PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS. THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT OF YALE COLLEGE, NEW HAVEN. (Founded 1822.) FACULTY. Rev. Theodore D. Woolsey, D.D., | Rev. Eleazer T. Fitch, D.D., Lecturer LL.D., President. Rev. Nathaniel W. Taylor, D.D., on Homiletics. Rev. Chauncey A. Goodrich, D.D., The Admission. The time of admission is at the beginning of the collegiate year. conditions of entrance are hopeful piety, and a liberal education at some College, or such other literary acquisitions as may be considered an equivalent preparation for theological studies. Terms. For the terms and vacations, which are the same with those in the Academical Departments, see page 116. The regular course of instruction occupies three years. Rhetorical Society. There are weekly debates in the Rhetorical Society, at which the Professor of Didactic Theology presides, and in which the members of all the classes participate. Libraries. — The students have access to the College Library, and to the libraries of the literary societies in the College. See page 115. Expenses. ‚— A building has been erected for the accommodation of students, in which the rooms are free of rent; but each occupant is subject to a charge of $3.50 a year for incidental expenses. No other charges are made to the students. For other expenses see pages 115, 116. Beneficiary Aid. In addition to the aid afforded by the American Education Society, provision is now made for efficient assistance to those who need it. Such persons also have an opportunity of attending, free of expense, the Lectures of Professors Olmsted, Dana, and Silliman, on Natural Science; and those preparing for missionary service, also the Lectures in the Medical Department. This institution is under the charge of the Pastoral Union. The whole number of students educated here up to 1856 was 151. The library contains about 5,000 volumes. LAW DEPARTMENT OF YALE COLLEGE, NEW HAVEN. FACULTY. Rev. Theodore D. Woolsey, D.D., LL.D., President. Hon. Henry Dutton, LL.D., Dean of Hon. Thomas B. Osborne, LL.D., the Faculty, Kent Prof. of Law. Prof. of Law. Terms and Vacations.- The year commences on the seventh Monday after Commencement. There is a recess of two weeks, embracing Christmas and New-Year's day, and a Spring vacation of three weeks. Students may enter the school at any time, but it is recommended that they do so as early as practicable after the commencement of the first term. Classes. The school is divided into classes. Each class is daily employed upon a lesson in the class-book, and is separately examined, and every student can read in one or more of the classes, as he finds himself able and inclined to perform the requisite labor. The whole course of instruction occupies two years. The students are required to peruse the most important elementary treatises, and are daily examined on the author they are reading, and receive at the same time explanations and illustrations of the subjects they are studying. Courses of lectures are delivered by the instructors, on the most important subjects of Common and Statute Law, and of Equity. A moot court is held once a week, or oftener, which employs the students in drawing pleadings, and investigating and arguing questions of law. The students are called upon, from time to time, to draw declarations, pleadings, contracts, and other instruments connected with the practice of law, and to do the most important duties of an attorney's clerk. They are occasionally required to write disquisitions on some topic of law, and collect the authorities to support their opinions. The more advanced students are assisted in the study of the laws of the particular States in which they intend to establish themselves. Libraries. The students are furnished with the use of the elementary books, and have access to the College libraries, and to a valuable law library. Expenses. The terms of tuition, with constant use of text-books, and ordinary use of the library, are as follows, payable in advance, unless for satisfactory reasons. For the whole course of two years, $ 150. For one year, $80. For less than one year, $10 per month. For more than one year and less than two years, $7 per month after the first year. Degree. The degree of Bachelor of Laws will be conferred by the President and Fellows on liberally educated students who have been members of the Department eighteen months, and have complied with the regulations of the institution, and passed a satisfactory examination. Those not liberally educated will be graduated upon similar conditions, after two years' membership; and members of the Bar, after one year's membership subsequent to their admission to the Bar. The fee for the diploma is $5. Number of Students, 1857-58, 31. