The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-11-06
nELAwARE COLLEGE.

The Faculty oil Instruction OF Lnls
der its present organization, consists oil the follow
ing named Professorships, to wit;
Professorshp of Mental and Moral Science,
A Professorship of the Greek and Latin Ian
guages,
AProfessorshipo Mathematics and NaturalPhi-
AProfessorship of Rhctoricand Bellies Lcttres,
Profcssorship of Chemistry and Natural His
4 Professorship OF Civil ngineering,
Professorshipof Modern Languagesand Draw
ing.
or terms of twenty -one weeks each. The first ses-
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday of Octo.
bcr; and the second on the fourth Wednesday of
April Each is followed by avacaton of FIVE weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
Freshman CLAss.-I. Lvy, begun; Xenophon' g
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun
III. Livy, 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 CLAss.--I. Tacitue, begun; The Prone
tbeus of Eschylus, and Electra Of sophocles; Ana
Iytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences Of Christianity.
ii. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis oi
Euripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatcs, Pneu
mates, and Meteorology.
SOPHOMORE Glass;. Horace, finished; Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
III. Cicero de Amicitia and de Senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
Ill Cicero de Oticiis; Herodotus, hnshed Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished
SENIOR Glass; PoliticalP philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes !;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
ii. Elements of Criticism; Buffers Analogy (;
a ~
roma; Yoltaic 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; Thcrmo-
Electricity; Chemistry and Geology.
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
The College is provided with Philosophical A D.
paratus, that furnishes ample of experiment
tai illustration in all the different branches of Nat
ura 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 yea
in the presence OF Committee OF the Trustees and
their attainments arc communicated to the Board
of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evening prayer,
di, me worship is held twice 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 the parent or
guardian, may select. One member of the Faculty
will attend at each of the different places of
ship, Presbyterian, Epscopalian, and Methodist, }
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two at least, of the Professors, toiU their farni-
lies, will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at q 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 mora
character; and must sustain an examination in the
following studies, viz
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and
crock Grammar jacobs or FELTON, s Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabass,
Jacobs or Doerng's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Cusar, Cicero's Select Orations and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent
EXPENSES.
ENTRANCE FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dolars if Sophomore, ten dollars; if
as Junior, fifteen dollars; and fas Senior, twenty
dollars.