Baccalaureate
If the students are very young, they shall have to pass in all the courses of secondary instruction. But if they are twenty years old, only the following courses shall be demanded of them:
English or Spanish, geography, history, arithmetic, natural sciences (natural history, physics, and chemistry), and rhetoric.
Priesthood
1st year: Bible and theology simplified.
2d year: Amplification of the preceding course, and application of the Bible to all the problems of life, social and private, to the ceremonies and to the priestly life, and to ecclesiastical discipline.
By simply passing these courses, and if the good deportment of the students be proved, they shall be ordained as presbyters and placed in the parish churches.
But not on that account shall they cease to continue their studies, and as is now the custom among the Roman priests, they shall be examined annually, to determine whether they are fit to continue the duties of priest, in the following manner.
1st year: History of religions.
2d year: Study of the distinct philosophical and theological systems.