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HaVERFORD COLLEGE: 
 
 Its Aims and Characteristics. 
 
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labtrfor^ College. 
 
 [IVear Haverford College Station, on the Pennsylvania Railroad, nine miles west 
 from Philadelphia.^ 
 
 Haverford College is an institution which gives 
 a thorough and guarded collegiate education of the 
 highest grade, and at the same time furnishes for 
 all its students a healthful, agreeable, and comfortable 
 home. It is situated in a beautiful rural district, re- 
 moved from the distractions and temptations of city 
 life. A very harmonious feeling prevails between the 
 officers and younger members, the discipline being 
 kindly, enforced chiefly by private admonition and ap- 
 peals to the manliness and good sense of the students. 
 The College aims to promote the right moulding of the 
 whole character, as well as intellectual culture. 
 
 The institution was founded in 1832 by members of 
 the Society of Friends,* who wished to provide a place 
 
 * The corporators named in the original charter were " Thomas P. Cope, 
 
 / Thomas C. James, Samuel Bettle, Isaac Davis, and Daniel B. Smith, and their 
 
 7\ associates and successors." The same instrument designates the following per- 
 
 ^^ sons as the first ofiicers of the Corporation : " Secretary, Henry Cope ; Treasurer, 
 
 ^ Benjamin H. Warder; Managers, Thomas P. Cope, Thomas C. James, Samuel 
 
4 Haverford College. 
 
 for the instruction of their sons in the higher learning, 
 and for moral training, that should be free from many 
 of the temptations to which they believed the students 
 at most of the larger colleges were exposed. They ac- 
 cordingly purchased a farm of one hundred and ninety 
 acres, increased by additional purchases to two hun- 
 dred and fifteen, in the township of Haverford, Penn- 
 sylvania, nine miles west of Philadelphia. Within this 
 purchase a tract consisting at first of about forty acres, 
 but gradually enlarged until it now contains upwards 
 of sixty, was set off and planted with a large variety of 
 ornamental trees, to constitute the academic grove in 
 which the new seat of learning was to arise. The site 
 is remarkably healthful, as has been proved by the 
 experience of nearly half a century. It has an ele- 
 vation of about four hundred feet above the sea, and 
 it is supplied with pure water from an unfailing spring. 
 The institution here established has extended its 
 usefulness even beyond the expectation of its founders, 
 and is now open to young men of every denomi- 
 nation, if of good moral character and the requisite 
 intellectual attainments. Although a full collegiate 
 course of study was pursued in it from the first, for 
 more than twenty years it bore the modest title of 
 
 Bettle, Isaac Davis, Isaac Collins, Thomas Kimber, Daniel B. Smith, John Paul, 
 Thomas Evans, Samuel B. Morris, Abraham L. Pennock, Bartholomew Wistar, 
 John Gummere, John G. Hoskins, George Stewardson, Charles Yarnall, Samuel 
 Parsons, John Griscom, Thomas Cock, Samuel F. Mott, Lindley Murray, Gerard 
 T. Hopkins, Joseph King, Jr., Benjamin W. Ladd." But one of these officers is 
 now surviving (1879). 
 
Have7^ford College. 5 
 
 " Haver ford School." Early in the year 1856, how- 
 ever, it was incorporated as a College ; for it was 
 felt to be no more than just that the scholarly attain- 
 ments of its graduates should be attested by those 
 academic Degrees which are generally understood to 
 indicate such attainments, and which were not withheld 
 in any other seminary of learning of equal grade with 
 Haverford. 
 
 The principal buildings, on the grounds of the Col- 
 lege, are the Founders' Hall, Barclay Hall, the 
 Library and Alumni Hall, the Observatory, and the 
 Gymnasium and Laboratory. They are all built of 
 stone, and well adapted to their purposes. 
 
 FOUNDERS' HALL, 
 
 a large and well-constructed building, was begun in 
 1832; and in it, in the fall of 1833, the School was 
 opened. This was for a long time the chief edifice 
 of the institution, containing the study and recitation 
 rooms, the laboratory, the library, the dormitories, and 
 the dining-room. Its internal arrangements have been 
 recently modified, and it is now occupied chiefly by 
 the recitation-rooms, the Natural History Museum, the 
 Physical Laboratory, the draughting-room, and the Pre- 
 fect's office ; retaining the dining-room and kitchen, 
 almost alone of Its original apartments. 
 
