The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-10-07
pELawAnE COLLEGE.

The Faculty of Instruction OF this Institution, I'M
der its present organization, consists Of the follow
ing named Professorships, TO wit:
A PROFESSIONALLY of Mental and Moral Science,
A PROFESSIONALLY of the Greek and Latin Ian
guages,
Professionally of Mathematics and Natural Phi
| losophy,
A'Professorshp of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
A Profcssorshp Of Chemistry and Natural His
A Professionally Of Civil Engineering,
Professorship OF Modern Languages and Draw
ing.
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 INSTR CTION.
Freshman Glass;. Liyy, begun; Xenophon's
| Anabass; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
ii. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; AL
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
| tnued.
| iii. Horace, begun; Homers Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
JUsIoR Glass;. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of lEschylus and Electra OF Sophoclcs; Ana
lytcal Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
| ii. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis OF
Ennpides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
mates, and Meteorology.
| SOPHOMORE CLAss.-L Horace, finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
| ric begun.
ii. Cicero de Amicitia and de Senectute; Herodo-
| tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry Spherical Trigo-
| nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
| III. Cicero de Ofics; Herodotus, finished; Sur
| vcying; Analytical Geometry, begun Rhetoric,
| finished.
SENIOR CLAss.--I. Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes; ;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
1 az RpfIe
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity Galvanism; Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro-Dyna-
mics; Astronomy, begun. .a
LII. 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, 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,
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, 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
ship, presbyterian, Episcopalian, and Methodist
! in the village, and note all absentees.
Two at least, of the Professors ,cith their Jami-
lies, will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at 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 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 behring's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Caesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent
EXPENSES.
EsTRANcE FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollars; if
Junior, fifteen dollars and, if as Senior, twenty
dollars.