The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-11-26
wAsHNGToN WEDNESDAY MoRNING NOVEMBER 26, 1851
pELAwARE coLLEcE.

DELAWARE COLLEGE.
The Faculty Of Instruction Of this Institution, ,un
der its present organization consists of the follow
ing named Profcssorships, 70 wit:
A Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
PROFESSIONALLY of the Greek and Latin Ian
guages,
AProfessorshipof Mathematics and Natural Phi
losophy,
A'Pfofessorship of Rhetoricand Bellies Lettres,
Professorship of Chemistry and Natural His
tory,
A Professorship Of Civil Engineering,
A Professorship of Modern LanguagesandDraw-
The 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-I. Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasisj 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, finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished
JuNIoR CLHss.-i. TaGitus, beg9ni The Prone
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
H. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis OF
Eprpdes; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; Pato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, ,Pneu
mates, and Meteorology.
SOPHOMORE CLAss.-I Horace, finished; Keno
phon's Memorabilia Geometry, finished; Rheto
ric, begun.
ii. Cicero dc Amicitia and d. deSenectute; Herodo
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
uometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero de Oificiis; 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.
H. Elements OF Criticism; Buffers Analogy J;
Ciccros Tuscuan Questions Demosthcnes de Co.
roma; Voltaic Electricity 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 carefully examined, and
the close of the year. in all the studies of the year
in the presence of Committee of the Trustees; and
their attainments communicated to the Board
ofTrustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evening prayer,
divine worship is 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, NTH their fami
lies, will reside in the College buildings, and will
| board, at n common table, with the students, who
| arc required to occupy such rooms 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 G rammar Jacobs or Feltons Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Cesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ENrRANcE FEE.--If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollnrs; if
as Junior, fifteen dollars; and if as Senior twenty
dollars