and acoustics. Chemistry-Organic chemistry. Botany-Mrs. Lincoln Phelps. Mathematics-Plane trigonometry and conic sections.

Second term: Christian doctrine-Same completed. Latin-Horace, Satires and Epistles; Tacitus, Annals, Vita Agricolæ; original compositions. Greek—Same continued. English-History of literature completed, and historical résumé of the principal authors, insisting in a special manner on the great English and American orators; analysis of authors continued; analysis of Goodrich's English Orators; Coppen's Oratorical Composition completed. Geography-Physical geography. History-Same continued; analysis of the constitution of Louisiana. Natural philosophy--Caloric and optics. Chemistry-Same continued. BotanySame completed. Mathematics-Spherical trigonometry and descriptive geometry. Humanities.--First term: Christian doctrine-Catechism of perseverance (half course III); Spalding's Church History. Latin-Cicero's Philippics; Horace's Odes and Epodes; prosody; Arnold's Latin Prose Composition; Part II. GreekHomer's Iliad, Book VI; Demosthenes de Coronâ; Arnold's Greek Prose Composition; Greek grammar. English-History of literature from the earliest period to the time of Queen Anne; Sanders' Rhetorical Reader; literary analysis of Shakespeare and Milton; Hales's Longer English Poems; Hart's Principles of Composition and Rhetoric. Geography-Europe. History-United States History. Natural Philosophy-Theoretical and practical mechanics. Chemistry—Inorganic chemistry. Geology and mineralogy--Notions of. Mathematics-Higher portions of algebra and solid geometry.

Latin-Livy, Book I; Hor

Second term: Christian doctrine-Same continued. ace continued; prosody and versification; Arnold's Latin prose composition completed. Greek-Demosthenes de Corona continued; Arnold's Greek prose composition completed; Greek grammar completed. English-History of literature from Queen Anne's age to Tennyson; literary analysis of authors continued; Hales's Longer English Poems completed; Hart's Rhetoric completed. Geography-Europe completed and Asia. History-Same continued. Natural philosophy-Hydrostatics and hydraulics. Chemistry-Inorganic chemistry continued. Mathematics-Same continued.

FRANKLIN COLLEGE.

A resident at Opelousas furnishes the following statements as to the condition of the institution in 1890:

The buildings are unoccupied and going to ruin. The railroad passes between the 2 main buildings, within 10 feet of the end of each, rendering them unfit for use. I think there are about 100 acres of land belonging with the buildings and lying adjacent thereto. The land is occupied by squatters, so I am told, who cultivate it. Efforts have been made repeatedly to have the property sold and devote the proceeds to the erection of a public schoolhouse in town, but without any

success.

The following law is still in force relative to this property:

[Act No. 65, approved March 21, 1865.]

FRANKLIN COLLEGE PROPERTY AT OPELOUSAS.

SEC. 1. The Franklin College, at Opelousas, Louisiana, with all its grounds and appurtenances, is hereby under the control of the State board of education, for the purpose of establishing a normal or high school. *

An appropriation of several thousands was at the same time made for repairing the buildings.

Breaux, p. 82.

MOUNT LEBANON UNIVERSITY. *

At the fourth annual session of the Louisiana Baptist State convention, held at Mount Lebanon in July, 1852, a committee, under the chairmanship of Dr. Bartholomew Egan, was appointed on the subject of education. The committee submitted the following report:

The time has come, in the opinion of your committee, when this convention should adopt some measure to meet the crying want of our denomination in Louisiana for an educated ministry, and when its members should unite zealously in sustaining a school of high character to give instruction to the youth of our common country. In accordance with this view, we recommend the establishment of an institution of such order at Mount Lebanon, under the immediate patronage of this convention.

