The republic., 1851-01-02
DELAwARE CoLLEGE.
N. N TfhLL,
Postmaster General
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der its present organization, consists of the follow
ing named Professorships, to wit:
A Proessorship of Mental and Moral Science,
A Professorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
! guages,
Protessorshp of Mathematics and Natural Phi
| losophy,
A AProfessorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
| Professorship of Chemistry and Natural His
A Profossorship OF Civil Engineering,
A Proressorship of Modern Languages and Draw
Tue Collegiate year is 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 vacation of five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FRESHMAN Class. Livy, begun; Xcnophon' 8
Anabass; Algebra, begun History, begun.
II Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; Al
| zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con
| nnued.
| III. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, hnishcd;
Geometry, five books; History, finished
! junior Glass; Tacitus, begun; The Prone
| theus of Eschylus and Electra of Sophoclcs Ana
| lyucal Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
| ology; Evidences of Christianity.
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis of
Enripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
! Mechanics, begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
natics, and Meteorology.
| SopHoMoRE CLAss-I. Horace finished Memo.
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished Rheto-
ric, begun.
Ii. Cicero de Anicitia and de senectute; Herodo-
| us, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
uometry; Rhetoric, continued
III Cicero dc Ohiciis; 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
II. Elements Of Criticism; Buffers Analogy !;
| Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demoshenes 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 cxperifnen-
tai illustration i'll 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 year,
in the presence of Committee of the Trustees; and
their attainments are communicated to the Board
! OF Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
/ In addition to daily morning and evening prayer,
div 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, a 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, (Presbytcrian, Episcopalan and Methodist }
! in the village, and note all absentecs.
Two, at least, of the Professors ,cifh their farni
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 al 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 or Felton's Greek Reader,
and the first two books OF Xenophous Anabasis,
| Jacobs Doering's Latin Reader, Saust or
/ Caesar, Ciceros Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent
EXPENSES.
ENTRANeE FEE.--lf the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; If Sophomore ten dollars; if
Junior, fifteen dollars; and, if Senior, twenty
dollars.
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