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Fuel is afforded to the students at cost sum
equal to the probable cost is advanced by each stu
dent; if more ia consumed it ia 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
remitted 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 III advance.
For students oho do not design prosecute The ohoe
Course required for degree, a limited range
Of studies IS furnished, adapted 10 ue sphere and
Of life Of each indiridudl, far as such
JeredSond6iy anticipated.
The studies of this Course are arranged under the
following departments, to wit:
Let. a MATHEMATICAL DEPARTMENT-In which,
beginning with Arithmetic and Algebra, the stu
dent will be carried, seridti, through all the higher
branches of the Mathematics, ending in their ap
plication to Natural Philosophy, Astronomy, sc.
ID. AN ENGLISH Decentralization in
struction in photography, Reading, Elocution,
Grammar, Writing, Geography, History, Compo-
stion, Rhetoric, Logic, Intellectual Philosophy,
Moral Philosophy, Political Grammar, Story on the
Constitution, Philosophy, Ornthology, Natural
Theology, Elements OF Criticism, and Evidences of
Christianity.
Sd. A MERoANTILE DEPARTmENT-In which will
be impaired acquaintance with all that is ne
cessary to qualify youth for the immediate duties
/. PenmanShip- By an 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.
,. misunderstanding numerous abbrevi-
ated methods of computing Interest, Discount,
Equation OF Payments, SC, and other Mercantile
calculations founded on per centage; together with
all such operations requisite for thorough
knowledge of the business of the counting-room.
3, B0c:- keeping-Singlc and Double Entry, by
the most approved methods a complete course OF
instruction in this branch will be furnished, de-
signed to fit the student to take charge of any act
ofaccount books.
4th. AN AGRICULTURAL observation-disclosures
ing a selection from the English and Mathematical
courses and, also Surveying, Botskly, Mineralo-
gy, Geology, Chemistry, and Agricultural Chem
istry the last illustrated by experimentalec-
lures.
9th. A Civil ENGINEER DEPARTMENT--ln which
arc taught Arithmetic, (mental and written,) Al
gcbra, Onental and written,) Geometry, Trigo-
nometry, Surveying, with the use of instruments
in the held,) Practical Engineering, Architecture
Perspective, Draughtng, and Topography.
9th. TEAcRERs' DEPARTMEST.-rhe course o
study will consist OF judicious selection of sub
jects from tho other departments including all tbC
tEanoheA pursued in our common schools. Prac-
teal Lectures will also be given on School Teach
ing both as u science and as an art.
Pupils Will not only thus receive the fulest in
struotion relative to the beat and most popular
methods OF teaching, but they will also have op
portunities of exemphiying them, by hearing reci
tatons in the lower departments Of the Institution
9Th. A DEPARrMENT OF MoDERN LANGyAdes--
In which students who wish to take thoroug.
course can have an opportunity of dong SO; whl
others, whose object may be to acquire suicicn
knowledge 10 translate with facility, and ~ pro