The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-09-26
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

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DELAWARE COLLEGE.
The Faculty of Instruction of this Institution,
der its present organization, consists OF the follow
ing named Professorships, TO wit. F
Professorship Of Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship of the Greek and Latin Ian
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 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.
FsraHMAE CiAss.-I. Ivy begun; xenophon's
| ii. Livy. finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; AL
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
| tnued.
| Ill. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five books History, finished.
JUNIOR CLASH. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus Of lEschylus, and Electra Of Sophocles; Ana
| lyucal Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
| IT.. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis of
Enripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
|
sosno MOI CIAss.gl. Horace, finished; Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
rio, begun.
! tus, begun; Plane Trgonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
Ill. Cicero de Oficis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
yeying; Analytical Geometry, begun Rhetoric,
! SENIOR CLAss.-I. Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes J;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
ii. Elements Of Criticism; Buffers Analogy |;
| Cicero's Tusculan Questions /; Demosthenes de Co
| roma; Voltaic Electricity Galvansm 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 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. all the studies of the year.
in 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 ia 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 to attend any
place of worship which himself, or the parent
| guardian, may select. One member of the Faculty
will attend at each of the different places Of
ship, presbyterian, Episcopalian, and Methodis,)
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors, ioM their fami-
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 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 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 behring's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Cesar, Ciceros Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES
ESTRANoE FEK.-If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollars; if
as Junior, fifteen dollars; and, if as Senior twenty
dollars.