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equal to the probable cost is advanced by each
dent; if more is consumed it is charged to him-if
less, the balance is refunded.
Board is furnished with the families Of the Pro-
fcssors at two dollars per week.
Washing, at the usual rates.
All dues are payable in advance The tuition is
RENTED, on application, to all students designed
for the Ministry.
The tuition fee for Modern Languages will be
eight dollars per session, to be paid to the In
structor in advance.
For students tpho do not design prosecute the ,Doe
Course required for q degree, a more limited range
of studies Is fy,iishsd adapted to the spheye and
course Of sof each indiuiduaI, 50 far as such can
bere0sonabty anticipated.
The studies of this Course are arranged under the
following departments, to wit:
LIST. MATHEMATIcAL DEPARTMENr-In which,
beginning with Arithmetic and Algebra, the stu
dent will Be carried seriati through all the higher
branches of the Mathematics, ending in their APP
plication to Natural Philosophy, Astronomy, &c.
I'd. AN ENGLISH DEPARrMENr-Compris in
struction in photography, Reading, Elocution,
sition, Rhetoric, logic, intellectual Philosophy,
Moral Philosophy, Political Grammar, Story on the
Constitution, Philosophy, Ornithology. Natural
Theology, Elements OF Criticism, and Evidences of
Christianity.
Sd. A MERCANTILE DEPARTMENT-Inw which will
be impaired an acquaintance with all that is ne
cessary to qualify youth for the immediate duties
l. Psnmanship- BY 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, &C., and other Mercantile
calculations founded on per centage; together with
knowledge of the business of the counting-room.
3. Book keeping-Single and Double Entry, by
the most approved methods. complete course Of
instruction in this branch will be furnished, de-
signed to fit the student to take charge of any set
of account books.
4th. AN AGRICULTURAL DEPARrMENT-Compri
ing selection from the English and Mathematical
courses; and, also, Surveying, Botany, Mineralo-
gy, Geology, Chemistry, and Agricultural Chem
istry; the last two illustrated by expcrmcntallec-
lures.
9Th. A CIvIL ENoINEEn DEpARrMENr--In which
zebra, mental and written,) Geometry, Trigo-
nomctry, Surveying, with the use Of Instruments
in the fcld,) Practical Engineering, Architecture,
Perspective, Draughting, and Topography.
9th. A Teachers, DEPARTMENT.lThe course of
study will consist of judicious selection of sub
jccts from the other departments, including all the
branches pursued in common schools. Prac-
teal Lectures will also be given on School Teach
ing, both as science and art.
Pupils will not only thus receive the fullest in
structon relative to the best and most popular
methods of Teaching, but they will also have op-
portuntics Of exemplifyiDg them, by hearing reci-
tatons in the lower departments of the Institution
It'll. DEPARTMRNr OF MODERN LANGUAGES
In which students who wish to take thorough
others, whose object may be to acquire sufficient
knowledge to translate with facility, and to pro-
nounce with tolerable correctness, in as short
time possible, arc also provided for.
Systematic instruction will be given in Eiocu-
ton by lectures and otherwise; and frequent exer
cises in Defamation andin English Composition be
required Of all the students connected with the In
stitution.