The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-10-30
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

The Faculty of instruction of this Institution,
der its present organization, consists OF the follow
ing named Protessorships, TO wit;
A Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship of the Greek and Latin Ian
guages,
AProfessorship of Mathematics and Natural Phi
losophy,
A Professorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres.
Professorship of Chemistry and Natural His
K Professorship Of Civil Engineering,
A Professorshp OF Modern Languages and Draw
ing.
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, OF twenty weeks each. The first SEES
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
Der; ana 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.
III. Lvy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; Al
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinued
Ill Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five books; History finished
JuSIoR Class. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of 4Eschylus, and Electra of Sophocles; Ana
lytcal Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
o!ogy; Evidences of Christianity.
ii. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis Of
Elripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
Ill. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorrias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
inatics, and Metcorology.
SoPHoMoRB Glass;. 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
III. Cicero de O.fciis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
yeyingi Analytical Geometry, begun Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIoR CLAss.-l. Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes
Acoustics, Optics Electricity, Magnetism.
IL. Elements OF Criticism Buffers Analogy
lam ON fbere de IN
roma; Noltaic Electricity or Galvanism Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity Electro Dyna-
mics; Astronomy, begun,
tronomy, finished; 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
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 carefully examined and
at the close Of the year. all tie studies Of the year
IN the presence OF Committee of the Trustees; and
their attachments 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 OF
guardian, student ia permitted to attend any
place of worship which himself, or the parent OF
guardian, may select. One member of the Faculty
will attend at each of the different places of wor
ship, Presbyterian Episcopalian, and Methodist,
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two at least of the Professors, ruth their faxni
lies, will reside in the College buildings, and will
Joard, at a common table, with the students, who
required to occupy such rooms may be az
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
In order TO admission 10 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 reek Reader.
and the first two books of Aenophon's Anabass,
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader Sallust or
CTsar, Ciccro's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ENTRANCE FEE.-lf the student enter as Fresh.
man, five dollars; if Sophomore ten dollars; il
Junior, fifteen dollars; and, if as Senior, twenty
dollars.
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