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

The Faculty Of Instruction Of this Institution. un
der its present organization consists of the follow
ing named Professorshps, to wit:
Profcssorship OF Mental and Moral Science.
Profcssorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
guages,
: AProfessorship of Mathematics and Natural Phi
losophy,
AProfessorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres.
A Professorship of Chemistry and Natural His
tory, 49,.
A Professorship of Modern Languages and Draw
The Collegiate year is divided into two scssions
or terms, Of twenty one weeks each. The first
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
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; AL
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History. con-
iii. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry. five books; History. finished.
JusIoa CLAss.-I. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
thcus of Eschylus and Electra of Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences Of Christianity.
ii. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alccstis of
Euripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
iii. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pncu
mntics, and Meteorology.
SOPHOMORE CLA65.-l. Horace, nnlshed; Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished Rheto-
Ii. Cicero de Amicitia and de Senectute; Hcrodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
iii. Cicero dc Officiis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
yeyng; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
sEsIoa CLAss.--T. Political Philosophy; The An
dria Of Terrence; The Clouds Of Aristophanes;
Acoustics. Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
ii. Elements Of Criticism; Buffers Analogy |;
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Gavanism Electro
III Tho 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 are carefully examined, and
at the close Of the year, in oil the studies Of the year
in the presence Of Committee of the Trustees and
of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evening prayer,
di, 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 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 ut each of the different places of wor-
ship, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, and Methodist)
in the village, and note all abscntees
Two, at least of the Professors, Nth their fami.
lies, will reside 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,
a student must be ut least fourteen years of age;
Dlust 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 Fclton's Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabass,
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Cesar, Cicero's Select Oratons, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent
EXPENSES.
ENTRANCE FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars if as Sophomore, ten dollars; if
Junior, fifteen dollars; and, if as Senior, twenty
dollars.