The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-11-02
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

The Faculty of Instruction of this Institution un-
der its present organization, consists OF the follow
ing named Proiessorships, TO wit;
A Proiessorship Of Mental and Moral Science,
A Proicssorship Of the Greek and Latin Ian
guagcs,
AProessorship of Mathematics and Natural Phi
losophy,
A Professorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
Professorship Of Chemistry and Natural His
tory,
Professorship of Civil Engineering,
A Professorship OF Modern Languages and Draw
ing
The Collegiate year is divided into t4vo sessions
or terms, OF twenty weeks each. The first se7
sion commences on the fourth "Wednesday OF Octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday oil
April. Each is followed by vacation OF five weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FREsHMAN CLAss.--I Lyy, begun; Xenophon g
Anahasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun. :,
H. Livy, fnished Homers Odyssey, begun; Al
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, CON
tinued.
Iii. Horace, begun Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished
JUSIoR CLAss-I. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus Of 4lschylus, and Electra Of Sophoces Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
III. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis OF
Euripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun
ILL., Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
matics, and Metoorology.
sopHoMoHE CLAss.-1i Horace, finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, hniShed Rheto-
rio, begun.
H. Cicero dc Amcitia and de Sonectute; Herodo
tus, begun Plane Trigonomctry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero &c Ofticiis; Herodotus, finished Sur
ycying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SEsIon CLAss-I. Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Arstophaues
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity. Magnetism
ii. Elements Of Criticism; Buffers Analogy !;
roma; Voltaie Electricity Galvanism; Electro
Magnetism Magnetic Electricity, Eiectro-Dyna-
mics; Astronomy, begun.
III. The Constitution of the United States; As
tronony, finished; The Science of Heat; Therno
Electricity; Chemistry and Geology
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
The College il 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 10 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. in all the studies of the year,
in the presence of a Committee of the Trustees and
their attainments communicated to the Board
of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
IN anu 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 OF
guardian, may select. One member of the Faculty
will attend each Of the different places Of wor-
ship, (Presby terrain Episcopalian, and Methodist,
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, Of the Professors, tciM their fdni-
lies will reside in the College buildings and will
board, at a common table, with the students, who
are required 10 occupy such rooms as may be az
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
In order to admission TO pursue the entire courso,
n 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 Fclton's Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs or behring's Latin Reader, Salust or
Cesar, Ciccro's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent
EXPENSES.
ESTRASCE FEE.--lf the student enter "a Fresh
man, five dollars if as Sophomore, ten dollnrs il
Junior, fifteen dollars; and if as Senior, twenty
dollars.