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68 important topics, will be delivered to these classes at suitable intervals, and great pains will be taken to secure, to the utmost possible extent, physical vigor, robust health, and a graceful carriage, and to prepare young women to take enlightened care of their own health and of the health of others under their charge. The materials for the calisthenic uniform must be made up under the direction of the Instructor in this department. The Trustees desire that all female students shall participate in these exercises unless excused for good cause. They have been witnessed and heartily approved by some of the most eminent medical men in the State.

COURSE IN DOMESTIC SCIENCE AND A R T .

First Year.—1. Chemistry; Botany ; British Authors. 2. Chemistry; Botany; American Authors. 3. Designing and Drawing; Entomology or Vegetable Physiology; Rhetoric. Second Year.—1. Designing and Drawing ; Physiology ; German. 2. Chemistry of Foods; Zoology; German. 3. Principles of Cooking; Architectural Drawing; German. « > Third Year.—1. Domestic Hygiene ; Ancient History; German or French. 2. Physics ; Mediaeval History ; German or French. 3. Physics; Modern History; German or French. Fourth Year.—l. Household ^Esthetics; Mental Science; History of Civilization. 2.. Household Science; Constitutional History; Home Architecture. 3. Domestic.Economy ; Usages of Society, etc.; Political Economy ; Landscape Gardening.

SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN.

The somewhat extensive Department of Free Hand Drawing, Designing, etc., has been developed, by direction of the Trustees, into the School of Art and Design. Mr. Peter Roos, Principal of an Art Academy in Boston, and a pupil of Walter Smith, of the Normal Art School of Boston, has been placed at its head. Large classes have been organized and taught in Free Hand Drawing, from flat copies and dictation ; in Perspective and Shaded Drawings, from models ; in the Principles of Elementary Design, with plant forms; in Historical Ornament and Composition; in Sketching in Pencil and Water Colors ; in Aerial Perspective; and in the study of the Harmony and Contrast of Colors. The instruction is by lectures and practical exercises. Provision is made for instruction in Clay Modeling as an adjunct study in the Architectural Course. It is taught by Mons. J. Kenis, an educated Sculptor, a graduate'of the Fine Art School of Louvain, in Belgium. Lectures are given on the principles of Art and Designing, and the students have a thorough course in original exercises in Art Composition and Designing, and especially in Industrial Art.* All the studies of a School of Design are pursued with appliances and facilities which few such schools yet possess this side of the Atlantic.