Colby College Catalogue 1871 - 1872

Colby College Digital Commons @ Colby Colby Catalogues Colby College Archives 1871 Colby College Catalogue 1871 - 1872 Colby College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/catalogs Part of the Curriculum and Instruction Commons, and the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Colby College, "Colby College Catalogue 1871 - 1872" (1871) Colby Catalogues 125 https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/catalogs/125 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Colby College Archives at Digital Commons @ Colby It has been accepted for inclusion in Colby Catalogues by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Colby Generated on 2013-04-15 18:08 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuo.ark:/13960/t8qc18j5k Public Domain / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd ;-, m «** of m Uh ILUH0I8 CATALOGUE OF COLBY UNIVERSITY 187 1-2 Generated on 2013-04-15 18:08 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuo.ark:/13960/t8qc18j5k Public Domain / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd CATALOGUE TOf timpr NTH£ JAN ?,8 OF THE J -' 1936 fNiVEftSiTV OF 'Unvois OFFICERS AND STUDENTS COLBY UNIVERSITY, FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR 1871-2, WATERVILLE : PRINTED FOR THE UNIVERSITY Generated on 2013-04-15 18:08 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuo.ark:/13960/t8qc18j5k Public Domain / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd 1871 Generated on 2013-04-15 18:08 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuo.ark:/13960/t8qc18j5k Public Domain / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd JOURNAL STEAM PRESS, LEWISTON BOARD OF TRUSTEES Rev JAMES T CH AMPLEST, D D., President Hon ABNER COB URN, Vice President ELDRIDGE L GETCHELL, Esq., Treasurer Rev B F SHAW, Secretary Samuel Garnsey, Esq j/^Rev Joseph Ricker, D D Moses Giddings, Esq Rev David N Sheldon, D.D Rev William H Shailer, D.D Rev Nathaniel Butler, Hon Hannibal Hamlin, LL.D Hon JosiahH.Drummond,LL.D Rev George W Bosworth, D.D Hon Dennis L Milliken, S Rev Albion K P Small, William Wilson, Esq Hon Henry A Kennedy, James H Hanson, A M Hon Benjamin D Metcalf, Rev Henry V Dexter, D D Rev Franklin Merriam, Gardner Colby, Esq Rev E E Cummings, D.D Hon.Charles RendolWhidden, Hon J Warren Merrill, Calvin Hopkins, Esq Hon William E.Wording, LL.D Rev Oakman S Stearns, D D Hon Alexander Campbell, Rev B F Shaw, Rev A R Crane, */ Generated on 2013-04-15 18:08 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuo.ark:/13960/t8qc18j5k Public Domain / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd Hon George H Pilsbury Generated on 2013-04-15 18:08 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuo.ark:/13960/t8qc18j5k Public Domain / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd THE LIBRARY OF THE DIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FACULTY OF INSTRUCTION Rev JAMES T CHAMPLIN, D D., PRESIDENT BABCOCK PROFESSOR OF INTELLECTUAL AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY Rev SAMUEL K SMITH, D D., PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND LIBRARIAN CHARLES E HAMLIN, A M., MERRILL PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY AND NATURAL HISTORY MOSES LYFORD, A M., PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY JOHN B FOSTER, A M., PROFESSOR OF THE GREEK AND LATIN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE EDWARD W HALL, A M., PROFESSOR OF MODERN LANGUAGES JULIAN D TAYLOR, A M., Generated on 2013-04-15 18:08 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuo.ark:/13960/t8qc18j5k Public Domain / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd TUTOR Generated on 2013-04-15 18:08 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuo.ark:/13960/t8qc18j5k Public Domain / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd 1«i ««»' ^ftl*** sm STUDENTS SENIOR CLASS NAMES RESIDENCES ROOMS John Harris Barrows, East Sumner, 12 S C Elihu Burritt Haskell, Guilford, S C Thomas Gould Lyons, Waterville, 14 s c Howard Rogers Mitchell, Waterville, Mr Mitchell's Wilder Washington Perry, Camden, 11 s c Alfred Sweetser Stowell, Wakefield, Ms , 32 s c Horace Wayland Tilden, Lew is ton, 15 N C Lewis Albert Wheeler, Waterville, Generated on 2013-04-15 18:08 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuo.ark:/13960/t8qc18j5k Public Domain / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd Mrs Wheeler's- Generated on 2013-04-15 18:08 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuo.ark:/13960/t8qc18j5k Public Domain / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd THE WMM Of Tilt wniasmr of iiumis 13 TERMS OF ADMISSION.