The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-09-24
DELAwARE COLLEGE.

The Faculty of instruction of this Institution, UNI
der it's present organization, consists OF the follow
ing named Proiessorshps, TO wit:
A Professorshp Of Mental and Moral Science,
A Proessorship 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
Professorship of Civil Engineering,
Professorshpo OF Modern Languages and Draw
ing;
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, OF twentyon 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 vacation of five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FREaHMAN CLAss.--I. Lvy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History begun.
H. Liyy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; Al
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con
tinucd
Ill. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, fnished
Geometry, five books; History, finished
JUNIOR CLAss.--I Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of Eschylus, and Electra Of Sophoclcs; Ana
lytica Geometry, finished; Calculus, Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcess of
Euripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Pautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
mates, and Meteorology.
SOPHOMORE GLASS;. Horace, finished; Keno
phons Memorabilia Geometry, finished Rheto
rio, begun.
ii. Cicero dc Amicitia and de Senectute; Herodo
tus, begun Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero de Otlics; Herodotus, Finished Sur
veyng; Analytical Geometry, begun Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR Glass;. Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes ;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
III. Elements Criticism: Kutcr's Analogy
Cicero's Tusculan Questions Demosthenes de Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Galvanism; Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro yna
mics; astronomy, begun.
iii. The Constitution of the United States; As
tronomy, finished; The Science of Heat; Thcrmo-
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 carefully examined, and
at the close of the year, in all the studies of the year,
in the presence of Committee of the Trustecs and
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 or
guardian, student ia permitted to attend any
place of worship which himself, or the parent or
guardian, may select. One member of the Faculty
will attend each of the different places Of
ship presbyterian, Episcopalian, and Methodist
| in the village and note all abscntees.
Two, at least, of the Professors 1oiM 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 may be as
| signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION
In order to admission TO pursue the entire course,
4 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 Grammar, Jacobs or Felton's Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Cesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ENTRANcE FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh
man, FIVE dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollars; if
Junior, fifteen dollars; and, if as Senior twenty
dollars.