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There were no semester hours; there was no laboratory work; Instruction was by recitations, written translations, themes, and occasional demonstration lectures by the instructor in scientific subjects, but lectures were at a minimum in that era.
The studies in the college course were as follows:
FRESHMEN
- Sallust, part of Greek Testament
- Livy (Roman historian)
- Graeca Minora
- Arithmetic
- Algebra
- English Grammar
- Elements of Rhetoric and Rhetorical Analysis
SOPHOMORE
- De Senectute and de Oratore
- Nine books of Euclid (Greek geometrician & educator)
- Graeca Majora
- Algebra
- Geometry
- Horace (Roman poet & satirist)
- Logic
JUNIOR
- Latin excerpta
- Chemistry
- Graeca Majora
- Mechanical Philosophy
- Astronomy
SENIOR
- Rhetoric
- Intellectual Philosophy
- History
- Moral and Political Philosophy
- Political Economy
- Natural Theology
- Natural and Revealed Religion
- Evidences of Christianity
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