The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-02-24

uel l6 dIlOTQeu 10 the 6LuQc0t6 AT COST "A sum
equal to the probable cost is advanced by each stu
dent; if more is consumed it is charged to him-if
less, the balance is refunded
Board is furnished with the families of the Pro-
fessors at two dollars per week.
Washing, at the usual rates.
All dues are payable in advance. The tuition ia
RENTED, on application, to all students designed
| for the Ministry.
The tuition fee for Modern Languages will be
eight dollars per session, to be paid to the In
structor in advance.
For students tco do not design prosecute the tphole
Course required for degree, q more limited range
Of studies 70 Furnished, adapted to the sphere and
Of life Of each individual, far such can
bereasonaby anticipated.
The studies of this Course are arranged under the
following departments, to wit:
lat. A MATHEMATIcAL DEPARTMENr-In which,
| beginning with Arithmetic and Algebra, the stu
dent will be carried, ssra, through all the higher
| branches of the Mathematics, ending in their ap-
plication TO Natural Philosophy, Astronomy, &c.
I'd. AN ENGLISH DEPARTMENr-Compris in
strdction in Orthography, Reading, Elooution,
sition, Rhetoric, Logic, intellectual Philosophy,
Moral Philosophy Political Grammar, Story on the
Constitution, Philosophy, ORTHODOXY. Natural
Theology, Elements ofCritcism, and Evidences OF
Christianity. Htat
Sd. A MERCANTILE DEPARrMENT-In which will
be impaired acquaintance with all that is ne
cessary to qualify youth for the immediate duties
Of the counting house; including,
/. Penmanship--Ry original and popular
| system of this art, which invariably produces a
bold finished hand, peculiarly adapted to the pur-
poses of the accountantand business man.
2. Arithmetic-Comprising numerous abbrevi-
atcd methods of computing Interest, Discount,
Equation of Payments, &C., and other Mercantile
calculations founded on per centage; together with
all such operations as are requisite for thorough
knowledge the business of the counting room
3. Book kseping-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.
ing selection from the English and Mathematical
courses and, also, Surveying, Botany, Mineralo-
gy, Geology, Chemistry, and Agricultural Chem
istry the last two illustrated by experimentallec
lures.
9Th. A Civil ENGINEER DEPARrMENT-In which
are taught Arithmetic, (mental and wrtten,) AL
zebra, (mental and wrtten,) Geometry, Trigo-
| nometry, Surveying, with the use of instruments
in the fied) Practical Engineering, Architecture,
Perspective, Draughting, and Topography.
9th. A teachers DEPARTMENT.--The course OF
| study will consist of judicous selection of sub
jccts from the other depart including all the
teal Lectures will also be given School Teach
| ing, both as science and an art.
| Pupils will not only thus receive the fullest in
structon relative to the best and most popular
methods Of teaching, but they will also have op-
portunties of exemplifying them, by hearing reci-
ations in the lower departments of the Institution.
| 7th. A DEPARTMENT. OF MoDERN LANouAoEs-
| 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 to pro-
nounce with tolcrable correctness. in as short a
| time possible, also provided for.
| Systematic instruction will be given in Elocu-
ton by lectures and otherwise; and frequent exer-
ciscs in Defamation andin English Composition be
required Of all the students connected with the In
stitution.