The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-11-06
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

The Faculty of Instruction of this Institution, un
ger Its present organization, consists OF the follow
ing named Professorships to wit; =.
Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship of the Greek and Latin Ian
guages,
A Proiessorship of Mathematics and Natural Phi
losophy,
A Professorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
Professorship of Chemistry and Natural His
A Professionally of Civil Engineering,
A Professorship Of Modern Ian guages and Draw
ing.
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms OF twenty one weeks each. The first SEES
SION commences on the fourth Wednesday OF Ooto-
per- ana the second on the fourth "Wednesday OF
April Each is followed by avacation of five weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
Freshman Glass;. Ivy, begun; Xenophons
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun
III. Livy, finished; Homers Odyssey, begun; AL
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinued.
III Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
JusIoR Glass;. Tacitu., begun; The Prone
theus of Hschylus, and Electra OF Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
III. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis of
Enrpides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun
Ill. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive OF Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
Sophomore MOI Claes.gf Horace, finished Keno.
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished Rheto-
ric, begun.
II. Cicero de Amicitia and dc Senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo
nometry, Rhetoric, continued
III Cicero de Offciis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
yeying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR Glass;. Political Philosophy; The An
dria OF Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
H. Elements OF Criticism Buffers Analogy
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Galvanism; Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mice; 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 Ap-
peratus, 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 carefully examined, and
at the close OF the year, an all the studies Of the year.
IN the presence of Committee of the Trustees and
their attainments are communicated to the Board
of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evening prayer,
divine worahlp 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, NTH their fami-
lies, will reside in the College buildings and will
board, al common table, with the students, who
are required 10 occupy such may be
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
Ia 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 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 Anabasis,
Jacobs or Doerng's Latin Reader, Saust
Caesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ESTRAscE FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; if as Sophomore, ten dollars; if
Junior, fifteen dollars and, if as Senior, twenty
dollars.