The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-10-23
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

DELAWARE COLLEGE.
The Faculty of instruction of this Institution, un-
der it's present organization, consists OF the follow
ing named Professorships, to wit;
A Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
A Professorship of the Greek and Latin Ian
guages,
Professorshipof Mathematics and NaturalPhi-
loeophy,
A Professorship of Rhetoricand Bellies Lettres,
A Professorship Of Chemistry aud Natural His
A Professorship OF Civil Engineering,
Professorshipof Modern LanguagesandDraw
ing.
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, oftwenty- -one weeks EACH, The first
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday of
April. Each is followed by avacation of five weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
Freshman CLAss.--I Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis Algebra, begun; History, begun.
III. 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.
JuN1oR CLAss.-I. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of Kschylus, and Electra of sophocles; Ana
lytica Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
H. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis oi
Enrpides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
Ill., Moral Philosophy; PIato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
matics and Meteorology.
Sophomore CLAss.Si 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 Oficiis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished
SENIOR CLAss--I Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes /;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
III. Elements OF Criticisms 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
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 are carefully examined, and
the close of the year, all The studies of the yea,
in the presence of Committee of the Trustees; and
tnclr altalnlncnlB are 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, or the parent or
guardian, may select. One member of the Faculty
will attend at each of the different places of wor-
ship, Presbyterian, Epscopalian, and Methodist,)
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors, tciM their fanni
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
characters and must sustain an examination in the
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and
creek Grammar Jacobs or Felton's Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabass,
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Caesar, Cicero's Select 0rations, 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 as Senior, twenty
dollars.