The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-09-21
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

The Faculty of Instruction of this Institution UNI
der its present organization, consists OF the follow
ing named Professorships TO witt
Proiessorship of Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
guages,
AProfessorshp of Mathematics and Natural Phi
losophy,
A Professorsbip of Rhetoric and Bellies Letres,
Proiessorship of Chemistry and Natural His
tory,
A Professorship of Civil Engineering,
Professorship of Modern Languages and Draw
ing.
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, OF twenty-onc 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.
Freedman 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; Homer's Odyssey, fnished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished
JUNIOR Glass;. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of Eschy lus, and Electra Of Sophocles; Ana
ytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis of
Elripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
III. Moral Philosophy; Pato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
mates, and Meteorology.
SOPHOMORE Glass; Horace, finished; Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished Rheto-
ric, begun.
ii. Cicero de Amcita and de Scnectute; Hcrodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nomctry; Rhetoric, continued.
Ill. Cicero de Oflciis; 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.
H. Elements Of Critcisu Buffers Analogy ;
Ciceros Tusculan Questions; Demosthencs de CO.
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Galvanism; Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro d na-
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 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 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 attainments are communicated to the Board
OF Trustees
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evening prayer,
divine worship ID held twice every Sunday, and
the recitation on Monday morning is always III the
Greek Testament. At the request Of his parent or
guardian, a 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 wor-
ship, presbyterian, Episcopnlian, and Methodist
in the village, and note all absentces.
Two, at least, of the Professors, ,ciM Their Jami-
hfs, 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,
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 Felton's Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabass,
Jacobs Doering's Latin Reader, Saust or
Caesar, Ciccro's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ENTRANCE FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; if as Sophomore, ten dollars; if
Junior, fifteen dollars; and, if as Senior, twenty
dollars.
ST Session 0d Session.