* The requisites for admission to the Freshman Class are, testimonials of a good moral character, a thorough acquaint- ance with English, Latin and Greek Grammar (Hadley's Greek and Harkness' Latin, preferred), four books of Cae- sar's Commentaries, the Catiline of Sallust, six books of the y^neid of Virgil, six Orations of Cicero, Latin Compo- sition as far as Part Third of Harkness* Introduction, three books of Xenophon's Anabasis or an equivalent, Ancient and Modern Geography, Arithmetic, and Algebra to Equa- tions of the Second Degree in Davies' Bourdon It is recommended to students in preparation, to read attentively some manual of Greek and Roman History Candidates for advanced standing are examined in the preparatory studies, and in the various studies to which the class they propose to enter have attended Those who are admitted from other Colleges must present certificates of regular dismission In all cases testimonials of good moral character are required The stated times for examinations are Tuesday before Commencement, and the first day of the first term SELECT COURSE Individuals of suitable age and attainments will be al- lowed to pursue a Partial Course, for any length of time not less than one year, selecting such studies as they may desire They will be required to recite with the regular College Classes at least twice a day, and to continue through the term any study commenced They will have access to the Libraries and Lectures, and on leaving the Institution will be entitled to a certificate of their respective acquire- ments in the studies on which they have passed an exami- Generated on 2013-04-15 18:08 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuo.ark:/13960/t8qc18j5k Public Domain / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd nation 14 COURSE OF STUDY FRESHMAN YEAR FIRST TERM Geometry, Davies' Legendre Latin, Livy Latin Grammar, Harkness Latin Prose Composition, Arnold Greek, Plato's Apology and Crito Greek Grammar, Hadley Exercises in Elocution, Day SECOND TERM Geometry, (completed,) Davies' Legendre Algebra, Davies' Bourdon Latin, Odes of Horace Latin Grammar, Harkness Latin Composition, Arnold Greek, Greek History Greek Grammar, Hadley Exercises in Elocution, Day THIRD TERM Algebra, (completed,) Davies' Bourdon Greek, Homer Greek Grammar, Hadley Greek Composition, Boise Latin, Germania and Agricola of Tacitus SOPHOMORE YEAR FIRST TERM Trigonometry, Davies Latin, Epistles of Horace Greek, Philippics of Demosthenes Generated on 2013-04-15 18:08 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuo.ark:/13960/t8qc18j5k Public Domain / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd Rhetoric, Whately, Day's Rhetorical Praxis, and Lectures 15 SECOND TERM Analytical Geometry, Davies Latin, Satires of Horace Rhetoric, Whately and Day French, Otto's Grammar Political Economy, Champlin Anglo Saxon, THIRD TERM March Differential and Integral Calculus, or Botany Latin, Generated on 2013-04-15 18:08 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuo.ark:/13960/t8qc18j5k Public Domain / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd Cicero de Amicitia French, Bocher's Reader Surveying and Navigation, Davies Anglo Saxon, March English Literature, • • Spalding and Shaw JUNIOR YEAR FIRST TERM Greek, Demosthenes on the Crown Mechanics, Snell 's Olmsted Chemistry, SECOND TERM 16 SENIOR YEAR FIRST TERM Optics, Snell's Olmsted Constitution of the United States, Sheppard Ethics, Champlin German, Schiller's Wilhelm Tell, and Goethe's Hermann and Dorothea SECOND TERM Intellectual Philosophy, Champlin Latin, Histories of Tacitus Astronomy, Loomis THIRD TERM History, May's Constitutional History of England Rhetoric, Whately It is required that these studies be pursued, and regular examinations sustained in them, by each student, prior to his receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts LECTURES In connection with the regular recitations, Lectures are delivered to the several classes on the following