Ladies will be admitted to the foregoing courses of study on the same conditions as gentlemen; equal facilities will be afforded them, and the same honors will be conferred when they shall have completed their studies. A good knowledge. of Drawing and Painting, or of Instrumental Music, will be deemed equivalent each to two of the above prescribed studies, their selection being made by the Faculty. III. DEPARTMENT OF FINE ARTS, In this Department will be taught Penciling, Crayoning, Painting in Oils and Water Colors, etc. IV. DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC. In this Department will be taught Music on the Piano, Melo deon and Guitar. In the Department of Fine Arts and Music, extra charges at the usual rates, will be made. No literary qualifications are required to enter them. Students entering these Departments are expected to conform to the general rules of the Institution. CALENDAR FOR 1862-3. First Term of College Year begins Thursday, August 28, 1862. First Term closes Wednesday, December 3. Second Term begins Thursday December 4. Second Term closes Wednesday, March 18, 1863. Third Term closes Wednesday, June 17. Regular exercises are suspended during the Holidays. A vacation of one week is taken at the close of the Second Term. Examinations are held at the close of the Second and Third Terms. Commencement exercises are held at the close of the Third The government of the Institution is parental in character, yet decided and firm. Fully persuaded that a pure moral influence is essential to internal peace and prosperity, its officers and teachers will employ every reasonable precaution to beget and preserve in all the departments of the school, a healthy state of moral feeling, and no student will be retained in the Institution who shall have become regardless of its rules, or: who, by indolent habits or a vicious character, shall exert an influence unfavorable to good order. Parents and Guardians are requested not to furnish their children or wards with pocket money, but deposit money with some citizen or member of the Faculty, to be expended only for things necessary for their convenience and comfort. APPARATUS. The Institution is furnished with suitable apparatus in the departments of Astronomy, Philosophy and Chemistry. It has also a respectable cabinet of Minerals, to which additions are being made from time to to time. LECTURES. A course of Lectures will be delivered each term on Natural Philosophy and Chemistry. The necessary expenses accruing for experiments must be borne by the class. Besides these, numerous Lectures on Science, History, Education, &c., &c., are gratuitously delivered for the benefit of the students. LIBRARY AND READING ROOMS. The Library contains about 1,000 volumes, to which students have access by paying twenty-five cents per term. The Reading Room is furnished with some of the first periodicals from Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Cincinnati, and also with the leading American and Foreign Reviews. LITERARY ASSOCIATIONS. The Clever Fellows, Eclectics, Young Ladies' Association, and Atheniædes Society, are literary circles formed for improvement in the art of composition. Periodicals are published monthly by each of these Societies, under the name of the American Peloponesis, the Eclectic Review, the Young Ladies' Casket, and the Athenæum. RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES. The Bible Class and Missionary Society, are societies for cultivating Biblical knowledge and promoting religious enterprises. GENERAL EXERCISES. Weekly exercises are required in composition and declamation on the part of gentlemen, and weekly exercises in composition in the female department. TEACHERS' DEPARTMENT. Gentlemen and ladies who are preparing themselves for teaching, will receive, in the fall term, in addition to the ordinary instruction in the recitation room, special instruction in regard to the theory and practice of this profession, and in all subjects necessary for their thorough qualification as teachers. STANDING OF STUDENTS. A record of the attendance of students upon their various school duties, of their general deportment, and of their progress in studies pursued, is carefully kept by all the teachers, a summary of the results of which is publicly read in the chapel at the close of each term. Parents and guardians will also receive printed bills at the close of each term, when requested, exhibiting the standing of their children and wards in punctuality, deportment and scholarship. REQUIREMENTS AND PROHIBITIONS. The following abstract of the Rules and Regulations, exhibits the requirements and prohibitions which must be observed by every student. No person need apply for admission who cannot, or will not, comply with them. REQUIREMENTS. Registry of name and settlement of fees at the office, in advance. Strict observance of study hours. Prompt and regular attendance at recitations. Faithful preparation in composition and declamation. Punctuality at morning and evening prayers in the chapel. Attendance at church twice on the Sabbath. Strict observance of the rights of property. Attendance at Examinations, Exhibition and Commencement. PROHIBITIONS. Clamorous noise or other disturbance in or near the college buildings. Visiting during study hours or on the Sabbath. The use of intoxicating drinks, or tobacco in any form. Profane or obscene language, or playing at games of chance. Visiting groceries or public places of entertainment. Unpermitted association of ladies and gentlemen. Gunpowder, fire-arms, or deadly weapons of any kind, on the premises. Marking, cutting, or abusing in any way, the buildings or furniture. All immoral, indecorous and uncourteous conduct. OLIVET COLLEGE. REPORT OF TRUSTEES. Olivet College is an outgrowth of the earnest and aggressive spirit of Evangelical religion, which has inspired the founding of so many seminaries of Christian learning and culture throughout the country. The plan of the College originated with Rev. John J. Shipherd, a zealous philanthropist and the founder of Oberlin College, in Ohio. His plan contemplated both a College and a Christian Colony; the latter to found and forever foster the former. The College should be designed primarily for the education of young persons having very limited pecuniary resources; hence manual labor by the students should be encouraged, and the expenses for tuition, board, etc., be kept at the lowest practicable standard; it should afford equal facilities for education to both sexes and to all races; the principles of moral reform should be persistenly inculcated, and the students stimulated to become themselves reformers; and with thoroughness and completeness in the provision made for intellectual culture, there should be united the higher influences of ardent practical piety. Indeed, in Mr. Shipherd's devout conception of the future seminary, intellectual discipline and culture should always be subordinated to religious culture and spiritual thrift; his should be a Missionary Colony and College; the student to be first truly disciplined to the Divine Master, and then sent forth, as of old, to evangelize society. In carrying out this conception, Mr. Shipherd, in the year 1843, traversed various portions of Michigan in search of a suitable tract of land on which to commence his enterprise. |