The first board of trustees consisted of Dr. B. Egan, Mathias Ardis, W. B. Prothro, Jesse Pitman, F. Courtney, Joseph White, Charles Humphreys, Rev. W. S. Bailiss, and George W. Rogers. Through their efforts a building fund and 10 acres of ground were secured and a commodious 2-story building erected. The institution opened on the second Monday of March, 1853. The trustees called Rev. Jesse Hartwell, D. D., to preside over it. Under his wise administration it prospered beyond the expectations of its most sanguine friends. 1857 Dr. Hartwell died. The trustees then procured the services of Rev. William Casy Cram, D. D., as president. At this time the influence of the college was being felt throughout the State. It continued to prosper under the wise leadership of Dr. Cram.

During this time $20,000 had been raised toward endowing a professorship in the theological department, and $30,000 for one on the literary side. Through the efforts of the representative from that district, Mr. B. W. Peirce, the Louisiana legislature had (in 1855) granted $15,000, with which chemical and philosophical apparatus and a nucleus for an extensive library had been procured. This sum was doubtless included in the endowments above tabulated.

The war came on, and during its continuance every particle of the endowment fund was lost, the college building was taken by force and converted into a hospital, the buildings were greatly defaced, the library scattered, and the apparatus almost totally destroyed.

After the war several efforts were made to place the institution on a good basis, but, owing to the poverty of the denomination, its supporters thought best to discontinue all efforts in that direction. The convention also withdrew its support and left the college in the hands of a local board, transferring its influence to Clinton College in Mississippi. The local board, to whose care the college was intrusted, managed to keep up a small school until a reaction took place in the minds of the Baptists, which changed the policy of the convention in

* Account furnished by Mr. W. B. Prothro, of the board of trustees, with some supplemental data from J. C. Egan, M. D.

transferring her educational interest to another State; since then the school has steadily increased in favor with the denomination.

In 1887 we had the great misfortune of having all of our college property destroyed by fire. Rather than see the work, begun over a third of a century ago by our fathers, abandoned and lost to our denomination, in our extreme poverty we determined to rebuild; trusting that God would raise up friends, we attempted the task. We have erected suitable and commodious buildings, admirably adapted to school purposes.

Twelve months ago (1889) the trustees secured the services of Rev. G. W. Griffin, D. D., as president of our college. It has taken on new life, and we believe its future is brighter and more hopeful than for years past. One hundred and eighty pupils were matriculated during the past year.

The college is coeducational.

Some of the more distinguished teachers in the past were Rev. J. Q. Prescott, Rev. William Paxton, and Rev. Jerry Tucker. Many of our most prominent men, occupying the first positions in our State, owe their education to the above-named teachers.

COURSE OF STUDY.

COLLEGIATE DEPARTMENT.

The subjects taught in this school are the Latin language and literature and history of Rome. The school is divided into three classes, first, second, and third years.

First year.-Text-books: Virgil, Cicero's Orations, Arnold's Latin Prose Composition, Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar, Liddell's History of Rome.

Second year.-Text-books: Horace, Livy, Cicero pro Milone, Zumpt's Latin Grammar (for reference), Arnold's Prose Composition.

Third year.--Text-books: Livy, Tacitus, Juvenal, Brown's Roman Classical Literature, original exercises.

The subjects taught are Greek language and literature. In this school there are three classes, as in the Latin.

First year.-A thorough drill is given in the inflections, and the principles of the language are explained and illustrated by daily translations from English into Greek and from Greek into English, with written exercises in both. Textbooks: Kühner's elementary and Hadley's grammars, Xenophon's Anabasis and Cyropædia.

Second year.-The Greek syntax is explained partly by lecture and partly by written translations from English into Greek. Special attention is given to accent; its laws are presented, and the student is taught in his exercise its practical use. The authors read are Demosthenes and Homer; grammars, Kühner and Hadley.

Third year. The instruction is mainly by lectures: First, on the grammar of the Greek language; second, on Greek history and literature.

Translations are made from the best Greek authors, and are to be rendered into the original by the student. These exercises are criticised and returned with explanations of the principles involved.

The authors read are Thucydides, Sophocles, Euripides, and Plato

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Text-books: Teubner's Leipsic Edition of the Classics; Smith's History. of Greece; Long's Classical Atlas; Hadley's and Kühner's Grammars; Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon.