subjects : Chemistry, Geology, Zoology, Botany, The various branches of Natural Philosophy, Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, Greek History and Literature, Roman History and Literature, Greek and Roman Mythology, Rhetoric and Elocution, Verbal Criticism and History of the English Language, Generated on 2013-04-15 18:08 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuo.ark:/13960/t8qc18j5k Public Domain / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd The French and German Languages IT RECAPITULATION OF THE SUBJECTS OF STUDY IN EACH DEPARTMENT GREEK Greek History, Plato's Apology and Crito, Popular Orations of Demosthenes, Iliad or Odyssey of Homer, Alcestis of Euripides, or Antigone of Sophocles, Demosthenes on the Crown, Hadley's Greek Grammar, Greek Prosody, Boise's Greek Prose Composition LATIN Livy, Cicero de Amicitia, Horace : Odes, Satires and Epistles, Tacitus : Germania, Agricola, and History, Harkness' Latin Grammar, Arnold's Latin Prose Composition The following books are used in the study of the Greek and Latin Languages : Liddell and Scott's Greek Lexicon, Andrews' Latin Lexicon, Anthon's Classical Dictionary, Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Rams- horn's or Doderlein's Latin Synonyms, Long's Classical Atlas, Baird's Classical Manual MATHEMATICS AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY Geometry, Algebra, Trigonometry, Projections, Mensuration of Heights and Distances, Sur- veying, Levelling and Navigation, Analytical Geometry, Differential and Integral Calculus, Generated on 2013-04-15 18:08 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuo.ark:/13960/t8qc18j5k Public Domain / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd Mechanics, 18 Acoustics, Civil Engineering, Optics, Astronomy CHEMISTRY AND NATURAL HISTORY Johnston's Chemistry, Agassiz and Gould's Principles of Zoology, Loomis' Anatomy and Physiology, Loomis' Geology, Wood's Botany, Tenney's Zoology RHETORIC AND LOGIC Whately's Rhetoric, Whately's Logic, Day's Elocution, Day's Rhetorical Praxis, English Literature, Spalding and Shaw, Anglo-Saxon, March's Reader Themes are required of the Sophomore, Junior, and Senior Classes, once in two weeks Declamations are required from one of the four classes every week, the Senior and Junior Classes speaking original articles Exercises in Elocution are continued throughout the course HISTORY Baird's Classical Manual, Arnold's and Piitz' Ancient Geography and History, May's Constitutional History of England INTELLECTUAL AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY Champlin's Intellectual Philosophy, Wardlaw's Leading Evidences, Champlin's First Principles of Ethics, Champlin's Political Economy, Generated on 2013-04-15 18:08 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuo.ark:/13960/t8qc18j5k Public Domain / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd Constitution of the United States 19 MODERN LANGUAGES In this department the regular course embraces instruc- tion in the French and German Languages French : Otto's Grammar and Bocher's French Reader, Textes Classiques XVIII E et XIX E Siecles German : Comfort's German Course, Adler's German Reader, Schiller's Wilhelm Tell, Goethe's Hermann and Dorothea ADMISSION OF WOMEN The courses of study are now open to young women, on the same terms as to young men EXHIBITION There is an exhibition of the Senior Class at the end of the first term, at which honorary parts, consisting of English, Greek, French, and Latin versions are assigned to members of the Junior Class, whose rank is such as to entitle them to the distinction PRIZE DECLAMATIONS There is a Prize Declamation of the Sophomore Class at the end of the Spring Term, and of the Junior Class, speaking original articles, at the end of the Summer Term At those declamations, in the last academic year, the prizes were awarded as follows : Junior Declamation : First Prize to Horace Wayland Tilden Second Prize to Elihu Burritt Haskell Sophomore Declamation : First Prize to Nathaniel But- ler, Jr Second Prize to Jefferson Taylor The Prize for the best Composition at the Senior Exhi- Generated on 2013-04-15 18:08 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuo.ark:/13960/t8qc18j5k Public Domain / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd bition of 87 was awarded to Delwin Augustus