The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-12-11
DELAWARE COLLEGE.


The Faculty ofInstruction Of this Institution, uu
Ter its present organization, consists Of the follow
ing named Professorships, TO wit:
Professorship of Mental and Moral Science
A Professorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
guages,
AProfessorshipo Mathematics and NaturalPhi-
iosophy,
Professorship of Rhetorican Bellies Lettres,
Professorship of Chemistry and Natural Ills
A Professorship Of ofCiyilEngineering.
A Professorshipof Modern nLanguagesand Draw
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, Of ftwenty-one weeks each The first ses
son commences on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
ber; and the second on the fourth Wednesday Of
April. Each is followed byavacation of five weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
Freshman CLAss.-I. Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra begun; History, begun.
ii. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; Al
\ zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
III. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
\ Geometry five books History, finished.
JUNIoR Glass;. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of EschyIus, and Electra of Sophocles; Ana
4 lytica Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
4 oogy; Evidences of Christianity.
IT, Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis Of
\ Eurpides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
4 Mechanics, begun.
III Moral Philosophy; PIato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, ,Pneu
matics, and Meteorology.
SopHomonE CLAes.ef Horace, finished; Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
\ H. Cicero de Amicitia and de Senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued;
III. Cicero dc OiHciis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
yeying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
dnished.
SENIOR CLAss.--I. PoliticalPhlosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes;
Acoustics, Optics Electricity, Magnetism.
II. Elements Of Criticism; Buffers Analogy
Cicpro,a Tusculan Questions: DemOstlenea de Co
roma; Votaic Electricity or Gnlvansm; Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mics; Astronomy, begun.
III. The Constitution of the United States; As
.ronomy fnshed The Science of Heat; Therno-
Electricity; Chemistry and Geology.
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
4 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. all he studies of The yea,
in the presence of Committee of the Trustees and
their attainments are communicated to the Board
of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
| In addition to daily morning and cvenng gprayer,
di, me worship is held twice every Sunday, and
the recitation Monday morning is always in the
| Greek Testament AT the request of his parent
| guardian, a student is permitted to attend any
| place Of worship which himself, or the parent
| guardian, may select. One member of the Faculty
will attend at each OF the different places of wor-
ship, Presbyterian Epscopalian, and Methodist,l
\ in the village, and note all absentees
Two at least, of the Professors, ,cib their fa,ni
| hes will reside in the College buildings and will
board, at common table, with the students, who
\ are required TO occupy such rooms as may be
4 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 mora
character; and must sustain an examination in the
| following studies, viz:
! Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin ano
creek Grammar, Jacob g FELTON, IS Greek Reader
| and the first two books of Xenophon's Arabssis
| Jacobs or Doerng's Latin Reader, Sallust or
| Cesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
| what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES
| ENTRANCE FEE.-If the student enter Fresh
| man five dolars if Sophomore ten dollars; if
as Junior fifteen dollars; and, if as Senior, twenty
dollars.