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charged a tuition fee of five dollars a term, and an incidental fee of seven and a half dollars a term. They have all the privileges of the library, and of public lectures. The studies taught in the preliminary year as follows:

FOE COLLEGES OP AGBICULTUBE, ENGINEEBLCJG, AKD SCIENCE.

First Term.—Algebra—(Wells's). Fundamental rules; factoring; common divisors and multiples; powers and roots; calculus of radicals; simple equations; proportion and progression. Physiology— (Cutter's). Natural Philosophy—(Norton's). Second Term.—Algebra—Quadratic equations, etc. Geometry— Wells's) Plane geometry, lines, circumferences, angles, polygons, a° far as equality. English—Elements of composition. (Clark's.) Orthoepy and word analysis. (Introduction to Webster's Academic Dictionary.) Third Term.—Geometry completed, including solid geometry and the sphere. English, as in the second term, with addition of Goldsmith's Deserted Village, Shakespere's Julius Csesar, Scott's Marmion, Webster's first Bunker Hill oration, and Irving's Sketch Book, read with care. Botany—Gray's Lessons and Manual.

FOB COUBSES US THE COLLEGE OF LITEBATUBE, EXCEPT THE CLASSICAL COURSE.

Firgt Term.—Algebra as above. Physiology. Natural Philosophy. Latin—Cicero's Orations. Prose composition. Second Term.—Algebra and Geometry, as above. Latin—jEneid. Prose composition. Third Term. — Geometry, as above. Botany. Latin—iEneid. Prose composition.

FOB CLASSICAL COURSE.

First Term. — Algebra, as above. Latin—Cicero's Orations. Prose composition. Greek—Grammar (Goodwin) and Reader (Moss). Prose composition. Second Term.—Algebra and Geometry, as above given. Latin— ./Eneid. Prose composition, Greek—Continuation of first term. Prose composition. Third Term.—Geometry completed. Latin—iEneid. Prose composition. Greek—Anabasis (Kelsey). Prose Composition (Woodruff).