The degrees conferred were as follows:

1. Degrees in Course. The degree of A. B. was conferred on John Patrick Dunn, Fordham, New York; John Eugene McMahon, Utica, N. Y.; Samuel Edward Duffey, Fordham, N. Y.; Thomas Joseph Donlon, Mott Haven, N. Y.; Arthur Ambrose Sweeney, Lawrence, Mass.; James Francis Flood, Albany, N. Y.; Joseph William Duffy, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Edward Charles O'Brien, Fort Edward, N. Y.; William Patrick Nolan, Schenectady, N. Y.; Andrew Victor Jova, Santa Clara, Cuba.

The degree of A. M. was conferred on John Weir, Haverstraw, N. Y.; George M. Edebohls, New York city; Bernard Patrick Murray, Brooklyn, N. Y.; John O'Kane Murray, Brooklyn, N. Y.; John Bernard Kennedy, Olneyville, R. I.

2. Honary Degree.-The Degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred on Hon. Charles Donohue, New York city, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York.

6. COLLEGE TERMS OR SESSIONS.

The terms or sessions for studies in said college, during said year, were the following:

The first term began on the first Wednesday in September, and ended January 31st.

The second term began February 1st and ended on the last Wednes day in June.

This arrangement is now permanent in the college.

The following is a copy of the calendar for the next collegiate year. Ordinary recreation every Thursday from September until November 1st, and from Easter until the close of the year.

From November 1st until Easter, every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon.

Vacation From December 22d until January 2d; from the last Wednesday in June until the first Wednesday in September.

There are also some celebrations during the year, such as Washington's birthday, etc.

7. SUBJECTS OR COURSE OF STUDIES.

The instruction furnished by said college is of two kirds-classical and commercial.

Classical Course.

1. Third Grammar Class.-Latin: Elements, Yennis Grammar, reader and exercises. Greek: The elements of this language are taught in the second term. English: Brown's Grammar, exercises, spelling, defining, reading, Young Catholics' fourth reader. History: Hassard's history of the United States. Geography: Sadliers. Arithmetic: Robinson's Intellectual and Written. Penmanship: Lessons. Religious Instruction: Literal study of a short catechism, with explanations by the teacher.

2. Second Grammar-Latin: Yennis' Grammar (continued), reader and exercises, Nepos, Phædrus, Select Letters of Cicero. Greek: Yennis' Grammar, reader and exercises, Esop's Fables, Kendrick's Ollendorf. English: Brown's Grammar exercises, Young Catholics

Fifth Reader. History: Fredet's Ancient History. Geography Sadliers' (continued). Penmanship: Lessons. Arithmetic: Robinson's (continued). Religious Instruction: Literal study of catechism; explanations by the teacher.

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3. First Grammar-Latin: Grammar (completed) exercises, Cæsar's Commentaries, Cicero's De Amicitia, De Senectute and Selectæ Epistolæ. Greek Grammar (continued), Ollendorf, exercises, Lucian's Dialogues, Xenophon's Anabasis. English: Grammar (completed) exercises, Young Catholics' Sixth Reader. History: Fredet's Ancient History (completed). Geography: Sadlier's (completed), Ancient Geography. Mythology: Irving's catechism of Mythology. Arithmetic: Robinson's (completed). Penmanship: Lessons. Religious Instruction: Deharbe's Catechism; explanation by the teacher.

II. Undergraduate Classes.

4. Classics. Latin: Syntax reviewed, idioms, prosody, exercises in prose and verse, Sallust, Virgil, Cicero in Catilinam. Greek: Grammar (completed), Prosody, Xenophon's Cyropedia, Herodotus, Homer's Odyssey. English: Prosody, compositions, critical study of the "Deserted Village." and of the Lady of the Lake.' Elocution: Frobisher's voice and action. History: Fredet's modern history, Constitution of the United States. Algebra: Peck's University. Religious instruction: Deharbe's catechism (continued).

5. Belles-Letters.-Latin: Principles of Latin style, prose and verse composition, Livy, Horace, Virgil, Cicero, Terrence, Plautus. Greek: Principles of Greek style, prose and verse composition, Plato's Phædo, Demosthenes' Olynthiacs, Euripides, Homer's Iliad, Isocrates. English: Halpin's precepts of Literature, lectures on style and poetry, analysis of selections from the best authors, critical study of Shakespeare's Macbeth, epistolary, descriptive and narrative composition, essays, poems, etc., Jenkins' history of English literature. Elocution: Frobisher's voice and action. History: Fredet's modern history (completed). Geometry: Davies' Legendre. Chemistry: Rolfe & Gillet's. Natural History: Elements of. Religious instruction: Deharbe's catechism (completed).

