The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-10-08
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

DELLA WAKE
The Faculty of Instruction of this Institution, un-
der its present organization, consists oil the follow
ing named Professorships, TO WITT
A Professorship Of Mental and Moral Science,
A Professorship of the Greek and Latin Ian
guages,
AProfessorshipof Mathematics and NaturalPhi-
losophy,
Professorship of Rhetoricand Bellies Lettres,
Professorship of Chemistry and Natural His
A Profeseorship OF Civil Engineering,
A Professorshipof Modern Languagesand Draw
ing.
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, oftwenty-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 five weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FREsHaAN CLAss-I. Livy, 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; Homer's Odyssey, fnished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished
JuNIoR CLAss.--I Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus OF -EA5hy us, sad Electra of Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences Of Christianity.
H. Logic Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis Of
Earpdes; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
matics and Meteorology.
Sophomore Glass;. 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 Offics; 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.
II f~sr n,,tt.
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Gavanism Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mics; Astronomy, begun.
tronomy, finished; The Science of Heat; Thcrmo-
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 ofthe Physical Sciences
EXAMINATIONS.
At the close of each study or branch of study the
members of the class carefully examined, and
at the close OF the year, all the studies Of he yea,
in the presence of Committee of the Trustees; and
their attainments are communicated to the Board
ofTrustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evenngprayer,
d, 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, u student is permitted to attend any
place of worship which himself or the parent
guardian, may select. One member Of the Faculty
will attend at each Of the different places of wor-
ship, presbyterian, Episcopalian, and Methodis,)
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors, icih their fumi
hes 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. ~
ADMISSIONS
In order to admission to pursue the entire course,
| q 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 or Felton's Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
| Jacobs Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
| Caesar, Cicero's Select Oratons, 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
dollars.