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The pupils of each class are submitted to semi-annual examinations in the presence of a committee of the trustees; and those who do not acquit themselves satisfactorily, are not allowed to proceed.
(Lowth's English Grammar) and Geography reviewed. Ancient History, (Lardner's Outlines of History.) Readings in Prose and Poetry. Written Translations from ancient authors. Declamation.
"Sophomore Class.—Mathematics. Elements of Geometry, (Legendre's Geometry.) Logarithms. Plane Trigonometry. Surveying, Mensuration, &c.—Classics. Cicero de Oratore. Terence. Cicero's Orations. Horace's Epistles. Selections from Thucydides, Xenophon, Demosthenes, Lysias, Isocrates, Plato and Ælian, Homer's Iliad, Latin and Greek exercises.—Nat. Philosophy. Elements of Mechanics, (Library of Useful Knowledge, or Lardner's Mechanics and Hydrostatics.)—English. History, (Mackintosh's History of England.) Rhetoric, (Whately's Rhetoric.) English composition. Declamation. "Junior Class.—Mathematics. Spherical Geometry and Trigonometry. Perspective Geography, including the Use of the Globes and Construction of Maps and Charts. Analytical Geometry, including conic sections, (Young's Analytical Geometry.) Elements of the Differential Calculus, with applications, (Young's Differential Calculus.)—Classics. Art of Poetry. Juvenal. Quintilian's Institute. Review of Selected Odes of Horace. Cicero de Officiis. Selections from the Odyssey, Hesiod, Apollonius Rhodius, Sophocles, Euripides, Theocritus, Pindar, &c.—Nat. Philosophy and Chemistry. General doctrines of equilibrium and motion. Equilibrium and motion of solids and fluids, (Cambridge Mechanics.) Theory and Construction of Machines, (Application of Descriptive Geometry.)—Heat, (Turner's Chemistry.) Electricity, including Galvinism. Magnetism. Electro-magnetism, (Roget in Library of Useful Knowledge.) Philosophy of Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry commenced. (Turner's Chemistry.)—English. History continued. Moral Philosophy. Logic, (Whatley's Logic.) English compositions. Written discussions. "Senior Class.—Mathematics. Elements of the Integral Calculus, with applications. Variations of Lagrange. Analytical Mechanics, (Young's Analytical Mechanics, and Lectures.)—Classics. Former authors reviewed or completed. Longinus. Tacitus.—Nat. Philosophy and Chemistry. Astronomy, (Gummere's Astronomy.) Optics, (Brewster's Optics.) Steam-engine, (Lardner on the Steam-engine and lectures.) Inorganic Chemistry completed. Organic Chemistry, (Turner's Chemistry.)—English. Evidences