Hamlin 20 PUBLIC WORSHIP All the students are required to attend some place of public worship on the Sabbath ; each student or his parent or guardian being permitted to select for attendance either of the places of public worship in the village EXAMINATIONS There is a public examination of all the Classes at the close of each term In the Mathematical and most of the English branches the student is required to exhibit his attainments, in any part of the term's study assigned to him, without being questioned, and to conduct the discussion himself The final examination of the Senior Class occurs five weeks before Commencement TERM BILLS There is kept an accurate account of each student's absences from all exercises upon which his attendance is required ; also, of his general conduct and scholarship This account, in connection with the regular term bill, em- bracing the charge for Tuition, Room-rent, use of Library and Incidentals, is sent to the student's parent or guardian at the close of each term COMMENCEMENT AND VACATIONS Commencement is on the last Thursday of July The first vacation is of five weeks, from Commencement; the second is of eight, from the second Wednesday of Decem- ber ; the third is of one week, at the close of the second term The first term is of fifteen weeks ; the second and third terms, of twelve weeks each The terms are so ar- ranged as to give a long vacation in the Winter, which may be profitably employed in teaching, by those whose circum- stances require it Students are allowed to leave for their schools the Wednesday before the first Monday in Decem- Generated on 2013-04-15 18:08 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuo.ark:/13960/t8qc18j5k Public Domain / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd ber 21 EXPENSES Tuition, Room-rent and use of Library -$41 00 $41 00 Incidental expenses °° °° Board from $2 50 to $3 50 per week 97 5° T 5° Fuel, Washing and Lights 15 00 20 00 Amount $158 50 $202 50 The sum necessary for books, clothing and travelling expenses, will vary according to circumstances and the habits of the student College term bills are to be paid at the commencement of the succeeding term Persons admitted to advance stand- ing, if not from another College, are required to pay back tuition ; but no matriculation fee is exacted in any case AID TO STUDENTS Besides the opportunity for teaching two or three months in the winter, the Education Societies aid those preparing for the Christian Ministry, and there are several scholar- ships, the benefit of which may be enjoyed by meritorious students who need the aid And, in addition, the institu- tion offers the following Hoi^orary Aid The first term bill cancelled for the student best fitted for college ; also all subsequent bills through his course, in case he needs the aid and maintains a high rank in his class The first term bill cancelled for the best of not less than six from the same school Also the second bill, and the first and second bills in each year, on the same condi- tion as above The first term bill cancelled for the best of not less than four from the same school ; and the first bill in each subsequent year, on the same conditions as above But no school shall be entitled to more than one prize ; nor shall any one receive a prize who is not well prepared Generated on 2013-04-15 18:08 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuo.ark:/13960/t8qc18j5k Public Domain / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd for college 22 These prizes, for the present year, have been awarded as follows : First prize to Miss Mary Caffrey Low, of Waterville Second prize to Leslie Colby Cornish, from the Classical Institute, Mr J H Hanson, Principal SPECIAL REGULATIONS i Any deficiencies in the studies preparatory for col- lege must be made up by the beginning of the second term Students are considered absent at the beginning of a term, until they present themselves at their recitations, and will be fined for such absence, unless they obtain an excuse for the same from the President Students declared deficient in any study, at the end of a term, must make up such deficiency by the opening of the next term No student can be examined with his class, who has not recited with them at least one-third of the time No student who is unexamined in the studies of any two terms, can proceed with