The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-01-06
DELAWARE COLLEGE,.
n. X. HALL,
Postmaster General.
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The Faculty OF Instruction OF this Institution,
der its present organization consists of the follow
! ing named Professorships, to wits
| Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
| A Professorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
| guages,
AProfessorship of Mathematics and Natural Phi
| osophy,
| AProfessorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
| Professorship Of Chemistry and Natural His
| < Professorship OF Civil Engineering,
Professionally of Modern Languages and Draw
ing.
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, of twenty 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.-I. Ivy begun; Xenophon g
I Anabass; Algebra, begun; History, begun
| ii. Livy, 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 Glass;. Tacitus, begun; The Promo
theus of Eschylus, and Electra of Sophocles Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity
ii. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis Of
Euripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Pautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
mates, and Meteorology.
SOPHOMORE CLAss.-ef Horace, finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished Rheto-
rio, begun.
IT, Cicero de Amcita and dc Senectute; Herodo
tus, begun Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
uometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero de Offciis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR Glass;. Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes ;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
H. Elements Of Criticism; Buffers Analogy
(lcerOs IuSCuan 6ucstiOns lie
roma; Voltaic Electricity 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
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 are carefully examined, and
mt 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.
III dudltlon 10 udlly morning ana evening prayer,
div me 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
ship, (Presbyteran, Episcopalian, and Methodist
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors, with their fai-
lies will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at u common table, with the students, who
are required to occupy such rooms may be
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
creek Grammar, Jacobs Felton's q reek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
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 as Sophomore, ten dollars; if
as Junior, fifteen dollars; and, if Senior twenty
dollars.
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