Schools, DeSoto Parish, La--Keatchie College Tuition/Uniforms/Guidelines 
Submitted by: Courtney Tompkins
Email:  tompkin@c2i2.com
Source:  Keatchie College Annual Catalogue 1891-92, p. 20-21

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 ... always present. No communication is allowed, and any attempt on the 
part of pupils to cultivate acquaintance will be severely punished.  By 
having two departments separate, and by forbidding all intercourse, there 
are virtually two colleges, and all the disadvantages of mixed schools are 
avoided.  By having all the pupils meet at chapel service and in the class
room, all the advantages claimed for co-education are secured.



                                 UNIFORMS
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The promote economy is to avoid rivalry in dress, the girls are required, on 
public occasions to wear the following prescribed uniforms:
For Winter-- Navy blue cashmere or cashmerette trimmed with same, with sack 
of same material lined with flannel
Hat-- to be selected
For Summer--White lawn, trimmed with same
Hat-- to be selected
Any pupil not provided with uniform will be excused from appearing in public 
with the school.  Uniforms must be in accordance with prescribed regulations.  
The slightest deviation will not be allowed.

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Parents and guardians know that it is important that pupils should be present 
on the first day of the session.  It is equally important that they remain to 
the end of the session. Any absence is a serious loss; any break in the exercise 
is detrimental to the best interests of the pupil, hence there is no vacation 
at Christmas.  It is an undeniable fact that pupils who enter without the 
expectation of visiting home during the session, remain contented and make 
better progress than those whose work is interrupted by such visits. 

The young ladies are not permitted to receive communications or visit from young 
gentleman, nor are they permitted to spend the night out of the college.  
Parents are earnestly requested to ask no departure from this rule.

Making accounts at stores, except in cases authorized by parents is prohibited.

It is a mistaken kindness to send boxes of provisions to pupils.  Such boxes are 
frequently sources of excess, sickness and loss of time.

Each pupil must furnish his own table napkins, napkin ring, towels and toilet 
articles.  All articles must be distinctly marked.

Borrowing text books, clothing, jewelry and other articles is positively forbidden.
                        
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Tuition (Collegiate Department)	25.00
Elocution	10.00
Bookkeeping	10.00
Telegraphy	15.00
Incidental fee	1.00

School of Music	
Instrumental	25.00
Vocal	25.00
Vocal and Instrumental	45.00

Practice	
The use of piano or organ 	5.00
(one hour and a half a day)	

School of Art	
Regular Course	25.00
Drawing in Pencil	10.00
Drawing in Charcoal	10.00
Drawing in Crayon	15.00
Painting in Water Colors	20.00
Painting in Oil 	30.00
(still life, landscape and portrait)	
China Decoration	30.00
Lustre Painting	15.00
Ornamental Needle Work, 	5.00
(Kensington Embroidery, etc., ten lessons)	

Pupils are required to furnish their own towels, bed clothing and pillows.  	
Boarding pupils, by paying $5 in advance can have medical attention during 
the entire session without extra charge.	

Pupils may enter at any time during the session.	

Pupils using the chemical laboratory pa a fee of $2 for the purchase of 
chemicals, etc.	

These fees are payable in advance, and are charged from the first of the 
month in which the pupil enters to the close of the session.  No deduction 
will be made for time last by late entrance or by sickness, unless the time 
lost is three-fourths or more of one month.  No deduction will be made for 
other causes.	

                                   REMARKS
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Ministerial students and children of ministers devoting their whole time 
exclusively to the work of the ministry, receive tuition in any department 
of the literary course without charge.

Three boarding pupils from the same family pursuing the literary course only, 
will have a deduction of ten per cent from tuition fees.

Two boarding pupils from the same family pursuing the literary and the music 
course, will have a deduction of ten per cent from the tuition in literary 
department.

Three boarding pupils from the same family, all pursuing the literary course, 
and two of them the music course, will have a deduction of twenty-five per 
cent from tuition fees in literary department.

Payments must be made at the beginning of each term.

No deduction made for short abscense, and if a pupil is withdrawn
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