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BOAED OF MANAGERS,
SECRETARY.
CHARLES YARNALL.
TREASURER.
ISAIAH HACKER.
MANAGERS.
THOMAS KIMBER,
ANTHONY
JOHN FARNUM,
ROBERT
EDWARD YARNALL,
HARRISON ALDERSON,
CHARLES YARNALL,
T.
SAMUEL HILLES,
CHARLES ELLIS,
JOSEPH TAYLOR, M.D.
M. KIMBER,
P.
SMITH,
WISTAR BROWN,
DAVID SCULL,
ISAIAH HACKER,
HENRY HARTSHORNE,
JEREMIAH HACKER,
WILLIAM
MARMADUKE
JAMES WHITALL,
COPE,
C.
S.
JOHN M. WHITALL,
GEORGE HOWLAND,
TOWNSEND SHARPLESS,
SAMUEL RHOADS,
SAMUEL
B.
PARSONS,
ROBERT
L.
MURRAY,
THEOPHILUS
E.
BEESLEY, M.
WISTAR MORRIS,
D.
RICHARD
H.
M. D.
HILLES,
THOMAS, M.
D.
1:
FACULTY.
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JOSEPH
G.
»-»-
HARLAN,
A.M.,
principal.
PAUL SWIFT,
M.D.,
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE AND NATURAL SCIENCE.
JOSEPH
a.
HARLAN;
A.M.,
PROFESSOR OP MATHEMATICS, NATURAL PHILOSOPHY AND ASTRONOMY.
TITOMAS CHASE,
A.M.,
PROFESSOR OP THE GREEK AND LATIN LANGUAGES AND ANCIENT
LITERATURE.
aEORGE STUART,
A.M.,
TUTOR IN CLASSICS AND MATHEMATICS.
TIMOTHY NICHOLSON,
TEACHER OF THE ACADEAIICAL DEPARTMENT.
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GRADUATES.
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1836.
BESIDEXCE.
THOMAS
F.
COCK, M.D.,.
...
JOSEPH WALTOX,
New York
N.T.
Philadelphia
P'a.
1837.
WILLIAM C. LOXGSTEETH,
DAVID C.MURRAY,
LINDLEY MURRAY,
BENJAMIN V. MARSH,
JOSEPH L. PENNOCK,
ROBERT B. PARSONS,
CHARLES L. SH ARPLESS,
LLOYD P.SMITH,
B.
Philadelphia
P'a.
New York
New York
Rahway
Philadelphia
Flushing
Philadelphia
WYATT WISTAR,
N. Y.
N. Y.
'.....
N.J.
P'a.
N. Y.
P'a.
Philadelphia
P'a.
Philadelphia...,
P'a.
1838.
JAMES V. EMLEN,
JOHN ELLIOTT,
M.
D.,
Philadelphia
P'a.
Philadelphia
Pa.
1839.
FREDERICK COLLINS,
Philadelphia
THOMAS P. COPE,
Philadelphia
Philadelphia
HENRY HARTSHORNE, M. D.,
NEREUS MENDENHALL, M. D., .. Guilford Co
RICHARD RANDOLPH, Jun.M.D.. Philadelphia
CHARLES TABER,
New Bedford
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P'a.
P'a.
P'a.
N. C.
P'a.
Mass.
1840.
JOSEPH HOWELL,
ANTHONY M. KIMBER,
Philadelphia
P'a.
Philadelphia
P'a.
HENRY H.
PhUadelphia
JOHN
R.
G.
SHARPLESS,
WINSLOW,
M.
N.'^-^'N.-^^'-
D.,
Hertford
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P'a.
N. C.
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NAMES.
EESIDESCE.
RICHAED H. LAWRENCE,
JAMES P. PEROT,
Philadelphia
ELIAS
North Carolina
A.
New York
WHITE,
N.Y.
P'a.
N. C.
1842.
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ROBERT BOWNE,
RICHARD CADBURY,
WILLIAM S. HILLES,
THOMAS KIMBER, Jun
JAMES J. LEVICK, M D.,
EDMUND RODMAN,
THOMAS RODMAN,
BENJAMIN R. SMITH,
AUGUSTUS TABER,
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N.Y.
Philadelphia
P'a.
