The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-10-11
nELAwARE COLLEGE,.

The Faculty of Instruction of this Institution, un
der its present organization, consists OF the follow
| ing named Proiessorships to wit
| A Professorship Of Mental and Moral Science,
| Professorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
guages,
AProfessorshp of Mathematics and Natural Phi
| losophy,
| AProfessorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
| A Professorship of Chemistry and Natural His
tory,
Professorship of Modern Languages and Draw
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, of twenty one 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.
| FRESHMAN Glass;. 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; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
theus of H,schylus and Electra of Sophoces; Ana
| lytical Geometry finished; Calculus Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
| III. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis of
Epripides; Tactus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
| III Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
mates, and Meteorology...
|
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished Rheto
| ric, begun.
! ii. Cicero de Amictia and de Senectute; Herodo
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
| nometry Rhetoric, continued.
| iii. Cicero de Oifcs; Herodous, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun Rhetoric,
| finished.
| SENIOR Glass;. Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes ;
Acoustics, Optics Electricity, Ma gnetsm.
III. Elements OF Criticism; Buffers Analogy
| Ccero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
| roma; Voltaic Electricity or Galvanism; Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mics; Astronomy, begun.
| III. The Constitution of the United States; AS
| tronomy, finished; The Science of Heat Thermo-
Electrcity 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 Trustees; and
their attainments are communicated to the Board
| OF Trustees.
| RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In aQdtlOn 10 daily morning anu 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 tciM their fami-
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 FELTON, Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabass,
Jacobs or 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 Fresh
man, five dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollars; if
as Junior, fifteen dollars and, if as Senior twenty
| dollars.