The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-01-07
N. X. HALL,
Postmaster General j..

The Faculty of Instruction of this Institution, I'M
der it's present organization consists of the follow
ing named Professorships, to wits
| Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
| guages,
| AProfessorship of Mathematics and Natural Phi
AProfessorshp of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
Professorship Of Chemistry and Natural His
4 Professorship Of Civil Engineering,
PROFESSIONALLY of Modern Languages and Draw
ing.
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms of twenty one weeks each. The first
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday of
April Each is followed by vacation of five weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FaEsHmAN Glass;. Liyy, begun; XenoPhon' 3
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun
II. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey. begun; AL
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinued
ILL., Horace, begun; Homers Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
JuNIoR GLASS;. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of 1Eschylus, and Electra OF Sophoces Ana
ytical Geometry finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
H. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis of
Eurpdes Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
mates, and Meteorology.
SOPHOMORE Glass;. Horace, finished; Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rhcto-
| ric, begun.
ii. Cicero de Amicitia and de Senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
uometry; Rhetoric, continued
H. Cicero de Officiis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
! finished
SENIOR Glass;. 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; Voltaic Electricity or Galvanism Electro
| Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mics; Astronomy, begun.
! ILL., The Constitution of the United States; As
tronomy, fnshed 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 the Physical Sciences,
EXAMINATIONS.
At the close of each study or branch of study, the
members of the class carefully examined, and
at the close of the year. in all the studies of the year.
in the presence of Committee Of the Trustees; and
their attainments are communicated to the Board
of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
| In addition to daily morning and evening prayer,
DIV me worship ID held twice on every Sunday, and
| the recitation on Monday morning is always in the
Greek Testament. At the request of his parent
guardian, student is permitted to attend any
place of worship WHICH himself, or the parent
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, NTH their fami-
lies, will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at a common table, with the students, who
are required to occupy such rooms may be
signed them by the faculty
ADMISSION
In order to 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 Grammar jacob or Fclton's Greek Reader
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Cesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ENTRANeE FEE.-If the student enter Fresh
man, five dollars; if as Sophomore, ten dollars if
as Junior, fifteen dollars; and if as Senior, twenty
dollars