The Commercial course embraces Religious Instruction, Orthography, Penmanship, Reading, English Grammar, Composition, Elocution, Rhetoric, Arithmetic, Mathematics, Book-keeping, Commercial Law, Geography, History, Natural Philosophy, and Chemistry. It is completed in three years. The Elementary school affords boys an excellent opportunity of acquiring a thorough knowledge of the elementary principles of the English and German languages. The greatest facilities are offered for the cultivation of music. Vocal and instrumental music, harmony, arrangement in all its parts, Gregorian choral, aesthetics of music and acoustics, and musical composition throughout, receive the attention of the most able professors.
Instruction is given on eighteen different musical instruments.
The degrees of Bachelor, Master, and Doctor of Music are conferred after satisfactory examinations in the graduating department. The students of the college are divided, according to their ages, into three classes, each of which has its own study-hall and dormitory, and is under the control of two prefects. There are at present over three hundred students frequenting the college. This number will be greatly increased when the additional buildings now in progress of erection are completed. An excellent chemical and philosophical apparatus is for the use of more advanced students.