From two till four o’clock.—First class, studies and recitations in geography, history, belles lettres and national laws.—Second, landscape and topographical drawing.—Third, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, drawing of the human figure.—Tuesday and Thursday, studies of the French language.—Fourth, French studies and recitations.
From four o’clock till sunset.—Military exercises—inspection of the dress and roll-call at sunset.
From sunset till half an hour later.—Supper immediately after parade—signal to go to the rooms immediately after the supper.
Half an hour after sunset till half past nine.—First class, studies on engineer and military sciences.—Second, studies on natural and experimental philosophy.—Third and fourth, mathematical studies.
From half past nine till ten o’clock.—Retreat beat at half past nine—roll-call immediately after—signal to extinguish the lights and inspection of the rooms at ten o’clock.
TABLE
Of the Sciences taught and the Books used at West Point.
| First Class. Course of fourth year. | ||
| SCIENCES. | PARTICULAR SUBJECTS. | TEXT BOOKS. |
|---|---|---|
Engineering. Instructors. Capt. Douglass.Lieut. Mordecai. | Artillery tactics. Field and permanent fortifications. Civil and military architecture and constructions. | Treatise on the Sciences of War and Fortification, by Guy deVernon. Traité des Machines, par Hachette. Programme d’un Cours de Construction, par Sganzin. |
History and belles-lettres. Rev. Mr. M‘Ilvaine, Chaplain. | Geography. History. Moral philosophy. Laws of nations. | Morse’s Geography. Tytler’s Elements of General History. Paley’s Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy. Vattel’s Law of Nations. |
Chemistry and Mineralogy. Dr. Torrey.Lieut. Prescott. | Application of chemistry to the arts. | Cleveland’s Treatise on Mineralogy and Chemistry. |
Tactics. Major Worth.Capt. Hitchcock. Lieut. C. Smith. Lieut. Kinley, teacher of the Artillery. | Platoon—battalion—school and line-evolutions. Exercises and manœuvres of artillery | Rules and Regulations for the Field-exercise and Manœuvres ofInfantry. Lallemand’s Treatise on Artillery. |
| 2nd Class. Course of 3rd year. | ||
| SCIENCES. | PARTICULAR SUBJECTS. | TEXT BOOKS. |
|---|---|---|
Natural and Experimental Philosophy. Prof. Mansfield.Lieut. S. Smith. Lieut. Parrot. | Statistic, dynamic, hydrostatic, hydrodynamic, pneumatic. Magnetism, electricity, optics, astronomy. | Gregory’s Treatise of Mechanics. Newton’s Principia.Enfield’s Institutes of Natural Philosophy. |
Chemistry. | Chemical philosophy. | Henry’s Chemistry. |
Drawing. Capt. Douglass.Drawing Master. Gimbrede. | Landscape. Topographical drawing. | |
| 3rd Class. Course of 2nd year. | ||
| SCIENCES. | PARTICULAR SUBJECTS. | TEXT BOOKS. |
|---|---|---|
Mathematics. Prof. Davies.Lieut. Ross. Lieut. Webster. Lieut. Greene. Lieut. Mahan. | Differential and integral calculus. Analytic geometry.Perspective shades. Descriptive geometry and conic sections. | Traité du Calcul Différential et Intégral, par Lacroix. Essai de Géométrie Analytique Appliquée aux Courbes et aux Surfacesdu second ordre, par Biot. Crozet’s Treatise on Perspective, Shades and Shadows. Crozet’s Treatise on Descriptive Geometry and ConicSections. |
French Language. Teachers. Berard and Ducommun. | Translation from French into English. | Histoire de Gil Blas, les 3 derniers tomes. Histoire de Charles XII. par Voltaire. |
Drawing. Drawing Master. Gimbrede. | Human figure. | |