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Fuel is afforded to the students at cost. A sum
equal TO the probable cost is advanced by each stu
dent If more is consumed II Is charged to him-if
less, the balance is refunded.
Board ia furnished with the families of the Pro-
fessors at two dollars per week.
Washing, at the usual rates.
All dues payable in advance. The tuition is
RENTED, ON application, to ali students designed
| for the Ministry.
The tuition fee for Modern Language will be
eight dollars per session, to be paid 10 the In
structor in advance.
For students toho do design 10 prosecute the irhoie
Course required for degree limited range
Of studies IS furnished, adapted 10 the sphere and
Of iYe Of each indiuiduai, far such can
| beredsonabiy anticipated
The studies of this Course are arranged under the
following departments, to wit:
! LIST. A MATHEMATICAL DEPARTMEST--In which,
| beginning with Arithmetic and Algebra, the stu
dent will be carried, seiaii through all the higher
branches of the Mathematics, ending in their ap.
| plication to Natural Philosophy, Astronomy, &c.
| ID. An EsoLIsH DEpARTMEsT-Compris in.
| struction in Orthography, Reading, Execution,
Grammar, Writing, Geography, History, Compo-
/ sition, Rhetoric, Logic, intellectual Philosophy Y,
Moral Philosophy, Political G rammar, Story on the
Constitution, Philosophy, Ornithology. Natural
Theology, Elements OF Crticism, and Evidences OF
| Christianity.
| be impaired acquaintance with all that is ne
ccssary 10 qualify youth for the immediate dutie.
of the counting house; including,
/. Penmanship-By an original and popular
system Of this art, which invariably produces a
bold, finished hand peculiarly adapted to the pur
| poses Of the accountant and business man.
| 2. MISUNDERSTANDING numerous abbrevi-
/ ated methods of computing Interest, Discount,
| Equation of Payments, Sc, and other Mercantile
| calculations founded on per centagc; together with
all such operations as are requisite for thorough
knowledge Of the business of the counting room.
| 3. Book keeping-Single and Double Entry, by
! the most approved methods. A complete course OF
instruction in this branch will be furnished, de-
signed TO FIT the student to take charge Of any get
| Of account books.
| 4th Az AGRicULTuRAL DEPARTMEST-C ompris-
ing selection from the English and Mathematical
courses; and, alec, Surveying, Botany, Mincralo-
gy, Geology, Chemistry, and Agricultural Chem
stry the last two illustrated by experimental lee
| lures.
| 9th. A CIvIL EsoiSEER DEPARTMENT-In which
are taught Arithmetic, (mental and written,) Al
zebra, (mental and written,) Geometry, Trigo-
nomctry, Surveying, with the use of instruments
in the hcld,) Practical Engineering, Architecture,
4 Perspective, Draughting, and Topography.
9th. a TEACHES DrPARTmEST.-The course Of
study will consist Of judicous selection of sub.
jects from the other departments, including all the
branches pursued In our common schools. Prac-
teal Lectures will also be given on School Teach
ing, both as a science and an art.
| Pupils will not only thus receive the fullest in
| structon relative to the best and most popular
methods Of teaching, bat they will also have OPP
portunties OF eSemplifying them, by hearing reci-
tatons in the lower departments of the Institution.
It'll. A DEPARTMENT OF MoDERS LASsUAeEs-
| In which students who wsh to take thorough
course can have an opportunity Of doing so while
| others, whose object may be to acquire sufficient
knowledge to translate with facility, and to pro-
| nounce with tolerabe correctness, in as short a
| time "a possible, arc also provided for
Systematic instruction will be given in Elocu-
ton by lectures and otherwise and frequent exer-
cises in Defamation and in nglish Composition be
required Of all the students connected with the In
| sttution.