his class till he has been ex- amined on one of these terms Examinations on deficiencies must always take place on the first day of the term No student is allowed to be absent a term, nor to leave town in term time, without permission from the Presi- dent Term bills must be paid promptly as they accrue ; otherwise bonds must be given to the Treasurer And even with bonds, no student will be allowed to proceed with his class, who has more than two bills unpaid Irregularity in attendance at recitations will be no- ticed, first, by an admonition from the teacher ; then, if continued, from the President ; and if not corrected on ad- monition, the student will be suspended for the term, or discharged from the college altogether, as the case may Generated on 2013-04-15 18:08 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuo.ark:/13960/t8qc18j5k Public Domain / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd seem to demand 23 io Any student, changing his room, without permis- sion from the President, will be subject to a fine, or such other penalty as the Faculty may think suited to the case ii If any student shall fail to hand his composition to the proper officer at the time appointed for it to be read, he will not be allowed to proceed with his class till it is handed in 12 All excuses for absences from college exercises are to be presented in writing to the officer superintending the exercises, always before Wednesday evening in each week 13 No student is allowed to board at a public house WATERVILLE CLASSICAL INSTITUTE This Institution, under the charge of Mr J H Hanson, is recommended as possessing superior advantages as a Classical School The course of study is arranged with reference to the requirements for admission to the University Rates of tuition, from $5 00 to $6 00 Candidates from this school, with others who may be present at that time, will be examined for admission to Generated on 2013-04-15 18:08 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuo.ark:/13960/t8qc18j5k Public Domain / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd college on Saturday, July 24 he www w m JAM 28 1936 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS COLLEGE CALENDAR I87I Senior Exhibition Wednesday evening, Nov 22 Fall Term ends Wednesday, Dec 13 Vacation of eight weeks I872 Spring Term begins Wednesday, Feb Sophomore Prize Declamation, April 24 Spring Term ends Wednesday, May Vacation of one week Summer Term begins Wednesday evening, May Senior Examination, Wednesday, June 19 Examinations of other Classes begin Wednesday, July 17 Junior Exhibition, Monday evening, July 22 * Examination for admission, Tuesday, July 23 Anniversary of Literary Societies, Tuesday, July 23 Meeting of the Board of Trustees, Wednesday , July 24 Meeting of the Alumni Association, Wednesday, July 24 Commencement, Thursday, J ul y 5- Generated on 2013-04-15 18:08 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuo.ark:/13960/t8qc18j5k Public Domain / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd Vacation of five weeks Fall Term begins, Wednesday evening, Aug 28 * Examination for admission, Wednesday, Aug 28 * At eight o'clock, at Recitation Hall The examination will be in writing Generated on 2013-04-15 18:08 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuo.ark:/13960/t8qc18j5k Public Domain / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd Generated on 2013-04-15 18:08 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuo.ark:/13960/t8qc18j5k Public Domain / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS-URBANA 0112 111485444 t ... 201 3-0 4-1 5 18:08 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuo.ark:/13960/t8qc18j5k Public Domain / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd ;-, m «** of m Uh ILUH0I8 CATALOGUE OF COLBY UNIVERSITY 187 1-2 ... fNiVEftSiTV OF 'Unvois OFFICERS AND STUDENTS COLBY UNIVERSITY, FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR 187 1- 2, WATERVILLE : PRINTED FOR THE UNIVERSITY Generated on 201 3-0 4-1 5 18:08 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuo.ark:/13960/t8qc18j5k... Generated on 201 3-0 4-1 5 18:08 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuo.ark:/13960/t8qc18j5k Public Domain / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd CATALOGUE TOf timpr NTH£ JAN ?,8 OF THE J -' 1936 fNiVEftSiTV