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the aim being not so much to make soldiers as to make men equal at 

 once to civil and military results. 



The Board of Visitors consists at present of Gen. Johnson Hagood, 

 Chairman, Barnwell C. H., S. C; Rev. S. B. Jones, D. D., Pendleton, S. C. ; 

 Col. Edward Croft, Greenville, S. C. : Col. H. A. Gaillard, Wimis- 

 boro', S. C. ; Gen. C. I. Walker, Charleston, S. C. ; The Governor of 

 the State of South Carolina, ex-officio, Columbia, S. C. ; The Adjutant 

 AND Inspector-General of the State of South Carolina, ex-officio, Colum- 

 bia, S. C. 



The academy opened on the 2d October, 1882, with 180 cadets, a num- 

 ber of applications having been declined for want of accommodations. 



The officers and professors are as follows : Col. J. P. Thomas, Super- 

 intendent and Professor ; Capt. Wm. Cain, Professor ; A. Sachtleben, 

 Professor pro tem; First Lieut. P. P. Mazyck, Assistant Professor ; First 

 Lieut. H. T. Thompson, Assistant Professor ; Dr. F. L. Parker, Sur- 

 geon ; Wm. W. White, Bursar. 



The following is the course of study prescribed at present : 



FOURTH CLASS. 



First Term. Algebra, Physical Geography, English Grammar and Word 

 Analysis, French, Reading of British Classics. 



Second Term. Algebra and Geometry; Elements of Zoology ; Anatomy and 

 Physiology ; History of England; French ; Reading of American Classics ; 

 Free Hand Drawing; Declamation and Composition, for the Session. 



THIRD CLASS. 



First Term. Geometry Completed ; Plane Trigonometry ; Spherical Trig- 

 onometry completed ; Physics ; Rhetoric and Study of Synonyms ; 

 French ; Industrial Drawing; Reading and x4.nalysis of Shakspeare. 



Second Term. Surveying — Field Work with Instrument ; Descriptive 

 Geometry, Shades, Shadows and Perspective ; Physics (continued) ; Out- 

 lines of General History, and Lectures on Philosophy of History; Elements 

 of Mythology; French; Reading and Analysis of Shakspeare; Topo- 

 graphical Drawing ; Declamation and Composition for the Session. 



second class. 



First Term. Analytical Geometry ; Civil Engineering — Descriptive 

 Chemistry — Inorganic ; British Literature and Lectures ; French Com- 

 pleted ; German ; Projection Drawing ; Shaw's Companion Reader, 

 British. 



