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DELAWARE COLLEGE.

DELAWARE COLLEGE.
The Faculty of Instruction of this Institution,
der its present organization consists of the follow
ing named Professorships, to wit:
Professorship Of Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
AProfessorship of Mathematics and Natural Phi
losophy,
A Professorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
Professorship OF Chemistry and Natural His
A Professorship Of Civil Engineering,
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 Glass;. Lvy, begun; Xenophon's
| Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun
| ii. 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.
junior GLASS;. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of Eschylus, and Electra Of Sophocies 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 Pautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
mates, and Meteorology.
SOPHOMORE CLAss.-I. Horace, finished; Keno
phons Memorabilia; Geometry, finished Rheto-
rc, begun.
ii. Cicero de Amicita and de Senectute; Herodo
tus, begun Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
| nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
Ill. Cicero de Offciis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR CLAss.--I. Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes;
A n,.fsn r;,,tv ,atta
ii. Elements OF Criticism; Buffers Analogy
Ciceros Tuscuan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Galvanism 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 Ap-
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
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, in all the studies Of the year.
in the presence Off 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 worship is held twice 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 Episcopalian, and Methodist,)
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors, toih their Jam
lies, will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at a common table, with the students, who
| are required to occupy such rooms may be
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 an 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 Doering's Latin Reader, Salust or
Caesar, Ccero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ENTRANCE FEE.-If the student enter Fresh
man, five dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollars; If
Junior, fifteen dollars; and, if Senior, twenty
dollars.