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DEIAwARE COLLEGE.

DELAWARE COLLEGE.
The Faculty instruction of this Institution; un-
der it's present organization, consists oil the follow
ing named Professorships, to wit:
a Professorsbip of Mental and Moral science,
Professofship Of the Greek and Latin Ian
gunges, ,n.,
A AProifcssorship of Rhetorcand Belles-Lettres,
Professorship of Chemistry aud Natural His
4 iProfcssorsbip Of fCivilEngineering,
A Professorship OF Modern nLanguagesandD Draw
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms oftwehty -ore 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 vacation Of FIVE weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FaEsHmAx CLAss.-I. Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
H. Iivy finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; Al
gebra, 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 Eschylus, and Electra OF Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis of
Earipides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
iii. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of PIautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
-,
SopHoMonE CLAss.Sf Horace, finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, fnishedj Rheto-
ric, begun.
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III Cicero de Oificiis Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric
finished.
SENIOR CLAss.--I Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds Of Aristophanes;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
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Ciceros Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Galvanism Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
Iii 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 ofthe 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 all the studies of he yea,
in the presence ofa Committee of the Trustees; and
their attainments are 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 on Monday morning is always in the
Greek Testament. AT the request of his parent
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 absentces.
Two, at least, OF the Professors, ,oiM their fami-
lies, will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, al common table, with the students, who
are required to occupy such rooms may be as
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
In order to admission to pursue the entire course,
| 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 Felton's Greek Reader
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis
| Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
| Cnsar Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
| what shall be deemed equivalent.
| EXPENSES.
ENTnANoE FEA.-If the student enter as Fresh
| man. five dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollars; if
as Junior, fifteen dollars; and, if Senior, twenty
! dollars