 The recitation-rooms are cheerful and commodious, 
 well lighted and well ventilated, and furnished with the 
 most approved seats and desks, blackboards, maps, etc. 
 
6 Haverford College. 
 
 The Museum of Natural History, occupying a large 
 and well-lighted apartment, is under the care of a 
 special committee of the Board, and has lately received 
 valuable additions. 
 
 The room for free-hand and instrumental drawing 
 is furnished with new and convenient tables, and 
 materials for prosecuting the work. 
 
 The Physical Laboratory is used with advantage 
 for practical exercises, experiments, and investigations. 
 It adjoins the Cabinet of Physical Apparatus. 
 
 Closely connected with the Founders' Hall, is the 
 building occupied as a 
 
 GYMNASIUM AND CHEMICAL LABORATORY. 
 
 The Gymnasium, built in 1853, is well furnished with 
 apparatus, and affords excellent advantages for physical 
 culture. 
 
 The Chemical Laboratory, thoroughly refitted in 
 1878, is provided with the best modern conveniences 
 and appliances. Each student has his own work-table, 
 and is supplied with the necessary chemicals and imple- 
 ments. Gas is furnished at the tables, water is easy 
 of access, and good ventilation is secured. A chemical 
 class-room adjoining gives favorable opportunity for 
 instruction by lectures. The students perform with 
 their own hands the experiments described in the text- 
 books, and are practised also (if they choose the ad- 
 vanced courses in chemistry) in qualitative and quanti- 
 tative analysis, for both of which there are ample 
 
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 facilities. There is a good stock of apparatus, which 
 is increased as the wants of the College require. 
 
 Between the two Laboratories there is a commodious 
 Lecture Room, with rising seats, well supplied with the 
 appliances needed for experimental demonstration. 
 
 THE LIBRARY AND ALUMNI HALL, 
 
 a tasteful and well-proportioned building, erected by 
 the Alumni Association in 1863-64, contains a fine 
 auditorium, used for lectures, society meetings, and 
 the public exercises of the College, and furnishes 
 accommodations for the College and Society Libraries, 
 with a reading-room always warmed and lighted. 
 The number of volumes in the libraries at the begin- 
 ning of the year 1879 is about 12,000. The different 
 libraries complement each other, inasmuch as books 
 found in any one of them are not duplicated in the 
 others, and are accessible freely to all the students. 
 The books have always been very carefully selected, 
 and now cover a wide ranae of literature and science, 
 forming a good working library for students' use. A 
 very complete card catalogue makes it easy to ascer- 
 tain the resources of the Library on any topic, and to 
 o^o at once to the books or review articles in which 
 
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 that topic is illustrated. A large number of the best 
 European and American periodicals are taken in. The 
 Library is regarded as inferior in importance to no 
 other department of the College, and the freest access 
 to its treasures is allowed at all times. 
 
Haverford College. 
 
 THE OBSERVATORY^ 
 
 which was built In 1852, is designed, like the Library 
 and Laboratories, for the actual benefit and instruction 
 of the students. The instruments with which it is fur- 
 nished are a part of the working physical apparatus 
 of the College. Herein it is more useful to the 
 students than such observatories as are devoted chiefly 
 or exclusively to purposes of discovery and the ad- 
 vancement of science. The classes at Haverford are 
 made familiar with the use of astronomical instru- 
 ments, and acquire, from actual observation, a practical 
 acquaintance with Astronomy. 
 
 The Observatory contains an Equatorial Telescope, 
 mounted in the Fraunhofer style, with an object-glass 
 of 8^ inches aperture, and a focal length of 11 feet, 
 and furnished with an annular micrometer, with six 
 eye-pieces, varying in magnifying power from 60 to 
 900 times ; a Meridian Transit Circle, of the German 
 form, having a Telescope of 4 inches aperture, and 
 5 feet focus, with a circle at each end of the axis 26 
 inches in , diameter— one reading by four verniers to 
 two seconds of arc, the other used simply as a finder ; 
 a Prime Vertical Transit ; a Solar Clock ; a Sidereal 
 Clock, with the mercurial compensation; and Bond's 
 Magnetic Chronograph, for the instantaneous record- 
 ing of observations, .. 
 
 The latitude of the Observatory is 40° o' 36",5 N.; 
 its longitude ^ i"" i-2'^p.75 W. frqm Greenwich. 
 
