The republic., 1850-12-31
Dec l3-law4,
DELLA WARE COLLEGE.
N. X, HALL,
Postmaster General 4.


The Faculty of Instruction of this Institution un-
der Its present organization consists of the follow
ing named Procssorships, to wit:
Proessorship of Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship of the Greek and Latin Ian
PROFESSIONALLY of Mathematics and Natural Phi
| Nosophy,
Professorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
Professorship Of Chemistry aud Natural His
Professorshp OF Civil Engineering,
Professorship of Modern Language nd Draw
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, of twenty weeks each The first ses-
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday Of Octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday OF
April Each is followed by vacation of five weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FREsHMAN Glass;. Livy, begun; Xenophon's g
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
ii. Livy. finished; Homer's Odyssey begun; AL
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinued.
Ill. Horace, begun; Honer's Odyssey finished;
Geometry, five books History, finished.
JUNIOR GLASS;. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of Kschylu and Electra of Sophoces; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
ii. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis of
EuriPides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun
iii. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Pautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, ,Pneu
matcs, and Meteorology.
SOPHOMORE GLASS;. Horace, finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia Geometry, finished Rheto-
ric, begun.
ii. Cicero de Arncita and de Senectutc; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trgo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
Ill Cicero dc Oftciis; Herodotus, fnshed Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR CLAss.--l. Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes :;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
III Eiementa ot Critiriau Rutlerba
Cicero's Tuscuan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity Galvanism Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mics; Astronomy, begun
Ill. The Constitution of the United States; As
tronomy finished; The Science of Heat; Thermo-
Electricity; Chemistry and Geology
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS
The College is provided with Philosophical APP
paratus, that furnishes ample means Of experiment
tai illustration in all the different branches of Nat
ural Philosophy The sum of three thousand dol
lars has recently been expended, partly in this
country, and partly in London and Paris, in the
purchase of new apparatus, adapted to the present
advanced state OF the Physical Sciences.
EXAMINATIONS.
At the cose of each study, branch of study, the
members of the class are carefully examined and
at the close Of the year, all the studies Of e year,
in the presence of Committee of the Trustees; and
their attainments communicated To the Board
of Trustees.
htLlGiOOs ms NslRUCllON.
In addition to daily morning and evening prayer,
div me worship is held twice every Sunday, and
the recitation on Monday morning Is always in the
Greek Testament. At the request of his parent
guardian, a student il permitted to attend any
place of worship which himself, the parent
guardian, may select. One member of the Faculty
will attend at each Of the different places Of
ship, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, and Methodst,)
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, OF the Professors, toih tseT JaHi-
hes, will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at a common table with the students. who
are required to occupy such rooms az may be as-
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
In order 10 admission TO pursue the entire course
A student must be at least fourteen years of age;
must give satisfactory evidence of good moral
character; and must sustain examination in the
following studies, viz
Arithmetic, Elements OF Algebra, Latin and
creek Grammar Jacobs or FeltOn's Greek Reader,
and the first two books OF Nenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs or Docring's Latin Reader, Sallust or
CDsar Ciccro's Select Orations, aud Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
esrHAHsr Fgr-If the student enter az Fresh
man, five dollars; II Sophomore ten dollars; II
Junior. fifteen dollars; and, If as Senior twenty
dollars.
Isl Session I'd Session.