The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-10-25
DELAWARE COLLEGE.


DELAWARE COLLEGE.
The Faculty of instruction of this Institution I'M
der its present organization, consists OF the follow
ing named Professorships, TO witt
Professorship of Mental and Moral science,
A Proiessorship Of the Greek and Latin Ian
guages,
AProfessorshp of Mathematics and Natural Phi
A PTTofessorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
A Professorshp of Chemistry and Natural His
x Professorship Of Civil Engineering,
A Professorship OF Modern Languages and Draw
ing.
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 the fourth Wednesday of
April. Each is followed byayacation of five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION
FRESHMAN GLASS;. Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun History, begun.
IL. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; AL
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
unued.
III Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
JUNIoR Glass;. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of Eschylus, and Electra of Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
oogy; Evidences of Christianity
H. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis of
EpriPdee; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
H. Moral Philosophy; Platos Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydtostatics, Pneu
mates and Meteorology.
SOPHOMORE CLAss.-I. Horace, finished; Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished Rheto-
ric, begun.
H. Cicero de Amicitia and de Senectute; Herodo-
tus, begunj Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued
Ill. Cicero de Offciis; Herodotus, hnished Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun Rhetoric,
finished.
SExlon CLAss.-l Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes /;
laCt
H. Elements Of Criticism Buffers Analogy (;
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Denosthenes de CO.
roma; Voltaic 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 a 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
their attainmonts are communicated TO the Board
OF Trustees.
RELIGIOUS lNSIRO CIlON.~
In addition to daily morning and evening prayer,
divine worship is held twice every Sunday, and
the recitation on Monday morning Is always in the
Greek Testament. At the request Of his parent
guardian, student is permitted 10 attend any
place of worship which himself, or the parent
guardian, may select. One member of the Faculty
viii attend at each of the different places of wor-
ship, Presbyterian, Episcopaian, and Methodist,)
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors, nth their fami-
lies will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at common table, with the students, who
required to occupy such rooms as may be
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
In order to admission 10 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 stUd.es, viz
Arithmetic, Elements Of Algebra, Latin and
Greek Grammar, Jacobs OF Felton's Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs or behring's Latin Reader, Sallust
Caesar, Cicero's Select Oratjons, and Virgil, or
" hat shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ESTRAScE FEE.-lf the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; il Sophomore, ten dollars; if
Junior, fifteen dollars; and, if as Senior, twenty
dollars.