Thoreau finishes the second term of his sophomore year, ranking seventh in a class of 44 students. He earned 1,538 points, for a grand total of 7,744. Starts his third term, taking the following classes:

• Mathematics taught by Benjamin Peirce; reading An Elementary Treatise on Mechanics by John Farrar
• Greek composition, grammar, and antiquities taught by Cornelius C. Felton; reading Euripides’ Alcestis
• Latin composition taught by Charles Beck; reading Seneca’s Medea and Horace’s epistles and satires
• English taught by Edward T. Channing with weekly declamation and bi-weekly themes; reading Richard Whately’s Logic
• French taught by Francis Surault