The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-09-19
nELAwAnE COLLEGE,.

The Faculty Instruction of this Institution ,un
der its present organization, consists oil the follow
ing named Professorships, to wit;
Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
A Profcssorship of the Greek and Latin Ian
guages,
AProfessorshipof Mathematics and NaturalPhi-
losophy,
A Professorship of Rhetoricand Bellies Lettres
A Professorshp Of Chemistry and Natural His
tory,
Professorshipo Modern Languagesand Draw,
ing.
The Collegiate year divided into two sessions
or terms oftwenty- y-one weeks each. The first SEES
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday of
April Each is followed by avacaton of five weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FREsHmAN CLAss.-L Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis Algebra, begun; History, begun.
H. 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 CLAss.-I. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of Asschylus, and Electra Of sophocles; Ana
lytcal Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
| ology; Evidences Of Christianity.
| III. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis of
Euripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
iii. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive Of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
matics, and Meteorology.
SopHoMonE GLASS;. Horace, finished; Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished Rheto-
ric, begun.
H. Cicero de Amicitia and de Senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued
III. Cicero de Ofics; 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;
PC a.
roma; Voltaic 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; Thcrmo-
Electricity; Chemistry and Geology.
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
The College is provided with a 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
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 carefully examined, and
at the close of the year, in all the studies Of The yea
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,
di, 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, or the parent or
guardian, may select. One member of the Faculty
will attend at each of the different places of wor
ship, Presbyterian, Episcopaan, and Methodist,)
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors, ,oiM their fa,ni
lies, 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 Jacobs or Felton's Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis
Jacobs Doerng's Latin Reader Sallust or
Cnsar, Ccero's Select Orations, and Virgil or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ENTnANcR FKE.-If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollnrs; if
as Junior, fifteen dollars; and, ifas Senior twenty
dollars