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF YALE COLLEGE, NEW HAVEN. FACULTY. Rev. Theodore D. Woolsey, D.D., Emeritus Prof. of Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology. Eli Ives, M.D., Emeritus Prof. of Materia Medica, and Therapeu- Henry Bronson, M.D., Prof. of Mate The annual course of lectures commences on Thursday (September 16th, 1858), seven weeks after the College Commencement, and continues four months. The Medical College building is spacious and commodious. The arrangements for Dissections are ample, and subjects are supplied on the most reasonable terms. The Anatomical Museum, the Cabinet of the Materia Medica, the Museum of the Yale Natural History Society, the Cabinet of Minerals, and the Libraries of the Medical and Academical Departments, are all open to students. Expenses. -The fees, which are required in advance, are $12.50 for each course, except that on Obstetrics, which is $6, with a matriculation fee of $5; the whole amounting to $73.50. The tickets of all the Professors, or a part, may be taken in any one season. Those who have attended two full courses of lectures in this institution are entitled to admission to future courses gratis. Those who have attended one full course in this institution, and also one full course in another incorporated Medical Institution, will be admitted to a full course on paying the matriculation fee. The graduation fee is $15; fee for a license, including diploma, $ 4.50. Degree. By the statutes of the State, the requirements for the degree of Doctor in Medicine are three years' study for those who are not Bachelors of Arts, and two years' study for those who are; attendance upon two full courses of lectures, either in this institution, or some other of a similar character; the attainment of twenty-one years of age, and a good moral character; together with a satisfactory examination before the Board of Examiners for the State, at which the candidate must present a dissertation upon some subject connected with the Medical Sciences, written in a form prescribed by the Faculty. Private Medical School.-There is a Private Medical School for the purpose of daily recitation. The instructors are Doctors H. Bronson, W. Hooker, P. A. Jewett, and L. J. Sanford. The year is divided into two terms. The first term corresponds with the course of lectures of the Medical Institution. The second begins in the middle of February and extends to Commencement, having a vacation of a fortnight in the first part of May. Fees for the first term, $10; for the second, $40. COLLEGES. YALE COLLEGE, NEW HAVEN. (Founded 1700.) FACULTY AND INSTRUCTORS. Rev. Theodore Dwight Woolsey, | Denison Olmsted, LL.D., Munson Prof. of Nat. Philos: and Astronomy. Rev. William A. Larned, M.A., Prof. of Rhetoric and English Literature. Rev. Noah Porter, M.A., Clark Prof. | Samuel W. Johnson, M.A., Prof. of Agricultural and Analytical Chemistry. of Moral Philosophy and Metaphysics. William A. Norton, M.A., Prof. of Civil Engineering. James D. Dana, LL.D., Silliman Prof. of Natural History. the Latin Language and Literature. Edward C. Herrick, M.A., Librarian. Benjamin Silliman, Jr., M.D., Prof. of General and Applied Chemistry. James Hadley, M.A., Prof. of the Greek Language and Literature. John A. Porter; M.D., Prof. of Organic Chemistry. William D. Whitney, M.A., Prof. of Hubert A. Newton, M.A., Prof. of George J. Brush, M.A., Prof. of Me- Daniel C. Gilman, M.A., Assistant Admission. Fisk P. Brewer, M. A., Tutor in Lebeus C. Chapin, M.A., Tutor in Carroll Cutler, B.A., Tutor in Latin. Lewis W. Ford, B.A., Tutor in Latin. Mark Bailey, M.A., Instructor in Elo- Robert Bakewell, Instructor in Draw ing and Perspective. Gustave J. Stoeckel, Instructor in Vocal Music. Edward H. Twining, M.A., Assistant Louis Bail, Teacher of Drawing in the Candidates for admission to the Freshman Class are examined in the fol lowing books— Cicero's Select Orations; the Bucolics, Georgics, and the first six books of the Æneid of Virgil; Sallust; Andrews and Stoddard's, or Zumpt's, Latin Grammar; Latin Prosody; Arnold's Latin Prose Composition, to the Passive Voice (first twelve chapters). Jacobs's, Colton's, or Felton's Greek Reader; Xenophon's Anabasis, first three books; Sophocles's, Crosby's, or Kühner's Greek Grammar. Thompson's Higher Arithmetic; Day's Algebra (revised edition), to Quadratic Equations; Playfair's Euclid, first two books; English Grammar; Geography. The regular examination for admission to College takes place on Monday and Tuesday preceding Commencement, beginning at 9 o'clock, A.M., on Monday, and at 8 o'clock, A.M., on Tuesday. Another examination is held at the same place on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 14th and 15th, beginning at 