1. COLUMBIA COLLEGE.

REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDING OCTOBER 3, 1846.

To the Regents of the University of the State of New-York, the trustees of Columbia College submit the following report for the collegiate year ending on the 3d day of October last, containing a true statement of facts, showing the progress and condition of the college during and at the close of the said.year, in respect to the several subject matters following, viz:

1. Number and Description of Professorships.

2. Faculty and other College Officers.

On these two heads the trustees have nothing to add to their last year's report, to which, therefore, they respectfully refer.

The whole number of students, undergraduates, during the year, was an hundred and twenty-four, all of whom were regularly matriculated. The number of those who left college during the year, or at its close, was ten, so that the number then remaining was one hundred and fourteen. The number of those on whom the degree of Bachelor of Arts was conferred at the last commencement was twenty-four. The whole number of students matriculated since the beginning of the present year, is one hundred and twenty-four. It is not thought that there were any students in college during the year under the age of fourteen years. The average age of the above mentioned graduates, was about twenty years.

4. Classification of Students.

The students were classified as follows, viz:

Remained the same as stated in last year's report.

6. Subjects, or Course of Study.

The sub-graduate course of study, as actually pursued in college during the year, was as follows:

The Freshman class attended the president twice a week throughout the year, and were occupied with him in the manner stated in last year's report, to which the trustees respectfully refer.

This class attended the Gebhard Professor thrice a week throughout the the year, and studied the German Grammars of Follen and Ollendorf, and read a part of Follen's German Reader; especially Tieck's "Puss in Boots." This class attended the Professor of Mathematics thrice a week throughout the year, and their studies with him were much the same as during the preceding year, to their report of which the trustees respectfully refer. This class attended the Adjunct Professor of the Greek and Latin languages on five days and for seven hours a week throughout the year, and read of Greek eleven and a half pages of Xenophon's Memorabilia, in the first volume of Dalzell's Collectanea Græca Majora, and in the second volume the 1st, 2d, 3d, 8th and 15th Idyls of Theocritus, and 1,030 lines of the Medea of Euripides. Of Latin they read the 1st, 3d, 4th, 5th and 9th of the first book, the 1st, 4th and 8th of the second book of Horace's Satires, with the 1st and 2d of the first book of his Epistles, and 913 lines in the Heautontimorumenos, the Andrian and the Phormio of Terence. They had a weekly lecture' on Greek and Roman Antiquities; studied Taylor's Ancient History, (Rome,) and Butler's Ancient Geography; attended to the Prosody and scanning of the Greek and Latin verse they read, and were exercised in Latin versification and Greek and Latin prose composition.

This class attended the Professor of Elocution once a week, and were exercised in reading and declamation.

The Sophomore class attended the Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, &c. four times a week throughout the year, and their studies with him were in most respects the same, and conducted, as detailed in previous reports. They studied Modern European History, with especial enlargement on that of England, as being to us the great store house whence we draw our facts and inferences. Guizot and Taylor were the leading text-books used.

This class attended the Jay Professor four times a week throughout the year, and read of Greek selections from the Hecuba, Orestes, Phoenissæ, Medea, Hippolytus, and Alcestis of Euripides, and all the Lyric Selections, including those from Pindar, in the second volume of Dalzell's Collectanea Græca Majora, together with about one-half of the selections from the Anthology in the same volume. In Latin

they read selections from the Epistles of Horace, (the Epistle to the Pisos entire,) the Agricola of Tacitus, and forty chapters of the first book of the Annals: They reviewed Ancient Geography, and attended once a week to Greek and Latin composition in prose and verse. This class attended the Professor of Natural Experimental Philoso-. phy and Chemistry twice a week throughout the year, and studied with him the subjects of heat, electricity and galvanism, magnetism, electro-magnetism and magneto-electricity, in the department of Physics, and commenced the study of Chemistry proper, proceeding therein to the full development of the properties and chemical relations of atmospheric air.

This class attended the Gebhard Professor twice a week throughout the year, and studied Ollendorf's German Grammar, and read Schiller's comedy "The Parasit." This class attended the Professor of Mathematics four times a week throughout the year, and studied with him the subjects, and in the manner detailed in previous reports, to which the trustees would respectfully refer.

