The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-09-19
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

The Faculty of Instruction Of this Institution, UNI
der it's present organization, consists OF the follow
ing named Proiessorships, To wit
a Proiessorship of Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
guages,
AProfessorshp of Mathematics and Natural Phi
losophy,
A 'Professorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres.
Proiessorship of Chemistry and Natural His
A Professorship of Civil Engineering,
Proessorship OF Modern Languages and Draw
ing.
The Collegiate year ia 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 avacation of five weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FRESHMAN Glass;. Livy, 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 CLAss.-I. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus OF Esch ylus, and Electra of Sophoclcs; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis OF
Euripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; Plao's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
MATES, and Meteorology
SOPHOMORE CLAsS.--l. Horace, finished Aeno-
phon's Memorabilia Geometry, finished Rheto-
rio, begun.
H. Cicero de Amcitia and dc Senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Irigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero dc Oficiis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
vcying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR Glass;. Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds Of Aristophanes !;
Acoustics Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
ii. Elements of Criticism Buffers Analogy
Ciceros Tuscuan Questions Demosthenes dc Co
roma; Votaic Electricity or Calvansm Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
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 a Philosophical APP
paratus, that furnishes ample means of experiment
tai illustration in ali 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 gear,
in the presence ola Committee of the Trustees; and
their attainments arc communicated to the Board
of Trustees.
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, student is permitted to attend any
place of worship which himself, the parent or
guardian, may select. One member of the Faculty
will attend each of the different places of
ship, Presbyterian Episcopalian, and Mehodist,)
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors, toiM their faHni
lies, will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at u common table, with the students, who
are required to occupy such rooms 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 examination III the
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and
Greek Grammar, Jacobs or Felton's Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophons Anabasis,
Jacobs Doerng's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Cesar, Ccero'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
as Junior, fifteen dollars; and, if as Senior, twenty
dollars