The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-10-06
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

The Faculty of Instruction of this Institution, ,un-
der ts present organization consists OF the follow
ing named Professorships, TO wit:
A Professorshp of Mental and Moral Science,
A Professorship of the Greek and Latin Ian
guages,
AProfessorshipof Mathematics and NaturalPhi-
losophy,
Pfofessorship of Rhetoricand Bellies Lettres,
A Professorship Of Chemistry and Natural His
4 Profcssorship Of Civil Engineering,
Professorshipof Modern LanguagesandDraw-
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms oftwenty-one weeks each. The first
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
bcr and the second on the fourth Wednesday of
April. Each is followed by vacation five weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
Freshman 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 Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of Eschylus, and Electra of Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis of
Eurpides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
rnatics and Meteorology.
Sophomore CLAss-I. Horace, finished; Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ric begun.
II. Cicero de Amicitia and de eSenectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
uometry; Rhetoric, continued.
ILL., Cicero de Officiis; Hcrodotus, finished; Sur
veyng; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR CLAss.--I. Political Philosophy; The An
dra of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes;
Acoustics, Optics Electricity, Magnetism.
H. Elements of Criticism ); Buffers Analogy
Cicero's Tusculan Questions Demosthenes de Co.
roma; Votaic 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 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, branch of study, the
members OF the class are carefully examined, and
the close of the year. in 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 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 tic village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors, loiM their fani-
tes will reside in the College buildings, and will
board at 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 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, Jacob's or FELTON, g Greek Reader,
and the fret two books of Xenophon's Anabass,
Jacobs Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Caesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ENTRANCE FEE.-f the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars if as Sophomore ten dollars; if
as Junior fifteen dollars; and, if Senior, twenty
dollars