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 3^( -* 118 CHARLES E. LEWIS $25.00 in the Junior department, and $30.00 in the Senior department, with extras for modern languages, music, and drawing. Students were permitted to enter at any time. The board and tuition was increased to $160.00 per term in 1884, and to $200.00 per term in 1889. . Other fees varied accordingly. The course of study was very soon organized on a basis similar to that of the English Grammar schools. It was divided into six forms, the first two comprising the Primary department, the third and fourth the Junior, and the fifth and sixth the Senior. This course took a boy from the usual elementary subjects to the equivalent of the second year of college. The distribution of the stu- dents in the different departments varied from year to year, but the Primary usually had the largest enrollment. In 1875 the curriculum was expanded to include a col- legiate course of two years in addition to the six forms. These included the higher branches of the subjects already studied. In the Convocation of 1876 a committee was appointed to take measures to have the school incorpo- rated as a college, but there is no record of anything being accomplished by it and the collegiate department was very soon discontinued. The curriculum was modified slightly from year to year; manual training, military drill, com- mercial studies, etc., were introduced, a complete reorga- nization being made in 1889. According to this, there was to be a Primary Course, a Preparatory Course of four years, and in the Academic department there were a Classical Course of four years, Scientific three year's, English four years, and Business two years. It was the aim to prepare boys for college or scientific school or for business, and each boy's course was arranged to try to fit his particular need. No scholar was held back or turned back in any one subject for deficiency in another. The character of the instruction may be inferred from the following extracts from the catalogue: "Drill is the secret of successful teaching. It requires diligence, pa- tience, and perseverance both from pupil and master.