The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-09-25
DELAWARE COLLEGE,.

DELAWARE COLLEGE.
The Faculty Of Instruction of this Institution, I'M
der ts present organization, consists OF the follow
ing named Professorships, to wit,
Professorship of Mental and Moral science,
Professorship Of the Greek and Latin Lam
guages,
AProfessorship of Mathematics and Natural Phi
losophy,
Professorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
A Professorship of Chemistry and Natural His
< Professorship Of Civil Engineering,
A Professorship of Modern Languages and Draw
ing;
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..
FREsHMAN GLASS;. Lvy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun History, begun.
H. Lvy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; AL
gebra 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 Eschylus and Electra of Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences Of Christianity.
III. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcests of
Earipdes; 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
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished Rheto-
rio, begun.
ii. Cicero de Amicitia and de Senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trgonometry; Spherical Trigo-
| nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
iii. Cicero de Oficiis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR CLAss.-I Political Philosophy The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds Of Aristophanes;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
H. Elements of Criticism Buffers Analogy
Ciceros Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
roma; VoltaiC Electricity or Galvanism Electro
Magnetism. Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mice; Astronomy, begun.
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 ofexperimen-
tai illustration in all the different branches of Nat
ural Philosophy. The 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. in all the studies of the gear,
in the presence of Committee Of the Trustees; and
their attainmcnts are communicated to the Board
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evening prayer,
divine worship is held twice 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, the parent or
guardian, may select One member of the Faculty
will attend at each of the different places Of
ship, Presbyterian, Episcopaian, and Mcthodist,)
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least of the Professors, ,cih 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 as 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 Grammar, Jacobs or Felton's Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs Doering's Latin Reader, Saust or
Caesar, Cicero's Select Oratons, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent
EXPENSES.
ENTRANCE FEE.-lf the student enter Fresh
man, five dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollars; if
Junior, fifteen dollars; and, if Senior, twenty
dollars.