6. Rhetoric. Latin: Cicero's Orations, de Oratore, ad Brutum, Horace, Juvenal, Persius, Tacitus, prose and verse composition, history of Latin literature. Greek: Demosthenes, Thucydides, Sophocles, Pindar, Longinus, Eschylus, prose and verse composition, History of Greek Literature. English: Halpin's precepts of rhetoric, lectures on the principles of rhetoric, the construction of a discourse, etc., critical study of the best speeches in Goodrich's British Eloquence, and of Shakespeare's Julius Cæsar; the utmost attention is given to English composition; debates are held every week. Elocution: Frobisher's voice and action. History: Lectures on the Philosophy of History. Mathematics: Peck's Analytical Geometry. Chemistry: Rolfe & Gillet's. Natural History: Elements of. Religious Instruction: Lectures on the Evidences of Religion.

7. Philosophy.-Mental Philosophy, Jouin's Logic, Metaphysics and Ethics: First term, Logic and Ontology. Second term, Cosmology, Psychology and Theodicy, the general principles of ethics and of civil society. The lectures are given in Latin. The students are

required to speak Latin and defend their theses every week in that language. Such defense is often public before the Faculty. Natural Philosophy: Ganot's Physics. Mathematics: Peck's Calculus and Mechanics. Brocklesby's Astronomy: Loomis' Treatise on Astronomy. Geology: Page's. Elocution: Frobisher's voice and action; the debating society meets every week. History: Lectures. Religious Instruction: Lectures on the Evidences of Religion.

These four under-graduate classes correspond to the Senior, Junior, Sophomore and Freshmen classes of other colleges.

III. Post-Graduate Department. }

First term: Jouin's ethics, and the principal systems of mental philosophy. Second term: Jouin's principles of civil society, of politi cal economy, and of international law, the relations of church and State, history of philosophy. In this, as well as in the first year of philosophy, the students are obliged to defend their theses, both in class and before the Faculty, against some of their own number, or against professors and others appointed to attack them. Such discussions are usually carried on in Latin. The members of this class are required to write dissertations and essays in English on the various matters of their course. At the end of the second term, essays on three different subjects, already treated in class, are written, and to the best is awarded a gold medal worth fifty dollars.

Various branches of the natural science, and the modern language, can be studied in this course.

Commercial Course.

This course embraces all the branches of a complete English education. All that is absolutely necessary for mercantile purposes can be learned in the first and second years, especially when students have been subjected to the training of the two preparatory classes. The third, fourth and fifth years are intended for young men who seek the best education that is given without the study of Latin and Greek. At the end of the third year a commercial diploma is awarded to those who pass a satisfactory examination. A degree is conferred on deserving candidates at the end of the whole course.

1. Second Grammar.-English: Brown's Grammar exercises, Y. C. Fourth Reader and grammar school speller and definer. History: Hassards' History of the United States. Geography: Sadlier's. Arithmetic: Robinson's intellectual and higher. Book-keeping: Mayhew's practical business. Penmanship: Lessons. Religious Instruction: Literal study of catechism; explanation by the teacher.

2. First Grammar.-English: Brown's Grammar, exercises, Y. C. Fifth Reader and Grammar school speller and definer, commercial correspondence. History: Fredet's Modern. Geography: Sadlier's (completed). Arithmetic: Robinson's (completed). Book-keeping; Bryant & Stratton's counting house, practical business. Commercial Law: Lectures. Penmanship: Lessons. Religious Instruction: Deharbe's catechism; explanation by the teacher.

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3. Belles-Lettres.-English Grammar (completed), Hart's composition and rhetoric, lectures on style, critical study and selections

from the best authors, letter writing, descriptive and narrative composition, etc., Jenkin's History of English Literature, Young Catholic Sixth Reader. History: Fredet's Modern (completed), Fredet's Ancient. Mathematics: Arithmetic reviewed, Peck's Algebra and Geometry, book-keeping completed and reviewed, practical business. Commercial law: Lectures. Elocution: Frobisher's Voice and Action. Natural History: Elements of. Chemistry: Rolfe and Gillets. Religious Instruction: Deharbe's Catechism (continued).