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 BARCLAY HALL, 
 
 the largest and most stately of the College buildings, 
 was completed in 1877, and is one of the most beauti- 
 ful and best planned collegiate edifices in America. 
 In the general arrangement, every two students occupy 
 a private study, with which their separate bed-rooms 
 are connected. There are also single rooms, for the 
 use of students who prefer to be entirely alone. The 
 rooms are all cheerful, comfortable, and convenient, 
 furnishing opportunities for uninterrupted study, and 
 also for retirement and private devotion. The whole 
 building is warmed by steam, and it contains every 
 convenience in the way of bath-rooms, wash-rooms, 
 etc., and constant access to hot and cold water. The 
 Collection Room, in which the students assemble for 
 the devotional reading of the Bible, and on some other 
 occasions, is on the first floor of Barclay Hall. 
 
 THE GROUNDS. 
 
 The College buildings are situated in the midst of orna- 
 mented grounds of more than sixty acres of diversified 
 surface, which are laid out in walks and lawns, and 
 shaded by a large variety of well-grown trees. The ex- 
 treme beauty of these grounds makes them very attract- 
 ive to visitors, and they are a permanent source of 
 pleasure to the members of the College. It can hardly 
 be without beneficial influences upon the mind and heart 
 that one's youth should be spent amid such scenes. 
 
lo Haverford College. 
 
 CRICKET AND BASE-BALL FIELDS, ETC. 
 
 Near the College buildings there are large and well 
 appointed fields for cricket and base-ball ; which games, 
 together with foot-ball, each at its appropriate season, 
 furnish ample occasion for invigorating physical exer- 
 cise, while they are not allowed to interfere with study 
 and the higher purposes of residence at the College. 
 A sheet of water furnishes in winter an excellent 
 skating pond. The surrounding country abounds in 
 beautiful scenes and attractive walks ; the gymnasium 
 can be resorted to in stormy weather, as well as at 
 other times ; and altogether the inducements at Haver- 
 ford to healthful exercise are great. 
 
 COURSES OF INSTRUCTION. 
 
 It is the aim of Haverford College to give a thorough 
 and generous training, which shall cultivate the intel- 
 lectual powers of its students symmetrically and roundly, 
 and fit them for effective action in practical life, laying 
 also a broad basis for any future special acquisitions. 
 The courses of instruction retain the standard studies 
 proved to be most fruitful in mental culture, and add 
 to them those scientific and practical studies which 
 have risen into prominence and importance in recent 
 times. There are two courses. Classical and Scientific. 
 In both, narrowness and illiberality have been avoided. 
 Each course is designed to give a broad as well as 
 
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 thorough culture, so that the Baccalaureate Degree, 
 whether in Arts or Science, may attest a compre- 
 hensive and tfuly liberal Christian education. 
 
 The following is the Course of Study for the De- 
 gree of Bachelor of Arts : 
 
 Freshman Year. 
 
 New Testament, Euclid's Geometry, Alsop's Algebra, Loo- 
 mis's Plane Trigonometry, Xenophon and Herodotus, Homer, 
 Review of Greek Grammar, Exercises in writing Greek, Livy, 
 Horace, Review of Latin Grammar, Exercises in writing Latin, 
 English Literature, Rhetoric, Compositions, Guyot's Earth and 
 Man, Tenney's Zoology, Wood's or Gray's Botany, Greek and 
 Roman History, Drawing. 
 
 Sophomore Year. 
 
 The Bible, Greek Testament, Trigonometry, Surveying, with 
 Field Practice, Norton's Natural Philosophy, The Prometheus 
 of Aeschylus, Plato's Apology and Crito, Exercises in writing 
 Greek, Horace, The Germania and Agricola of Tacitus, Exer- 
 cises in writing Latin, Eliot and Storer's Chemistry, Geology, 
 Dymond's Essays on Morality, Paley's Evidences of Christianity, 
 History, Themes, Drawing. 
 
 Junior Year. 
 
 Greek Testament, Analytical Geometry, Differential and 
 Integral Calculus [elective), Astronomy (with practice in the 
 Observatory), Thucydides, The Antigone of Sophocles, Exer- 
 cises in writing Greek, Cicero's Tusculan Disputations and 
 Somnium Scipionis, The Captives of Plautus, Exercises in 
 writing Latin, Geology completed, French Grammar, Telemaque, 
 Histoire de Charles XH., Whately's Rhetoric, Whately's Logic, 
 Haven's Mental Philosophy, Political Economy, Kent's Com- 
 mentaries on the Law of Nations and American Law, Themes, 
 German {elective), Qualitative Analysis {elective). 
 
