The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-01-08
n. X. HALL,
Postmaster General.

The Faculty of Instruction of this Institution,
der its present organization, consists of the follow
ing named Professorships to wit:
Professorship Of Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
guages,
AProfessorshp of Mathematics and Natural Phi
losophy,
A Professorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres
Professorship Of Chemistry and Natural His
tory,
A Professorship Of Civil Engineering,
A Professorship of Modern Languages and 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-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday of
April Each is followed by avacation of five weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FREsHMAN Glass;. Livy, begun; Xenophon 3
Anabass; Algebra, begun; History, begun
ii. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; AL
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, CON
tnucd.
Ill. Horace, begun Homers Odyssey finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
junior Glass. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
thcus of Kschylus, and Electra of Sophoces; Ana
lyucal 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
mates, and Metcorology.
sopHoMoaE Glass;. Horace, finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
II. Cicero de Amicitia and de Senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
uometry Rhetoric, continued
III. Cicero de Ofliciis; Herodotus finished; Sur
veying; 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 );
Cicero's Tusculan Questions Demosthenes de CO.
roma; voltaic Electricity Galvanism; Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mics; Astronomy, begun.
Ill. The Constitution of the United States; As
tronomy, fnshed The Science OF Heat; Thermo-
Electricity; Chemistry and Geology.
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
The College isprovided with Philosophical APP
paratus, that furnishes ample means of experiment
tai illustration in all the different branches of Nat
ural Philosophy. The 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
ct the close of the year, all the studies of the gear
in the presence of Committee Of the Trustees; and
their attainments communicated to the Board
of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
la addition to daily morning and evening prayer,
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, student is permitted to attend any
place of worship which himself, 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)
III the village, and note all abscntces
Two, at least, of the Professors, with their FAM
lies, will reside in the College buildings and will
board, at common table, with the students, who
are required to occupy such may be as
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
In order TO admission pursue the entire course,
IL 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, G. reek Reader,
and the first two books Of Xenophons Anabasis
Jacobs or Doerings Latin Reader, Saust or
CDsar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES
ENTRANsE 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.
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