The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-03-31

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DELAWARE COLLAGE.
The Faculty Of Instruction Of this Institution, I'M
der its present rganixation consists of the follow
Ing named Professovships. 20 wits 4es
"A Profcssorship of Mental and Moral Science,fn
Professorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
: AProfsssorship of Mathematics and Natural Phi
A Professorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
A Professorship Of Chemistry aud Natural His
x Professorship Of Civil Engineering,
Professorshipo Of Modern Languages and Draw
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or TERMS of twenty -one weeks EACH The INST ses-
sion commences on the fourth "Wednesday Of octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday Of
April Each 10 followed by avacation Of five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FRESHMAN Glass;. Livy. begun; xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
H. Lyy. finished; Homer's Odyssey. begun; Al
COBRA, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
iii. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry. five books; History, finished.
Jusloa CIAS.-I. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences Of Christianity. 49,.
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alccstis OF
Earipides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
iii. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive Of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
n sorso MOI C1oss Horace finished; Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
rio, begun. nt i sa
ii. Cicero de Amictia and de senectute; Hcrodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonomctry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric. continued
| III. Cicero de Ofics; Herodotus, finished; Sur
yeying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
SErIon CLAss.-I. Political Philosophy; The An
dria or Terrence; The Clouds OF Aristophanes;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnesium.
II. Elements Of Criticism; Buffers Analogy |;
Cicero's Tusculan Questions Demosthenes do Co
roma; Voltaio Electricity or Galvanism Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mics; astronomy, begun.
tronomy, finished; The Science of Heat; Thermo-
Electricity; Chemistry and Geology. $40
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
| The College is provided with Philosophical APP
paratus, that furnishes ample means of experiment
tai illustration in all tho different branches OF Nat
4 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
EXAMINATIONS. 4st5
At the close of each study branch Of study, the
4 members of the class are carefully examined, and
ut the close Of the year. oil The studies Of the year
in the presence Of Committee of the Trustees; and
their attainments are communicated to the Board
of Trustees. lon9J a5 da54 ~ ss es
/ hE1lOlOOS NSAhOCxlON.
| In addition 10 daily morning and evening prayer
d, me 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 OF
| guardian, a student 10 permitted 70 attend any
| place of worship which himself, or the parent OF
| 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 absentccs.
Two, at least, of the Professors, tpih their FAM
les will rcside in the College buildings, and will
board, at q 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 an examination in the
following studies, viz: -ifssN
| Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and
creek Grammar, Jacobs or Felton's Greek Reader
and the first two books Of Xenophon's Anabasis
Jacobs or behring's Latin Reader, Sallust OF
Cesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, o,
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES ri@ "
| ErrRAnoz F'EE.-H the student enter as Fresh.
man, five dollars; il as Sophomore. ten dollars; il
Junior, fifteen dollars; and, if a. Senior, twenty