The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-11-04
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

The Faculty of Instruction OF this Institution I'M
der its present organization, consists oil the Hollow
ing named Professorships, TO vat;
Professorship OF Mental and moral science,
Professionally of the Greek and Latin Lam
guages,
A Pfofessorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres
A Proiessorship of Chemistry and Natural His
A Professorship Of Civil Engineering,
Profcssorship Of Modern Languages and Draw
ing.
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, of twenty weeks each. The first sos-
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;. Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
H. Ivy finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; Al
zebra. finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinued
III Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five books History, finished.
JuHIoR CLAss.-I. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of lEschylus, and Electra of Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences Of Christianity
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis of
Euripides; Tactus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun
iii. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgas; The
Captive Of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
sopno S ceass'gi. Horace, finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
IL. Cicero de Amicitia and de Senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
Ill. Cicero de Officiis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun Rhetoric,
finished.
sEsIoa Glass;. 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; Yoitaic Electricity or Galvanism Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
III. inc Constitution of the United States; As
tronomy, finished; The Science of Heat; Thermo-
Electricity; Chemistry and Geology.
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
The College s provided with Philosophical APP
paratus, that furnishes ample means Of experiment
tai illustration in all the different branches of Nat
ura 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 fthe 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 year.
in the presence OF Committee of the Trustees; and
their attainments are communicated to the Board
OF Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition TO daily morning and evening prayer,
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
chip, Presbyterian, Epscopalian and Methodist
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors, trih their FAM
Irs will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at a common table, with the students, who
are required to occupy such rooms may be
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
In order 10 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 examination in the
following studies viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and
Greek Grammar Jacobs or Felton's Greek Reader,
and the fret two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs OF Doering's Latin Reader, Salust
Cesar, Ccero's Select Orations, and Virgil,
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
EsTRANGE FEE.-If the student enter az Fresh
man, five dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollars; if
Junior, fifteen dollars; and, if Senior, twenty
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