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ARiTHJrETic (Through Short Division.)
Reading. Spelling. Penmanship.

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Arithmetic Butler and Brook.

Practical Lessons in English. Composition.

Grammar. Geography. Map Drawing.

History of United States. Spelling. Penmanship. Algebra.

L^TiN Beginner's Latin Book (Collar & Daniel), Grammar with Reader.

History of England. Physiology.

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Freshman Year.

Fird Term.

Higher Algebra (commenced) Wentworth.
Latin (Ctesar) x\llen & Greenougli.
Physical Geography Maury.
Grammar. Composition. Penmanship.

Second Term.

Algebra (completed) Wentworth.
Geometry (Plane) Wentworth.
Latin (Cuesar). French, or German.
Composition. Penmanship.

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Sophomore Year.

First Term.
Bible Course Shearer.

Geometry (Solid and Spherical) Wentworth.
Latin (Virgil) Allen & Greenough.
Rhetoric Hart.

French, or German Fasnacht 1st.
Elocution.
History of Greece.

Second Term.

Bible Course Shearer.
French, or German Fasnacht 2d.
Latin (Virgil) Allen & Greenough.
Natural Philosophy Steele's New.
Rhetoric. Composition. Penmanship.
History of Rome.

Junior-

Flrd Term.
BiRLE Course Shearer.
Trigonometry.

Latin (Cicero) Orations Allen & Greenough.
Chemistry Steele's New.
English Literature Taine. Composition.
French, or German.

Second Term.

Bible Course Shearer.
Analytical Geometry Wentworth.
Latin Sallust.
Mineralogy Dana.
French, or German.
Intellectual Philosophy Haven .
English Literature Taine.

Senior

First Term.

Bible Course. Logic.

Latin Horace.

Outlines of History.

Moral Philosophy. Geology Dana.

Shakespeare's Pl.^ys and History of Literature.

Second Term.

Political Economy.

Butler's Analogy. Astronomy.

Bible Course.

Latin (Livy) Tacitus.

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First Grade New England Conservatory Method, or Piano-Forte Instruc-
tion by Hamilton Howe.
Second Grade Sonatinas by Dussek and Diabelli. Five finger exercises,
scales and arpeggios. Exercises by Loeschhorn and Mason.
All alleviated by parlor rondos and pieces by popular authors. Classes in
siirht reading will extend through both of the above grades. These classes
will consist in elementary instruction. Lines and spaces, notes, tlie G and F
clef and their use. Rhythm and time signature. The major scale and its
formation. Sight reading.

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The regular course embraces four grades, as follows :

First Grade Sonatas of Clementi, Haydn, Kuhlan, etc. Five finger exer-
cises, scales in thirds, sixths, tenths, parallel and contrary motion, in
different rhythm, etc. Loeschhorn's Studies for Beginners and Czerny's
School of Velocity, book 1.
Second Grade Sonatas of Mozart. Technical studies by Plaidy, composed
expressly for the Conservatories of Leipsic and Munich. Loeschhorn's
studies for advanced players. Czerney's School of Velocity, book 2 and 3.
Third Grade Songs without words by Mendelssohn. Sonatas of Beethoven.
Select works from Weber, Schubert, Scharwenka, Wollenhaupt, etc.
Exercises by Koehler, and Cramer's Fifty Studies, book 1 and 2.
Fourth Grade Sonatas l)y Beethoven continued. Selections from Chopin,
Taussig, Raff, Rubinstein, Thalberg, Brahms, Liszt, v. Bulow, etc.
Cramer's Fifty Studies, book 3 and 4. Exercises by Clementi, Mosheles,
Chopin, etc.
The above course will be supplemented throughout by the best selections of
eminent popular composers. The study of Harmony may be taken up in the
second or third grade, and must be finished according to "Richter's Harmony''
as used in the Conservatory of Leipsic, before the course can be completed.
The study of Historv of Music is earnestly urged upon each student, especially
upon those of the tliird and fourth grades. Classes in analysis and composi-
tion will be organized according to the judgment of the Director. Besides
this, advanced students will be given frequent exercises in four, eight and
twelve handed practice at sight on two and three pianos. All members of the
Musical Department will meet together once a week in the Music Room, and
by turns ten or more students will give Recitals before the rest. Monthly
public Musicales will be given, to which, for want of room, only a limited
number of invitations can'be given out, until the new building is finished.

Students may enter the course at any time and at any stage of advancement,
and will be classified accordingly. Tl'iey will not remain in any one grade a
prescribed length of time, but will advance according to their industry
and abilitv.