ESKER COLLEGE, ATHENRY, COUNTY GALWAY.

THE ORDER OF THE COLLEGE TO BE OBSERVED BY “THE PREFECT” OF STUDIES

MONDAYS, TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS, AND FRIDAYS.

Rising and Dressing …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………From 6 to 6½ o’clock

Morning Prayer…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………6½ to 7

Mass……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..7 to 7½

Five Masters are in Attendance from this Hour to breakfast.

Catechism-Greek and Latin Grammar-Syntax…………………………………………………………………………………………………………7½ to 9

Prosody-Exercises on the Metre of Horace-Latin Composition…………………………………………………………………………………..…same time

English Grammar-English Prosody-English Pronunciation…………………………………………………………………………………………same time

Breakfast and Recreation………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..9 to 10

Seven Masters are in Attendance from this Hour to Dinner

English Spelling and Public Reading…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………10 to 10½

Greek and Latin Classes, carefully arranged for the Entrance Courses of Maynooth and TrinityCollege………………………….……………….10½ to 12½

Algebra-Bookkeeping, as adopted in the first Mercantile Houses……………………………………………………………………………………same time

Euclid, with the ordinary “Deducibles” required in TrinityCollege…………………………………………………………………………………same time

Algebriac Geometry, with the entire course of the higher Mathematics and Astronomy……………………………………………….……………same time

Recreation………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………12½ to 1

Mensuration, with the Practical  Admeasurement, and rates of Sawyers’, Carpenters,’ Masons’, and  Painters’ Work………………….………………..1 to 2

Chemical Analysis of the Strength and Durability, with the present price, of the various materials used in above Trades…………………………….same time

Theory of Surveying, Levelling, and General Engineering…………………………………………………………………………………………same time

Field Practice of Surveying, &c, with Drawing and Mapping………………………………………………………………………………………same time

Arithmetic on the most improved Plan, with all the Concise and Modern Methods of Mental Calculation………………………………….……….2 to 2¾

Writing in a Full, Round, Free, Commercial Hand : the Master being pledged to produce (with an ordinary hand) a perfect style in six months…2¾ to 3½

Ornamental Writing-Printing-Text-hand, &c……………………………………………………………………………………………………….same time

Dinner and Recreation………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………3½ to 5½

Night Study and Silence………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………5½ to 8

Supper and Recreation………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….8 to 9

Night Prayer, and Going to Bed…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..9

ORDER OF WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS

Six Masters are in Attendance from this Hour to Breakfast.

French, Italian, (and if necessary) German, Spanish, and Hebrew Grammar………………………………………………………………………7½ to 9

Translation and Composition of Ditto………………………………………………………………………………………………………………same time

French and Italian Conversation, conducted by Gentlemen who have resided and studied on the Continent………………………………………..same time

Ancient and Modern History, with an Appropriate Lecture…………………………………………………………………………………………same time

Breakfast and Recreation………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………9 to 10

Five Masters are in Attendance from this Hour to Dinner.

Chemistry and Natural Philosophy, alternately, with a splendid Philosophical and Chemical Apparatus……………………………………………10 to 11

Chemical Analysis of Soils, Manures, &c, as applicable to Agricultural……………………………………………………………………………same time

Field Lecture on Practical Husbandry, and on Rearing, Feeding, and Diseases of Sheep and Black Cattle—To this Class the President devotes the most absorbing attention……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………same time

Blair’s “Lectures on Rhetoric”—–Locke on “the Human Understanding”…………………………………………………………………………11 to 11¾

Letter Writing—English Composition—Lecture on British Peerage………………………………………………………………………………..same time

Geography Globes, with a Lecture on the Science of Navigation…………………………………………………………………………………11¾ to 12 ½

Lecture on Political Economy, on the Imports, Produce, Manufactures, and Revenues of the States of the World……………………………………same time

Blackstone’s Commentaries on British Law………………………………………………………………………………………………………..,same time

Recreation………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………12½ to 1

Characteristic Readings from Milton, Shakespeare, and French Tragedy………………………………………………………………………………1 to 2

Declamation, as an Art—Recitation in Prose and Poetry—Historical Debate, in which ten or twelve Young Gentlemen may take part—Public speaking…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………2 to 2½

Dinner and Recreation………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………3½ to 5½

ORDER OF SUNDAYS

Reeves’ History of the Bible……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………8 to 9

Ecclesiastical History—Lives of the Popes…………………………………………………………………………………………………………same time

Breakfast and Recreation……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………9 to 10½

High Mass and Sermon……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….10½ to 12

One Chapter of the New Testament…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………12 to 12½

Recreation—Pious Reading in Library—and at ad Libitum……………………………………………………………………………………….12½ to 3½

    N.B.—In the order written above, too many classes may appear to be taught within the same hour, or it might seem, as if the Classical Students could not attend the English and Scientific classes—but this mistake will be immediately corrected, when it is recollected that at any one hour, six or seven masters can be in attendance, who so manage the time, and the classes, that every Student of the College, can read (if he please, and is able) in all the classes of the entire Courses.

And, besides, the classes already cited, there are other important Lectures (such as Lectures on Carving, Gentlemanlike Deportment and Good Manners), which are delivered only on vacant days, in order not to interfere with the regular course of the Studies of the College