The Junior class attended the Professor of Intellectual and Moral •Philosophy, &c. fotir times a week throughout the year, and pursued with him Rhetorical and Logical studies, in both which Whately furnished the general outline. There was added a course of lectures and private reading, during the first session, on Esthetics, and during the second on the history of English Literature. This class attended the Jay Professor four times a week throughout the year, and read with him, in Greek, the extracts from Demosthenes, contained in the first volume of Dalzell's Collectanea Græca Majora, and selections from the Plutus and Acharnenses of Aristophanes. In Latin they read forty chapters of the first book of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations,` and nearly all of the Captives of Plautus. They also had a course of lectures on Roman Literature, one each week, accompanied by weekly examinations; and they attended once a week to Greek and Latin composition in prose and verse.

This class attended the Professor of Natural Experimental Philosophy and Chemistry four times a week throughout the year, and their studies with him were in all respects the same as during the preceding year, for the detail of which, and the manner of conducting them, the trustees beg leave to refer to previous annual reports.

This class attended the Gebhard Professor for an hour a week throughout the year, and read Schiller's comedy, "The Nephew as Uncle." A number of the class, associated voluntarily for that purpose, were exercised by him in speaking German.

This class attended the Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy three times a week throughout the year, and their studies with him

were the same with those of the same class, detailed in previous re ports. They used, however, a new edition of Norton's Astronomy, which was found to be a great improvement on the former one. Some additions to what this work contains were made in manuscript and by lecture, and the practical exercises in Indeterminate Geometry and Astronomy were made still more full than in the course of the preceding year.

The Senior class attended the Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, &c. four times a week, throughout the year, and pursued with him the studies, conducted in the manner detailed in previous reports, to which the trustees would respectfully refer.

Of this class, as also of the other two which come under his charge, the Professor states that they are, with very few exceptions, pursuing their respective courses of study with a zeal and diligence, of which the amount of their voluntary study and reading, under his general direction, affords adequate evidence. The instruction of his lecture, he remarks, is necessarily general and directive, but is rendered full and effective by being combined with diversified references, secured in well arranged note books, and subsequently tested by examination in the class, that being the general course pursued by the Professor in all three of the classes committed to his charge, and in all the studies in which they are engaged. The result of his long experience, he states, has been to elevate the pen as the instrument, and analysis as the method by which he can most successfully teach, and the student can most profitably learn. In furtherance of this use of the pen, the student is called on to prepare themes or essays on some subject bearing relation to his course, for which one day in each week is assigned, the compositions being read before the class and criticised by them.

This class attended the Jay Professor four times a week throughout the year, and read in Greek the extracts from Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric, Ethics and Art of Poetry, contained in the first volume of Dalzell's Collectanea Græca Majora, and the Antigone of Sophocles entire. A course of lectures was delivered to them on Greek Literature, one lecture each week, accompanied by weekly examinations. This class also attended once a week to Greek and Latin composition in prose and verse. In Latin they read the first book of Cicero de Orratore.

This class attended the Professor of Natural Experimental Philo sophy and Chemistry five times a week throughout the year, and their studies with him were in all respects the same, and conducted in the same manner detailed in former annual reports, to which the trustees would respectfully refer.

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This class attended the Gebhard Professor for an hour a week throughout the year, and heard from him a course of lectures on German Literature.

This class attended the Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy twice a week throughout the year, and their studies with him were in most respects the same with those of the preceding Senior class, as stated by the trustees in their last annual report, to which they beg leave to refer. The Professor states, that during the latter portion of the year there was satisfactory evidence of the value of the arrangement which reserves the study of the Calculus to the first term of the Senior year, to be followed immediately by its application to Celestial Mechanics and Physical Astronomy; since this class, though not particularly distinguished for ability, exhibited a comprehension of some of the most profound investigations of the higher analysis, in connection with force and motion, which was highly gratifying. The arrangement alluded to is, however, but a part of one which runs through all the classes. Thus, in the Senior class, Analytical Geometry is followed by Theoretic Astronomy, while the recollection of the properties of the conic sections, and the use of co-ordinate lines and planes is fresh. In the Sophomore class, Plane Trigonometry is followed immediately by Navigation and Surveying; Spherical Trigonometry by Nautical and Practical Astronomy. In the Freshman class, Plane Trigonometry is introduced before the Geometry of Planes and Solids. By these means the student not only comes to each new subject better prepared, but at once, and before his patience is exhausted, reaps the fruit of previous application.

7. Exercises.

Besides the exercises in Greek, Latin, and English Composition, and those with the Professor of Elocution, already mentioned, there were exercises in declamation by three students daily, in rotation, throughout the year, on every other week day except Saturday; and the students took part also in the daily devotional exercises of the chapel.

Under the several heads of

8. Examinations.

9. Mode of Instruction.

10. System of Discipline.

The trustees have nothing to add to their previous annual reports, to which, therefore, they respectfully refer.