The amount of public money distributed to the different districts during the year 1856-57 was $105,463. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT, BURLINGTON. [The next annual Course of Lectures will commence on Thursday, February 27, 1858, and continue sixteen weeks.] FACULTY. Rev. Calvin Pease, D.D., President. Samuel W. Thayer, Jr., M.D., Prof. of General and Special Anatomy. Walter Carpenter, M.D., Prof. of the Principles and Practice of Medicine. Orren Smith, M.D., Prof. of Obstet- David S. Conant, M.D., Prof. of the Conditions of Membership. John V. Lansing, Prof. of Medical R. Cresson Stiles, M.D., Prof. of Edward Hungerford, A.B., Prof. of S. W. Thayer, Jr., Dean of Medical At the commencement of the session, every student is required to enter his name and place of residence, and the name and place of residence of his preceptor, in the Secretary's book, and take the Matriculation Ticket and Dean's Certificate entitling him to the tickets of each Professor. Fees. Matriculation, $3; Dean's Certificate (entitling the holder to the tickets of each Professor), $50; Graduation, $18. Students who have attended two full courses in other regular Medical Institutions will be admitted upon payment of the matriculation fee and a fee of $10. Graduates of this and other regular Medical Schools are invited to attend the Lectures free of charge. Beneficiaries. - Provision is made for the admission of eight students in indigent circumstances (a number equal to the number of Professors composing the Medical Faculty), by the payment of $10 each, additional to the matriculation fee. The sons of physicians preferred. Graduation. There are two periods for conferring degrees; one, at the close of the annual Course of Lectures in June; the other, at the close of the Autumnal Term of private instruction in Burlington. Candidates must have attended two full Courses of Lectures, one in this institution, must have studied medicine three years with a regular physician, and have attained the age of twenty-one years. Each candidate is required to write a thesis upon some subject connected with the science of Medicine, and deposit it with the Dean. Number of Students 1857-58, 49. CASTLETON MEDICAL COLLEGE, CASTLETON. Two Courses of Lectures delivered annually, each continuing four months; the spring session commencing on the last Thursday in February, and the autumnal session on the first Thursday in August. VERMONT MEDICAL COLLEGE, WOODSTOCK. Lectures commence, March 1, 1858. COLLEGES. UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT, BURLINGTON. FACULTY. Rev. Calvin Pease, D.D., President. Rev. Nathaniel G. Clark, A.M., Prof. McKendree Petty, A.M., Williams Edward Hungerford, A.B., Prof. of Number of Students, 1857-58, 104. Admission. It is required by the laws that every person proposing to become a student in the University should produce satisfactory testimonials of good moral character, be at least fourteen years of age, and sustain, before one or more of the Faculty, an approved examination in Common Arithmetic ; Elements of Algebra; Elements of Ancient and Modern Geography; English, Greek, and Latin Grammar; Jacobs's Greek Reader; six books of Homer's Iliad; Andrews's Latin Reader; Sallust, or Cæsar's Commentaries; Cicero's Select Orations; and Virgil; - or what shall be deemed equiv alent. Individuals may be permitted to pursue a partial course of study, at the discretion of the Faculty, but such students may not be candidates for a degree. The requisites for admission to a partial course are the same as for the whole course, with the exception of those particular branches of study which it is proposed to omit. College Bills. -Tuition, per annum, $30; Library, Triennial Catalogue, and Commencement, $3; room-rent, from $3 to $6; contingent expenses, for repairs, Annual Catalogues, &c., from $7 to $7.75. Total of College bills, from $43 to $ 46.75. Board may be had at from $1.50 to $2.25 per week,- thirty-nine weeks, from $58.50 to $87.75, wood, lights, and washing, from $10 to $ 15. Total, from $111.50 to $149.50. Libraries and Collections. -1. The Library of the University contains about nine thousand volumes, selected with special reference to the several departments of study. 2. The Libraries belonging to the Phi Sigma Nu and University Institute Societies, and to the Society for Religious Inquiry, contain together from three to four thousand volumes, designed more particularly for the use of the members of these Societies. 3. The College of Natural History of the University of Vermont, incorporated in 1826, has for its object the acquisition and diffusion of knowledge in every department of Natural History, and the accumulation of all materials, natural and artificial, which will promote these ends. Calendar, 1858. - January 28, Spring Term begins (Thursday morning). May 12, Spring Term ends. May 20, Summer Term begins. August 3, Examination for admission to the University. August 4, Commencement (Wednesday). September 2, Autumnal Term begins (Thursday morning). MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE, MIDDLEBURY. (Founded 1800.) FACULTY. Rev. Benjamin Labaree, D.D., Pres- | ident, and Prof. of Moral Philosophy. William H. Parker, A.M., Prof. of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. Isaac F. Holton, A.M., Burr Prof. of Rev. George N. Boardman, A.M., Rensselaer D. C. Robbins, A.M., Edward P. Hooker, A.B., Tutor and Prof. of Languages. Librarian. Number of Students, 1857-58, 82. Admission. For admission into the Freshman Class, Candidates are examined in Latin Grammar, Cicero's Orations, Virgil, Sallust, Greek Grammar, Xenophon's Anabasis, five books, and Homer's Iliad, two books, or an equivalent, Latin Prosody, writing Latin, Geography, Arithmetic, and the Elements of Algebra. Cabinet. The Cabinet is designed chiefly for the benefit of the classes in Natural History, but it is accessible to all the students. It contains two thousand seven hundred specimens in Zoology; four hundred in Botany; and fifteen hundred specimens in Mineralogy; one thousand of which, presented by the State, are separately arranged. Library. The number of books accessible to the students is about nine thousand volumes. Expenses. -The following statement embraces the principal expenses for the year, viz.: Tuition, per annum, $27; room-rent (if two occupy a room), $6; use of Library, repairs, sweeping, &c., $6; board, about $70; fuel, lights, and washing, $16. Total, about $125. Commencement, second Wednesday in August. NORWICH UNIVERSITY, NORWICH. (Founded 1834.) Rev. Edward Bourns, LL. D., Presi- | Hon. Aaron Loveland, M.A., Vice dent, and Prof. of Moral Sciences, Ancient Languages and Literature. President. Alonzo Jackman, M. A., Prof. of Mathematics, Military Science and | Wallace A. King, Teacher of Draw- Thomas R. Crosby, M. D., Prof. of ural Sciences. ing. Gen. William E. Lewis, Secretary. This institution is partly military in its character. The students are instructed in military science and tactics; they are under military discipline, are called cadets, dress in uniform, and are drilled as soldiers. There are two courses of study, one Academic, embracing a thorough course of Ancient Languages; and the other Scientific, in which are taught the general branches of an English education. Admission. Candidates for admission must be at least fourteen years old, and able to sustain a satisfactory examination in Arithmetic, Algebra, through simple equations, English, Latin, and Greek Grammar, Latin Reader, Sallust, Cicero's Select Orations, first six books of Virgil, Jacobs's Greek Reader, and Homer's Iliad, two books, or its equivalent. Cadets who do not pursue the regular Academic course will be admitted to the Scientific course. The studies in this department will occupy three years, and are made to harmonize as nearly as possible with those of the Academic course. Candidates for admission into this department are required to sustain a satisfactory examination in English Grammar, Geography, Arithmetic, and Algebra through equations of the first degree. Library. The Library contains about two thousand volumes and a few maps and charts. Spring Term commences January 13, 1858. ACADEMIES AND SEMINARIES. ADDISON CO. GRAMMAR SCHOOL, BURLINGTON FEMALE SEMINARY, |