1 2 Haverford College. 
 
 Senior Year. 
 
 R,EQXJIR.Er) STUDIES. 
 
 Greek Testament, Juvenal, Cicero's and Pliny's Letters, The 
 Ancient Pronunciation of Latin, Latin Compositions, History 
 of Ancient Literatures, Whitney's Science of Language, Ger- 
 man, Anglo-Saxon, Philological Study of the English Language, 
 Butler's Analogy, Barclay's Apology, Gurney's Observations, 
 Arnold's Lectures on Modern History, Guizot's History of 
 Modern Civilization, Hallam's Constitutional History, Anatomy 
 and Physiology, Hygiene, Forensics. 
 
 EX.ECTIVE STUDIES. 
 
 Analytical Mechanics, Differential and Integral Calculus, 
 Physics, Astronomy with Observatory Practice, Meteorology, 
 Demosthenes on the Crown, Greek Lyric Poets, Classical Phi- 
 lology, Writing Greek, Advanced German, French, Psychology. 
 
 The Course of Study for the Degree of Bachelor 
 OF Science is the following: 
 
 Freshman Year. 
 
 The same as in the Classical Course, with the exception 
 of Greek, and with the addition of Natural PJiUosophy and 
 Chemistry. 
 
 Sophomore Year. 
 
 The same as in the Classical Course, but omitting Latin and 
 Greek, and adding French, Physics, Chemistry (continued), As- 
 tronomy, and Natural History. 
 
 Junior Year. 
 
 The Bible, Analytical Geometry, Calculus, Elementary Greek 
 {elective), Latin [elective), French, German, Rhetoric, Logic, 
 Themes, Advanced Chemistry {elective^, Advanced Geology and 
 Mineralogy [elective^. Acoustics, Optics, Heat and its Appli- 
 cations, Electricity, Descriptive Geometry, Political Economy, 
 International and American Law. 
 
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 Senior Year. 
 
 RE^QXJirtED STUDIES. 
 
 The Bible, Mechanics, Astronomy with Observatory Practice, 
 Meteorology, German, Anatomy and Physiology, Hygiene, 
 Mental Philosophy, Butler's Analogy, Gurney's Observations, 
 Barclay's Apology, Arnold's , Lectures on Modern History, 
 Guizot's History of Civilization, Hallam's Constitutional His- 
 tory, The Philological Study of English, Anglo-Saxon, 
 Forensics. 
 
 ELKCTI^S^E STUDIES. 
 
 Higher Mathematics, Higher Physics, Quantitative Analysis, 
 Greek, Psychology. 
 
 LECTURES 
 
 are delivered frequently by the Professors, and by other 
 men of distinction in science and letters, and supple- 
 ment happily the instructions of the class-rooms. 
 
 RELIGIOUS EXERCISES. 
 
 All the students attend the mid-week religious meet- 
 ing at the Friends Meeting-house, in the neighborhood, 
 at which those who remain at the College attend also 
 on the First Day of the week. On First Day after- 
 noon there is a Collection, in which the students listen 
 to appropriate reading. The Holy Scriptures are read 
 every morning at the breakfast table, after the meal ; 
 and there is a Collection for Bible reading, followed 
 by a devotional pause, at nine o'clock every evening, 
 which all the students are required to attend. Each 
 class has a recitation weekly in the Bible, either in 
 EngHsh or in the original Greek of the New Testament. 
 
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 Instruction is given in the Evidences of Christianity, 
 and in the simple, cardinal truths of pure religion. 
 
 SUMMARY OF ADVANTAGES. 
 
 Haverford College presents advantages and attrac- 
 tions for able and conscientious students, in the health- 
 fulness and beauty of its location, its facilities for 
 wholesome physical exercise, the liberality of its do- 
 mestic arrangements arid the comforts of the home 
 provided for all its members, the high moral and re- 
 ligious tone which prevails in the Faculty and among 
 the students, the ability and accomplishments of the 
 teachers, the thoroughness of the instruction, the ful- 
 ness and judiciousness of its courses of study, the 
 opportunities for investigation and practice offered in 
 its Laboratories, Library, and Observatory, and the 
 standard which it constantly upholds of a sound, 
 manly, and Christian scholarship. 
 
