Calendar: 1853-1854 Page 183

military department 181 Section II The course of instruction will embrace- Divinity Lectures on some Book of the Holy Scriptures are delivered by the Chaplain every Wednesday There are also Examinations every alternate Saturday on the Lectures of the preceding fortnight and on Text-books chosen by the Principal The Text-books for the Academical year 1853-4 will be- for Second-year Students Nicholson on the Church Catechism for First-year Hughes's Outline of Scripture His- tory and Geography II General Knowledge with special attention to those branches which have bearing more or less direct upon the strictly professional studies III Direct Propessional Studies The entire Course occupies two years during the whole of which Religious Instruction forms an essential part of the System The Students are classed as follows The Course for Students of the first year includes-Latin Mathematics History Ancient and Modern English Litera- ture and Composition Geography French or German Plan Drawing Fortification For Students of the second year instruction of higher kind is continued in Latin Mathematics History Ancient Modern and Military English Literature and Composition French or German Surveying and Reconnoitring Plan Draw- ing Fortification Manufacture of Ordnance Combustibles &c Gunnery Construction of Field Works and Bridges Forms and Proceedings of Courts Martial Military Law Campaigns Battles and Sieges Instruction can also be obtained within the College in the other European and Oriental languages in Natural Phi- losophy Practical Mechanics Fencing Botany Mineralogy