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less the balance il refunded
Board il furnished with the families Of the Pro-
fessors at two dollars per week.
Washing, at the usual rates. q
ALI dues are payable In advance. The tuition 10
remitted. ON application, to all students designed
The tuition fee for Modern Languages will be
eight dollars per session, to DO paid 70 tho In
structor in advance.
For students cho do not design to prosecute the schols
Course required for degree, a more limited range
Of studies y furnished, adapted to the sphere and
course Of life Of each indiuiduol 90 far a. sueh can
bsrsosonably anticipated.
The studies of this Course are arranged under the
following departments, to wit:
1st. A MATHEMATrcAL DEPARrMENT-In which,
beginning with Arithmetic and Algebra, the stu
dent win be carried through al the higher
plication to Natural Philosophy, Astronomy, &C.
Cd. AN ENoLIsH DEPARrMsNr-Compri in
struction in Orthography, Reading, Elocution,
sition, Rhetoric, fogic, intellectual Philosophy.
Moral Philosophy, Political Grammar, Story on the
Constitution. Philosophy, ornithology: Natural
Theology, Elements of Criticism, and Evidences Of
Sd. A MERCANTILE DEPARTMEHr-In which will
be impaired acquaintance with all that is ne
cessary to qualify youth for the immediate duties
OF the counting house; including,
system of this art, which invariably produces q
bold, finished hand, peculiarly adapted to the pur-
poses of the accountant and business man.
2. misunderstanding numerous abbrevi-
ated methods of computing Interest, Discount,
Equation of Payments, &C., and other Mercantile
calculations founded on per centage; together with
all such operations are requisite for thorough
knowledge of the business of the counting room.
3. Book keeping Single 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 set
of account books.
4th. An AGRICULTURAL DEpARTMExT-Compris
ing selection from the English and Mathematical
courses; and, also, Surveying, Botany, Mineralo-
gy, Geology, Chemistry, and Agricultural Chem
{sry the last two illustrated by experimentallec lee
lures.
9Th. A CIVIL ENaINEER DEPARrMENr--In which
are taught Arithmetic, (mental and writtcn,) AL
zebra, (mental and written,) Geometry, Trigo-
in the fed,) Practical Engineering, Architecture,
Perspective, Draughting, and Topography.
9Th. A TEAcHERs' DEPARTMENr.-The course Of
study will consist of judicious selection of SUBJ
jects from the other departments, including all the
branches pursued in our common schools. Prac-
teal Lectures will also be given School Teach
ing, both a science and ns art.
Pupils will not only thus receive the fullest in
struction relative to the best and most popular
methods ofteaching, but they will also have OPP
portunites of exemplifying them, by hearing rcci-
tations in the lower departments of the Institution
In which students who wish TO take thorough
course can have an opportunity of doing SO; while
others, whose object may be to acquire sufficient
knowledge to translate with facility, and 20 pro-
nouncc with tolerable CORRECTNESS, in a. short
time possible, are also provided for.
Systematic instruction will be given in Elocu-
ton by lectures and otherwise; and frequent exer-
eises in Defamation andin English Composition be
required Of all the students connected with the In
stitution.