The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-09-23
nELAwARE COLLEGE.

The Faculty Instruction Of this Institution un-
der its present organization, consists OF the follow
ing named Professorships, to wlt
Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
A Professorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
guages, ,pL,
tosophy,
A Professorship of Chemistry and Natural His
A Professorship of vilEngineering,
A Professorshipof Modern LanguagesandDra Draw
ing.
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms of ftwcnty-one weeks each The first sesT
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday OF Octo-
ber; and the second on the fourth wednesday ol
April Each ia followed by avacation of FIVE weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FREsHMAN Glass; Livy, begun; Xenophon's .
Anabasis Algebra, begun; History, begun.
ii. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; All
gebra finished; Geometry, begun; History, COM
tinued.
Ill. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
JuHloR CLAss.--I. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of lEschylus, and Electra OF sophoeles; Ana
lytical Geometry fnished Calculus; Natural Ihe'
ology; Evidences Of Christianity.
IT, Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis Of
Earipides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy
Mechanics, begun.
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, ,Pneu
matics, and Meteorology.
SopuomoRE CLAss.-I Horace, finished; Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, inishedi Rheto-
ii. Cicero de Amicitia and de Senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun Plane Trgonometry; Spherical Trigo-
uometry; Rhetoric, continued
III Cicero de OfIiciis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
SENIOR Glass; Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds oi 4 iistophanes
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism
ri. nf Rpf d.
| Cicero's Tusculan Questions Demu7tlenes de Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Gnyan m Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity rectro-Dyna-
mics Astronomy, begun.
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 thi!
country, and partly in London and Paris, in thu
| purchase of new apparatus, adapted TO the presen
advanced state ofthe Physical Sciences
EXAMINATIONS.
At the close of each study or branch of study tn,
| members of the class carefully examined, anC
at the close of the year. in all The studies of The yedi
in the presence Of Committee of the Trustees anc
| their attainments are communicated to the Boarc
| of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evening prayer
di, me worship is held twice every Sunday, anc
the recitation on Monday morning is always in the
Greek Testament. At the request OF his parent oil
guardian, student is permitted TO attend any
| place of worship which himself or the parent OF
guardian, may select. One member of the Facut
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, tpiM their fd,n
lies will reside in the College buildings, and viii
board, AT common table, with the students, wht
| are required to occupy such rooms may be as
signed them by the faculty.
! ADMISSION.
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 mora
character; and must sustain examination in tn
following studies. viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin AM
creek G rammar jacobs or Felton, Greek Reader
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anahasis
jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust o
Cesar, Ciceros Select Orations, and Virgil, o
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
| ENraANcE FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; if as Sophomore, ten dollars; i
as Junior, fifteen dolars and, if as Senior twenty
dollars.