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Based on the Triennial Catalogue for 1860-1862 ( http://www.archive.org/details/TriennialCatalogueOfTheMountCarrollSeminaryForTheYearsEndingJuly7 ).


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Primary Course (1 year)


Willson's Reading: http://books.google.com/books?id=aTJAAAAAYAAJ

Sanders' Spelling: http://books.google.com/books?id=hERAAAAAYAAJ

Spencerian System Writing: http://openlibrary.org/books/OL24188792M/Spencerian_key_to_practical_penmanship (not this edition)

Stoddard's Primary Arithmetic: http://books.google.com/books?id=v8kMAAAAYAAJ

Colton & Fitch's Geography: http://books.google.com/books?id=pUYAAAAAYAAJ

Clark's Primary Grammar: http://books.google.com/books?id=02MVAQAAMAAJ

Quackenbos' Primary History: http://books.google.com/books?id=9B8ZAAAAYAAJ

Willson's Primary History: http://books.google.com/books?id=PNcMAAAAYAAJ

Jane Taylor's Primary Physiology: http://books.google.com/books?id=1kcVAAAAYAAJ

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Academic Course (3 years)


Year 1

Stoddard's Intellectual Arithmetic: http://books.google.com/books?id=h9kMAAAAYAAJ

Stoddard's Practical Arithmetic: http://books.google.com/books?id=5eOtM28t1FoC

Robinson's Practical Arithmetic: http://books.google.com/books?id=QaDooblqBikC

Colton & Fitch's Geography: http://books.google.com/books?id=pUYAAAAAYAAJ

Clark's English Grammar: http://books.google.com/books?id=j9AAAAAAYAAJ

Wells' Familiar Science: http://books.google.com/books?id=L3VBAAAAYAAJ

Willson's US History: http://books.google.com/books?id=_VxTAAAAYAAJ

Bullion's Latin Grammar: http://books.google.com/books?id=UogAAAAAYAAJ

Latin Reader: http://books.google.com/books?id=6IMAAAAAYAAJ (?)

Cutter's 1st Book of Physiology: http://books.google.com/books?id=VenGa9Js944C

Quackenbos' Composition: http://books.google.com/books?id=CDJAAAAAYAAJ

Willson's Ancient Geography: http://books.google.com/books?id=LQ4FAAAAYAAJ (? -- no book found by Willson called "Ancient Geography") (not this edition)



Year 2

Davies' Elementary Algebra: http://books.google.com/books?id=FZkAAAAAMAAJ

Fulton & Eastman's Single Entry Bookkeeping: http://books.google.com/books?id=SpEBAAAAYAAJ

Fitch's Physical Geography: http://books.google.com/books?id=sEsAAAAAYAAJ

Bullion's Latin Grammar: http://books.google.com/books?id=UogAAAAAYAAJ

Caesar: http://books.google.com/books?id=bnsLAAAAYAAJ

Bullion's Greek Grammar: http://books.google.com/books?id=fG8ZAAAAYAAJ

Fulton & Eastman's Double Entry Bookkeeping: http://books.google.com/books?id=SpEBAAAAYAAJ (single book)

Taylor's Ancient History: http://books.google.com/books?id=B2kUAAAAYAAJ

Cutter's Anatomy Physiology & Hygiene: http://books.google.com/books?id=FoBJAAAAYAAJ

Stoddard & Henkle's Algebra: http://books.google.com/books?id=-Pc6AQAAIAAJ

Cooper's Latin: http://books.google.com/books?id=wBwPAAAAYAAJ

Virgil: http://books.google.com/books?id=zjUZAAAAYAAJ

Anabasis: http://books.google.com/books?id=y2jaddthsKUC


Year 3

Davies' Legendre's Geometry: http://books.google.com/books?id=Xdo2AAAAMAAJ

Gray's Natural Philosophy: http://books.google.com/books?id=u5sXAAAAYAAJ

Quackenbos' Rhetoric: http://books.google.com/books?id=8jFKAAAAYAAJ

Cicero's Orations: http://books.google.com/books?id=58wAAAAAYAAJ

Anabasis: http://books.google.com/books?id=y2jaddthsKUC

Youmans' Chemistry: http://books.google.com/books?id=KTYJAAAAIAAJ

Gray's Botany: http://books.google.com/books?id=lP4TAAAAYAAJ

Lincoln's Livy: http://books.google.com/books?id=e8FEAAAAIAAJ

Owen's Odyssey: http://books.google.com/books?id=Y2EqAAAAYAAJ

Burritt's Astronomy: http://books.google.com/books?id=3IQoAAAAcAAJ

Bullions' Latin Grammar: http://books.google.com/books?id=UogAAAAAYAAJ

Sallust: http://books.google.com/books?id=ogJKAAAAYAAJ

Owen's Iliad: http://books.google.com/books?id=tk8ZAAAAYAAJ




Collegiate Course


Year 1


Stoddard & Henkle's Higher Algebra: http://books.google.com/books?id=jXYAAAAAMAAJ&

Gillespie's Trigonometry & Surveying: http://books.google.com/books?id=p7MUAAAAYAAJ

Hitchcock's Geology & Mineralogy: http://books.google.com/books?id=CVgZAAAAYAAJ (?)

Wayland's Political Economy: http://books.google.com/books?id=bl8EAAAAQAAJ

Willson's History of the Middle Ages http://books.google.com/books?id=LQ4FAAAAYAAJ (??)

Xenophon's Memorabilia: http://books.google.com/books?id=wudfAAAAMAAJ

Butler's Analogy: http://books.google.com/books?id=HgMDAAAAQAAJ

Wayland's Intellectual Philosophy: http://books.google.com/books?id=GrARAAAAYAAJ

Horace: http://books.google.com/books?id=llkNAAAAYAAJ

Sophocles & Prose Comp.: ?? (Possible Sophocles: http://books.google.com/books?id=ECkBAAAAYAAJ ) (Possible prose composition: http://books.google.com/books?id=dhIBAAAAYAAJ )

Chambers' Zoology: http://books.google.com/books?id=3WkYAAAAYAAJ

Euripides: http://books.google.com/books?id=b3VXAAAAYAAJ (?)


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Year 2


Wayland's Moral Science: http://books.google.com/books?id=3uoPAAAAYAAJ

Kame's Elements of Criticism: http://books.google.com/books?id=-qPTAAAAMAAJ (probably not this edition)

Whately's Logic: http://books.google.com/books?id=W5UXAAAAIAAJ

Tacitus: http://books.google.com/books?id=9MlEAQAAIAAJ (?)

Plato contra Atheos: http://books.google.com/books?id=290YAAAAIAAJ



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