The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-10-15
DELAWARE CoLLEeE.


The Faculty of Instruction of this Institution un.
der it's present organization, consists OF the follow
ing named Professorships, TO wits
A Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
Prolessorship of the Greek and Latin Ian
guages,
AProfessorship of Mathematics and Natural Phi
losophy,
APfofessorshp of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
Professorshp of Chemistry and Natural His
A Professorshp of Civil Engineering,
Professorship OF Modern Languages and Draw
ing.
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 CLAss.-L Ivy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
ii. Livy, finished; Homers Odyssey, begun; AL
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con
tnued.
III. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, fnished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished
JUNIOR CLAss.-I. Tacitus, begun The Prone
theus of Eschylus, and Electra of Sophocles; Ana
lytcal Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences Of Christianity
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcesis of
Earipides; Tacitus finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pncu
mates, and Metcorology.
SOPHOMORE Glass; Horace, finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished Rheo
ric begun.
Ii. Cicero de Amicitia and de senectute; Herodo
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric continued.
III. Cicero de Ohiciis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
yyeying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR CLAss-,I. Political Philosophy; The An
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
II. Elements of Criticism; Buffers Analogy
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes dc Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Gavanism; Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mics; Astronomy, begun.
III. The Constitution of the United Statcs 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
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 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 Monday morning is always in the
Greek Testament. At the request of his parent or
guardian, Il student is permitted TO attend any
place of worship which himself, or the parent
guardian, may select One member of the Faculty
will attend at each of the different places of wor-
ship, (Presbyterian, Episcopaian and Methodst,)
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least OF the Professors, ,cih 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 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 Felton's Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Caesar, Ccero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent
EXPENSES.
ENTRANCE FEE.-If the student enter Fresh
man, five dollars; if as Sophomore, ten dollars; if
Junior, fifteen dollars and, if as Senior twenty
dollars.