The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-12-09
N TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 1851
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The Faculty of instruction Of this Institution ,un
der its present organization, consists of the follow
ing named Professorshps, to wit:
Professorship Of Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
guages,
AProfessorshipof Mathematics and NaturalPhi-
losophy,
A'Professorship of Rhetoricnnd Bellies Lettres,
Professorship OF Chemistry and Natural His
tory, ~
A Professorship Of CivilEngineering,
Professorship of Modern nLanguagesandDraw-
The Collegiate year Is divided into two sessions
or terms, of oftwenty-one weeks each The frat ses
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday of
April. Eachi followed by avacation of five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FRESHMAN CLAss.--I. Livy; begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
ii. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; Al
zebra, finishedi Geometry, begun; History, con-
tnucd.
III. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
junior CLAss.-I Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus Of Rschylus, and Electra of Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
III. Logic, Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis OF
Euripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
matics, and Meteorology-
SOPHOMORE Glass; Horace, finished; Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
ii. Cicero de Amicitia and de eSenectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero de Oificiis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR CLAss.--I. Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of ,Aristophanes;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
III. Elements OF Criticism; Buffers Analogy :;
Cicero's Tuscuan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Galvanism Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mics; Astronomy, begun.
LII. 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
paratus, that furnishes ample means of experiment
tai illustration in all the different branches of Nat
ura 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 ofthe 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 studies Of The yea,
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 evenin pra yer,
div 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
place of worship which himself, or the parent or
guardian, may select One member of the Faculty
will attend each of the different places of wor-
ship, Presbyterian, Episcopalan and Methodist }
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors toiM their fani-
hes, 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
| 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 Feton's Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophons Anabasis,
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Caesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ENTRANCE FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh
man. five dollars; if as Sophomore, ten dollars; if
Junior, fifteen dollars; and, If as Senior, twenty
dollars.