Thoreau finishes his second term of his senior year. He earns 650 points to give him a cumulative total of 12,112 and ranking him twenty-third in his class of forty-four students. He also starts his final term at Harvard with the following classes:

• Intellectual Philosophy taught by Francis Bowen; reading A treatise on political economy by Jean Baptiste Say and Commentaries on the constitution of the United States by Joseph Story
• Natural History taught by Thaddeus William Harris; reading The philosophy of natural history by William Smellie
• English with bi-weekly themes and monthly forensics taught by Edward T. Channing
• German taught by Hermann Bokum
• Spanish taught by Francis Sales
• Lectures on German and Northern Literature with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Lectures on Mineralogy with John White Webster
• Lectures on Anatomy with John C. Warren
• Lectures on Natural History (Zoology and Botany) with Thaddeus William Harris