WINTER TERM.

Moral Philosophy; Chemistry; Butler's Analogy; Dramatic Literature.

SPRING TERM.

Alison on Taste; Laws of Nations; Constitution of United States; Evidences of Christianity.

Weekly lesson in English Bible; and weekly exercises in Composition, Declamation, and Extempore Speaking, throughout the course.

LADIES' COURSE.

PREPARATORY.

Intellectual Arithmetic; Higher Arithmetic; English Grammar; Geography; History of the United States; Loomis' Algebra; Elocution; English Analysis; Quackenbos' Composition and Rhetoric; Latin Grammar and Reader; Natural Philosophy; Penmanship.

FIRST YEAR.

FALL TERM.

Loomis' Higher Algebra, completed; English Analysis; Harkness' Latin Reader; Physical Geography.

WINTER TERM.

Geometry; Cæsar's Commentaries; Quackenbos' English Composition.

SPRING TERM.

Geography of the Heavens; Geometry and Conic Sections; Cæsar's Commentaries, continued.

SECOND YEAR.

FALL TERM.

Trigonometry, Mensuration, and Surveying; Political Manual; Cicero's Orations; Zoology.

WINTER TERM.

Analytical Geometry; Cicero's Orations, continued; Anatomy and Physiology; Political Manual.

SPRING TERM.

Botany; Olmsted's Natural Philosophy; Virgil.

THIRD YEAR.

FALL TERM.

Natural Philosophy, completed; Logic; Fasquelle's French System.

WINTER TERM.

French Reader and Grammar; Chemistry; Astronomy.

SPRING TERM.

Télémaque; Geology; Whately's Rhetoric.

Hillsdale College.

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FOURTH YEAR.

FALL TERM.

Mental Philosophy; Kames' Elements of Criticism; Political Economy; Racine, optional.

WINTER TERM.

Moral Philosophy; Butler's Analogy; Chemistry; Dramatic Literature.

SPRING TERM.

Alison on Taste; Evidences of Christianity; Laws of Nations.

Weekly lesson in English Bible; weekly exercises in Composition, throughout the course.

CHAPTER IV.

ST. LOUIS.

WE left Hillsdale at about 5.30 A.M. ỏn the morning of October 6th, before daybreak, but by the light of a brilliant moon, that lit up the hoar-frost under our feet, in our rapid walk to the station. The thermometer stood at about 48°, and we saw the effects of sharp frost as we proceeded on the railroad, in the brilliant colours of the autumn leaves, some tree-tops being literally crimson and scarlet. But on arriving at Chicago we found it again tolerably warm, and almost regretted that we had on winter clothing, which we were, later, forced to relinquish altogether, on reaching the still hot summer of St. Louis.

In entering Chicago we had again to observe the curious fashion of carrying railroads straight up the principal streets, our line passing by rows of houses and pavement

(or rather plank walks), with foot-passengers, and carriages to boot, on each side, all seeming in imminent danger of getting under the engine-wheels, only somehow they did not.

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Chicago is one of the very rapidly-grown Western cities, and shares their general shoddy" character, of great magnificence in some parts, and great incompleteness in others. The station at which we alighted was the most disgracefully shabby and dirty of sheds, but the hotel to which we went for dinner was paved with marble, and in all respects, perhaps, more finished and more luxuriously well appointed than any we had seen in America. The dinner certainly was unexceptionable, and on the bill of fare appeared one article that I did not expect first to taste in the Western States of America-fried frogs, or rather, frogs' legs. There they were, however, and I suppose no one who has tasted them will need to be assured of their excellence, resembling that of a very delicate fish. There were prairie chickens, too, a very superior kind of dark-fleshed game; and a very queer but very good vegetable that they called the oyster plant.