The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-10-19
DELAWARE COLLEGE.


DELAWARE COLLEGE.
The Faculty of Instruction of this Institution I'M
der its present organzation consists OF the follow
ing named Professorships, to wits
A 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 Letres,
Professorship.of Chemistry and Natural His
A Professorship OF Civil Engineering,
Professorship OF Modern Languages and Draw
inf Khs co,,.ui.,. var a,via.d into two .ss,o0s
or terms, of twenty one weeks each. The first SECS
| 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.
| FREsHMAs CLAss.-I Lvy, begun; Xenophon's
| Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History begun.
II. 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.
JUNIOR Glass;. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of Eschylu and Electra Of Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
| ii. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcesis Of
Euripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
iii. Moral Philosophy; Platos Gorgias; The
CaptlVe OF fIautub, uyuTOStdtlCS,X uCu
Sophomore CLAss.si. Horace, finished; Keno.
phons Memorabilia Geometry, finished /; Rheto-
ric, begun.
| 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 Arisophanes;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
ii. Elements OF Criticisms Buffers Analogy
Ciceros Tuscuan Questions Demosthenes de Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Galyanism Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mics; Astronomy, begun.
III The Consultation 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
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
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evening prayer,
divine worship ia held twice on 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 fani
lies, will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at common table, with the students, who
are required to occupy such 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 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 Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Caesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ENTRAScE FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollars; if
Junior, fifteen dollars; and, if as Senior, twenty
dollars.