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ST. JOHNS
LITERARY INSTITUTION.
FREDERICK CITY, MARYLAND.

freuerlck, distinguished Tor lis remark
ably healthy air, and abundant supply of
pure mountain water, recently introduced
into the city. The peaceful character aud
retired location Of the "Mountain City,"
mark it out as the abode of literature and
the sciences
-Four Professors and Project of studies
are employed in teaching and lecturing W
on the Classics, the Mathematics, the Eng
lish and French. Besides the ordinary ex-
ercses in elocuion, the Tullipheboian So
ciety, counting among its honorary members
the elite of the city, affords the students
ample opportunities for practical oratory.
There are two examinations each year,
one in March, the other in July.
COURSE OF STUDIES.
RUDIMENTs.
First Session-English and Latin Grammars, Geo
graphy, History of the Bible, exercises in Read
ing and Writing Historic Sacra.
Second Session-Continuatio of the same.
THIRD HUMANIrIEs.
First Session English Compositions English
Grammar, Latin Etymology, Greek Grammar
begun, History of Rome, Vir Rome and Ph@-
drus, Latin exercises.
Second Session - Grammars continued, English
Composition and Latin exercises continued.
SECOND HUMANITIEs.
First Session-Latin Etymology repeated, Latin
Syntax, Greek Etymology, English Compost
tons and Latin Themes particularly attended to-.
Quintus Curtius Ovid's Metamorphoses. Jacobs
Greek Reader, History of Greece.
Second Session-Grammars, Themes Compost
tons and History continued. Cesar, Ovid's
Tristium, Lucian, Anacreon, Bion, Moschus and
Tyrteus.
FIRST HUMANITIEs.
First Session-Latin Syntax repeated; Greek Ety.
mology repeated, ard Syntax; Aivarezs Prosody
Tursellini's Doctrine of Particles. English Com
positions and Latin Themes continued; Greek
Themes begun History of England, Virgls
Bucolics, Sallust, Greek Anthology, Xenophon' s
Anabasis.
Second Session-Compositions Themes, Grammar
and History continued. Greek Syntax, Latin
Poetry. Latin Prosody concluded. English Pc
etry, Virgil's Eneid, Cicero de Senectute ct de
Amicitia, Xenophon's Cyropedia and Theocritus.
POETRY
First Session-Greek Syntax repeated and Prosody.
English, Latin and Greek Prose and Poetcal
Compositions; Livy, Horace's cars Poetica. %
Sixth and seventh Books of Eneid Xenophon s
Cyropedia continued. Homer's IIiad, Twins
Criticisms History of the United States.
Second Session - Grammars, Compositions and
History continued. Pope's Essay on Criticisms;
Odes of Horace, Livy, Cicero's Orations. Catu-
lus, Propertius, Tibuus, Homer's Illiad, Thu
cydides, AIRS Rhetorical
RHETORIC.
First Session-Cicero's Orations, QuintiIian Juve-
nal Perseus, Demosthenes' Orations Homer's
Had, History of Modern Europe, Latin and
Greek Prose and Poetcal Compositions, Eng
lish Orstions composed and Cicero acclaimed,
AIRS Rhetorical continued.
Second Sesslon-Oratlons, Compositions and His
tory continued. Cicero de Oratore, Tacitus
Juvenal and Perseus continued Demostheneses
Sophocles and Eur pedes; Blar's and Aliens
Lectures.
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT.
A thorough course of English, in which Book
keeping and Mathematics are included; but
Latin, Greek and French are excluded.
MATHEMATICAL DEPARTMENT.
SECOND ARITHMETIC.
First Sesson-To the Rule Of Three
Second Session-Single and Double Rule of Three.
FIRST ARITHMETIC.
First Observation-Disclosures continued
Second Session-Arithmetic finished and Algebra
commenced.
q THIRD MATHEMATICS.
First session-Algebra continued. lst & End Books
of Euclid
Second Session. do Sd. 4tb. 5th. 9Th
Books of Euclid, and Bookkeeping. Occasional
examinations in Arithmetic during both sessions.
SECOND MATHEMATICS.
First Session Algebra finished 18th & 18th
Books of Euclid.
Second sesson-Plain igonometry and Survey
ing, Spherical Trigonometry.
FIRST MATHEMATICS.
First session-Analytcal Geometry; Terrestrial
Globes.
Second session-Diferential and Integral Calculus;
Celestial Globes.
FRENCH DEPARTMENT.
Srd Class-Grammar, Perrin S and Lafontaine Fa-
bles; Exercises. >,
end Class-Grammar, Teemachus, Themes.
lst French-Grammar, Fenelon's Letters and J. B.
Rousseau; Compositions.
TERMS:
Tuition alone, in the preparatory school,
per annum, SIS 90
Tuition in the languages, mathematics
and practical survey ing, per annum, 80 90
Fuel, Lights &C., per annum, 90
Board can be obtained by students from abroad
at 500 per annum, including washing and mend
sng, payable half yearly in advance. Payments are
TO be made quarterly in advance, for day scholars.
Regulations are furnished for boarding houses by
the pyesident-who sees that they are strictly OBJ
served Exact attention is paid to religious instruc-
tion as also to religious observances both essential
to form the moral character of youth. Those, who
Professionals, are permitted to attend the church
of their choice.
The vacation commences in the middle of July,