The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-09-17
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

The Faculty OF Instruction Of this Institution, UNI
der its present organization, consists OF the follow
ing named Professorships, 20 wit;
A Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
A Professorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
guages
AProfessorship of Mathematics and Natural Phi
losophy,
A Professorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
A Professorship of Chemistry and Natural His
tory,
4 Profcssorship of Civil Engineering,
A Professorshp of Modern Languages and Draw
ing.
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
terms, of twenty-o weeks each. The first ses-
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
ber and tho second on the fourth Wednesday of
April. Each is followed by vacation OF hive weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
Freshman CLAss.--I Livy, begun; Xenophon 3
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun
II. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; Al
zebra. finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinued.
H. Horace, begun; IIomer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished,
JusioR CLAss.-I Tacitus, begun; The Prone
ytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
H. Logic Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis OF
Earpides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
H. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias The
Captive of plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatcs, Pneu
mates, and Meteorology.
SOPHOMORE CLAs5.--I, Horace, HnlSneO AenO-
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
rio, begun.
Ii. Cicero de Amicitia and de senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trgonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero de Oficis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
ycying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR CLAgs.--I. 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 yna-
mics; Astronomy, begun.
Ill The Constitution of the United States As
tronony, finished; The Science of Heat; Thcrmo-
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 of three thousand dol
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 attanmonts 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 i5 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 wor-
ship (Pre-5yterian, Epscopalian, and Methodist,)
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, OF the Professors, tcM their (ami
lies, will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at common table, with the students, who
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 Gramm mar, Jacobs or Fclton's Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xcnophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Caesar, Cicero's 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 as Senior, twenty
dollars