The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-09-18
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

The Faculty of Instruction of this Institution I'M
der it's 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,
AProfessorship of Mathematics and Natural Phi
losophy,
Professorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
Proiessorship of Chemistry and Natural His
tory,
A Professorshp of Civil Engineering,
Professorship of Modern Languages and Draw
ing.
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, OF twenty-one weeks each. The first ses-
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday of
April Each is followed by avacatono of five weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FREsHMAN GLASS;. Livy, begun; Xenophon IS
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History begun.
H. Livy, finished; Honers Odyssey, begun; Al
zebra, fnishedj Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinued.
Ill. Horace, begun Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished
JUNIOR Glass;. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of fschylus and Electra of Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, fnshed Calculus; Natural The
oogy; Evidences of Christianity.
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The AIcests of
Enripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
Captive Of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
mates, and Meteorology.
SopHoMoRE CLAss.-I. Horace, finished Keno.
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished Rheto-
ric, begun.
ii. Cicero dc Amictia and de Senectute; Herodo-
tas, begun Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued
Ill. Cicero de Oiiicis; Herodotus finished; Sur
yeying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR Glass; Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds Of Arstophanes;
Acoustics Optics, Electricity, Magnetism
ii. Elements of Criticism; Buffers Analogy
Cicero's Tusculan Qucstons Demoshenes de Co
roma; Notac 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
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,
III the presence Of Committee of the Trustees; and
their attainmcnts are 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
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
vii! attend each Of the different places Of wor-
ship, (Presby terrain, Episcopaian, and Methodist)
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors ,oih their fami-
lies, will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at common table, with the students, who
are required to occupy such rooms may be as
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 G rammar, Jacobs or Felton's Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Cesar, Cicero's Select Oratons, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent
EXPENSES.
ENTRANCE FEE.-lf the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollars; if
as Junior, fifteen dollars; and, if Senior twenty
dollars.
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