>The following was the course of study in 1838:
Freshman Class
>First Term: Virgil's Aeneid, Translation of English into Latin, Xenophon's Cyropedia, Roman Antiquities, and Algebra (Davies' edition of Bourdon's).
>Second Term: Livy, Translation of English into Latin, Graecae Majora (selections from important Greek works), Greek Antiquities (a study, probably in English, of Greek social, economic, and political life), and Algebra.
Sophomore Class
>First Term: Virgil's Georgics and Bucolics, Cicero's Orations, Homer's Iliad, Davies' edition of Legendre's geometry.
>Second Term: Horace, Graecae Majora, Young's Trigonometry (Plane and Spherical), Surveying (Heights and Distances), Spherical Projections, Navigation, Nautical Astronomy.
Junior Class
>First Term: Cicero de Oratore, Graecae Majora (Philosophical and Critical Extracts), Whately's Rhetoric, Whately's Logic, Young's Analytical Geometry (Conic sections and Analytical Geometry of three dimensions).
>Second Term: Tacitus, Graecae Majora (Dramatic Extracts), Evidence of Christianity, Political Economy, Young's Differential Calculus.
Senior Class
>First Term: Juvenal, Graecae Majora (Dramatic Extracts), Mental Philosophy, Chemistry, Young's Integral Calculus, Olmsted's Natural Philosophy.
>Second Term: Persius, Cicero de Officiis, Graecae Majora (odes, etc.), Moral Philosophy, Constitution of the United States and National Law, Olmsted's Natural Philosophy, Astronomy, Geology.