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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 50

Courses of Study in the College

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Courses of Study in the College.

The courses of study in the College are two in number, and lead, at the satisfactory completion of the four years' course, to the following degrees, viz: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Philosophy

I—course in Arts.

Freshman Year.

First Term.

Latin.—Livy.

Greek.—Felton's Greek Historians; Exercises in writing Greek.

Mathematics.—Geometry, completed.

History.—England.

German or French.

Elementary Ethics.—Lectures.

English Composition.—Elocution.

Second Term.

Latin.—Horace.

Greek.—Panegyricus of Isoerates; Homer; Lysias; Exercises in writing Greek.

Mathematics.—Higher Algebra.

History.—England.

German or French.

Sophomore Year.

First Term.

Latin.—Cicero's Tusculan Disputations

Greek.—Demosthenes de Corona; æschylus; Euripides.

Mathematics.—Trigonometry.

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History.—France; Reading from French authors.

German.—Grammar; Prose and Composition.

Themes and Elocution.

Second Term.

Required Studies:

Latin—Juvenal; Terence; Plautus.

Mathematics—Analytical Geometry.

Physics—Ganot's.

History of English Literature.—(Lectures.)

German.—Grammar; Prose and Composition.

Themes and Elocution.

Elective Studies:

Greek.

History.—France, with reading from French authors.

Junior Year.

First Term.

Required Studies:

Chemistry—Roscoe's.

History.—Germany. Sime; Bryce. Read in the original some French author.

Rhetoric—Lectures and Recitations; Themes; Study of Anglo-Saxon.

Modern Languages.—German.

Elective Studies:

Latin.—Tacitus or Quintilian.

Greek.—Thucydides; Antigone of Sophocles.

Mathematics.—Analytical Geometry and Calculus.

Physics.

Second Term.

Required Studies:

Mechanics.—Statics; Dynamics.

Mineralogy and Geology.—(Lectures and Recitations.)

Philosophy.—Jevon's Logic; Study of Anglo-Saxon.

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History.—Read, in the original, some French author. History of French Literature. (Lectures.)

Modern Languages.—German.

Themes.

Elective Studies:

Mathematics—Differential and Integral Calculus.

Chemistry.—Continued.

Ancient Languages.

Senior Year.

First Term.

Required Studies:

Astronomy.

Philosophy.—Hamilton's Metaphysics. (Recitations and Lectures.)

History.—United States Constitution. Reading from French authors.

English Literature.—Reading of Chaucer, Shakspere, Spenser. Milton, etc. Stopford Brooke's Primer of English Literature; Dowden's Primer of Shakspere. (Recitations and Lectures.) Themes.

Elective Studies:

Ancient Languages.—Latin; Greek.

Practical Chemistry.

Modem Languages.—German.

Second Term.

Required Studies:

Ethics.—(Recitations and Lectures.)

Political Economy.—Bowen; Rogers; Mill; Cary. (Recitations and Lectures.)

History.—Constitutional History of England; Elements of International Law. (Recitations and Lectures.) Read some French author.

English Literature.—Taine; Brooke: Dowden. Reading. Lectures. Themes.

Physiology.—Lectures.

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Elective Studies:

Ancient Languages.—Latin; Greek.

Practical Chemistry.

Modern Languages.—German.

II.-Course in Philosophy.

Freshman Year.

First Term.

Required.—Geometry, Physics. History, Elocution and Composition. Ethics,

Elect two of the following:—Latin, French, German, Drawing.

Second Term.

Required.—Algebra, Physics. History, Elocution and Composition.

Elect two of the following;—Latin, French, German, Drawing and Descriptive Geometry.

Sophomore Year.

First Term.

Required.—Trigonometry and Analytical Geometry, Physics, Chemistry. History. Composition.

Elect two of the following:—Latin, French, German, Drawing and Descriptive Geometry.

Second Term.

Required,—Analytic Geometry, Chemistry, Mineralogy and Geology, History and English Literature, Composition.

Elect two of the following:—Latin, French, German. Drawing and Descriptive Geometry, Surveying and Physics.

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Junior Year.

First Term.

Required.—Rhetoric, History, Themes.

Elect twelve exercises per week from Differential Calculus, Stereotomy, Physics, (Theory of Electricity and Magnetism—Cumming), Botany, Chemistry, German, Drawing and Latin.

Second Term.

Required.—Logic, French Literature, Themes.

Elect twelve exercises per week from Integral Calculus, Practical Chemistry, Physics, Electrical and Magnetical Measurements and Method of Least Square, Drawing, Latin and Mechanics.

Senior Year.

First Term.

Required.—Astronomy (Descriptive), Metaphysics, English Literature, Themes.

Elect two of the following:—Applied Mechanics. Physics, Mechanical Theory of Heat, Clausen's Practical Chemistry, German, Natural History, Modern History, Art.

Second Term.

Required.—Political Economy, English Literature, Physiology, Themes.

Elect eight exercises per week in the following:—Applied Mechanics. Constitutional History, Practical Chemistry, Physics,—as first term—Natural History, Practical Astronomy, Art.

Note.—Shop-work is optional to a certain amount throughout the course; he same is true of Water-color Painting and the study of Design.