The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-10-12
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

The Faculty of instruction of this Institution, I'M
der its present organization, consists oil the follow
ing named Professorshps, TO wit!
A Proiessorshp of Mental and Moral Science,
A Professorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
guages,
AProfessorship of Mathematics and Natural Phi
losophy,
A Professorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
A Professorship of Chemistry and Natural His
tory,
A Professorship of Civil Engineering,
A Professorship of Modern Languages and Draw
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, OF twentyone weeks each. The fret SEES
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; Homers Odyssey, begun; AL
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
finued.
Ill Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, fnished
Geometry, five books; History, finished
junior Glass;. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
lytical Geometry, fnshed Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
IL, Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Acestis of
Enripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
mates, and Meteorology.
SOPHOMORE Glass;. Horace, finished; Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished Rheto-
ric, begun.
Ii. Cicero dc Amicitia and de Senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued
III. Cicero de Olllcns; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR CLAss,-l. Political Philosophy; The An
dra of Terrence; The Clouds of Arstophanes;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
III. Elements OF Criticism Buffers Analogy
Ciccro's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de CO.
roma; Voltaic Electricity Galvanism; Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
MICS Astronomy, begun.
III. The Constitution of the United States; AS
tronomy, finished; The Science of Heat; Therrno-
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, IN all the studies Of the year,
III the presence of a 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, Episcopalian, and Methodist0
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors, tcih their fami-
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,
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 Xenophons Anabasis,
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust
Cesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ENTRANCE FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollars; if
Junior, fifteen dollars; and, if as Senior, twenty
dollars.
LIST Session. ID Session.
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