 Situated on one of the great trunk lines of railway 
 in America, the College is easy of access from every 
 part of the country, and is conveniently near to express 
 and telegraph offices and a post-office. 
 
 REQUISITES FOR ADMISSION. 
 
 For admission to the Freshman Class, the College 
 requires, in Classics, a familiar knowledge of the 
 paradigms and of the leading rules of Syntax, in 
 Latin and Greek Grammar, to be tested, in part, by 
 
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 writing easy sentences in Latin and Greek ; acquaint- 
 ance with Prosody, to be proved by scanning verses 
 from Virgil ; and ability to give, after one hour's study, 
 with the aid of a Lexicon, a. literal translation of a 
 passage not before read by the candidate, both in Latin 
 and Greek prose or verse, and to apply the proper 
 rules of Syntax to the constructions in that passage. 
 
 Candidates are recommended to read the books of 
 a preparatory course in Greek and Latin which are 
 ordinarily prescribed in the requisitions for admission 
 to American colleges ; but this course may be varied 
 at the discretion of teachers, our desire being simply 
 that the candidate shall be found to possess sufficient 
 knowledge of both languages to enable him to pursue, 
 with facility and advaittage, the studies of the Fresh- 
 man Year. In other words, a person may be con- 
 sidered as prepared for admission in the Classical 
 Department, if, in the judgment of a competent teacher, 
 his knowledge of Greek and Latin is sufficient to enable 
 him to learn satisfactorily lessons of moderate length 
 in the Histories of Livy and Xenophon's Anabasis. 
 
 Those who enter for the Scientific Course are ex- 
 cused from the examination in Greek ; in place of 
 which, in 1880 and subsequent years, they will be ex- 
 amined in Balfour Stewart's Primer of Physics and 
 Gray's ''How Plants Grow,'' or equivalents. 
 
 In Mathematics, a good knowledge of Arithmetic, 
 including the Metric System, and of Algebi^a, as far as 
 Quadratic Equations, is required. It is very desirable 
 
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 that candidates should have some introductory knowl- 
 edge of Geometry, gained from the first two books of 
 Playfalr's Euclid or their equivalents. 
 
 Candidates must be familiar with English Grammar, 
 Spelling, Geography, and the Histoiy of the United 
 States. Particular importance is attached to these ele- 
 mentary studies. 
 
 Satisfactory examination-papers, written under proper 
 safeguards at first-class schools, and sent to us by the 
 teachers suitably attested, will be accepted so far as 
 they cover the same ground as our own requisitions. 
 
 Students may be admitted to advanced Classes, if 
 found fully prepared for admission to the Freshman 
 Class, and thoroughly fitted also in all the regular 
 studies of the Course up to the point at which they 
 enter. 
 
 APPLICATIONS FOR ADMISSION 
 
 should be made to the President, Thomas Chase, LL.D., 
 Haverford College P. O., Montgomery County, Pa. 
 Each candidate must forward, together with his appli- 
 cation, a certificate of good moral character from his 
 last teacher ; and students from other colleges must 
 offer also certificates of dismission in good standing. 
 Candidates will present themselves at the College, for 
 examination, at 2 o'clock, P.M., on Commencem^ent Day, — 
 the last Fourth-day (Wednesday) of the Sixth month 
 (June), — or at g o'clock on the morning preceding the 
 opening of the Term at which they desire to enter. 
 
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 TERMS. 
 
 The College year begins on the first Fourth-day in 
 the Ninth month (September). There are two recesses, 
 one at the end of the civil year, the other in the latter 
 part of the Fourth month (April), thus dividing the 
 year into three terms. Commencement is followed by 
 a vacation of ten weeks. Students may enter at the 
 beginning of any term. 
 
 The price of Board and Tuition is ^435.00 per 
 annum, payable to the Prefect, one-half at the begin- 
 ning and one-half at the middle of the College year. 
 Washing is charged [at the rate of 75 cents per dozen. 
 
 All necessary furniture for the studies and bed- 
 rooms, including beds and bedding, is furnished by 
 the College. 
 
 Towels and napkins must be brought by the students, 
 and all articles of clothing must be marked legibly with 
 the owner's name in full. 
 
 For circulars, catalogues, and any desired informa- 
 tion, application should be made to Professor Allen 
 C. Thomas, Prefect, Haverford College P. O., Mont- 
 gomery County, Pa. 
 
 Issued by order of the Board of Managers, 
 
 Edward Be^itle, Jr., 
 
 Secretary. 
 
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