The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-10-29
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

The Faculty of Instruction of this Institution,
der its present organization, consists OF the follow
Jag named Professorships, to wit;
A Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
a Professorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
guages,
AProfessorship Of Mathematics and Natural Phi
APfofessorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
a Professorship of Chemistry and Natural His
4 Profossorship of Civil Engineering,
A Proiessorship OF Modern Languages and Draw
ing.
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
terms, of twenty one 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.
FREsHMAN Class. Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun History begun.
III. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; Al
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinued.
III Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
JUSIoR Class. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus Of fschylus, and Electra of Sophocles; Ana
lytcal Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
olugy; Evidences of Christianity.
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis Of
Elripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
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-
ric, begun.
II. cicero de Amioitia and de senectute; Herodo-
tps, begun; Plane Tngonometry; Spherical Irlgo-
nonetry; Rhetoric, continued.
Ill. Cicero de Oiiciis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
dria Of Tcrrence The Clouds of Aristophanes
Acoustics. Optics, Electricity, Magnetism
ii. Elements of Criticism; Buffers Analogy !;
Cicero's Tusculan Questions Demosthenes de Co
TIA
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity Electro Dyna-
mics; Astronomy, begun.
III. The Constitution of the United States; As
tronomy, finished; The Science OF Heat; Ihermo
Electricity; Chemistry and Geology.
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS
paaf e sHhs at 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, branch of study, the
members of the class are carefully examined, and
nj the close of the year, all the studies of the year,
in the presence of Committee of the Trustees; and
their attainments 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 at each of the different places of wor-
ship, (presbyterian, Episcopaan, and Methodist
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two at least, of the Professors, pih their fami-
lies, will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at n common table, with the students, who
nre required TO occupy such rooms as may be as
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
In order TO admission TO pursue the entire course,
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 Felton's Greek Reader,
and the fret two books Of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs or behring's Latin Reader, Saust or
Caesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ESTRANcE FEE.-If the student enter Fresh
man, five dolars; if Sophomore, ten dollars; if
as Junior, fifteen dollars and, if Senior, twenty
dollars.