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NORMAL AND PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT.

This Department was opened on the first of May, A.D. 1867, with five pupils, in a building leased for that purpose, located on 7th Street, near the northern limits of the city; the number soon increased to sixty, and it was found needful to procure an Assistant Teacher. During the year, one hundred and twenty-seven pupils have been enrolled, and with a recent increase of numbers and interest, there is now every prospect of a much larger attendance in the Fall.

The privileges of this Department are open to all persons over thirteen years of age who can pass a satisfactory examination in Spelling, Reading, Writing, and Elementary Geography and Arithmetic.

Special classes for instruction in Book-keeping, Penmanship, and Methods of Business, will be formed, if desired, by a sufficient number of Pupils.

Mr. A. L. Barber, A.B., a graduate of Oberlin College, and a Licentiate from Oberlin Theological Seminary, is the Principal of this Department; and Miss Julia A. Lord, of Portland, Me., who had successfully labored in one of the higher Departments of a graded colored school in Washington City, Assistant Teacher.

THE COLLEGIATE, THEOLOGICAL, AND LAW DEPARTMENTS

Will be organized as soon as circumstances will permit, and the condition of the University requires.

Lectures on Natural Theology and Biblical History, as preliminary to a Theological course, have already been given to quite a number of students by clergymen residing in the city. They, with others, if necessary, will continue to give instruction in these and other branches during the coming season.

An earnest effort is to be made during the summer to secure the attendance, at the beginning of the Fall Session, of students sufficiently advanced to organize a Freshmen class for the Collegiate Course. This circular is issued partially with a view to interesting young men in the effort. A young man can have no more laudable ambition than to be among the first to identify himself with an Institution which from its inception has given, and now gives, such sure tokens of success. "First Graduate" is an honorable distinction.

Candidates for admission to the Freshmen class must be able to pass the preliminary examination usually required in other colleges.

THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT

Has been organized, under a Faculty of competent instructors in their respective branches, and will be opened for the reception of students in October next. 

The students of this Institution will possess unequalled advantages for clinical instruction. They will have free access to the Freedmen's General Hospital of this city, which contains two hundred beds, and in which may be found every variety of disease requiring medical or surgical treatment.

It is the intention of the Faculty to give as thorough a course of instruction, and to demand as high a grade of qualifications for graduation, as any other first class medical college in the country. The fees for tuition and graduation will be the same as in other respectable medical colleges, but