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DELAWARE COLLEGE.

DELAWARE COLLEGE.
yUyHE Faculty OF Instruction of this Institution under
i its present organization, consists Of the following
A Professionally Of Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship Of the Greek and Latin Languages.
A PROFESSIONALLY OF Mathematics and Natural Philoso /
PROFESSIONALLY Of Rhetoric and BellesLet
Professionally Of Chemistry and Natural History,
A PROFESSIONALLY Of Civil Engineering,
Professorshp Of Modern Languages and Drawing.
The Collegiate year divided into two sessions
of twentyone weeks each The first session
the fourth Wednesday OF OCTOBER and the second
the fourth Wednesday Of April. Each is followed by
vacation OF five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION,
FRESHMAN Glass;. Liyy, begun; xenophon's Ana
basis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
III. Liyy, finished; Homers Odyssey begun; Algebra,
finished; Geometry, begun; History continued
III. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished; Ge-
ometry, five books; History, finished.
JUNIOR GLASS;. Tacitus, begun The Prometheus of
Eschyus Electra of Sophocles; Analytical Geometry
finished; Calculus; Natural Theology Evidences ofChrs
H. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestus OF Eur.
pides; Tactus Finished Natural Philosophy Mechanics
III Moral Philosophy Patos Gorgias; The Captive
Of Pautus Mechanics, Hydrostatics Pneumatcs, and
sopHoMonE Glass;. Horace, finished; Xenophon's
Memorabilia; Geometry, fnished Rhetoric begun
H. Cicero de Amictia and de Senectute; Herodotus
begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigonometry
Rhetoric, continued. @
III Cicero de Oaicis; Herodotus finished Surveying;
Analytical Geometry begun; Rhetoric, finished.
SENIOR Glass; Political Philosophy; The Andria of
Terence The Clouds of Arstophanes; Acoustics Optics
H. Elements of Criticsm Buffers Analogy; Ciceros
Tuscuan Questions; Demosthenes de Corona Voltaic
Electricity Galvanism; ElectroMagnetsm, Magnetic
Electricity Electro ynamics; Astronomy, begun.
III. The Constitution of the United States; Astronomy
finished; The Science Of Heat; Thermo Electricity Chem
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
College is provided with Philosophical Apparatus
that furnishes ample means Of experimental illustration
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of three thousand dollars 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 each study branch of study, the
beers the class carefully examined and at the close
of the year. in all the studies Of the year, in the presence
of Committee of the Trustees; and their attachments
communicated to the Board of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning evening prayer, di
worship is held twice every Sunday and the reci
taton Monday morning always in the Greek Tesla
AT the request Of his parent guardian student
parent guardian may select One member of the
Faculty will attend at each OF the different places OF wor
ship Presby terrain Episcopalian, and MehodS in the
village, and note all absentees.
Two at least of the Professors Nth their families, will
reside in the College buildings and will board at com
table with the students who required to occupy
such as may be assigned them by the Faculty
ADMISSION.
In order admission to pursue the entire course
be least fourteen must
satisfactory evidence of good moral character and must
sustain examination in the following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements Of Algebra, Latin and Greek
Grammar Jacobs Feltons Greek Reader and the first
books of Xenophon's Anabass jacobs or behring's
Latin Reader sallust Caesar, Cceros Select Oratons
and Virgil, or what shall be deemed equivalent
EXPENSES.
ENTRANCE FEE-If the student enter Freshman, five
dollars if as Sophomore, dollars if Junior, fifteen
LIST Session. I'd Session.
Tuition 81 10 81 W
Room rent 4 w w
incidental expenses 100 100
Use of Library 10 10
Fuei for o mtery and Recitation room 50
Fuel is afforded to the students at cost sum equal
to the probable cost advanced by each STUDENT more
is consumed it is charged to him. If less the balance is
refunded
Board is furnished with the families of the Professors
at two dollars per week.
Washing, at the usual rates.
All dues payable in advance. The tuition is remit
ted, application to all students designed for the Min
The tuition fee for Modern Languages will be eight
dollars per session. to be paid to the Instructor in ad
students who do not design prosecute the whole
Course required for degree more limited range of stu
Of each individual far such be reasonably antic
| pated
The studies Of this Course arranged under the follow
| ing departments, to wit:
1st A MATHEMATICAL DEpARTMENg-In which, beginning
with Arithmetic and Algebra the student win be carried
soatim through all the higher branches of the Mathe
matics ending in their application to Natural Philosophy,
ID AN ENausH DEPARTMENT Comprising instruction
in orthography Reading, Elocution Grammar, Writing
Geography, History, Composition, Rhetoric Logic Intel
lecual Philosophy Moral Philosophy, Political Grammar
Story the Constitution, Philosophy 0rnithoogy, Ma
tura Theology Elements Of Criticism, and Evidences Of
Christianity.
Sd. MERCANTILE DEPARrMST-In which win be i'm
parted an acquaintance all that necessary quail
y youth for the immediate duties OF the countnhouse
l. Ps,,anship-By an original and popular system of
hia hty hold abadh
peculiarly adapted to the purposes OF the accountant and
business
hods of computing Interest Discount Equation Of Pay
ments &c. and other mercantile calculations founded on
per centage together with all such operations
quisite for thorough knowledge of the business of the
oountingroom.
approved methods. complete Of instruction in
this branch will be furnished designed student
| to take charge of any set of account books
4th. An AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT-Comprising n Sc
lection from the English and Mathematical courses; and
ALSO Surveying Botany Mineralogy Geology, Chemistry
experimental lectures.
9Th. CIVIL ENGINEER DEpARrMESr--In which
taught Arithmetic, mental and wrtten) Algebra (men-
tai and written,) Geometry, Trgonometry, Surveying
with the instruments in the field Practical Engi
neeriDg Architecture, Perspective, Draughng, and To
9Th Teachers DEpARrMESr-The course Of study
will consist OF judcious selection Of subjects from the
departments including all the branches pursued
our schools Practical Lectures will also be given
School Teaching, both science and art.
Pupils will only thus receive the fullest instruction
relative TO the best and most popular methods Of teaching
but they will also have opportunities OF exempfying
them by hearing Rotations in the lower departments Of
the Institution.
18th. A DEPARTMENT MODERN LSGUAGEs-In which
students who wish to take thorough have
opportunity of doing while Others whose object may
be to acquire sufficient knowledge TO translate with c
y, and TO pronounce with tolerabe correctness, In as
short time as possible, are also provided for.
Newark Academy.
BY late reorganization Of this department Of Della
College, the Board of Trustees have taken
to place IL upon and improved foundation, and TO
endow IL with advantages possessed by few similar ins
utons in the country. The Academy heretofore merged
the College, and Of subjected to all the evils
which have been found to attend the amagamaon Of the
two departments in the same building and under the
same government, now enjoys the privilege Of separate
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