The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-12-23
DELAWARE COLLEGE.


The Faculty Of instruction of this Institution un
der its present organization, consists of the follow
ing named Professorships TO wit;
A Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
A Professorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
gunges,
AProfessorshipof Mathematics and Naturally
losophy,
A PROFESSIONALLY OF fRhetoricand Bellies Lettres,
Professorehip of Chemistry and Natural His
A Professorship of Civil Engineering,
Professorship of Modern nLanguagesandDraw
ing.
The Collegiate yearis divided into two sessions
or terms of twenty one weeks each. The first ses-
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
bcr; and the second on the fourth Wednesday of
April. Eachis followed by ayacation Of five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FnEsHMAE 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.
JUNIOR CLAss.-L Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of Eschylus, and Electra of Sophoces; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis OF
Enripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Pautus Mechanics, Hydrostatics, ,Pneu
matics, and Meteoroogy.
SOPHOMORE CLAss.-f Horace, finished; Keno
phons Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
H. Cicero de Amicitia and dc Senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trgonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero de OiHciis; Herodotus, fnshed Sur
yeying; Analyt ytlca Geometry, begun Rhetoric,
finished
SENIOR CLAss.--l Political Philosophy The An
dria Of Terrence; The Clouds of Arstophancs;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity Ma gnetism
H.. Elements Criticism AM
Ccero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
roma; Votaic Electricity or Galvanism; Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dynn-
mics; Astronomy, begun.
III. The Constitution of the United States; As
tronomy, finished; The Science of Heat; Thcrmo-
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, branch ofstudy, the
members of the class carefully examined, and
at the close of the year, in all the studies of The yea,
III the presence ofa Committee oft the Trustees and
their attaiuments communicated to the Board
OF Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and eveningprayer,
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, 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, Nth their fap,i
lies, will reside in the College buildings, and will
board at a common table, with the students, who
are required to occupy such rooms as may be as
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION
In order to admission to pursue the en- tire 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 rammar, Jacob sor FELTON, g reek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Saust or
Caesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES
ENTRANCE FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; If Sophomore, ten dollars; if
Junior, fifteen dolars and, if as Senior twenty
dollars.