# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1851 01 21_S82
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The Board of Electors at present consists of the following gentlemen: P. Wyneken, as President of the Synod, Dr. and Prof. Sihler, P. and Prof. Walther, P. Schieferdecker, Apothecary Tschirpe, P. Brohm, P. Fürbringer, P. Sievers, P. Röbbelen, P. Hoyer.

The Board of Supervisors at present consists of the following gentlemen: P. Wyneken, as President of the Synod, Dr. and Prof. Sihler, P. Schieferdecker, Apothecary Tschirpe.

The teachers at the theological Seminary are:

C. F. W. Walther, Professor of Theology and Director.

Adolph Biewend, Professor of Philosophy.

The teachers at the Gymnasium:

a. regular:

P. Walther, Director, who has the instruction in the following subjects:

Religion. Rhetoric.

J. J. Gönner, Rector, who has the instruction in the ancient languages, in geography and in history;

A. Biewend, Conrector, who has the instruction in the modern languages, mathematics, the natural sciences and the philosophical disciplines.

b. extraordinary:

P. Wyneken for history,

Dr. Dacheux for the French language;

c. assistant teachers:

C. Metz for the ancient languages,

H. H. Eisfeldt for music,

M. Stephan for drawing.

Other officers of the institution:

F. W. Barthel, Cashier.

F. Große, Superintendent of Domestic Economy.

Seminary. To be admitted into the theological Seminary, a young man must, besides the other requirements, have completed the Gymnasium course and have received at least No. 3 in the leaving examination. Instruction is given to the pupils free of charge. Outsiders who wish to take part in it likewise have free access with the consent of the teachers. *)

*) More detailed information concerning the theological Seminary shall be communicated later.

Gymnasium. This institution is divided into two divisions, particularly for the sake of those pupils who do not seek to acquire a learned education, but wish to obtain, only for a practical calling, more knowledge than there is opportunity for in common schools. Those divisions are the Upper and Lower Gymnasium. The former comprises Upper and Lower Prima, Upper and Lower Secunda; the latter: Tertia, Quarta, Quinta.

The subjects of instruction according to the various classes are as follows:

Hebrew:

Prima: Grammar, exercises, reading-book.

Greek:

Prima: a) Reading of a historian, orator, philosopher (statesman) and poet (Thucydides, Demosthenes, Xenophon [Memorabilia], Plato, Sophocles); of which one author is to be interpreted in Latin. b) Greek compositions; c) History of literature with examples.

Secunda: a] Greek grammar and exercises; b) Reading of a historian and of a poet (Xenophon [Anabasis], Herodotus, Plutarch and Homer), c) Memorizing of a dictionary.

Tertia and Quarta: Grammar (easy exercises) and chrestomathy.

Latin:

Prima: a) Reading of a historian and poet (Tacitus and Horace), of which one author is to be interpreted in Latin. b) Latin treatises and disputations, c) History of literature (with examples).

Secunda: a) Grammar and Latin compositions. b) Reading of a historian, orator, philosopher (statesman) and poet (Livy, Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, Ovid) c) Memorizing of a dictionary.

Tertia: a) Grammar and exercises, b) Reading of a historian and of a poet (Caesar, Ovid).

Quarta: Grammar and exercises; (Nepos and Phaedrus).

Quinta: Grammar and chrestomathy.

German:

Prima: History of literature; treatises.

Secunda: Grammar (scientific: Eiselein), rhetoric, shorter and longer compositions, declamation.

Lower Gymn.: Exercises in reading, orthography, practical grammar (Ollendorf, Wurst), exercises in style, business compositions, declamation.

English:

Prima: History of literature, treatises.

Secunda: Grammar (advanced: Murray's 8vo Grammar), rhetoric, shorter and longer compositions, declamation.

Lower Gymn. Exercises in reading, orthography, grammar (practical: Smith's Gram.), exercises in style, business compositions, declamation, translating from German into English and conversely, memorizing of a dictionary.

Religion:

Prima: Systematic presentation of the Christian doctrine, (outline of church history), reading of the New Testament in the original language.

Secunda: Same as Prima.

Lower Gymn. Biblical history, (combined with Bible reading), catechism (combined with memorizing of passages and hymn verses).

Tertia: Church history of the Reformation, outline of symbolics.

Philosophy:

Prima: Logic, metaphysics, politics and history of philosophy.

Secunda: Geology, astronomy, chemistry, physiology and psychology.

Lower Gymn. Zoology, botany, mineralogy and physics.

Mathematics:

Prima. Upper Prima: Trigonometry and conic sections; Lower Prima: Plane geometry and solid geometry.

Secunda, Upper Secunda. Arithmetic, from logarithms to the end (after Fries); Lower Secunda: from the beginning to logarithms (after the same.)

Lower Gymn. Arithmetic in its whole extent (bookkeeping).

History:

Prima: From time to time repetitions of political history according to tables in connection with the history of culture (Kohlrausch), outline of Jewish and Christian antiquities, general bibliography.

Secunda: Ancient history. Greek and Roman antiquities, mythology.

Lower Gymn.: General and special history of the United States, England and Germany. Memorizing of tables. (General bibliography.

Geography:

Secunda: ancient and mathematical.

Lower Gymn. general and special, of the United States and Germany, biblical and mathematical.

Penmanship:

Lower Gymn.: English and German.

In the modern languages, namely in French, Spanish and Italian, in drawing (architectural included) and in music, private instruction is given.

With regard to the subjects listed in the plan of instruction, it may well not be superfluous to remark, should the variety of them on the one hand perhaps strike anyone, that it is by no means in the plan of the institution to overburden the mental powers of the pupils, and that in many cases it suffices for a complete education to know of a science only the chief principles and the most important results, for which neither excessive time nor exertion is required; and should on the other hand some subject perhaps be missed, that it is equally the aim of the institution to give a comprehensive education, and that such a subject, if it really appears essential, receives consideration in connection with other sciences expressly named.

It is our intention to make use likewise of the newest and best textbooks which are in use in the Gymnasia of Germany, and through a bookseller in New York connected with the Synod these are obtained in the shortest possible time and at the lowest possible prices, and are to be had there as well as here at the institution. A list of them together with the prices attached shall be furnished later.

Other aids of the institution in instruction are at present still small, yet it possesses a library which is continually being increased, and has the use of a geological, mineral, plant and conchological collection. The remaining necessary apparatus