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Course of Study and Instruction. 



Freshman Year. — First Term. — Algebra; Human Anatomy and Pliysiology ; Cliem- 

 ical Physics. Second Term. — Geometry; French; Chemistry. Third Term. — Geometrj-; 

 French; Botany. Lectures upon Hygiene, Chemistry, Botany and Agriculture; and 

 Exercises in Orthography, Elocution, and English Composition, during the year. 



Sophomore Year. — Fii-sl Term. — German; Agriculture; Commercial Arithmetic and 

 Book-keeping. Second Term. — German; Trigonometry; Anah'tical Chemistry with 

 laboratory practice. Third Term. — Mensuration; Surveying; Analytical Chemistry; 

 Zoology; Drawing. Lectures upon Comparative Anatomy, Diseases of Domestic Ani- 

 mals, Organic Chemistry, Dairy Farming and Market Gardening; and Exercises ia 

 English Composition and Declamation, during the year. 



Junior Year. — First Term. — Physics; French or German; Agricultural Chemistry 

 with practice in the laboratory and the field; Drawing. Second Term. — Phj'sics; Rhet- 

 oric; Horticulture. Third Term. — Astronomj^; Systematic Botany; History of the United 

 States. Lectures upon Phj-sics, Mineralogy, the Cultivation of the Vine, of Fruit and 

 Forest Trees, and Useful and Injurious Insects; and Exercises in English Compositioa 

 and Debate, during the year. 



Senior Year. — First Term. — Intellectual Philosophy; History; Physical Geography. 

 Second Term. — Moral Philosophy; Political Geography; The Civil Polity of Massachu- 

 setts and the United States. Third Term. — Geology; Engineering; Political Economy. 

 Lectures upon Stock Farming, Architecture, Landscape Gardening, Geology and English 

 Literature; and Exercises in Original Declamation and Debate, during the year. 



Exercises in Gymnastics, Military Tactics, and the various operations of the Farm and 

 Garden, through the course. 



Daily Routine, Winter Term, 1869. 



At 6.30, a. m., bell for rising; at 7, a. m., bell for breakfast; at 8.45, a. m., bell for 

 prayer; at 9, a. m., bell for study or labor; at 12, m., bell for dinner; at\|^ p. m., bell for 

 study or labor; at 5.30, p. m., bell for supper; at 7, p. m., bell for study. 



Sundays change as follows: At 7, a. m., bell for rising; at 7.30, a. m., bell for break- 

 fast; at 8.45, a. m., bell for prayer; at 10.15, a. m., bell for church; at 3.30, p. m., bell 

 for Bible class. 



Exercises of Sophomore Class. 



At 9, a. m.. Manual Labor on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. First Division. — 

 At 1, p. m., Laboratory Practice; at 3, p. m.. Trigonometry; at 4, p. m., German. 

 Second Division — At 1, p. m., German; at 2, p. m., Trigonometry; at 3, p. m.. Labora- 

 tory Practice. 



Saturdays change as follows: At 9, a. m.. Declamations; at 10, a, m., Compositions or 

 Translations ; at 11, a. m., Examination in Analytical Chemistry. 



Exercises of Freshman Class. 



At 9, a. m.. Chemistry, Recitation or Lecture; at 10, a. m., Geometry ; at 11, a.m. 

 French; at 1, p. m.. Manual Labor on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. 



Saturdays change as follows: At 9, a. m., Reading and Spelling; at 10, a. m., English 

 Composition; at 11, a. ra., Lecture on Agriculture. 



Admission. 



Candidates for admission to the Freshman class are examined in writing upon the 

 following subjects: English Grammar, Geography, Arithmetic, and Algebra, to Quad- 

 ratic Equations. 



Candidates for higher standing are examined as above, and also in the studies gone 

 over by the class to which they may desire admission. 



No one can be admitted to the College until he is fifteen years of age; and every stu- 

 dent is required to furnish a certificate of good character from his late pastor or teacher, 



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