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Mathematics. Geometry to proportions and simple 

 figures. Elements of algebra. Logarithms. Four hours. ' 



Natural History. Mineralogy. Botany, especially of 

 native plants. Two hours. 



Upper Second Class, Thirty-two Hours. 



Latin. Cicero's Orations, pro. Rose. Amer., de Amic, 

 de Senectute. Livy, books 22 to 25, inclusive. Virgil's 

 iEneid, books 1 and 2. Some eclogues and excerpts from 

 Georgics. Exercises and extemporalia. Nine hours. 



Greek. Homer's Iliad, books 4 to 11, inclusive. Arrian 

 Alex, expedition, books 1 and 2. Buttmann's grammar 

 with exercises and extemporalia. Six hours. 



Hebrew. Books of Judges and of Ruth, with exercises 

 of syntax. Easy exercises, and committing vocabulary to 

 memory out of the class-room. Two hours. 



German. Essays. Delivery. Two hours. 



French. Excerpts from Harmann and Briichner's 

 manual of the more recent French literature. Two hours. 



Religion. Christian faith and morals. Two hours. 



History. Review of ancient history and geography, 

 using the Latin language. Three hours. 



Mathematics. Arithmetical geometry and plane trigo- 

 nometry. Algebraic exercises. Polygons. Stereometry. 

 Simple and quadratic equations. Four hours. 



Physics. General physics. Electricity and magnetism. 

 Two hours. 



First Class, Thirty-one Hours. 



Latin. Horace's Odes, books 3 and 4. Cicero against 

 Verres. Tacitus Annals, books 11 and 12, and extracts 

 from 3 to 6. Cicero, Tusc. quest. Extempore transla- 

 tions from German into Latin. Exercises. Declamation. 

 Eight hours. 