Wilmington
Del.
Philadelphia
P'a.
Philadelphia
P'a.
New
New
Bedford
Mass.
Bedford
Mass.
Haverford
New
P'a.
Bedford
'....Mass.
N. C.
Hertford
1843.
ROBERT
B.
HOWLAND,
New
ERAXCIS WHITE,
WILLIAM D. STROUD, M. D.,
Bedford
Mass.
North Carolina
N. C.
Philadelphia
P'a.
1844.
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T. ELLIS,.
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ISAAC HARTSHORNE,
ROBERT B. HAINES,
Philadelphia
P'a.
Philadelphia
P'a.
Germantowu
P'a.
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1845.
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EDMUND,. CRENSHAW,....
ROBERT PEARSALL,
,
Richmond
Va.
Philadelphia
P'a.
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1849.
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ALBERT
ALFRED
SMILEY,
H. SMILEY,
K.
Vassalborough
M'e.
Vassalborough
M'e.
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1851.
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PHILIP C. GARRETT,
Berks Co
Philadelphia
P'a.
THOMAS J. LEVICK,
FRANKLIN E. PAIGE,
Philadelphia
P'a.
A.
M
ZACCHEUS TEST, M. D,.
JAMES C. THOxMAS, M. D.,
RICHARD WOOD,
P'a.
Weare
Richmond
Baltimore
Philadelphia
N. H.
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Ind.
M'd.
P'a.
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1852.
NAMES.
EESIDEXCE,
DTJGAN CLAEK,
LEWIS N. HOPKINS,
"WILLIAM L. KINSMAN,
WILLIAM E. NEWHALL,
JAMES WHITALL,
Xew Garden
Baltimore
Salem
'E.G.
M'd.
Mass.
....Philadelphia
P'a.
PhUadelphia
P'a.
1853.
WILLIAM
WILLIAM
B.
MOP.GAN,
RaysviUe
H.
PANCOAST,
Philadelphia
Ind'a.
P'a.
1854.
PEEDEEICK AETHXIE,
JOHN W. CADBUET,
JOHN BjGAEEETT,
DAVID SCULL, Jun.,
Nantucket
Jun.,
Mass.
Philadelphia
P'a.
Philadelphia
P'a.
Philadelphia
P'a.
1855.
SAMUEL EETTLE,
JOHN E. HUBBAED,
Philadelphia
P'a.
New Garden
N. C.
1856.
BAETHOLOMEW
W. BBESLEY,
JOEL CADBUEY,
Jun.,
JONATHAN
COMFOET
JAMES M. WALTON,
EDWAED E. WOOD,
J.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia
Tecumseh
P'a.
P'a.
Mich.
Philadelphia
P'a.
Philadelphia
P'a.
1857.
JESSE
S.
CHETNEY,;
CYEUS MENDENHALL,
STEPHEN WOOD
Thornhury
P'a.
Plainfield
Ind'a.
Bedford
N. Y.
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GREEK AND LATIN LANGUAGES.
The Anabasis of Xcnophon,
The
Iliad or Oflj'ssey of
Owen.
s
Homer.
Greek Prose Composition, continued,
Arnold.
Cicero's Orations,
Johnson.
Livy,
Lincoln.
Arnold.
Latin Prose Composition, continued,
ENGLISH LITEP.ATURE,
Physical Geography,
ETC.
Guyot.
.
Geology, continued.
Chemistry,
.
JoTmaon's Turner's.
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Evidences of Christianity,
Paley.
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Drawin"-.
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JUIS^IOR CLASS.
MATHEMATICS.
Descriptive Astronomy, continued,
Natural Philosophy,'
Herachel.
Olmsted.
.
Analytical Geometry,
Davies.
GREEK AND LATIN LANGUAGES.
The Antigone of Sophocles,
Woolsey.
Demosthenes on the Crown,
Gham2)lin.
Greek Composition, continued,
Arnold.
Horace,
Lincoln, or Macleane.
Tacitus's
Germania and Agricola,
Latin Composition, continued,
Latin Syntax,
Tyler.
Arnold.
....
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Ziimpt.
ENGLISH LITERATURE,
ETC.
Whately.
Rhetoric,
Gurney's Observations.
