The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-10-04
DELAwARE CoLLEGE.

The Faculty of Instruction of this Institution, ,un
der its present organization, consists OF the follow
ing named Proessorships, to wit:
Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
A Professorship of the Greek and Latin Ian
guages
AProfessorshipof Mathematics and NaturalPhi-
losophy,
A Professorship of Chemistry aud Natural His
A Professorship Of Civil Engineering,
A Professorshipof Modern LanguageaandDraw-
ing.
The Collegiate year ia divided into two sessions
or terms, oftwenty-one 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 avacation of five weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FRESHMAN CLAss.-I. Livy, begun; Xcnophon'z
Anabass; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
III. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; Al
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tnued.
III. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
JUtyIoR 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 .flcestis OF
Euripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; PIato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pncu
SOPHOMORE CLAss-I. Horace, finished Keno
phons Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
H. Cicero de Amictia and dc Senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
uometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero de 0ficiis; 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
III. Elements Of Criticism; Buffers Analogy
Cicero's Tusculan Questions Demosthenes de Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Galyanism 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 a 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, land
at the close of the year, in all The studies Of the yed,
in the presence of a 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 on every Sunday and
the recitation on Monday morning is always in the
Greek Testament. AT the request of his parent or
guardian, a 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, toiM their fam-
lies will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at common table, with the students, who
required to occupy such rooms may be
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
In order TO admission 10 pursue the entire course
student must be at least fourteen years of age;
must give satisfactory evidence of good moral
character; and must sustain an examination n the
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin hnd
creek q rammar, Jacob or Felton, Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Cesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil or
what shall be deemed equivalent
EXPENSES.
ENTRANCE FEE.-U the student enter as Fresh
man five dollars if as Sophomore, ten dollars; If
as Junior, fifteen dollars; and if as Senior, twenty
dollars.
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