e founders. For the Freshmen, Livy, Xenophon, and algebra occupied
the first term. Horace, Thucydides, Herodotus, and Roman antiquities,
more algebra, geometry and botany, the second term; while Horace, Homer,
geometry, mensuration, and the application of algebra to geometry
completed the year. More Greek and Latin and higher mathematics were
scheduled for the second year, while science in the shape of lectures in
zooelogy and chemistry and two courses in intellectual and moral science,
represented by Abercrombie's "Intellectual Powers" and Paley's "Natural
Theology," were added to their classical and mathematical studies during
the third year. Geology and calculus were introduced the fourth year, as
well as courses in philosophy, moral science, psychology, logic,
economics, and political science. No modern languages, medieval or
modern history, or laboratory courses in science, save what practical
demonstrations could be made from the cabinet of minerals, were offered,
to say nothing of engineering, architecture, law, or medicine. The
traditions of centuries were still too strong and the institution too
weak.

Upon this modest foundation the curriculum slowly grew; new
professorships were added from time to time as they became imperatively
necessary, so that little by little opportunities developed for the
leaven of the new spirit in education to work. In 1843 the Rev. Edward
Thomson, afterwards President of Ohio Wesleyan University, was
appointed Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy. He only stayed
one year; and was succeeded by the Rev. Andrew Ten Brook, in after years
Librarian and historian of the University. In 1842, Abram Sager, M.D.,
afterwards a member of the Medical Faculty, was made Professor of
Zooelogy and Botany, while Silas H. Douglas, M.D., who was later to
organize the Chemical Laboratory, came in 1844 as an assistant to the
absent Professor of Chemistry, Dr. Houghton. The chair of Logic,
Rhetoric, and History was filled the next year by the Rev. Daniel D.
Whedon; while the chair of Greek and Latin, left vacant by the death of
Dr. Whiting about this time, was filled by the Rev. John H. Agnew. In
1846, a Professor of Modern Languages, Louis Fasquelle, LL.D., was
appointed and became one of the most distinguished members of that early
group.

These were the men who cast their lot with the very precarious fortunes
of the new University. The first two resident members of the Faculty,
who came to