The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-10-18
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

The Faculty of Instruction of this Institution.
der its present organization, consists OF the follow
ing named Professorships, to wits
PROFESSIONALLY Of Mental and Moral Science,
A Professorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
guaRes,
Professionally of Mathematics and Natural Phi
losophy,
AProfessorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
Proiessorship of Chemistry and Natural His
A Professorship of Civil Engineering,
A Professorship OF Modern Languages and Draw
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, of twenty weeks each. The first
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.-I Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
II. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; AL
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinued.
III. Horace begun; Homer's Odyssey, fnished;
Geometry, five books History, finished.
JusIoR CLAss.-I. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of Eschylus, and Electra Of Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
| oogy; Evidences of Christianity.
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis of
Enripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Pautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
sopHoMoRE CLAss.ef Horace, Finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished !; Rheto-
ric, begun.
II. Cicero de Amcitia and de senectute; Herodo
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
Ill. Cicero dc Oficiis 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.
III. Elements of Criticism; Buffers Analogy
Cicero's Tuscuan Questions; Demosthenes dc Co
roma; voltaic Electricity or Galvanism; Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mics; Astronomy begun.
Ill 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 sum 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 branch of study, the
members of the class are carefully examined, and
at the close OF the year. m 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 on Monday morning is always in 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, Episcopalian, and Mehodist,)
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors, ,cih their fani
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 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 Xenophons Anabasis,
Jacobs Doerng's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Cesar, Ccero's Select Oratons, 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 as Senior, twenty
dollars
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