Commentaries on the
American Law,
Moral Philosophy,
Themes.
Drawinff.
Law
of Nations
and
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Kent.
J
Dymond,
14
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SENIOR CLASS.
MATHEMATICS.
....
Practical Astronomy,
Diflferential
and Integral Calculus,
.
Loomis.
Church.
.
GREEK AND LATIN LANGUAGES.
Demosthenes on the Crown, completed,
Thucydides,
.
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Chamjylin.
.
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I.,
.
.
Owen.
Greek Compositions.
Cicero's
Tusculan Disputations,
Chase.
Juvenal,
Anthon.
The Captivi
of Plautus.
Latin Compositions and Extemporalia.
ENGLISH LITEEATURE, ETC.
Political
Economy,
Wayland.
Analogy of Natural and Revealed Religion,
Butler.
Logic,
Whately.
Intellectual Philosophy,
.
.
.
.
Lectures on Modern History,
.
.
.
Wayland.
Arnold.
Themes.
ACADEMICAL DEPAETMENT.
Arithmetic.
Algebra,
Alsop's First Lessons.
Latin Grammar,
Andrews
Latin Reader,
Andrews.
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Stoddard.
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Csesar,
Greek Grammar,
Sophocles.
Greek Reader,
Jacob or Felton.
Grammar, pages 80
Greek Syntax,
Crosby's
Geography,
Pelton's, with Outline
English Grammar,
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Maps.
Broicn.
Elements of History.
81.
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Elocution,
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ADMISSIONS.
The
list
cate the
(or
of studies in the Academical Department, will indi-
Requisitions for Admission
Freshman)
mand thorough
The
Class.
into the Third Junior
best interests of the student de-
preparation in all the studies, and stould pre-
vent undue haste in his application for admission.*
Students can be admitted to
Advanced Standing, when
they can pass a satisfactory Examination in
all
the previous
to
the Secretary
studies of the Course.
Applications
for
Admission must be made
of the Board of Managers,
Charles Yarnall, No. 123 Mar-
ket Street, Philadelphia.
Candidates will present themselves
at the College, for
Examination by the Faculty, the morning
preceding the opening of the Term.
The average age of
average
^
qxiite as
low as
the studies require.
is
tlie
present Third Junior Class
is
sixteen years; an
desirable, considering tlie maturity of
mind which
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During
the Winter Term,
different Professors,
ments.
The
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Lectures are delivered by the
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on subjects connected with their Depart-
subjects vary from year to year, in order to give
each Class, in the four years of the Collegiate Course, as full
a view of the different
Moral
Philosophy/,
The
fields illustrated as practicable.
Course for the Winter of 1857-58
is
as follows
:
Propessor Swift.
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Latin Literature,
Chase.
Astronomy,
Tutor Stuart.
Natural Philosophy,
Timothy Nicholson.
Intellectual Philosophy,
Professor Chase.
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(!E^^Emiiiati0iis,
Near the
close of each
Summer Term,
there
is
a Private
Examination of the Second Junior and of the Senior Classes,
of the former,
upon the
studies of the
first
W
two years of the
Course, preparatory to advancement to the Junior Class, and
of the latter, upon those of the last two years, for the Degree
of Bachelor of Arts.
the following plan
The Examinations
are conducted
upon
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UNDEll GRADUATES,
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EESIBENCE.
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Thomas H. Burgess,
Ilarveysburg
Thomas
Carthage
Clark,
Pasehall Hacker,
Daniel
Ohio.
Ind'a.
Philadelphia
W. Hunt,
P'a.
Annapolis
Ind'a.
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•'William G. Rhoads,
Philadelphia
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Samuel T. Satterthwaite,
Chesterfield
N.
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William G.Tyler,
Salem...
N.J.
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Thomas Wistar,
Ellis
H. Yarnall,...
P'a.
J.
Philadelphia
P'a.
Philadelphia
P'a.
JUNIORS.
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William H. Brown,
Chestnut Hill
Jr.,
P'a.
Richard W. Chase,
Burlington
N.
*rowell Buxton
New Market
N. C.
Hill,
J.
Cyrus Lindloy,
Monrovia
James R. Magce,
Philadelphia
P'a.
Philadelphia
P'a.
Richard
C.
