The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-10-03
DELAwARE COLLEGE.

The Faculty of Instruction Of this Institution, I'M
der its present organization, consists OF the follow
ing named Proiessorships, to witt
Profcssorship Of Mental and Moral Science,
Professorshp of the Greek and Latin Ian
guages,
AProfessorship Of Mathematics and Natural Phi
losophy,
A'PTofessorship OF Rhetoric and Bellies Letres,
A Professorship Of Chemistry and Natural His
A Professorship Of Civil Engineering,
A Professorship OF Modern Languages and Draw
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, Of twenty -one weeks each. The first
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 CLAss.--I. Livy, begun; Xenophon 8
Anabasis; Algebra, begun History, begun.
ii. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; Al
zebra, finished; Geometry, beguni History, con
tinued.
Ill. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
JUNIOR GLASS;. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of lEschylus. and Electra of Sophoces; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus Natural The
| ology; Evidences of Christianity.
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis OF
Enripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III Moral Philosophy; Plaio's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
sopmonoRE CLAss.sf Horace. .tinished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ii. Cicero de Amicitia and de Senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
| nometry; Rhetoric, continued
i'll. Cicero de Oficiis; Herodotus, hnished; Sur
ycying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
| finished.
SENIOR Glass;. Political Philosophy; The An
dra of Terrence; The Clouds Of Arstophancs
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
ii. Elements of Criticism Buffers Analogy
Cicero's Tusculan Questions Demosthenes de CO.
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Gavanism; Electro
Magnetism. Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
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 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, 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 attainmcnts are communicated to the Board
of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
| In addition to daily morning and evening prayer,
divine 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, 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 each of the different places of
ship, (Presbyterian, Episcopalian and Methodist,
in the village and note all absentees.
Two at least, of the Professors trih their tami-
lies, will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at a common table, with the students, who
are 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 examination in the
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and
Greek Grammar Jacobs or Felton's Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Apabass,
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Caesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent
EXPENSES.
ESTRANcE FEE.--If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollars; If
Junior, fifteen dollars and, if Senior, twenty
dollars