The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-03-10
DnxAwARr COLLEGE.

ORAAA WAAR CO1AA60G.
The Faculty of Instruction of this Institution, un
der its present organisation consists Of the follow
Ing named Professorships, to wit
Professorship OF Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
AProfessorship Of Mathematics and Natural Phi
,osophy,
AProfessorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
Professorshp of Chemistry and Natural His
A Professorship Of Civil Engineering,
ProfessorshiPo OF Modern Languages and Draw
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or terms, oftwenty- one weeks each. The first scs
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.
FaEsHMAN CLAss.-I. Livy. begun; Xenophon's
II. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; AL
zebra, finished; 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 Eschylus, and Electra Of Sophocles; Ana
l{tical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences Of Christianity.
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis Of
Enripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III: Moral Philosophy; plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautrls; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
SOPHOMORE CLAss-f Horace, finished; Keno.
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, Finished Rheto-
rio. begun.
II. Cicero de Amicitia and de Senectute Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
ILL., Cicero de Ohiciis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
yeying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished
SENIOR CLAss--I Political Philosophy; The An
dfia of Terrence; The Clouds Of Aristophanes I;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
H. Elementa q
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Galvanism Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro-Dyna
III. Tho Constitution of the United States; As
tronomy, finished; The Science of Heat; Thermo-
Electricity; Chemistry and Geology.
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
The College is provided with a Philosophical APP
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.
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 yea,
in the presence ola Committee Of the Trustees; and
Of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evening prayer,
d, 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, 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 at each of the different places of wor-
ship, Presbyterian, Epscopalian, and Methodist,)
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors, toih 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
Greek Grammar, Jacob or Felton's Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's 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.-lf the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; if as Sophomore, ten dollars; if
as Junior, fifteen dolars and, if as Senior twenty
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