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CIVIL HISTORY OF VERMONT. 



Part li. 



MIDDLEBURy COLLEGE. 



COURSE OF STUDIES. 



ceding commencement. In 1804, the 

 Philadcl-pldan society was formed. It 

 consists of professors of religion only, and 

 its object is the cultivation of the moral 

 faculties, and the religious improvement 

 of its members. It has a library of about 

 500 volumes. In 1813, two other socie- 

 ties were formed, one for the purpose of 

 aiding indigent students by furnishing 

 them with text books, and called the Be- 

 neficent society; and the other, called the 

 Charitable society, for the purpose of as- 

 sisting indigent, but pious and talented 

 young men, in obtaining a liberal educa- 

 tion and in qualifying for the work of the 

 gospel ministry, either by giving or loan- 

 ing them inojiey. This last society is 

 now merged in the north-western branch 

 of the American Education Society. In 

 1824 was held the first meeting of the 

 .Sssociatad Alumni of tlie college. They 

 annually appoint an orator and poet to 

 address them at commencement, and have 

 already published several valuable ora- 

 tions. 



Admission. — For admission to the Fresh- 

 man Class, candidates are exnminod in 

 Andrews and Stoddard's Latin Grammar, 

 Cicero's Select Orations, Virgil, Sallust, 

 Goodrich's or Sophocles' Greek Gram- 

 mar, Jacob's Greek Reader, or an equiv- 

 alent, Latin Prosody, 'Writing Latin, 

 Arithmetic and Geograjjhy. To be ad- 

 mitted to an advanced standing, besides 

 tiie re(iuisites for admission to tlie Fresh- 

 man Class, the candidate must sustain a 

 satisfactory examination in all the studies 

 pursued by the class he would enter, up 

 to tlie time of his joining it. 



Studies and Text Books. 

 Freshman Class. 

 Fall Term. Xenophon's Cyroprndia; 

 Folsom's Livy ; Davie's Bourdon's Alge- 

 bra, half completed ; Porter's Analysis 

 Sprinif Term. Cyropiedia, Livy, and 

 Algebra finished ; Jamieson's Rhetoric. 

 Summer Term. Homer's Iliad, Horace's 

 Odes : Playfair's Euclid; Jamieson's Rhet- 

 oric finished. 



Sophomore Class. 

 Full Term. Iliad continued ; Horace 

 and Euclid finished; "Whately's Logic. 

 Sprinir Term. Xenophon's Memorabilia; 

 Cicero de Ofllciis ; Day's Mathematics. 

 Logarithms, Plane Trigonometry, Men- 

 suration of Supi^rficcs and Solids, Isoper- 

 imetry ; Logic finished. Summer Term. 

 Memorabilia continued ; Tacitus' Histo- 

 ry ; Day's Mathematics, Mensuration of 

 Heights and Distances, Navigation and 

 Surveying ; Spherical Trigonometry ; 

 VVhately's Rhetoric. 



Junior Class. 

 Fall Term. Demosthenes and Eschi- 

 nes de corona; Tacitus finished ; Bridire'a 

 Conic Sections ; Olmsted's Philosophy ; 

 Gray's Chemistry ; Rhetoric finished. 

 Spring Term. Greek Tragedies ; Electra 

 of Sophocles, and Alcestis of Euripides; 

 Cicero de Oratore ; Olmsted's Philoso- 

 phy finished ; Gray's Chemistry fiuislied. 

 Summer Term. Greek Tragedies finished; 

 De Oratore finished; Herschel's Astron- 

 omy; Gray's Botany ; Eaton and Wright's 

 or Buck's Botany for analysis. 



Senior Class. 

 Fall Term. Stewart's Elements of the 

 Philosopliy of the Mind, with references 

 to the works of Locke, Reid, Brown and 

 Upham ; Wayland's Moral Philoso])hy ; 

 Paley's Evidences of Christianity ; Zool- 

 og)'. Spring Term. Intellectual Philos- 

 ophy continued ; Vattel's Law of Nations ; 

 Evidences of Christianity continued ; Da- 

 na's Mineralogy; Hitchcock's Geology. 

 Summer Term. "Wayland's Political Econ- 

 omy ; Butler's Analogy; Geology fin- 

 ished ; Paley's Natural Theology. 



Winter Term. 



The above constitutes the regular col- 

 lege course. Besides this there is a Win- 

 ter Term., extending from the 1st Wednes- 

 day in December to the 2d Wednesday 

 in February, during wJiicii the members 

 of all the classes, who are not excused for 

 the purpose of teaching school, are re- 

 quired to be present, and to pursue such 

 supplementary course of studies as the 

 faculty shall prescribe. 



Lectures on Natural Philosophy, Chem- 

 istry, and Introductory to Botany and 

 Zoolocry are delivered before the Junior 

 Class ; and on Zoology, Mineralogy, Ge- 

 ology, Natural Tlieology, Astronomy, Me- 

 teorology, Civil Engineering, and on Elo- 

 quence and Style, before the Senior 

 Class. 



Declamations, Cojnpositions and, Trans- 

 lations are required frequently through 

 the whole course. 



Examinations are held at the close of 

 each term of the regular college course, 

 and tliat at tiie close of each year extends 

 to all the previous studies. 



Commencement on the third Wednes- 

 day in August annually. 



Vacations. From Comrnencemonl four 

 weeks ; from the last Wednesday in No- 

 vember one week ; from tlie 2d "Wednes- 

 day in February two weeks ; and from 

 tlie 3d Wednesday ia May two weeks. 



Every student, on entering college, [a 

 required to give a bond to the treasurer, 

 with sufficient sureties, to secure the reg- 



