voltaic rock, and relics of Indians and prehistoric races. APPLIANCES: Describes the supply of maps, physiological charts, botanical charts, models, globes, and microscope. ADMISSION: Describes requirements to enter the first Academic Class: passing an examination in Arithmetic through fractions, History of the United States, Descriptive Geography, English Grammar including Capitalization and Punctuation; gives instructions on how to enter the Preparatory Dept. and importance of being present on the first day of school.

Vincennes University, Byron R. Lewis Historical Library

Vincennes University, Byron R. Lewis Historical Library

1883-1884

Vincennes University, Byron R. Lewis Historical Library

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