The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-09-27
DELAWARE COLLEGE


The Faculty of instruction of this Institution un-
der its present organization, consists Of the follow
ing named Protessorships, 10 wit.
Professorship Of Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship OF the Greek and Latin Lam
AProfessorship Of Mathematics and Natural Phi
losophy,
AProfessorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
A Professorship Of Civil Engineering,
A Professorship OF Modern Languages and Draw
ing.
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, Of twenty 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.
FsrsaMAN c,Ass,-I Livy. begun; xenophon's
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.
JUNIOR CLAss.-I. Tacitus, begun; The PRONE
theus of Eschylus, and Electra of Sophocles; 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 Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics Pneu
| mates, and Meteorology.
Sophomore Glass;. Horace, finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
rc, begun.
ii. Cicero de Amictia and de senectute; Herodo-
| tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trgo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero de Offics; Herodotus, fnished Sur
yeying; Analytical Geometry, begun Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR GLASS;. Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes /;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
III Elemepta n Criticism Rntp
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes dc Co
roma; Votaic Electricity 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
at the close Of the year. in all the studies Of The year,
in the presence of Committee of the Trustees and
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, 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
ship, Presbyterian, Episcopaian, and Methodist,
in the village, and note all nbsentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors, ,cih their fami-
lies, will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at a common table, with the students, who
are required to occupy such may be as
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
In orderto 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
Greek Grammar, Jacobs or Felton's & reek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Auabass,
Jacobs behring's Latin Reader, Saust or
Caesar, Cicero's Select Oratons, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ESTRANoE FKK.-lf the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; if as Sophomore, ten dollnrs; if
as Junior, Ehsen dollars; and, if Senior twenty
dollars.