The republic., 1851-01-03
Dec l3-laW4M
DELAWARE COLLEGE.
N. X. HALL,
Postmaster General.

The Faculty of instruction of this Institution un-
der its present organization, consists OF the follow
ing named Protessorships, to wit;
Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
guages,
AProfessorship of Mathematics and Natural Phi
losophy,
A Professorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
Professorshp of Chemistry and Natural His
4 PROFESSIONALLY OF Civil Engineering,
A Professofship of Modern Languages and Draw
ing.
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, of twenty 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 vacation of five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FREsHMAN Glass;. Livy begun; Xenophon's 3
Anabass; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
| III. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; Al
zebra, fnished; Geometry, begun; History. con
tinued.
Ill. Horace, begun; Honer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished
junior Class. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of Eschylus, and Electra of Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology Evidences of Christianity.
ii. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcests of
Enripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
Ill. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
rnatics, and Meteorology.
SOPHOMORE Glass;. Horace, finished; Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished Rheo
ric, begun.
ii. Cicero de Amicitia and dc Sencctutc; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo
uometry; Rhetoric, continued.
| III. Cicero de OIiics; Herodotus, fnshed Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished
SENIOR CLAss.--l Political Philosophy; The An
dra of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophancs :;
Acoustics, Optics Electricity, Magnetism.
ii. Elements of Criticism Buffers Analogy ;
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roma; Voltaic Electricity or Galvanism; 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 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 all the studies Of the gear
III the presence of Committee OF the trustees; and
their attainments communicated to the Board
| OF Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
IN auultlon 10 daily morning ana evening prayer,
div 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
ship, Presbyterian, Episoopaian, and Methodist,)
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors, UiM their fdnli
ties, will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at a common table, with the students, who
are required to occupy such rooms may be
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
In order to admission to pursue the entire course,
a 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:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and
creek Grammar, Jacobs or Felton's Greek Reader,
and the first books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
C1sar, Cicero's Select Oratons, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent
EXPENSES.
ENTRANCE FEE.-lf the student enter as Fresh
man, live dollars; il as Sophomore, ten dollars; if
Junior fifteen dollars; and, If as Senior, twenty