Rev. Dr. H. D. Kitchell, of Detroit;
Rev. C. S. Armstrong, of Lansing;

Rev. S. W. Streeter, of Union City.

The Terms of the College commence respectively on the fourth Thursday in September, the second day of January, and the fourth Thursday in March.

Tuition in Common English branches, is $3 50, and in Higher English and the Languages, $5 00, each term.

Young men preparing for the Christian ministry, are cordially welcomed to all the privileges of the Institution, free of charge for tuition.

In conclusion, permit us to say that, notwithstanding the loss and embarrassment we suffer from the war, we still find much to encourage us in our arduous undertaking-the increase of students at the present time, and the increasing favor with which our work is regarded by the public.

In behalf of the Trustees of Olivet College.

OLIVET COLLEGE, Oct. 22, 1862.

O. HOSFORD, Chairman

REPORT OF VISITORS.

To the Hon. J. M. GREGORY, Supt. of Public Instruction: The committee appointed to visit Olivet College, discharged that duty, spending June 24th and 25th, in a diligent examina tion of the several classes, and of the general plan and capa bilities of the institution. Rev. Messrs. Streeter, Armstrong and Kitchel were in attendance on nearly all the examinations, and the undersigned was appointed to report in behalf of the committee.

Olivet College in its location offers every advantage which can be secured from a retired and quiet position, while at the same time it has around it all the helps that can be rendered by a thriving rural village, devoted to the interests of its seminary. It is situated 12 miles north of Marshall, remote from temptations and diversions, and yet surrounded by the thrift of

a quiet and moral community, presenting every help for healthful and uninterrupted study.

As to health, we see no reason why this is not regarded as eligible as any rural spot in the State. With increasing age and the improvements which are going forward, Olivet presents every attraction which can be found in a secluded village, orderly, religious, earnestly devoted to its college, and free from any special exposure to disease.

The ladies' hall is now completed, and it is a commodious and elegant brick building, affording ample accommodations and spacious rooms for 50 to 60 young ladies, with a boarding department under the same roof, and every provision for superintendence and comfort. Every opportunity is afforded for the thorough education of young ladies, to any extent embraced in the academic or collegiate course.

A separate edifice affords rooms and accommodations for the male students.

Your committee attended assiduously on the several examinations, and are happy to report, that for thoroughness and intelligent mastery of each topic of study, they were more than satisfied with what they witnessed. It would be impossible to specify all that deserves commendation; and yet something more than a general commendation is due The classes in English Grammar, Algebra, and Latin Lessons, under the instruction of Miss Andrews, exhibited proofs of careful training and good proficiency. Those in Geometry, Trigonometry and Natural Philosophy, under Prof. Hosford, deserve high commendation for their exactness and familiarity with the advanced studies in which they were examined proving a full mastery of all that was preliminary and fundamental in those branches. In these studies and in the classics, it would be difficult to find a system of instruction more perfect than is seen here. Profs. Morrison and Carrier instruct the more advanced classes in Latin and Greek. Your committee believe that the most eminent schools abroad can scarcely afford better oppor

tunities than are found here, for acquiring classical accuracy and an entire mastery, root and branch, of the Latin and Greek tongues. To the minutest points of étymological structure, accent, prosody, and graceful rendering, we can commend the style of instruction which we witnessed, as deserving of all praise and a most liberal patronage. Prof. Barrow conducted, much to our gratification, the examination of the class in Botany.

Olivet College should especially win the favor of those who crave for their sons and daughters the best security for a sound and healthful Christian culture. A religious influence pervades this institution; and these three assurances, we think, may be felt by all who place their children here: That they will incur as little as possible of temptation to evil; that a genial and enlightened Christian influence will surround them; and that the work of education will be set forward as thoroughly as at any other institution that can be named.

The young men who would have formed the College classes were gone to the war.

Altogether, we are happy to report so favorably; and we acknowledge the gratification we have taken in discharging this visitation.

All of which we respectfully submit, în behalf of the committee.

Detroit, July 19, 1862.

H. D. KITCHEL.

COLON SEMINARY.

REEORT OF TRUSTEES.

To the Superintendent of Public Instruction:

SIR: Please find the following report of the Colon Seminary: This institution was organized on the 19th of May, 1858, with a capital stock of $5,000; $1,000 of which was paid up, and

with which the Trustees procured a building for school purposes. The attendance the first year was 149; the second, 131; the third, 135; the fourth, 131. It will be seen that notwithstanding the distracted and excited state of the country the last year, our school has kept its numbers good. Had there been the usual peace and quiet, we should doubtless have had an increased attendance. The fall term for the present year is affected to a considerable extent by the war. Very many of our young men have enlisted, and our pupils at present are mostly ladies. We expect, however, an accession of young men later in the season.

With many of the stockholders, this enterprise was an experiment; but it has now proved a success, and they have come forward and increased the capital stock to over $8,000. We are now erecting a brick building, 34 by 75 feet on the ground and three stories high, for school purposes, to be ready for use at the commencement of the next school year, which, when furnished with furniture, school apparatus, &c., and its corps of teachers, will, we think, offer great inducements to young ladies and gentlemen who are seeking a more thorough course of instruction than is offered at our public schools generally.

Our location is at the village of Colon, St. Joseph county, Mich., eight miles from Burr Oak, on the Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana Railroad, in the centre of a rich, fertile, and healthy region as can be found in the St. Joseph Valley, emembracing a population of between three and four hundred inhabitants.

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Text Books in use: Orthography-Saunders' Speller. Reading-National Readers. Mathematics - Stodard's Mental Arithmetic, Davies School Arithmetic, Davies University Arithmetic, Davies' Elementary Algebra, Davies' University Algebra, Davies' Legendre. Geography-Montieth, McNalley's. Grammar-Sill's Synthesis, Clark's Grammar. PhysiologyCutler's. Philosophy - Parker's. Book Keeping - Mayhew's. Latin-Andrews & Stodard's Latin Grammar, Andrews' Reader.

The above report is, perhaps, sufficient. You can use what is of service to you. If more is needed we will communicate

To the Superintendent of Public Instruction of Michigan: SIR-Conforming to the requisitions of the statutes requiring annual reports of the various schools within the State of Michgan, I submit for your inspection the following statistics of the Detroit Female Seminary for the school year, which terminated the first of July last.

This institution was chartered in 1859, and was under the charge of the Rev. J. V. Beane till his late illness, which terminated fatally one year since. For this reason no report was made during the last year of his connection with the Seminary.

My labors as Principal of this Institution commenced in September, 1861. I find the course of study embraced in three departments-Primary, Academic and Collegiate-and these, again, embrace several classes. The range of studies extending through these departments is comprehensive and judicious, securing to the graduate a well grounded education in the English branches, Ancient and Modern Languages, Vocal and Instrumental Music, Painting and Drawing.