Paxson,
Edward Rhoads,
Edward
C.
Sampson,
Philadelphia
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Ind'a.
,
Pa.
Manchester
Me.
Me.
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George Sampson,
Manchester
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Abram
Ivy Mills
P'a.
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Benjamin
Upper Darby
P'a.
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Thomas
Pottstown
P'a.
Sharpies,
II.
Smith,
C. Steele,
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Pursuing a partial Course.
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SECOND JUNIORS,
NAMES.
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Charles Bettle,
Philadelphia
Lindley M. Clark,
Carthage
William B. Corbit,
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Ind'a
Odessa
Del
Strickersville
P'a
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William M.
Corlies,
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William P. Flowers,
Newtown
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Benjamin H. Jessup,
Cinnaminson, P.
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John A. Lang,
Vassalboro'
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Joshua Lippincott,
(
Frederick
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W.
Jr.,
P'a,
Cinnaminson, P.
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N.J.
0.,
N.J.
Me.
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Philadelphia
P'a.
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Theodore H. Morris,
Philadelphia
P'a.
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Richard Pancoast,
Philadelphia
P'a.
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John W. Pinkham,
North Vassalboro'
Me.
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Francis Richardson,
Philadelphia
P'a.
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Clement L. Smith,
Upper Darby
P'a.
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Thomas
Philadelphia
P'a.
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•George M. Tatum,
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N.J.
James Tyson,
Reading
Silas A. Underhill,
Brooklyn
William H. Underhill,
Indianapolis
John
Witmer,
Paradise
A.N.Wood,
New York
S.
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Francis
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Edwin Yardley,
M
Woodbury
P'a.
L.
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Ind'a.
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N. Y.
Yardleyville
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Edward
Philadelphia
P'a.
Philadelphia
P'a.
5
William B. Broomall,
Chester
P'a.
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Howard
F. Harkness,
Philadelphia
P'a.
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William
J. Hull,
Baltimore
Md.
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Tamaqua
P'a.
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Henry
C.
Bettle,
Bettle,
Henry Jones,
Ivins D. Jones,
Florence
N.
Thomas W. Lamb,
Newby 's Bridge
N. C.
Charles Lippincott,
Cinnaminson, P.
Anthony J. Morris,
Pemberton
John B. Mott,
New York
Samuel Parsons,
Flushing
William N. Potts,
Grermantown
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N. J.
N.
City
J.
J.
N. Y.
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Theodore
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John
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Philadelpbia
Starr,
P'a.
Carthage
Thomas,
Ind'a.
Md.
Baltimore
*Edwin Tomlinson,
George Wood,
N.
Laurel Mills
Philadelphia
J.
P'a.
ACADEMICAL DEPAETMENT.
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Horace G. Lippincott,
Philadelphia
P'a.
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James
Philadelphia
P'a.
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Moorestown
Spencer Stokes,
Roherts Yaux,
N.
Philadelphia
Randolph Wood,
Philadelphia
«Wmiam
New York
H. Willets,
P'a.
N. Y.
City
SUMMARY.
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Graduates,
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UNDER GRADUATES.
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SENions,
9
Juniors,
12
Second Juniors,
22
Third Juniors,
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COUESE OF STUDY.
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THIRD JUKIOE CLASS.
MATHEMATICS.
Algebra,
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Elementary Trigonometry,
Greometry,
Surveying,
..
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.
Alsop.
Gummere.
First Six Boohs of Euclid,
Gummere, through Ch.
GREEK AND LATIN LANGUAGES.
Greek Testament,
The Anabasis
of
Greenfield.
Xenophon,
,
Owen.
.
Arnold.
.
Schmitz or Gould,
Greek Syntax,
Groshy.
Greek Prose Composition,
....
Virgil,
.
Latin Prosody.
Latin Prose Composition,
Arnold.
.
ENGLISH LITERATURE,
ETC.
English Compositions.
Chemistry,
......
Universal History,
Geology, commenced,
....
Stoclchardt.
Weher.
Hitchcocle.
Drawing.
SECOND JUNIOR CLASS,
MATHEMATICS.
Surveying, completed.
Geometry of Planes.
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Plane and Spherical Trigonometry,
.
.
Lewis.
