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ST. JOHNS
LITERARY INSTITUTION.
FREDERICK CITY, MARYLAND.

retired location OF the "M onniain City,"
mark it out as the abode of literature and
the sciences.
Four Professors and a Project of studies
are employed in teaching and lecturing up
on the Classics, the Mathematics. the Eng
ish and French Besides the ordinary ex-
ercises in elocuion, the TuI:pheboian So
ciely. counting among It's honorary members
the elite of the civ, 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 Observation-Disclosures of the same.
THIRD HUMANITIEs.
First Session English Compositions, English
Grammar, Latin Etymology, Greek Grammar
begun, History of Rome, VIM Roma and Pha-
drus, Latin exercises.
Second Session - Grammars continued, English
Composition and Latin exercises continued.
SECOND HUMANITIEs.
First Session-Latin Etymclogy 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. Caesar, Ovd's
Trstium, Lucian, Anacreon, Bion, Moschus and
Tyrtaus
FIRST HUMANITIES.
First Session-Latin Syntax repeated; Greek ETY.
mology repeated ard Syntax; Alvarezs Prosodv
Tursellni's Doctrine of Particles. English Com
positions and Latin Themes continued; Greek
Themes begun; History of England, VirgiIs
Bucoics Saust, Greek Anthology, Xenophon's
Anabasis
Second Session-Compostions Themes. Grammar
and History continued Greek Syntax, Latin
Poetry, Latin Prosody concluded. English Pc
etry, Virgil's Eneid, Cicero de Senectute ct de
Amiciia, Aenophon's Cyropedia and Theocritus.
POETRY.
First Session-Greek Syntax repeated and Prosody.
English, Latin and Greek Prose and Poetical
Compositions; Livy, Horace's cars Poetica"
Sixth and seventh Books of Eneid Xenophon's
CyropGdia continued. Homers Iliad Twins
Criticism; History of the United States.
Second Session - Grarnmars, Compositions and
History continued. Pope's Essay on Criticism:
Odes of Horace, Livy, Cicero's Orations, Catul-
lus, Propertius, Iibulus, Homer's IIliad, Thu
cydides, AIRS Rhetorical
RHETORIC.
First Session-Cicero's Orations Quintilian. Juve-
nal Perseus, Demos,henes' Orations Homer's
Had, History of Modern Europe, Latin and
Greek Prose and Poetical Compositions, Eng
fish )raf
AIRS Rhetorical continued.
Second Session-Orations, COMPOSITIONS and His
tory continued. Cicero de Oratore. Tacilus.
Juvenal and PerSeus continued; Demostheneses.
Sophocles and Eurlpedes; Blair's and Aliens
Lectures.
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT.
thorough course of English, in which Book
keeping and Mathematics are included: but
Latin, Greek and French are excluded
MATHEMATICAL DEPARTMENT.
SECOND ARITHMETIC.
First Session-To the Rule Of Three
Second Session-Sngle and Double Rule of Three
FIRST ARITHMETIC.
First Session-Arithmetic continued
Second Observation-Disclosures finished and ALGEBRA
commenced.
THIRD MATHEMATICS.
First Session-Agebra continued. lst s End Books
Of Euclid.
Second Session. do. Sd, 4th. 5th 9Th
Books of Euclid, and Bookkeeping Occasional
examinations in Arithmetic during both sessions
SECOND MATHEMATICS.
First Session - Algebra finished 18th & 10Th
Books of Euclid
Second Session-Plan Trigonometry and Survey
ing, Spherical Trigonometry.
FIRST MATHEMATICS.
First Session-Analytical Geometry Terrestrial
Globes.
Second session-D iferential and Integral Calculus;
Celestial Globes.
FRENCH DEPARTMENT.
Srd Class-Grammar. Perrin S and Lafontaine Fa-
bles; Exercises.
End Class-Grammar, Telemachus, Themes.
LIST French-Grammar, Fenelon's Letters and ]. B.
Rousseau; Compositions
TERMS:
Tuition alone, in the preparatory school,
per annum, SIS 90
Tuition in the languages, mathematics
and practical surveying, per annum, 80 90
Fuel, Lights, &c. per annum, 5 90
Board can be obtained by students from abroad.
at Sl0O per annum, including washing and mend
ing, payable half yearly in advance. Payments are
to be made quarterly in advance, for day scholars
Regulations are furnished for boarding houses by
the president-who sees that they are strictly OBJ
served Exact attention is paid to religious insruc
ton, as also to religious observances both essential
to form the moral character of youth. Those, who
are Protesants, are permitted to attend the church
of their choice.
he vacation commences in the middle of july,
and continues TILL the 4th of September.
CHARLES ii. STONESTREET
aug 81. President.