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The Collegiate year is divided into two Sessions or terms, the one commencing
six weeks after the first Thursday in
The Classes, (with the exception of the Senior,) recite in two divisions, each division occupying an hour. By this arrangement, six hours are devoted to recitations and lectures on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. On Monday there are but four; the forenoon of Saturday is set apart for the meetings of the two Literary Societies.
Composition and Declamation receive due attention throughout the whole course. The three lower classes are required to declaim in private before the Professor of Rhetoric, and afterwards in the presence of the Faculty.
The Senior Class deliver Orations of their own composition upon the public stage twice in each session.
All the Classes are required to attend Divine Worship in the
The instruction of the Freshman class, is confided, for the most part, to the Tutor of Ancient Languages, and the Tutor of Mathematics.
By the division of the Department of Ancient Languages into two branches, with a Professor to each, and by the appointment of a Professor of Rhetoric, very ample means of instruction are afforded in these studies, while the other Professors are enabled to give increased attention to their more peculiar duties.
In addition to
A regular course of Lectures on Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology, illustrated by experiments, and the exhibition of specimens, is delivered to the Senior Class, by the Professor of Chemistry, who also gives occasional Lectures on the other departments of Natural History.
To the means of instruction and improvement heretofore enjoyed in this
department, will be added in the course of the present Collegiate year, a
Cabinet of Minerals purchased for the
The recitations and Lectures of the Professor of Mathe-
The College buildings have undergone thorough repair. Extensive improvements are now in progress ; and others are in contemplation. Increased efficacy has been imparted to the system of Instruction : more attention is paid to neatness and comfort in the various apartments of the Institution ; and energetic measures have been adopted for confining the expenses of Education within reasonable limits.
Reports of the deportment and scholarship of the Students are sent to Parents and Guardians at the middle and close of each Session.
Board of a quality not inferior to what is furnished at the Tables of the
most respectable Boarding Houses of the neighboring villages, may be had at
the