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

The Faculty of Instruction of this Institution, un
der its present organization consists of the follow
ing named Professorships, TO wit:
A Proiessorship of Mental and Moral Science,
A Professorship of the Greek and Latin Ian.
guages,
Professionally of Mathematics and Natural Phi
losophy,
A Professorship Of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
A Proiessorship Of Chemistry and Natural His
4 Professorship Of Civil Engineering,
A Professorship of Modern languages and Draw
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, 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 vacation OF five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FREsHmAS Glass;. Livy, begun; Nenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun. :,
II, Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey: begun; Al
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tnucd.
III Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, fnished
Geometry, five books; History, finished;
JUNIoR Glass; Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of Hsch ylus, and Electra of sophocles; Ana
lyucal Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcests Of
Epripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics begun.
ILL., Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
mates, and Meteorology.
SoPHoMoRE Glass;. Horace, fnished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished Rheto-
rio, begun.
H. cicero de Amicitia and de senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero de OfIiciis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished
SENIOR Glass;. Political Philosophy; The An
dra Of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes !;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism
ii. Elements OF Criticism; Butler's Analogy ];
(iCerO's TusCulaD DenOSthcne5 de
roma; Notalc ELECTRICITY or Galvanlsm; Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro-D yna
mics; Astronomy, begun.
iii. The Constitution 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 carefully examined, and
at the close of the year, all the studies of the year,
in the presence of Committee of the Trustees; and
their attanments are communicated to the Board
of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evening prayer,
DIV NE worship helu tWlCe on every anu
the recitation on 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, (Presby terrain, Episcopalian, and Methodist
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors, tcih their Jami-
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,
n 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
creek G Grammar, Jacobs or Felton's Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs or Doerings Latin Reader, Salust 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
rs Junior, fifteen dollars and, if as Senior, twenty
dollars