The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-11-14
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

The Faculty of Instruction of this Institution,
der its present organization, consists oil the follow
ing named Professorships, TO wit;
A Professorship Of Mental and Moral Science,
a PROFESSIONALLY of the Greek and Latin Lam
guages,
AProfessorship of Mathematics and Natural Phi
losophy,
Professorship OF Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
A Professorship of Chemistry and Natural His
tory,
A Proiessorship OF Modern Languages 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 Octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday OF
April Each is followed by avacation of five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FRrsHMAS GLASS;. Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun. :,
II. Livy, fniahed; Homer's Odyssey. begun; Al
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con
tinued.
ILL., Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
junior CLASS. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
thcus Of Eschylus, and Electra OF sophocles; Ana
lytcal 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 Gorgas; The
Captive OF Pautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
mates, and Meteorology.
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
rc, begun.
ii. Cicero de Amicia and de Senectute; Herodo-
tus begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero de QAiciis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
yeying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR CLAss.-I Political Philosophy; The An
dra of Terrence The Clouds Of Aristophanes;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity Magnetism.
ii. Elements OF Criticism; Buffers Analogy;
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
roma; Votaic Electricity Galvanism; Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mics; Astronomy, begun
Ill. The Constitution of the United States; As
tronomy, fnished 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, branch of study, the
members of the class are carefully examined, and
the close of the year, 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 10 daily morning ana evening prayer,
di, me worship ID held twice 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
chip, Presbyterian, Episcopnan, and Methodist,)
in the village, and note all absentees-
Two, at least, of the Professors, ioIh their Janii
lies will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at a common table, with the students, who
are required to occupy such may be
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
In order 10 admission TO pursue the entire course,
n 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
creek Grammar, Jacobs or Felton's Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust
Cesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
. ESTRANcE FEE-lf the student enter as Fresh
man. five dollars; il Sophomore, ten dollars; if
Junior, fifteen dollars; and, if as Senior, twenty
dollars.