The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-09-17
nELAwARE COLLEGE.

DELAWARE COLLEGE.
The Faculty of Instruction of this Institution un-
der its present organization, consists OF the follow
ing named Professorships, to wit:
A Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship of the Greek and Latin Ian
guages,
AProfessorshipof Mathematics and NaturalPhi-
iosophy,
Professorship OF Rhetorican Bellies Lettres,
A Professorship Of Chemistry and Natural His
A Professorship Of Civil Engineering,
Professorshipof Modern nLanguagesand Draw
The Collegiate year ia divided into two sessions
or terms, of twenty-one 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 avacation OF hve weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
Freshman CLAss.--I. Iivy, 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; Horner's Odyssey, finished;
| Geometry, FIVE books; History, finished.
JuNIoR CLAss.-L. Tacitus, begun; The Promo
theus of Eschy ylus, and Electra of Sophocles; Ana
| lytcal Geometry, fnished Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
| III. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis OF
Enripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatcs, ,Pneu
matics, and Meteorology.
SOPHOMORE Glass;. Horace, finished; Keno
phons Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
Ii. Cicero de Amcitia and de Senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
uometry; Rhetoric, continued.
Ill. Cicero de Oliciis; Herodotus, finished Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR CLAss.--I Political Philosophy; The An
dria Of Terrence; The Clouds of Arfstophanes;
A.o, nnttc Mac ,atig
H. Elements of Criticism Buffers Analogy
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de 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 Ap-
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
at the close of the year, IN all The studies Of the yea,
in the presence of Committee of the Trustees and
their attainments are communicated to the Board
OF IruBtees.
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, 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 Methodist,
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors toi 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 as 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 an examination in the
4 following studies, viz:
| Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and
creek Grammar, Jacobs or FELTON, Is Greek Reader,
| and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis
| Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader SaIlust or
Caesar, 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
as Junior fifteen dollars; and if as Senior twenty
dollar5.