Students may substitute French and German for Greek.

MATHEMATICS.

The following course of study is pursued in this school:
First year.-Higher algebra and plane and solid geometry.
Second year.—Trigonometry and analytical geometry.

Third year.-Differential and integral calculus.

Fourth year.-Mechanics and astronomy.

Girls may take the full course, but are not required to take calculus or mechanics.

NATURAL SCIENCE.

In the scientific department every means is used to cultivate the observing facul ties of the student and to lead him to think for himself.

The following is the course of study:

First year.—The first term of the year will be given to the study of zoology. The text-books employed will be Colton's Practical Zoology and Packard's Zoology (briefer course). The second term will be devoted to studying botany. Textbooks: Youman's Descriptive Botany and Bentley's Physiological Botany.

Second year.-During this year physics is studied. Text-books: Avery's Elements of Natural Philosophy. For reference. Deschanel, Ganot, and Stewart, etc. Third year. This year is devoted to the study of chemistry.

Text-book: Avery's Complete Chemistry. For reference, Bloxam and Wurtz. Fourth year.-First term: Huxley and Youman's Elements of Physiology and Hygiene. Second term: Le Conte's Compend of Geology.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.

The studies of this school embrace the origin, growth, grammatical structure and philological peculiarities of the language. Rhetoric, history, and exercises in composition are frequent, to give habits of self-criticism and the ready use of pure English. The lives of the most eminent English and American writers are studied with critical readings of some of their productions.

First and second years.—Green's Analysis, Abbot's How to Write Clearly; word analysis, Hart's Rhetoric.

Third and fourth years.—Taine's English Literature; Hale's Longer English Poems; Whitney's Study of English Language; select plays of Shakespeare; political economy.

Elocution will be thoroughly and systematically taught.

THE SCHOOL OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY.

This school embraces psychology, ethics, logic, and evidences of Christianity. The special subjects of study in this department are the soul of man, his intellectual, emotional nature and will; the laws of thought; the principles and precepts of moral obligation; social economies; elements of jurisprudence and the extension of Christian ethics. In the study of mind the student begins the study of facts and laws as real as those of the material world, and of transcendent importance. He comes to a more distinct knowledge of mind in persons, of obligation to right and benevolence, of his mission under God, and his relation to his fellow-men. In acquiring knowledge of one's self, one is in a measure learning to reverence man and God, and to regard the laws of mind, and especially the moral, as supreme. Education would be incomplete and materialistic in its tendencies without the training received in this department.

There are two classes, best taken in two successive sessions:

First. The class in logical studies, deductive logic, inductive logic, and applied logic. Text-books: Bowen's Logic, Mill on Induction, Jevon's Principles of Science. Second. The class in philosophical studies, psychology, ethics, and history of philosophy. Text-books: Hill's Psychology, Hamilton's Metaphysics, Uberweg's History of Philosophy.

SCHOOL OF MODERN LANGUAGES.

In this school German and French are taught.

FRENCH: The aim is to give the student a thorough knowledge of the structure and forms of the language, to enable him to read it well and to speak it.

The course of study is as follows:

First year.-Chardenal's First French Course, Super's French Reader.

Second year.—Chardenal's Second French Course, “La Fille de Roland" (Henri de Bornier); "La Poudre aux Yeux" (Labiche et Martin); “Iphigénie en Aulide” (Racine).

Third year." La Deuxième Année de Grammaire," Larive et Fleury; "Sept Grands Auteurs du Dix-Neuvième Siècle" (A. Fortier); "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme" (Molière); "Polyeucte" (Corneille); "Le Cid" (Corneille); "Esther" (Racine); "Hernani" (Hugo); exercises and dictations.

GERMAN: First year.-Eysenbach's Grammar; conversation, narrative prose. Second year.-Eysenbach's Grammar concluded; reading, conversation: geography of the German Empire.

Third year.-Review of grammar; "Wilhelm Tell" (Schiller); Barnhelm," and other selections from the classical writers.

Music, telegraphy, etc., are the subject of further courses.

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