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DELAWARE COLLEGE.
A. F,cpltv Of Instruction Of ths Institution, ,un-
er it. nrescnt organization, consists OF the follow
ing named Proiessorships, 10 witt
A Proiessorship Of Mental and Moral Science,
A Proiessorship Of the Greek and Latin Ian
ProfossOrshiPo Mathematics and NaturalPhi-
Iosophy,
A Professorship Of Rhetorieand Belize Lcttrcs,
Professorship OF Chemistry and Natural His
4 ProEessorship OF Civil Engineering,
A Professorshipo Modern nLAnguagesAndDraw-
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms offwenty-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. Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
H. Livy finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; Al
gebra, finished; Geometry, begunj History, con-
tinued.
iii. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry five books; History, finished.
JuSIoR Class. Tacitus, begun; The PRONE
theus of Eschylus, and Electra of sophocles; Ana
Iytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
oloey; Evidences of Christianity
II. Logic Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis Of
Enripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun
III. Moral Philosophy; Platos Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, ,Pneu
matics, and Meteorology.
SOPHOMORE Glass;. Horace, finished; Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
H. Cicero de Amicitia and de Senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
Ill. Cicero de Oihclls; Herodotus, finished; Sur
yeying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR CLAss.--I. PoliticalP philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes /;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
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.
III. 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
at the close of the year, all the studies of the YEA,
In the presence of Committee of the Trustees; and
their attainments communicated to the Board
of Trustees
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evening prayer,
div me worship s 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 Methodist
In the village, and note all absentees
Two at least of the Professors, ,ciM their faui-
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
student must be ut 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 Jacob or Felton's Greek Reader
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader Salust or
Casar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ENTRANcE FEE.-H the student enter aa Fresb
man, hve dollars; if as Sophomore ten dollars; if
as Junior, fifteen dollars; and, if Senior twenty
dollars.