Thoreau starts the first term of his junior year, rooming alone in Hollis no. 31 and taking the following classes:
- Greek composition with Cornelius C. Felton; reading Homer’s Iliad
- Latin composition with Charles Beck with “extemporaneous translation into Latin”; reading D. Junii Juvenalis Satirae expurgatae. Accedunt notae anglicae. In usum scholae bostoniensis. Cura F. P. Leverett
- Theology with Henry Ware; reading A view of the evidences of Christianity by William Paley and The analogy of religion, natural and revealed, to the constitution and course of nature by Joseph Butler
- Mental Philosophy with Joel Giles; reading The principles of moral and political philosophy by Paley and Elements of the philosophy of the human mind by Dugald Stewart
- English with Edward T. Channing (bi-weekly themes) and Forensics with Channing and Giles
- French with Francis Surault
- German with Hermann Bokum