4. Rhetoric.-Halpin's Precepts of Literature, lectures on poetry and on the construction of a discourse, etc., critical study of poetical extracts and of select speeches, peems and oratorical composition, Jenkins's history of English Literature (completed), debating society. Elocution: Frobisher's Voice and Action. History: Fredet's Ancient (completed). Mathematics Davies' Geometry (completed), Trigonometry, Surveying, Analytical Geometry. Natural Philosophy: Ganots' Physics. Chemistry: Rolfe and Gillet's. Religious Instruction: Deharbe's Catechism (completed).

5. Philosophy.-Hills Mental and Moral. English: Lectures by the professor, essays, debating society. Mathematics: Analytical geometry (completed), calculus. Mechanics: Elements of. Astronomy: Loomis Treatise. Geology: Page's. History: • Religious Instruction: Jouin's Evidences of Religion.

Preparatory and Optional Studies.

Lectures.

1. A special Latin class, which is intended to advance young men who come too late in the year, or are too old to enter the ordinary Grammar classes. The students of this class are promoted to the regular class, which their success in the January or June examination entitles them to enter.

2. Two preparatory classes, in which young boys are fitted to enter either of the college courses of study.

3. A special class for Spaniards and others who do not know any, or enough English to allow them to take rank in the ordinary classes. 4. Book-keeping is optional for the undergraduates.

5. French, German, Spanish and drawing are optional; but for these branches, except French, there are extra charges.

VIII. EXERCISES.

Besides the rhetorical exercises belonging to the Juniors and Sophomores, there are weekly declamations and competitions in all the classes. At the beginning of every month the rank and merit of each student is publicly proclaimed before the assembled faculty and students. Every Friday there is a written competition in all the classes except the Senior. The copies are examined, and rank is assigned according to merit. Declamation is taught in all the classes on every Friday afternoon.

Class exhibitions, dramatic and literary entertainments are frequently given during the year.

The debating and historical societies afford abundant literary exercises to the Juniors and Seniors.

There are two reading rooms for the students, in which are to be found several periodicals, magazines aud newspapers, home and foreign. The students' library, which increases every year, contains nearly five thousand valuable books on literature, science and history.

Every Sunday a sermon is preached in the College Chapel before all the students.

The students are separated into three divisions according to their age and physical development, and as the college grounds are large and favorably situated, every division has its own gymnasium, together with ample scope for bathing, skating and out-door exercise of every kind.

9. EXHIBITIONS AND PRIZE CONTESTS,

There are three public exhibitions during the year, namely, one in November, another in May and the third on Commencement Day.

As yet only one prize has been founded in this college, viz.: The Hughes gold medal (founded by Eugene Kelly) for the best examination in mental philosophy.

This medal is intended by its founder to perpetuate the memory of Archbishop Hughes.

It is open for competition to those members of the graduating class, who were not deficient in any department of study at either of the♦ general examinations. It is awarded to the student, who at a special examination in logic, ontology, cosmology, psychology and theodicy, receive the highest number of marks, provided such number does not fall below ninety out of a possible hundred.

John Eugene McMahon, of Utica, N. Y., was the successful competitor at the last Commencement.

All the other prizes which are awarded at Commencement Day, and which consist of gold and silver medals and books, are given by the college, with the exception of the gold medal annually bestowed upon the writer of the best biographical essay. This medal has hitherto

always been given by some friend of the college.

John Eugene McMahon, of Utica, N. Y., was the successful competitor at the last Commencement.

Donor for the present year, his Eminence Cardinal McCloskey, Archbishop of New York.

10. EXAMINATIONS.

Every new comer on entering the college is examined, and then sent to the class for which he is judged to be fit.

There are two general examinations during the year, namely, one before the close of each term. These examinations are written and oral. Every student must, if he desires advancement, answer satisfactorily on all the branches taught in his class. These examinations are carried on by boards, before which only one student appears at a time. Failure before these boards sends the student at the January examination to the class immediately below that in which he fails, and in June it debars him from advancement.

Candidates for graduation are always refused the usual diploma when they do not satisfy the examiners.

No student who fails is admitted to another examination within the same year.