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DELAWARE COLLEGE.

DELAWARE COLLEGE.
The Faculty of instruction of this Institution un
der its present organization, consists Oh the loow
ing named Proiessorshps, to wit:
A Professorship 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
A Professorshp OF Civil ngineering,
Professorshipof Modern rnLanguagesandDraw-
ing.
or terms of twenty -one weeks each. The frst SEES
sion CONNIE noes on the fourth Wednesday Of Octo-
ber and the second on the fourth Wednesday of
April. Each is followed byavacation of five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FREsHmAs CLAss.--L Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
II. Livy, fiaished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; AL
zebra, finished; Geometry, begunj History, con-
tinued.
III. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five books; History finished
JUNIoR Glass;. 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 Acestis of
Euripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
| Mechanics, begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; Pato's Gorgias; The
iis sopsomoRE snI CLUss.9l Horace, finished; Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero de Ofiicis; Hcrodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
SENIOR Glass; Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of 4 ,istophanes;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Ma guetism.
| ii. Elements of Criticism; Buffers Analogy;
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Galyanism; 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 or branch of study the
members of the class arc 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,
di, me worship ia 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, 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 the village, and note all absentecs.
Two, at least, of the Professors NTH their fari-
lies, will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at common table, with the students, who
are required to occupy such rooms as Iaay be as
| signed them by the faculty.
| ADMISSION.
In order to admission TO pursue the entire course
a student must be at least fourteen years of age
must give satisfactory evidence of good moral
character; and must sustain an 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 Xonophon's Anabasis
| Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Cesar, Cicero's Select Orations and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
| ExTRANcE 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.