Descriptive Astronomy, to Part II.,
.
.
Herschel.
3.
The members of the Class under Examination
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questions, (the same to each,)
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Course, which he
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upon
are
and
To each question
cording to
its
who
number
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s
answer
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case, instead of this
1'
of writing, for the
Ex-
The questions
a certain numerical value
is
assigned, ac-
The answers
in each
Department are examined by the Professor in that Department,
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The time
limited to four hours.
importance and dif&culty.
;
>'
is
knowledge of the subject.
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or subject in the
and passages selected throughout the text-books,
topics
c;
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upon some book
are calculated to test as accurately as possible the student's
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are seated in a
furnished with a set of
required to answer in writing, without con-
amination in each book,
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f
is
any person or book.
suiting
is
places against each answer that
is
substantially correct, the
affixed to the corresponding question
is
as the case
answer.
;
may
when
except
either imperfect, or distinguished for merit
in
;
the
which
number, he places a lower or a higher one,
be, to express his estimate of the value of the
A student must gain
credit for at least one half of all
the numbers in each book studied in the Course, and also for
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two-thirds of all the num-bers in each Department,, before he
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can be advanced to the Junior Class, or be graduated and re-
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Diploma of a Bachelor of Arts.
the end of each
Term
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there
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is
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a Public Examination of
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the Classes.
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Graduates
of
Paster
of %xtB.
of three years standing, can take the Degree of
Master of Arts, on submitting
to the
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Committee on Instruction
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presenting a Thesis on some literary or scientific subject, which
shall receive the approbation of the Faculty.
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Witli a view of furnishing to the Students in the higher
means of becoming familiar with the construction
Classes the
and use of Astronomical Instruments, and of acquiring, from
actual observation, a practical acquaintance with Astronomy,
an excellent
Observatory
The building
is
has been erected near the College.
of stone, and consists of a central part 20 feet
square, and of nearly the
same height, with wings 15
feet
square to the East and West, and surmounted by a revolving
Dome, 19
feet in diameter.
The Instruments with which
it is
furnished, are an Equato-
Telescope; a Meridian Transit Circle;
rial
a Prime-Yertical
Transit; a Sidereal Clock, and Bond's ingenious and beautiful
" Spring Governor."
The Equatorial, by Henry
of
8-1
inches,
and a
}
upon a stone
New York,
11
has an aperture
It is
feet.
on a marble pedestal 8
the Fraunhofer style,
rests
Fitz of
focal length of
mounted
feet high,
in
which
pier 6 feet in diameter, passing through, but
not in contact with, the floors of the building, and solidly imbed-
ded several
feet
The Telescope
below the surface of the ground.
has an excellent spider-line, and also an annular-micrometer,
with six eye-pieces, varying in magnifying power from 60 to
900 times.
It is likewise provided
by which the
object
whose attachment
the Clock
is
is
is
with a Clock movement,
kept steadily in the
field of
view, and
such as allows the tube to be turned while
in operation.
In the West wing
is
mounted the Meridian
German form, and made by William
J.
Young
Circle, of the
of Philadelphia.
19
4 inches aperture, and 5
It has an excellent Telescope of
focus, with a
circle at
ter; one reading
each end of the axis 26 inches in diame-
by four
The Instrument
is
a Sidereal Clock
delphia, the gift of the late
in all respects a
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mercurial compensation,
most elegant and trustworthy instru-
by copper
wires,
— which wires
in a small adjoining apartment
instruments in the Observatory,
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made with
It is
In the same room with the Clock, and connected with
ment.
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by Harpur of Phila-
Thomas P. Cope.
a glass pendulum, and the well
is
arc,
supported
is
5 feet high, firmly based on masonry.
piers,
In the Eastern wing
and
two seconds of
verniers, to
other used simply as a finder.
by marble
feet
also lead to a Grove's Battery
and thence
name
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wrapped around the cylinder, and on
commencement
of each second is recorded
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exact coincidence with the beats of the Clock.
The Observer
at each Telescope is furnished with a " break -circuit" key,
which means he
is
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enabled to make a record of his observations
on the paper covering the cylinder, among the second marks of
the Clock, in such a manner, and with such accuracy, that the
tenths of a second
may
be read
off
without
difficulty or possi-
bility of error.
