The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-11-12
DELAWARE COLL.EcE.

The Faculty of Instruction of this Institution,
uer Its present organization consists of the follow
Ing named Professorships, TO wit:
A Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
A Professorship of the Greek and Latin Ian
guages,
AProiessorship of Mathematics and Natural Phi
APfofessorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres.
Professorship of Chemistry and Natural His
x Professorstip Of Civil Engineering,
Professorship of Modern Languages and Draw
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday of Ooto-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday OF
April Each is followed by avacation of five weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FRESHMAN Glass;. Livy, begun; Xenophon 3
Anabasis; Algebra, begunj History, begun
III. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; AL
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
unued.
H. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished
Geometry, five books; History, finished;
junior Glass; Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of Eschylus, and Electra OF Sophoclcs; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
III. 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
Inatics, and Meteorology.
sorHoMoRE CLAss.el Horace, finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
rio, begun.
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero de Oficis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR CLAss-.I. Political Philosophy; The An
dria Of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
ii. Elements of Criticism; Buffers Analogy
(icerp's 1usculan de
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Galvanism Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mics; Astronomy, begun.
III. The Constitution of the United Staes 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 are carefully examined, and
at the close of the year. in all the studies of the year.
In the presence of Committee of the Trustees; and
their attainments are communicated to the Board
of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evening pra 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, the parent or
guardian, may select. One member of the Faculty
will attend at each of the different places Of xor
ship, presbyterian, Epscopalian, and Methodist,)
IN the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors, ,riM their fami-
hes will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at a common table, with the students. who
required TO occupy such rooms may be as
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
~ order TO admission TO pursue the entire course,
n 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 fret two books Of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Cesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ESTRAS0E FEE-lf the student enter as Fresh.
man, five dollars; if Sophomore ten dollars; if
Junior. fifteen dollars; and if as Senior twenty
dollars.