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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR.
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Studies of the freshman class.

Mathematics.—Loomis's Treatise on Algebra; Looinis's Geometry.

English.—Kerl's Common School Grammar, (reviewed;) Berard's History of England; original compositions.

Latin.—Sallust; Cicero's Orations; Allen's Latin Grammar.

[1] Greek.—Boise's First Lessons in Greek; Hadley's Greek Grammar; Xenophon's Anabasis.

Studies of the sophomore class.

Mathematics.—Loomis's Conic Sections; Loomis's Plane and Spherical Trigonometry and Surveying.

Botany.—Gray's School and Field Book of Botany.

Chemistry.—Cooley's Chemistry, with lectures.

Latin.—Virgil's Æneid; Odes of Horace.

[1] Greek.—Homer's Iliad.

History.—Thalheimer's Manual of Ancient History; White's Eighteen Christian Centuries.

English.—Trench's English Past and Present; original compositions

Studies of the junior class.

Mathematics.—Snell's Olmstead's Natural Philosophy; Loomis's Treatise on Astronomy.

Chemistry.—Laboratory Practice, with lectures.

Mineralogy.—Dana's Manual of Mineralogy.

Geology.—Dana's Text-book of Geology.

French.—Prendergast's Mastery Method; Otto's French Grammar; Souvestre's Philosophe sous les Toits; Erckuiann-Chatrian's Eomans Nationaux; Racine's Athalie.

[1] Greek.—Demosthenes on the Crown.

History.—Guizot's History of Civilization.

English.—Bain's Ehetoric; original compositions.

Studies of the senior class.

Geology.—Dana's Text-book of Geology.

Physiology.—Hitchcock's Anatomy and Physiology.

German.—Prendergast's Mastery Method; Whitney's German Grammar; Whitney's German Header; Fouqué's Undine; Lessing's Minna vonBarnhelm; Schiller's Wilhelm Tell.

Mental philosophy and logic.—Porter's Elements of Intellectual Science; Jevons's Logic.

English.—Shaw's Manual of English Literature; original compositions.

Moral philosophy and evidences of Christianity.—Haven's Moral Philosophy; Butler's Analogy.

Political philosophy.—Perry's Political Economy; Woolsey's International Law.

Æsthetics.—Baseom's Elements of Beauty.

Instruction in book-keeping and in drawing and painting is given to those who desire it.

Instruction in articulation is given to those who desire it, and are found to possess such natural aptness for correct vocalization as seems to justify the great expenditure of time and labor essential to any satisfactory progress.


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