The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-10-17
DELAWARE COLLEGE.


The Faculty of Instruction of this Institution, un-
der its present organization consists of the follow
ing named Professorships, TO witt
Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
A Professorship of the Greek and Latin Ian
AProfessorshipof Mathematics and NaturalPhi-
losophy,
Professorship of Chemistry and Natural His
4 Professorship Of Civil Engineering,
A Professorshipof Modern Languagesan Draw
ing.
The Collegiate year Ia divided into two sessions
or terms oftwenty -one weeks each. The first ses-
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday of octo-
bcr; and the second on the fourth Wednesday Of
April. Each is followed byayacation of fve weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FREsHMAN Glass;. Livy, begun; Xcnophon's
Anabasig; Algebra begun; History, begun.
IL. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; Al
zebra, finisheds Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinued
III. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry five books History, finished.
SJVEfoR CLAss.--I. Taoitus, begun; The Promo
theus of EschyIus and Electra Of Sophoclea; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences Of Christianity.
H. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alccstis OF
Euripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics Pneu
matics and Meteorology.
SOPHOMORE CLAss-f Horace, finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished Rheto-
ric, begun.
ii. Cicero dc Amicitia and de Senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
H. Cicero dc Oiiciis Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying Analytical Geometry, begun Rhetoric,
finished
SENIOR CLAss.--I. PolitioalP hosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
II df Grit
Cicero's Tuscuan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
rona Voltaic Electricity or Galyanism Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mics; Astronomy, begun.
Ill 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 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 ofthc Physical Sciences.
EXAMINATIONS.
At the close of each study or branch of study the
members of the class are carefully examined, and
ut the close of the year, all The studies of The yea,
in the presence of Committee of the Trustees; and
their attanmcnts 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 Monday morning is always in the
Greek Testament At the request of his parent or
guardian, u 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-
chip, presbyterian, Episcopalian, and Methodist,)
in the village, and note all absentecs.
Two, at least, of the Professors, ,rh their fa1li
hes 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,
q 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 Feton's Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophons Anabasis,
Jacobs Doerng's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Caesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ENTRANCE FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh.
man, five dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollars; if
Junior, fifteen dollars; and, if as Senior, twenty
dollars.