On the third Wednesday of August, 1857, the several County School Commissioners met at Concord, and organized themselves into a Board of Education, according to law, by choosing a Chairman and a Secretary : ·

Secretary of the Board.

JAMES WILLIS PATTERSON, Hanover.

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Terms and Vacations. - The academical year is divided into two terms. The Fall Term begins on the first Wednesday in September, and continues twelve weeks; the Spring

Term begins on the last Wednesday in January, and continues till the Anniversary, which is held on the second Wednesday in July.

Library. At present the Library contains about 3,000 volumes.

There is also a

Missionary Library connected with the Institution, which contains about 400 volumes. Whole number of students for 1857-58, 72.

BIBLICAL SCHOOL, NEW HAMPTON.

This Seminary is under the control of the Baptists, and is connected with the Literary Institution at the same place, which see under the head of Acad emies.

FACULTY.

John J. Butler, A.M., Prof. of Chris- | John Fullonton, A.M., Prof. of Sacred tian Theology and Homiletics. Literature and Pastoral Theology.

Candidates for admission are required to furnish testimonials of good standing in some Evangelical church, and to give evidence of their duty to prepare for the Gospel ministry, certified by the church of which they are members respectively, or by some ordained minister.

Library. The Theological Library contains one thousand volumes. The Society of Theological Research has a Reading-room, and a Library of two hundred and fifty

volumes.

Terms. Spring Term begins February 9, 1858, and ends April 22. begins May 4, and ends July 15. Fall Term begins August 31.

Summer Term

Lectures.-The Annual Course of Medical Lectures begins on the Thursday succeeding Commencement, and continues fourteen weeks. The fee for the course is fifty dollars, which also entitles to the use of the Library.

Graduation. Each candidate for the degree of M.D. must be twenty-one years of age;

must possess a good moral character, an acquaintance with Natural and Experimental Philosophy, and a knowledge of the principles and construction of the Latin Language; must have studied Medicine three full years, with some regular practitioner; must have attended two courses of public Lectures in all the branches of the profession, at a regularly organized Medical Institution, one of which courses shall have been at this Institution; must have passed a successful private examination before the Medical Faculty; and must have prepared to read and defend, in their presence, an acceptable dissertation on some medical subject.

The graduating expenses are eighteen dollars.

Medical Calendar, 1858.-- Tuesday, May 11, Examination for degrees. Tuesday, July 27, Examination for degrees. Thursday, August 5, Medical Lectures begin. Number of Students, 1857-58, 49.

Terms of Admission. — All candidates for admission to College must present satisfactory testimonials of good moral character; and if from other Colleges, of unexceptionable standing. Candidates for the Freshman Class are examined in the following books: Xenophon's Anabasis, five books, Homer's Iliad, three books, Greek Grammar, including Prosody; the whole of Virgil, Cicero's Select Orations, Sallust, Andrews and Stoddard's Latin Grammar, including Prosody, Writing Latin; Arithmetic, Chase's Algebra, through Equations of the First Degree; English Grammar; Ancient and Modern Geography.

For Medical Faculty, see page 48.

Candidates for advanced standing, in addition to the above studies, are examined in the studies that have been pursued by the Class which they propose to enter, or in others equivalent to them.

The times for examination are the Tuesday before Commencement, and the close of the vacation immediately following.

Libraries. There are three Libraries accessible to the students, beside those of the Medical School and the Northern Academy of Arts and Sciences. An annual appropriation is made for the increase of the College Library. The Libraries of the two Literary Societies are increased by annual donations from each. The whole number of books belonging to the various Libraries is 33,714.

Through the munificence of the late George C. Shattuck, LL.D., of Boston, an elegant building has been erected for an Astronomical Observatory, and furnished with the requisite instruments and books.

The Hall Cabinet, presented by the late Professor Frederick Hall, LL.D., of Washington City, contains a large collection of specimens of rocks, minerals, and fossils, both American and foreign, sufficient for extensive illustration in Mineralogy and Geology.

