The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-10-02
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

DELAWARE COLLEGE.
The Faculty of Instruction of this Institution.
der its present organization, consists OF the follow
ing named Professorships, to wit;
Professorship Of Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship of the Greek and Latin Ian
AProtessorship of Mathematics and Natural Phi
losophy,
AProfessorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres.
Professorshp of Chemistry and Natural His
A Professorship of Civil Engineering,
Professorship Of Modern Languages and Draw
ingE f.. co,,on;.,. Ibid, ;,,o ,.,o .o..;on.
or terms, oftwenty-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 ID followed by avacation of five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FREsHMAN Glass;. Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabass; Algebra, begun; History begun.
II. Livy. finished; Homers Odyssey, begun; Al
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinued.
i'll Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished
junior GLASS;. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of 4Eschylus, and Electra of Sophoclcs Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences Of Christianity
ii. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis of
Enripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechancs, begun.
H. Moral Philosophy; Platos Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
mates, and Meteorology.
SopHoMoRE CLAss.-f Horace, finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia Geometry, finished Rheto-
rio, begun.
ii. Cicero de Amcita and de Senectute; Hcrodo-
us, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trgo
nometry; Rhetoric. continued.
H. Cicero dc Oficiis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; 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 ;
Cicero's Tuscuan Questions /; Demosthenes de Co
roma; Voitaic Electricity or Galvanism; Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mics; Astronomy. begun.
ILL., 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 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 gear.
in the presence of Committee of the Trustees; and
their attanments are communicated 10 the Board
oil 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, riM 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 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 an examination in the
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and
Greek Grammar, Jacobs or Feltons Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Cesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ENTRANCE FEE.--H the student enter Fresh
man, five dollars; if as Sophomore, ten dollars; if
Junior, fifteen dollars; and, if as Senior, twenty
dollars.