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reading room is well supplied with, French Agricultural and Scientific journals, and much of the best French literature. FIRST IYEAR. First Ternl Etymology. Oral exercises in French pronunciation; written exercises in translating .English into French. Sr-rondTerm. Etymology. Select readings; conversazioni weekly. Third Term. Syntax. Translating Fi ench. composition; conversazioni, weekly. SECOND YEAR. Fir it Term. Review of Grammar; classic French literature; conversazioni, weekly.' Second Term. Modern French Literature, novels, comedies, etc.; conversazioni, weekly; composition. Third Term. Modern French Literature continued; history of French Literature ; written criticisms of French authors by the class weekly.

LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.

Students will not be admitted to this department who are not prepared to enter at once,upon the reading of Cicero. FIRST YEAR.—Orations of Cicero; Latin prose composition begun and continued through the course ; selections from Virgil; Latin prosody. SECOND YEAR.—Selections from Livy; Horace; Juvenal. THIRD YEAK.—Cicero de Officiis; Cicero de Oratore; lectures on the origin and structure of the Latin language; Frieze's Quintilian. Other authors will occasionally be substituted in the place of some of the above.

GREEK LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.

This course will resemble that in the Department of Latin. FIRST YEAR.—First three books of Xenophon's Anabasis; Herodotus; Greek prose composition begun and continued throughout the1 course. SECOND YEAR.—Demosthenes ; Thucydides; Homer's Iliad. . THIRD YEAR.—Xenophon's Memorabilia of Socrates. Selections from Plato and the Greek poets. Select portions of Smith's History of Greece will be read in course, and lectures given on Greek history and philosophy.

CHEMISTRY.

The full course in ' this Department will occupy four years, and is designed to make students at home in the applications of chemistry to agriculture, and the arts and manufactures; in. a word, to make them thorough chemists. " FIRST YEAR. First. Term. Inorganic Chemistry and Chemical Physics. Second Term.—Organic Chemistry. Third Term.—Qualitative Analysis —detection, of the alkalies, the alkaline earths, the earths, the metals, the mineral acids and the organic acids. Use of the blow-pipe and the spectroscope. Crystallography and Descriptive Mineralogy. Instructions (in the subject will be given by lectures, and -the students will have practice in determining minerals. SECOND YEAR—First Term.—Qualitative Analysis—a series of substances for practice, in the detection and separation of the elements. Practice in mineralogy continued. Second Term.—Quantitative Analysis. Salts, minerals, ores, alloys, furnace products, etc. Third Term.— Quantitative analysis of soils, manures, ashes of plants, mineral waters THIRD YEAR. First Term. Qantitative analysis continued; assaying ; volumetric analysis. Second Term. Organic analysis. Detection and separation of organic acids and bases, and other organic compounds.