Expenses.-Tuition, $ 42; room-rent, from $6 to $12; board, from $1.50 to $2.50 per week, for thirty-nine weeks, from $58.50 to $97.50; wood, lights, and washing, from $9 to $ 14. Total, from $115.50 to $ 165.50.

Calendar.- Winter Term begins January 15, 1858, and ends May 13. Summer Term begins May 28, and ends July 29. Fall Term begins August 26, and continues thirteen weeks. Commencement, July 29, 1858.

CHANDLER SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL.

THIS department of instruction was established by a resolution of the Trustees in acceptance of the sum of Fifty Thousand Dollars, bequeathed to them, in trust, by Abiel Chandler, Esq., late of Walpole, N.H., and formerly of Boston, Mass.

Mr. Chandler gives and devises the above-named sum to the Trustees of the College, "to carefully and prudently invest or fund the principal sum, and faithfully apply and appropriate the income and interest thereof for the establishment and support of a permanent department or school of instruction in the College in the practical and useful arts of life, comprised chiefly in the branches of Mechanics and Civil Engineering, the Invention and Manufacture of Machinery, Carpentry, Masonry, Architecture, and Drawing, the Investigation of the Properties and Uses of the Materials employed in the Arts, the Modern Languages, and English Literature, together with Book-keeping, and such other branches of knowledge as may best qualify young persons for the duties and employments of active life."

Admission. Candidates for the first year must present satisfactory testimonials of good moral character; be fourteen years of age; and be well prepared for a complete examination in Reading, Spelling, Penmanship, English Grammar, Arithmetic, Geography, and. the outlines of General History. A previous study of Plane Geometry and Algebra through Simple Equations is of great advantage, and is earnestly recommended. Candidates for advanced standing must also be prepared for examination in the studies which the Class have pursued in addition, or a satisfactory equivalent, and be proportionally older.

None are admitted for less than two terms.

are the same with those in the College, which see. Number of Students, 1857-58, 46.

The Professors, Terms, Vacations, &c.

ACADEMIES AND SEMINARIES.

SINCE the organization of the State government, about one hundred different Academies have been duly incorporated by the State Legislature. Of these Phillips Exeter is the oldest, having been incorporated April 3, 1781. But very few have funds. Most have depended for support entirely upon popular patronage or the liberality of the citizens in their vicinity. When their most active, liberal, and interested patrons have been removed, they have soon gone down. Many have suffered from frequent change of teachers, and from allowing men of limited interest in teaching to take charge of them. Some have been established for the temporary purpose only of the education of a class of young people then on the stage. Of these, but very few now hold sessions during the whole year. Several are opened in the Autumn or Spring, in charge of such undergraduates or temporary teachers as may first present themselves, they assuming the school at their own risk, and realizing net wages of some $ 20 or $30 per month. The following list embraces nearly all the permanent schools in New Hampshire which now hold sessions during the whole year.

APPLETON ACADEMY, Mount

Vernon.

(Incorporated 1850.)

Augustus Berry, A.M., Principal.

ATKINSON ACADEMY, Atkinson.
J. W. Spaulding, Principal.

BATH ACADEMY, Bath.
H. D. Abbott, Principal.

BOSCAWEN ACADEMY.
(Incorporated 1828.)
Jonathan Tenney, A.M., Principal.
Luther E. Shepard, Assistant.

CONTOOCOOK ACADEMY, Contoo-
cookville, Hopkinton.
(Incorporated 1856.)

John C. Ager, Principal.

EXETER FEMALE ACADEMY,
Exeter.

E. G. Dalton, Principal.

FRANCESTOWN ACADEMY, Frances

town.

(Incorporated 1819.)

M. N. Root, A.M., Principal.

FRANKLIN ACADEMY.

(Incorporated 1831.)

Chas. P. Sanborn, A.M. Principal.

GILFORD ACADEMY, Gilford. W. L. Melcher, Principal.

GILMANTON ACADEMY, Gilmanton. (Incorporated 1794.)

C. P. Parsons, A.M., Principal.

HANCOCK ACADEMY, Hancock.

(Incorporated 1836.)

John Paul, A.M., Principal.

KEENE BOARDING SCHOOL, Keene.

Miss Ann E. Hall, Principal.