The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-12-27
DELAWARE COLLEGE.
N. X. HALL,
Postmaster General

The Faculty of Instruction of this Institution I'M
der its present organization consists of the follow
ing named Proiessorships, to wit:
Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
guages,
AProfessorship of Mathematics and Natural Phi
losophy,
A Professorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
Professorship Of Chemistry and Natural His
Tory,
A Professorshp OF Civil Engineering,
Professorship of Modern Languages and Draw
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, Of twenty one weeks each The first SEES
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.
friedman Glass;. Livy, begun Xenophon'
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
ii. Liyy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; Al
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con
tinued.
Ill. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
JUNIOR CLAsa-I Tactus, begun; The PRONE
theus of Eschylus, and Electra of Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
oogy; Evidences of Christianity.
ii. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis OF
Earipides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
mates, and Meteorology.
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
rio, begun.
H. Cicero de Amicitia and de Senectute Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
uometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero de Otficiis; Herodotus finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR Glass;. Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Arstophanes
Acoustics, Optics Electricity, Magnetism
H. Elements of Criticism; Buffers Analogy
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
roma; Votac Electricity or Galvanism Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mica; Astronomy, begun.
III. 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 close of each study or branch of study the
members of the class carefully examined, and
ut the close OF the year. all the studies Of the year,
in the presence of Committee of the Trustees and
their attanments communicated to the Board
of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evening pray yer,
div me worship is held twice on every Sunday, and
the recitation on Monday morning is always in the
Greek Testament At the request of his parent or
guardian, a student is permitted TO attend any
place of worship which himself, or the parent or
guardian may select. One member of the Faculty
will attend at each of the different places of wor-
ship, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, and Methodist,)
in the village, and note all nbsentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors, toih u.eir tam-
fs will reside in the College buildings. and will
board, at a common table, with the students, who
required 10 occupy such may be
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
In order to admission 10 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 an examination in the
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and
creek Grammar Jacobs or Feton's Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophons Anabasis,
Jacobs Doerng's Latin Reader, Salust or
Cesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent
EXPENSES.
ESTRASsE FEE.--If the student enter Fresh
man. five dollars; if az Sophomore, ten dollars; IL
Junior. fifteen dollars; and, il as Senior, twenty