The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-11-11
DEIAwARF CoLLEGE.


The Faculty of Instruction of this Institution,
der its present organization consists Of the follow
ing named Professorships, 10 wits
| A Profossorshp of Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship Of the Greek and Latin Ian
AProfessorshipo Mathematics and NaturalPhi-
iosophy,
a Professorship of Chemistry and Natural His-
A Professorahip Of Civil Engineering,
A Professorshipo of Modern Languagesand Draw
ing.
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms oftwenty- Zone weeks each. The first ses-
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 CLAss--I. Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun
H. 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.
JUsIoR CLAss.-I Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of Aschy yus, and Electra of Sophocles; Ana
ologY; Evidences OF Christianity.
| II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis Of
Earipides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus Mechanics, Hydrostatics,P ,Pneu
matics, and Meteoroogy.
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
ii. Cicero de Amicitia and de escnectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
uometry; Rhetoric, continued
Ill Cicero de Oifcis; Herodous, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished
SENIOR Glass;. 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.
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 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
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 carefully examined, and
Mt the close of the year, in all The studies of the yea,
in the presence of Committee of the Trustees and
their attanments are communicated to the Board
of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and cveningprayer,
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 wor
ship, presbyterian, Episcopaan, and Methodist,)
in the village, and note all absentces.
Two, al least, of the Professors, NTH their funi-
hes will reside in the College buildings, and will
board at common table, with the Students who
are required to occupy such rooms may be as
signed them by the faculty.
In order to admission rs pufsGe the enure course,
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 G rammar Jacobs or Fetons Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis
| Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust
Caesar Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ESTpANcE FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollars; If
as Junior fifteen dollars; and, if as Senior twenty
dollars.
| sf Session 9d Session.