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     The Course of Study will, in future, be divided into Schools, as follows: 

1. School of English Literature
2. School of Mathematics
3. School of Geography and History
4. School of Natural Sciences
5. School of Mental and Moral Philosophy
6. School of Ancient Languages
7. School of Modern Languages
8. School of Vocal and Instrumental Music
9. School of Drawing and Painting

I. - SCHOOL OF ENGLISH LITERATURE --
Text Books -- Butler's English Grammar. Kerl's Common-School Grammar. Kerl's Comprehensive Grammar. Graham's Synonyms.  Harts' Rhetoric. Trench on Study of Words.  Reed's Lectures on English Literature, History and Poetry.   Compositions and Abstracts weekly, and frequent Dictation Exercises. 

II. -- SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS -- Text Books -- Felter's Arithmetics.  Robinson's Algebra.  Robinson's Geometry (5 books) and Plane Trigonometry. Felter's Grammar-School Arithmetic weekly for advanced classes. .

III. -- SCHOOL OF GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY -- Text Books -- Yonge's Landmarks of Ancient History.  Yonge's Landmarks of Mediaeval History.  Taylor's Manual Ancient and Modern History.  White's Eighteen Christian Centuries. Guyot's Geographies, with thorough practice in Map Drawing.

IV. -- SCHOOL OF NATURAL SCIENCES -- Text Books -- Hooker's Natural History  Cutter's Physiology. Steele's Fourteen Weeks in Chemistry. Steele's Fourteen Weeks in Natural Philosophy, Astronomy and Geology.  Youman's Handbook of Household Science.  

V.   SCHOOL OF MENTAL AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY -- Text Books - Upham's Mental Philosophy.  Alexander's Moral Science. Butler's Analogy.

VI. -- SCHOOL OF ANCIENT LANGUAGES -- Text Books - Bingham's Latin Grammar.  Bingham's Latin Reader.  Bingham's Caesar (4 books).  Virgil (Searing's) Cicero. Hoarace.

VII. -- SCHOOL OF FRENCH -- Text Books -- Choquet's First Lessons in French. McGill's French Grammar. McGill's French Readers. McGill's French Prose and Poetry.  Paul and Virginia. Corrinne, Racine, Telemachus, &c.

VIII. -- SCHOOL OF VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC -- Pupils will enjoy usual advantages in the study of music, both vocal and instrumental. Prof. A. Baumann, who has been connected with the Institution for nine years, as Instructor of Music, will have entire control of this School during the next session. He will be assisted by accomplished assistants. To receive a Certificate of Proficiency in this School, the pupil must have acquired such proficiency as Professor Baumann may deem satisfactory.

IX. -- SCHOOL OF DRAWING AND PAINTING -- To receive a Certificate in this School, the pupil must have attained such proficiency as the instructor in this department may consider necessary.

It will be seen that each of the above schools constitutes a complete course on the subject taught.

Examinations.

     These occur at any time during the session, and also at its close. As soon as the members of a class have completed a text-book, they will be subjected to a rigid examination (written or oral). Questions will be prepared by the teacher, to each of which a particular value is assigned, and the students are not informed what questions will be propounded to them until they are required to give an answer to them in the presence of the teacher, without assistance from any source whatever.

     The standard number in these examinations will be one hundred.  If the pupil answers questions amounting, in value, to seventy, or seven tenths of the whole, she will be allowed to pass, and if her correct answers amount to eighty, or eight tenths of the whole, she will be entitled to a "distinction."  When a pupil has completed the "Course of Study" in any school, and obtained, at every examination, seven tenths of the standard mark, she will receive a Certificate of Proficiency in that School.

Graduation.

     To become a full Graduate, and receive a Diploma, the pupil must have received "Certificates of Proficiency" in the following schools: 1. English Literature, 2. Mathematics, 3. History and Geography, 4. Natural Science., 5. One Ancient Language., 6. One Modern Language., 7. Mental and Moral Philosophy. A high attainment in Music, or in Drawing and Painting, will be considered as equivalent to one Ancient or one Modern Language.

     This Course of Study, it will be seen, is extensive, and as a thorough knowledge of it will be required before receiving a Diploma, few will become graduates unless more time is allowed young ladies for completing their education than is customary now to allow.

Academic and Primary Departments.

     These departments are intended for pupils not sufficiently advanced to enter the regular classes. We have employed teachers of known experience and efficiency, and while they will have immediate control of them, still they are always under the eye and management of the Principals.

     The following is the Course of Study for pupils in this Department: