The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-10-09
pELAwARE COLLEGE.


The Faculty of Instruction of this Institution, un
der its present organization consists OF the follow
ing named Professorships, TO wit:
A PROFESSIONALLY of Mental and Moral Science,
|. Professorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
rguages,
AProlessorship Of Mathematics and Natural Phi
iosophy,
A Professorship OF Rhetoric and Bellies Letres,
A Professorship Of Chemistry and Natural His
A Proiessorship OF Civil Engineering,
Professorshipof Modern Languages and Draw
ing:
or terms, of twenty one weeks each. The first Sos
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday of
April. Each is followed by avacaton of five weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FREsHMAN CLAss.-i Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
ii. Lvy, finished Homer's Odyssey, begun; AL
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinued
III. Horace, begun; Homcr's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
junior Glass; Tacitus, begun; The Promo
theus Of Eschyus, and Electra Of Sophoclcs Ana
ytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis of
Euripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
sorHoMoRE CLAss.ef 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.
ILL., Cicero dR Officiis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
yeying,; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR CLAss.--I. Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds Of Aristophanes;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
ii. Elements OF Criticism; Buffers Analogy
Cicero's Tusculan Questions Demosthenes dc Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Galvanism Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mics; Astronomy, begun.
LII. The Constitution of the United States; As
tronomy, hnshed 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
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, branch of study, the
members OF the class are carefully examined, and
at the close Of the year, in all the studies Of tie 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 wor
ship, presbyterian, Epscopalian, and Methodist,)
in the village, and note all nbsentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors, trih their fani
lies, will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at common table, with the students, who
required to occupy such rooms as 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 Feton's Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Cesar, Ciceros 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
Junior, fifteen dollars; and, if Senior, twenty
dollars.