Excerpt from Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa; For the Academical Year, 1848 Compositions and Declamations are required throughout the course. The above course of instruction conforms essentially to that of the oldest and best institutions of the country. In con ducting the youthful mind over the field of science, it is designed to bring all the faculties into exercise in the natural order of their development, and to preserve that proportion among them which will produce a proper symmetry and balance of character. Where some particular faculties, in the course of instruction, receive much more attention than Others, it endangers an intellectual distortion; disqualifying the individ ual for any but a particular calling. The Object of collegiate instruction is not to complete either a practical or professional education; but by discipline and cultivation, to bring out every power Of the mind to its fullest and fairest proportions, and lay the foundation of a character fitted to appear with honor and usefulness in any department Of society, which Providence may call the individual to fill. Such an education will ordinarily lead to high intellectual attainments, and it is the best prepara tion for studying the learned professions, or entering the higher departments of business. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.