The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-11-15
prLAwARE COLLEGE,.

der its present organization consists of the follow
ing named Professors shipa, 10 Wit
A Professorship OF Mental and Moral Science,
A Profcssorship Of the Greek and Latin Lam
guages,
AProfessorahipof Mathematics and NaturalPhi-
osophy,
Professorship Of Rhetorican Bellies Lettres.
Professorship of Chemistry aud Natural His
tory,
4 Professorship OF Civil Engineering,
A Professorshipo Modern Languages and Draw
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, oftwenty-one weeks each. The first ses-
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
ber; and the second on the fourth Wednesday of
April. Each is followed by avacation offye weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FREsHmAE Glass;. Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
Il. Liyyy, finished; Homer's Odyssey. begun; Al
gebra, fnishedj Geometry, begun; Htakory, con-
III. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, FIVE books; History, fnishsd;
theus 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;
Mechanics, begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; Pato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
SorHoMoRE Glass;. Horace, fnished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
II. Cicero de Amicitia and de Senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero dc Oficiis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR CLAss.--l 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 Galvanism 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 xperimen-
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 carefully examined, and
at the close of the year. IN all The studies Of Tie yea1
-in the presence ofa Committee of the Trustees; and
their attainments communicated to the Board
| of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
| In addition to daily morning and evening prayer,
div ne worship Is nelu tWlce on every sunday, ana
| 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 at each of the different places Of
ship, Presbyterian, Episcopaan, and Methodist }
| in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors tciM their fami-
| lies will reside in the College buildings and will
| board at a 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
q student must be ut least fourteen years of age
plust give satisfactory evidence of good mora
| character; and must sustain examination in the
| following studies, viz:
| Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and
creek Grammar Jacob or Felton's reek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs Doering's Latin Reader, Saust or
CDsar, Ciceros Select Orations, and Virgil or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
| ENTRANCE FEE.-n the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollars; if
as Junior, fifteen dollars; and, if rs Senior, twenty
dollars.