Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1849-09-12
WESTERN
MILITARY INSTITU TIE
GEORGETOWN, KENTUCKY.

| BOARD OF wIsIT@RS.
IT'HE ADJUrANr GENERAL, together with five Fl
L persons, to be annually appointed by the Execu
tive, to attend examinations at least once in the
year, according to law.
FACULTY.
INCORPORATED with oil the powers, privileges and
rights exercised by the Trustees and Faculty o.
any other College.
sCOL. T. F. JOHNSON, General Superintendent.
sCOL- E. w. MORGAN, Joint Superintendent, and
Professor Of Engineering and of Natural History
'LIEUT. COL. B. R. JOHNSON, Professor of Nat.
ural and Experimental Philosophy.
tMAJ. w. A. FORBES, Professor of Mathematics
RICHARD NJ. NEWELL, A. NJ. Professor of An
Gent and Modern Languages.
JAMES G. BLAINE, A. B. Adjunct Professor Of
REV. J. r. SWIFT, A. NJ. Professor of Ethics and
JAMES H. DAvIEss, ESQ.,, Professor of Law.
REV. H. v. D. MENUS, A. NJ. Principal of the
Academy.
CAPT. c. E. MOTT, Teacher in the Academy.
CAPT. w. w. GAUNT, Adiutant of the Institute.
Educated at West Point. Educated at the vir-
ginia Institute.
Two hundred and thirty Cadets, from fifteen diff
ferent States, have entered this Institution since
was organized in 1S47 1t is entirely free from the
control or domination of any sect party, either
political religious. Economy in dress, in the ad-
is rigidly enforced. Every student is required to
select College guardian, with whom all funds
brought or received must be deposited, and no debt
must be contracted without the consent of such
guardian.
An Institution combining the science of the West
Point Academy and Of Polytechnic Institutes.
with the classical literature of our best Colleges,
adding the modern languages, and superaddng prac-
tical schools of Law and Engineering, nearly reai-
yes the long-felt desideratum of university where
all select a md tn their fir,n
means and professional destination.
Mr.. DAVIES, the Professor of Law. is known in
the various Courts as practitioner ofgreat ability,
varied learning, long experience and exalted char
acter. His eminent qualifications, the wholesome
exercise and discipline of the Institutes and the con-
venient observation of the forms of judicial pro.
ceedings, offer unusual inducements to those who
are earnest to achieve distinction as sound Law
yers.
Civil ENGINEERING.
Will be thoroughly and practically taught in the
Western military Institute-the Professor, Col
MORGAN, being one of the most skillfll and expert
enced Engineers IN the United States. All the in
struments connected with that department, have
bees procured at considerable COST and of the best
qualify.
mat hs v sssPs5intsndent takss the liberty of stating
assistant Engineers. One Of his former pupils re-
Engineer Of a Railroad now under construction in
Kentueky-whist others Of the same class are re-
ceivingin different parts OF the United States, $4,000
$500, or $1,000 year as Assistant Engineers.
The time is rapidly approaching when there will
be great demand for such as have been prepared.
for that vocation, at the Western Military Institute
Nothing is hazarded in SAYING that they will readily
commanded $1,000 or s. 500 per annnm. Every mar
of observation must that the gigantic enterpri
already proposed will give birth to hundreds Of
others, tributary to them. The rapid advancement
Of our whole country, and the eagerness Of our peo
pie, for exploring the hidden of the new
states and the newly acquired territory, viii give
ample scope for ages to to the skill and enter
prise of the Engineer, the Geologst, the Mneralo-
gist, the Surveyor and the Architect. Young men
who have aptitude for the Mathematical and Phys
ical sciences, will have wide field opened to them
for engaging in an honorable, healthful and a lu-
crative pursuit, for which they may be thoroughly
and practically qualified, in short time, and at
small expense, at the Western Military Institute.
TER. MS.
In the Academy, $40 90 per aanum
In the College, 40 90 /"
For Music and use OF Arms and
Announcements, 8 90 I" "
For fuel, 90
BOARDING can be had in private families, at
from two to two and a half dollars a week. When
in Barracks, it is designed to furnish Commons at
a uniform rate. Students from distance will be
required to board at the Institutes and have COM
munication with the town, except allowed by
written permits.