9 o'clock, A.M., on Tuesday, and at 8 o'clock, A.M., on Wednesday. Library and Cabinet. - The College Library is designed for the use of the several Faculties of the College, students connected with the Theological, Law, Medical, and Philosophical Departments, and the members of the Senior and Junior Classes in the Academical Department. Each of the Professional Schools has connected with it a separate library. The whole number of books in the College Library, beside pamphlets, is about 35,000; in the Libraries of the Professional Schools, 5,000; in the Libraries of the Literary Societies, 25,000. Total, 65,000. The Library of the American Oriental Society is now kept in the College Library building. The Mineralogical and Geological Cabinet, embracing about thirty thousand specimens, is accessible to the students of the several departments. Expenses. The annual charges in the Treasurer's bill are, for tuition, $ 45; for rent and care of half room in College, average of four years, $17.44; for expenses of public rooms, $3; for ordinary repairs, general damages, and incidentals, about $3.56. Total, $ 69. Besides this, the student pays for tuition in optional studies during part of the Junior year, a small sum for the use of books which he may draw from the College Library, and additional charges at graduation, amounting to $9.50. Board is obtained at prices vary. ing from $2.50 to $3.50. To a majority of the students it is about $3 a week. Calendar for 1858. — Second Term begins, Wednesday, January 6. Commencement, Medical Department, Thursday, January 14. Junior Exhibition, Tuesday, April 6. Second Term ends, Tuesday, April 13. Spring Vacation of three weeks. Third Term begins, Wednesday, May 5. Examination of Candidates for admission, Monday and Tuesday, July 26 and 27. Anniversary of the Society of Alumni, Wednesday, July 28. Aniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Wednesday, July 28. Commencement, Thursday, July 29. Summer Vacation of seven weeks. Examination of Candidates for admission, Tuesday and Wednesday, September 14 and 15. First Term begins, Wednesday, September 15. The Terms in the Theological Department, the Law Department, and the Department of Philosophy and the Arts, coincide with the Academical Terms. Number of Students, 1857-58, 447. DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY AND THE ARTS. The design of this Department is to furnish resident graduates and others with the opportunity of devoting themselves to special branches of study, either not otherwise provided for, or not pursued as far as individual students may desire. The branches intended to be embraced in this Department are such in general as are not included under Theology, Law, and Medicine; or more particularly, Mathematical Science, Physical Science and its application to the Arts, Metaphysics, Philology, Literature, and History. Instruction in this Department may be given by Professors not belonging to the other Departments, by the Academical Professors, and by such others as the President and Fellows may approve. The instructors for the year, with the President, compose the Faculty of the Department. For the terms of entrance upon the several courses in the Department, application may be made to the several instructors. Lectures and Instruction. — Professor Gibbs, on General Philology. Professor Olmsted, on Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, the Academical Courses of Lectures; also, if desired, private lessons in Experimental Physics and Mathematical Astronomy. Professor Noah Porter, on Psychology, Logic, and the History of Philosophy. Professor Thacher, Lucretius and Latin Composition; instruction twice a week. Professor Hadley, Pindar and Theocritus; instruction twice a week. Professor Whitney, Sanskrit from Bopp's Grammar and Nalus, or such other text-books as may be agreed upon; also, the rudiments of the Ancient and Modern Persian, and of the Egyptian language. Professor Newton, such branches of the Higher Mathematics as may be agreed upon with the student. Degree.- -- The degree of Bachelor of Philosophy will be conferred by the President and Fellows, upon students in the Department of Philosophy and the Arts, after being connected with the Department for two years, and passing a satisfactory examination in three branches of study. The fee for a diploma is $5. YALE SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL. Under the Department of Philosophy and the Arts, the Yale Scientific School is organized to give systematic instruction in Natural Science, Chemistry, Agriculture, and Engineering. Natural Science, Chemistry, and Agriculture. This division of the School is under the immediate supervision of Professors James D. Dana, Benjanin Silliman, Jr., John A. |