Miami, before they had football

 Western Emporium, Centerville Jan. 8, 1825

MIAMI

University

The Miami University at Oxford, state of Ohio, was opened the first week of last November. 

The faculty at present consists of a President to whom is committed the department of Moral Philosophy and Belles Lettres -- (as well as) a Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, and a Professor of Languages.

Three regular classes have been formed in the College, viz: A Junior, Sophomore and Freshman Class, and instruction is given to these according to the codes adopted in the best regulated Colleges in the United States. 

A Graduate School is also attached to the College, where young MEN may be prepared for admission into the regular College classes.

The College year is divided into two sessions of five months each.

The terms of tuition in the College classes are ten dollars per Session and in the Grammar School, five dollars. The expense for boarding and tuition will not exceed $100 per annum.

OXFORD

IS in the northwest part of Butler County, 12 miles from Hamilton and 37 from Cincinnati. The situation is high and dry and few places in the West can compete with it and the surrounding country for health. And while those to whom in the immediate management of the institution is committed, cannot promise more than diligence and fidelity in discharging the duties of the respective trusts, they flatter themselves that upon trial they shall not be found altogether unworthy of the confidence of an enlightened and generous community.

-- Printers in this state are requested to give the above a few insertions.

NOTES: Belles Lettres is a category of writing, originally meaning beautiful or fine writing. Put another way, nice handwriting without substance.

Miami University is one of the oldest public universities in the country, made possible by an ordinance signed by President George Washington in 1795. Chartered in 1809, Miami welcomed its first students in 1824, so this story represents one of the first "recruitment ads" in the school's history.

The Western College for Women (Western Female Seminary) was established in 1855 and was drawn into Miami in 1974 as it flopped financially.