398 MONTHLY REVIEW OP LITERATURE. 



Problems in which Trigonometry is applied to Surveying, the Mensuration of 

 inaccessible Heights and Distances, &c. have been solved. The use of Loga- 

 rithms comes under this part of the course; their nature and application were 

 explained, and great dexterity in the use of them, has been acquired. 

 "3. IN MENSURATION. 



"All kinds of Plane Surfaces, Regular and Irregular ; the different methods 

 of Land-surveying, as far as it could be done without proper instruments, and 

 in the Class-room ; also, the method of calculating some of the simple solids. 

 "4. IN ALGEBRA. 



"The Elementary Rules, Fractions, the Extraction of Roots, the application 

 of the Binomial Theorem, Proportion, Simple Equations, Quadratic Equations, 

 Cubic Equations (by Cardan's method,) and higher Equations by approxima- 

 tion, Arithmetical and Geometrical Progressions, the Summation of some 

 simple cases of Infinite Sines and Compound Interest. 



"July 2, 1836. (Signed) JOHN WILLIAMS, Rector." 



We add a short account of the studies of the different classes. 

 FIRST CLASS.* 



Latin : Rudiments, with Rules of Syntax and part of the Vocabulary of 

 conjugated Verbs. Delectus. Grammatical Exercises. Geography: The 

 general outlines of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, with the particular 

 geography of England and Scotland. Scripture Biography. English : Simp- 

 son's History of Scotland, arid recitations of Poetry. Arithmetic: Four 

 rules, Reduction, Addition, and Subtraction of money. 



SECOND CLASS. 



Latin: The Rudiments with the Vocabulary of conjugated Verbs, and the 

 Rules for the Genders of Nouns. Grammatical Exercises. Delectus con- 

 tinued. Geography: The Maps of Europe. Scripture Biography. English: 

 Simpson's History of England, to the end of the reign of Elizabeth. Recita- 

 tions. Arithmetic: Compound Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and 

 Division of Money, and Weights and Measures. The higher division begin 

 Vulgar Fractions. THIRD CLASS. 



Latin: Csesar. Electa ex Ovidio. Grammatical Exercises. Rudiments 

 with the Latin Rules for the Gender of Nouns and Prosody. Greek : Rudi- 

 ments, to the end of the Verbs. Extracts. Scripture Biography. Geo- 

 graphy : The Map of Europe and Asia. English : Simpson's Roman History, 

 to the end of the first Punic War, and Recitations. Arithmetic : Principles of 

 Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division of Simple and Compound 

 Quantities, Simple Proportion, and Practice. 

 FOURTH CLASS. 



Latin: Virgil's JSneid. Sallust's Catiline. Mair's Introduction, the 

 easier portions. Rudiments, with Rules for Gender and Prosody. Written 

 Exercises in prose and verse. Greek : Extracts. Rudiments. Scripture Bi- 

 ography. Geography : Africa, North America, and South America, the West 

 Indies, and the Islands in the Pacific Ocean. English: Simpson's History of 

 Greece to the end of the Peloponnesian War. Recitations. Arithmetic : Prac- 

 tice, Simple and Compound Proportion, Interest, and other Commercial 

 Arithmetic. FIFTH CLASS. 



Latin: Virgil's ^Eneid. Horace. Livy. Rudiments, with Latin Rules 

 for Gender and Quantity. Greek: Xenophon's Anabasis. Homer. Dunbar's 

 Introductory Exercises. Greek Testament, Greek Rudiments, revised. Nu- 



* The arrangement of the masters with respect to their classes is different to what 

 is usual in ordinary schools. The masters go up with their classes, so that a boy in 

 his progress from the bottom to the top of the school receives his classical instruction 

 from one master only, till he reaches the fifth class, in and above which he receives, 

 his instructions from the rector, assisted by his former master. The assistant master, 

 as soon as he reaches the rector's lowest class, takes the lowest or first class also ; 

 when he aids his principal in the sixth, he takes the second also; and when he is as- 

 sistant master of the seventh, he is master of the third class. The rector regularly 

 examines the different classes at stated periods. 



