The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-03-26
DrLAwAar COLLEGE.


The Faculty Of Instruction Of this institution un
der its present organization, consists Of the follow
ing named Professorships, 70 wit:
A Professorship Of Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship Of the Greek and Latin Lam
AProfessorshipo of Mathematics and NaturalPhi
losophy,-
A Professorship OF Chemistry and Natural His
Profsssorship OF Civil Engineering,
Professorship Of Modern Languages and Draw
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, oftwenty-one weeks each. The first ses
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
April. Each is followed by vacation of five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
Freshman Glass;. Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
II. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; Al
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
III. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey. finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
JUNIOR CLAss;-I. Taeitus, begun; The Prone
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
| ology; Evidences Of Christianity.
H. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis of
Earipides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
-' sosnoaoas CIXss.yl Horace, finished; Keno.
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
rio, begun.
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
| uomctry; Rhetoric, continued.
Ill. Cicero de Offciis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
| SENIoR Glass;. Political Philosophy; The An
dra 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 Galvansm Electro
| Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro-Dyna-
| 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
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 OF the Physical Sciences
EXAMINATIONS.
At the close of each study or branch of study the
members of the class are carefully examined, and
At the close Of the year, IN all The stdes 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,
di, me worship is held twice 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
pace.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 wor-
ship, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, and Methodist
| in the village, and note all absentees
Two, at least, of the Professors spiM their fami-
hes will reside in the College buildings and will
board, at a common table, with the students, who
are required to occupy such rooms az may be as
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
In order to admission to pursue the entire COURSE
a 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, Jacobs or Fclton's Greek Reader,
| and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs or behring's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Caesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
| what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ENrRAsc. FEE.-f the student enter as Fresh
man, Eve dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollars; il
Junior, fifteen dollars; and, if Senior twenty
dollars.
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