The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-01-23


The Faculty of Instruction of this institution
der its present organization, consists of the follow
ing named Professorships, to wit.
Profcssorship of Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship of the Greek and Latin Ian
AProfessorship of Mathematics and Natural Phi
losophy,
A Professorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
A Professorship of Chemistry aud Natural His
A Professorship Of Civil Engineering,
A Professorship Of Modern Languages and Draw
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.
FRESHMAN CLAss.--I Liyy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
H. Liyy, finished; Homer's Odyssey. begun; Al
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinued.
ILL., Horace begun; Homer's Odyssey, fnshed
Geometry five books History, finished
junior Glass;. Tacitus, begun; The Promo
theus of Aschy lus. and Electra Of SoPhocles Ana
lytica Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis Of
Euripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
iii. Moral Philosophy; Platos Gorgias; The
Captive Of Pautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
mates, and Meteorology.
SOPHOMORE CLASS.-l. Horace, unl5ueQ AeuO-
phons Memorabilia; Geometry, finished Rheto-
H. Cicero de Amicitia and de senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
| iii. Cicero de OfIics; Herodotus, finished; Sur
yeying; Analytical Geometry, begun Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR CLAss.--.I Political Philosophy; The An
dra of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes;
Acoustics, Optics Electricity, Magnetism.
| ii. Elements OF Criticism; Buffers Analogy I;
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co.
| roma; Voltaic Electricity or Galvanism Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro yna-
mica; Astronomy, begun. tT
III. The Constitution Of the United States; As
tronomy, finished; The Science of Heat; Thcrmo-
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 Of the Physical Sciences.
EXAMINATIONS. M
At the close of each study branch of study, the
members of the class are carefully examined, and
at the close Of the year, all the studies Of the
in the presence of Committee of the Trustees; and
their attainments communicated to the Board
Of Trustees. q
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION..
In addition to daily morning and evening prayer,
div me 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 ofthe Faculty
will attend at each of the different places Of wor
ship, (Presbyterian, Episcopalian, and Methodis,)
in the village, and note all nbsentees.
Two, at least of the Professors, tpih their fdni-
lies, will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at a common table, with the students, who
are required to occupy such 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 Felton, Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Cesar, Ccero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ENrRANeE FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollars; if
Junior fifteen dollars and, if as Senior, twenty
dollars.
LIST Session. I'd Session.