The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-10-23
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

The Faculty OF Instruction OF this Institution, uu-
der its present organization consists OF the loow-
ing named Professorships, to wits
A Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
A Prolessorshp of the Greek and Laun Ian
guares,
Professorship of Mathematics and Natural Phi
losophy,
A PTolessorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres.
A Professorship of Chemistry and Natural His
< Professorship Of Civil Engineering,
Professorship OF Modern Languages and Draw
ing
or crns, 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 avncation of five weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FREsHMAN Glass; Livy, begun Xenophon's
Anabass; Algebra, begun; History, begun
III. Livy. finished; Homer's Odyssey begun; Al
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History con-
tinued.
Ill Horace begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
JuSIoR Glass;. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of 4Eschylus and Electra OF Sophocles; Ana
lytoal Geometry, fnshed Caculus Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
II. Logic Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis of
EnriPides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive OF Plautus; Mechanics Hydrostatics, Pneu
MATES; and Meteorology.
SOPHOMORE Class. Horace, finished; Keno
y,
ric, begun.
H. Cicero de Amicitia and de Sencctute; Herodo
tus, begun Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero de OiFciis; 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.
II. Elements of Criticism; ButIer's Analogy
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Galvanism Electro
Magnetism Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mics; Astronomy, begun.
Ill. The Constitution of the United States; As
tronomy, fnisied; 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
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.
FREDERICKSBURG
In addition to daily morning and evening prayer,
divine worship is held twice on every Sunday and
the recitation 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, Epscopalian, and Methodist,)
IN the village, and note all absentees
Two, at least, of the Professors, trith their fdmi.
lies will reside in the College buildings and will
board, at a common table, with the students, who
required TO occupy such rooms as may be
sisncd them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
IN order 10 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 an examination IN the
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and
Greek G rammar, Jacobs or Feton's Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust
Cesar, Cicero's Select Oratons, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
CNTRANcE FEE.-lf the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; If Sophomore, ten dollars; if
Junior, fifteen dollars; and If as Senior, twenty
dUliars.