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INSTRUCTION.

The plan of instruction embraces besides the ordinary text book study, lectures and practical exercises, in all the departments, including original researches, essays, criticism, reviews, proof reading, and other work intended to illustrate the studies and exercise the students' own powers. Voice culture, and a training in elocutionary practice are designed to be given to all students.

VACATION WORK.

Three vacation journals, with notices of readings, narratives of public events, and observations on the current literature and the progress of public affairs will be required; also a thesis on some philological subject.

BECOMMEKDED OOUESES OF STUDY.

SCHOOL OF ENGLISH AND MODERN LANGUAGES. FIRST TEAR.—First Term.— Origin of English Language, Composition, Solid Geometry, Algebra, Chemistry, United States History, two lectures a week. Second Term. Advance Grammar, Philological Analysis, Algebra, Free-hand Drawing, Chemistry, United States History, two lectures a week. Third Term. Grammar and Studj^ of Authors, etc., Trigonometry, or Chemistry, Botany, Book-keeping. SECOND YEAR.—First Term.—English Literature, Authors, etc.. French, Descriptive Geometry, Anat. omy and Physiology. Second Term. EnglishLiteratue, Authors, etc., French, Zoology or Analytical Geometry. Third Term. History of English Literature, or Calculus, French, Mineralogy and Entomology. THIRD TEAR.—First Term.—History of English and American Literature, German, Comparative Anatomy and Physiology, Ancient History and Drawing. Second Term. Rhetoric, German, Medieval History or Geology. Third Term. Criticism, Principle of Taste, German, Geology or Modern History. SCHOOL OF LATIN AND GREEK LANGUAGES. FIRST TEAR.—First Term.—Cicero de Amicitia, Solid Geometry, Algebra, Anabasis (4th Book) or Chemistry, Latin and Greek Prose Composition. Second Term. Livy and Roman History, Advanced Algebra, Herodotus or Chemistry, Latin and Greek Composition continued. Third Term. Horace (odes), Prosody, Roman History, Trigonometry or Chemistry, Thucydides or Botany. SECOND TEAR.—First Term.— Horace (Satires and Ars. Poetry), Descriptive Geometry or Anatomy and Physiology, Iliad and Greek Prosody. Second Term. Juvenal, Analytical Geometry, or Zoology, Iliad. Third Term. Quintilian, Calculus or Mineralogy, Entomology, Demosthenes de Corona. THIRD TEAR.—First Term.—Cicero de Officiis. Ancient History or Comparative Anatomy and Physiology, Selections from Greek Tragedy. Second Term. Tacitus, Medieval History or Geology, Zenophon's Memorabila. Third Term. Tacitus, Geology or Modern History, Plato and Greek Philosophy. FOURTH TEAR.—Same in both Schools.—First Term.—Mental Science, Constitutional History or Geology, Practical Astronomy. Second Term. Moral Philosophy, Logic, Physical Geography, or Physics, History of Civilization and the arts. Third Term. History of Philosophy, Logic, Political Economy. Constitutional Law of Physics.