The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-11-19
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

The Faculty Of Instruction of this Institution, un
rer lis present orgaD zation consists of the follow
Ing named Professorships, TO wits
Professorship of Mental and Moral Science.
Proiessorship of the Greek and Latin Ian
guages
A Professorship of Mathematics and Natural Phi
loeophy,
Professorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lcttres,
Professorship of Chemistry and Natural His
try,
A Professorship Of Civil Engineering,
A Proiessorship Of Modern Lam qua gcs and Draw
ing.
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, OF twenty-one 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;. Iivy, begun; Xenophon' s
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
II, Liyy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; AL
zebra, fnished Geometry, begunj History, con-
Ill. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished,
JuSIoR GAS. Taeitus, Begun The Prone
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
H. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis of
Elripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Ill. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
matcs and Meteorology.
SOPHOMORE CLAS5.-I. ItOThCe, Unlsncu AenO-
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rhcto
ric, begun.
H. Cicero de Amicitia and de senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued
III. Cicero de Oficiis; Herodotus, finished Sur
veving; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR Glass; Political Philosophy; The An
dra OF Terrencc The Clouds of Aristophanes /;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism
II. Elements OF Criticism; Buffers Analogy ;
Cicero's Tusculnn Questions; Demosthenes dc Co
roma; VoItac Electricity or Galvanism Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mics; 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 are carefully examined, and
Mt the close Of the year. in all ne studies of the year
in the presence of Committee Of the Trustees; and
their Attachments are communicated TO the Board
OF Trustees. ~
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evening prayer,
di, 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 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
ship, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, and Methodst,)
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors, ich their fami
lies, will reside in the College buildings and will
board, at a common table, with the students, who
required 10 occupy such rooms may be
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
In order 10 admission to pursue the entire COURSE
IA 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
Greek Grammar, Jacobs or Felton's G rcck Reader,
and the first 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.
ENTRANCE FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; if Sophomore ten dollars; if
as Junior, fifteen dollars; and, if Senior, twenty
dollars.