The republic., 1851-04-09
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The Faculty of Instruction Of this Institution, un
der k present organisation, consists of the follow
ing named Professorshps, to wit:
Professorship of Mental and Moral Science
Professorship Of tho Greek and Latin Ian
AProfessorship Of Mathematics and Natural Phi
bsophy,
AProfessorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
A Profcssorship Of Chemistry aud Natural His
Profsssorship OF Civil Engineering.
Professorship Of Modern LanguagesandD Draw
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, Of twenty weeks each The first ses-
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday OF Octo-
April. Each ia followed by vacation of five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FRESHMAN CLAss.--I. Livy. begun; xcnophon'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
JusIoa CLAss.-I Tacitus, begun; The Prone
sSs q Eesss Of
ology; Evidences Of Christianity.
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis Of
Enripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
III. Moral Philosophy; PIato's Gorgias; The
Captive Of Pautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, ,Pneu
matics, and Meteorology.
SOPHOMORE CLA66.-l. Horace, nnl9hcd Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished Rheto-
H. Cicero de Amicitia and de senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued
III. Cicero de Officis; Hcrodotus, finished; Sur
yeying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
SENIOR CLAss.-I. Political Philosophy; The An
dria Of Terrence; The Clouds Of Aristophanes;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism
H. Elements Of Criticism; Buffers Analogy
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Galvanism Electro
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 Ap-
paratus, that furnishes ample means of experiment
tai illustration in all the different branches of Nat
| ural Philosophy. The sum Of three thousand dol
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, 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,
divine 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, 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 wor-
ship Presbyterian, Episcopalian, and Methodist,)
| in the village, and note all absentces.
Two at least, of the Professors, srih 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 as 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
Greek Grammar, Jacobs or Felton's Greek Reader,
| and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
| Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Salust or
Caesar, Cicero's Select Oratons, 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
Junior fifteen dollars and, if as Senior, twenty
dollars.