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Title: Picturesque Burlington : a handbook of Burlington, Vermont, and Lake Champlain
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Auld, Joseph, 1848-1921
Subjects: Burlington (Vt.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Burlington, Vt. : Free Press Association
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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the tastesand habits of the student, but the necessary annual expenses maybe estimated as follows : Tuition, $60.00: library, reading room, catalogues, etc.,$11.00 ; room rent rr//// rare of rooms, $11.50 to $30.00 ; repairs,services, and other contingent expenses, $9.00 ; board, $2.50 to$3.50 per week, 37 weeks, $92.50 to $129.50; fuel, lights andwashing, $20.00 to $30.00. This makes a total of $204.00 to$272.50. to which may be added expenses for clothing, books,society and class taxes, etc. Board with room in private familiesis furnished for $3.50 to $5.00 per week. A large number ofstudents obtain board at cost at the College Commons in the rearof the Library. Some students obtain board in good families inexchange for light services, and others find remunerative employ-ment during portions of each day or week. The University has Scholarship Funds which enable it tooffer free tuition to forty students. These are awarded term byterm, and are conditioned on scholarship and character.
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PICTURESQUE BURLI^GTON. 127 There are also thirty State Scholarships at the disposal of theseveral State senators, which cover tuition and incidental expenses.There is besides a fund at the disposal of the University, fromwhich loans are made on proper security, to be repaid within aspecified time after graduation. The Prizes offered for excellence in various departments arelikewise a very convenient addition to the finances of those whoare fortunate enough to win them. The Museum is exceptionally rich in objects illustrating thenatural history of Vermont. Nowhere else are shown so com-plete collections of the minerals, rocks, fossils, birds, mammalsand stone implements found in this State. Noticeable among theminerals are a superb series of sulphurs, etc., collected by theHon. George P. Mar.sh in vSicily ; lavas of \^esuvius with severalhundred other European specimens presented by Professor EdwardHungerford ; a considerable collection of North American birdswith eggs, skulls, etc.:

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