The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-01-11


The Faculty of Instruction of this Institution I'M
der its present organization, consists of the follow
| ing named Professorshps, to wit:
| Professorship Of Mental and Moral Science,
| guages,
AProfessorship of Mathematics and Natural Phi
losophy,
| AProfessorshp of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
Professorship of Chemistry aud Natural His
| A Professorship of Civil Engineering,
| A Professorship of Modern Languages and Draw
ing.
| The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, of twenty one weeks each The first SEES
| sion commences on the fourth Wednesday Of Octo-
| Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday OF
April. Each Is followed by vacation OF hive weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
| FRESHMAN Glass;. Livy, begun; Xenophon's
| Anabass; Algebra, begun, History, begun.
| III. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; AL
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
| tnued.
| Ill. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
| Geometry, five books; History, finished.
| JUNIoR Glass;. Tactus, begun; The Prone
theus of Eschylus, and Electra of Sophocles; Ana
lytcal Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis OF
Euripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatcs, Pneu
mates, and Meteorology.
SOPHOMORE GLASS;, Horace, hnlshed Aeno-
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
| ric, begun.
ii. Cicero de Amictia and de Scnectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
uometry; Rhetoric, continued
III. Cicero de Officis; Hcrodotus finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR CLAss.-I. Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism
II. Elements OF Criticism; Buffers Analogy /;
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co.
roma; Yotac Electricity or Galvanism; Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mics; Astronomy, begun.
III The Constitution of the United States; AS
tronomy, finished; The Science of Heat; Thermo-
Electricity; Chemistry and Geology.
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
The College is provided with Philosophical APP
paratus, that furnishes ample means of experiment
tai illustration in all the different branches of Nat
ural Philosophy. The sum of three thousand dol
lars has recently been expended, partly in this
country, and partly in London and Paris, in the
purchase of new apparatus, adapted to the present
advanced state ofthe Physical Sciences.
EXAMINATIONS.
At the close of each study, branch of study the
members Of the class are carefully examined, and
at the close of the year, in all the studies of the yea,
in the presence OF Committee OF the Trustees; and
their attainmcnts communicated to the Board
OF Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evening prayer,
div me worship is held twice on every Sunday, and
the recitation on Monday morning is always in the
Greek Testament. At the request of his parent or
guardian, a student is permitted to attend any
place of worship which himself, or the parent or
guardian, may select. One member of the Faculty
will attend at each of the different places of
ship, presbyterian, Episcopalian, and Methodist,)
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors, tDih their (ami
lies, will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at common table, with the students, who
are required to occupy such rooms as may be
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
In order 10 admission to pursue the entire course,
student must be at least fourteen years Of age;
must give satisfactory evidence Of good moral
character; and must sustain examination in the
following studies, viz
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and
creek g Grammar, Jacob or Felton's Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Caesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ENTRANCE FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollars; if
as Junior, fifteen dollars; and if as Senior, twenty
dollars.