Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1848-09-28
ST. JOHNS
LITERARY INSTITUTION,
FREDERICK CITY, MARYLAND.


Four Professors and Project Of studies
are employed in teaching and lecluring up
on the Classics, the Mathematics, the Eng
ish and French. Besides the ordinary ex-
ercises in elocu,ion, the Tullipheboian So
cie,y, 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 Continuation of the same.
THIRD HUMANITIEs.
First Session English Compositions. English
Grammar, Latin Etymology, Greek Grammar
begun, History of Rome, Viri 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 Etymoogy, English Compost
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
Tyrt@us.
FIRST HuMANlTIEs.
First Session-I.atn Syntax repeated; Greek Ety.
mology repeated, ard Syntax; Alvarez's Prosody,
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positions and Latin Themes continued; Greek
Themes begun; History of England, Virgi's
Bucolics, Sallust, Greek Anthology, Xenophon's
Anabasis
Second Session-C Compositions, Themes, Grammar
and History continued. Greek Syntax, Latin
Poetry, Latin Prosody concluded. English Pc
etry, Virgirs Eneid, Cicero de Senectute ct de
Amcitia, Aenophon's Cyropeda and Theocritus.
POETRY
First Session-Greek Syntax repeated and Prosody.
English, Latin and Greek Prose and PoeticaI
Compositions; Livy, Horace's cars Poetica."
Sixth and seventh Books of Eneid !; Xenophon' s
Cyropedia continued. Homers Iliad, Irwin S
Criticism; History of the United States
Second Session - Grammars, Compositions and
History continued. Pope's Essay on Criticisms;
Odes of Horace, Livy, Cicero's Orations, Catul-
lus. Propertius, Tibuus, Homer's IIliad, Thu
cydides, AIRS Rhetorical
RHETORIC.
First Session-Ciceros Orations, Quintilian, Juve.
nal, Perseus, Demosthenes' Orations, Homer $
Iliad, History of Modern Europe Latin and
Greek Prose and poetical Compositions, Eng
lish Orations composed and Cicero declaimed
AIS Rhetorical continued.
Second Session-Orations, Compositions and His
tory continued. Cicero de Oratore, Tacitus,
Juvenal and Perseus continued; Demnstheneses,
Sophoces and Euripedes; Blar's and Allen 5
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 IF Three
Second Session-Snglean and Double Rule of Three.
FIRST ARITHMETIC.
First Session-Arithmetic continued
Second Session-Arthmetc finished and Algebra
commenced.
THIRD MATHEMATICS.
First Session-Algebra continued. lst & 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 & 18th
Books of Euclid.
Second Session-Plan Trigonometry and Survey
ing, Spherical Trigonometry.
FIRST MATHEMATICS.
First session-Analytical Geometry; Terrestrial
Globes.
Second Session-Diferentia and Integral Calculus;
Celestial Globes.
FRENCH DEPARTMENT.
3rd Class-Grammar, PERKINS, and Lafontane Fa-
bles; Exercises.
End Class-Grammar, Teemachus, Themes.
LIST F'rench-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, 90
Board can be obtained by students from abroad,
at 500 per annum, including washing and mend
ing, payable half yearly in advance. Payments are
to be made quarterly in advance for day scholars