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nELawARE COLLEGE,

DELAWARE COLLEGE.
The Faculty Of Instruction of this Institution, un
der its present organization consists OF the follow
| ing named Prolessorships, to wit:
Proiessorsbip of Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
AProfessorship of Mathematics and Natural Phi
| losophy,
A Professorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
Proiessorship of Chemistry and Natural His
Professorship OF Civil Engineering,
Professorship OF Modern Languages and Draw
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, of twenty weeks each. The first ses-
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.
FnEsIIMAN Glass;. Livy, begun; Xenophon s
| Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun
III. Livy, finished; Homcr's Odyssey, begun; AL
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
| tnucd.
| Ill. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, fnished;
! Geometry, five books; History, finished.
| junior Glass;. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
| theus of Hschylus, and Electra of Sophoces Ana
lytcal Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences Of Christianity.
| ii. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis of
Enripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
| Mechanics, begun.
iii. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
mates, and Meteorology.
| SOPHOMORE Glass;. Horace, finished; Keno
phon's Memorabilia Geometry, finished Rheto-
rio, begun.
II. Cicero de Amictia and dc Senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
Ill. Cicero de Oiticiis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
yeying; Analytical Geometry, begun Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR CLAss.--l Political Philosophy; The An
dria OF Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
III. Elements OF Criticism; Buffers Analogy
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes dc Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Galvanism; Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Eiectro-Dyn
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 are carefully examined and
at the close of the year, in all the studies Of the year,
in the presence OF Committee of the rustees; and
their attainments are communicated to the Board
of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evening prayer
divine worship is held twice on 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 wor-
ship, presbyterian, Epscopalian, and Methodist,)
in the village, and note all absentees
Two, at least, of the Professors, ,cih their fani-
lies will reside in the College buildings and will
board, at common table, with the students, who
required to occupy such rooms as may be as
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
In order to admission 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 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 Anabass,
Jacobs or behring's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Caesar, Ciceros 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
Junior, fifteen dollars; and, if Senior twenty
dollars.