The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-10-05
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

The Faculty of Instruction of this Institution,
der Its present organization, consists OF the lollow-
ing named Professorsbips, TO wits
Profcssorship of Mental and Moral Science,
A, Professorship Of the Greek and Latin Ian
guaRes,
: AProfessorship of Mathematics and Natural Phi
losophy,
A Professorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
Proiessorship of Chemistry and Natural His
tory,
A Professorship Of Civil Engineering,
Professorship OF Modern Languages and Draw
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, OF twentyon weeks each. The first SEES
sion commences oIsthe 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 CLAss.--I. Livy. begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
II. Livy, 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
JusIoR Glass;. Tacitus, beguni The Prone
theus Of Eschylus and Electra of Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry. hnshed Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences Of Christianity.
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Acests of
Euripidea; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III Moral Philosophy Pato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
As soSao s% cl1ss} Horace, finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished Rheto-
rio, begun.
ii. Cicero de Amicitia and de Senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
ILL., Cicero de Officiis; Herodotns, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR Glass; Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes !;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
III nj
Cicero's Tusculan Questions Demosthenes de Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Galvanism Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic. Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mics; Astronomy, begun.
LII. The Constitution of the United States; As
tronomy, fnished The Science of Heat; Thermo-
Electricity; Chemistry and Geology
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
The College is provided with Philosophical APP
paratus, that furnishes ample means of xperimen-
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
at the close of the year. in all the studies of the year,
in the presence of Committee OF the Trustees; and
their attainmcnts are communicated to the Board
OF Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evening prayer,
divine worship ID 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 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, Epscopalian, and Methodist
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two at least, Of the Professors, tcih their FAM
lies, will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at a common table, with the students, who
required to occupy such rooms as may be as
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
In order to 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 an examination in the
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and
Greek Grammar, Jacobs or Feltons Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs behring's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Cesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
EsTRANcK FEK.-If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; if as Sophomore, ten dollars; if
Junior. fifteen dollars; and, if as Senior, twenty
dollara