The whole
this,
cost of the Observatory
^2500 was expended upon
was about $ 7000.
Of
the building alone; the re-
mainder in furnishing the instruments
it
contains.
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The Library
care.
of the College has been selected with great
The nnniber of volumes
tions to -which are frequently
is
at present about 2500, addi-
made.
Besides a good selection
of classical, scientific, and popular works in various departments,
it
John
includes the valuable mathematical collection of the late
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Grummere, the most approved Lexicons, and many of the best
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illustratioHof Natural Philosophy and Chemistry; and additions
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are from time to time
made
to
it,
as the progress
of the
'
Sciences requires.
The extensive Mineralogical Collection
of the
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has also been formed, comprising com-
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Dr. Troost occupies the cases in the Collection Koom.
Geological Cabinet
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plete suites of specimens illustrating the
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and South Carolina, prepared
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1000
of the Loganian Society contains about
Lardner Vanuxem.
for
the
Geology of
College
New York
by the
late
Continual additions are making to this
department.
For
the illustration
't
of Ancient Geography, the College is
furnished with Kiepert's series of
Wall
Maps.
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In the rear of the Lecture and Apparatus Eooms,
is
a large,
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thoroughly ventilated,
and well-furnished Laboratory, in
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which the students are familiarized with Chemical Manipulations.
These operations are conducted under the supervision
^
of the Professor of Chemistry, and afford ample
means
for a
practical acquaintance with this important branch of study.
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This
f0gaiiiaii
Society, established
by tbe
Sorietg.
Officers
and Students of
Haverford School in 1834, has been in successful operation to
The
this time.
exercises in its weekly meetings are Discus-
Original Essays,
sions, Declamations,
lishes a
etc.
The
manuscript paper or magazine, monthly.
possession a carefully selected library of nearly
a
museum
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It has in its
1000 volumes,
of curiosities, and a carpenter's shop, furnished with
a lathe and tools.
also, is
Society pub-
under
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large
its direction,
and well-furnished Gymnasium,
and
is
much used by
Committee of the Society has attached
and shrubs on the Lawn, bearing their
the members.
labels to the trees
scientific
and popular
names, thus greatly enhancing the practical yalue of the
Arboretum.
Funds
for this purpose
friends of the College.
^m
were kindly furnished by
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®V]tt\ otr SHu^itioH of i\t
About
Friends in
the year 1830^ a strong interest was manifested
New
York, Philadelphia, and other places,
by
for the
establishment of a Collegiate Institution, where members of
their
own
Society might be instructed in the higher branches
of learning.
Measures were accordingly taken
for this object;
subscriptions were opened, the site was selected, and an act of
incorporation obtained from the Legislature of Pennsylvania.
The buildings were
year 1833.
erected and the School was opened in the
In 1856 an additional act of the Legislature was
preeured, giving the Institution the rights and
always had the character
—
title,
—
as it
had
of a College.
The College has a remarkably pleasant and healthy
location,
on the Pennsylvania Rail Road, nine miles west of Philadelphia.
which
the
The buildings
is finely laid
number and
are situated on a
lawn of forty
acres,
out with walks and terraces, and which, in
variety of
its trees
unsurpassed by any lawn in the
and shrubbery,
state.
is
perhaps
All the Students board
at the Institution, each one being furnished with a separate
room.
The number that can be accommodated
is
70.
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Commencement
month of each
day of the
on the second Fourth-day in the Seventh
is
The Junior Exhibition
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the second Term, of twenty-one weeks,
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twenty weeks
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—and
beginning two weeks from the end of the
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Term,
is
There are two Terms; the
Term.
first
on the
last
year.
day.
first
first
Term, and
clos-
There are accordingly two Vaca-
of nine weeks in the
Summer,
—and
one of two
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weeks in the Winter.
No
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Student
is
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admitted except at the opening of a Term,
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" The College
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Friends,
who may
rule of the Asso-
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open for the admis-
s
and of professors with
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shall be
sion of Friends, the children of Friends,
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for a period less than one year.
desire their children to be educated in con\
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Society.''
The
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price of
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is
S250
per annum, payable
$ 75 at the opening of each Term, and % 50
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at the
middle of
it.
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