The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-11-24
WASHINGTON MONDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER a. 1851
DELAWARE COLLEGE.


The Faculty of instruction of this Institution, un-
der its present organization, consists of the follow
ing named Professorships, 10 wit:
Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
A Professorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
guages,
AProfessorshipof Mathematics and NaturaPhi-
iosophy,
A Profcssorship OF Rhctoricund Bellies Lettres,
A Profcssorship of Chemistry aud Natural His
A Professorship OF Civil Engineering,
Profcssorshipo pof Modern nLanguagesandDraw
ing.
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms of oftwenty zone weeks each. The first
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday of
April Each is followed by ayacation of hve weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FREsHmAN CLAss.-I. Lyy, begun; Xenophon's g
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
ii. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; AL
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
| tinued. ~
| III. Horace begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, FIVE books; History, finished.
| junior CLAss.-I. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of H1schylus and Electra Of Sophocles; Ana
ology; Evidences Of Christianity.
| IL. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis OF
Enripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
| Mechanics begun.
H. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
matics, and Meteorology.
|
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto
| ric, begun.
H. Cicero dc Amicitia and de Senectute; Hcrodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonouetry; Spherical Trgo
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
| Ill Cicero dc Odiciis; Hcrodotus, finished; Sur
yeying; Analytical Geometry, bcgunj Rhetoric,
finished.
| SENIOR CLAss-I 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 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 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 the Physical Sciences.
EXAMINATIONS.
At the close of each study branch of study, the
| members of the class are carefully examined and
at the close of tho year. in all the studies Of The yea
in the presence of Committee of the Trustees; and
their attainmcnts are communicated to the Board
| ofTrustees.
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 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 roth their fami-
lies, 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 1T 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 G rammar, Jacob or FELTON, 3 Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Caesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
! EHTRANCE FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollars il
as Junior, fifteen dollars; and if Senior, twenty
| dollars
IsL Session 2d Sexsio,,