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pELAwARE COLLEGE,

THE Faculty of Instruction OF this institution under
Il It's present. organization, consists OF the following
PROBES sorship of Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship of the Greek and Latin Languages,
A Prffessorship OF Mathematics and Natural Philose
Professorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
A Professorship of Chemistry and Natural History
A Professionally of Civil Engineering,
Professorship of Modern Languages and Drawing.
The Collegiate year divided into two sessions or
of twentyone weeks each The first session commences
the fourth Wednesday of OCTOBER and the second on
the fourth Wednesday of April. Each is followed by
vacation Of five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION
FRESHMAN CLAss.--I. Lyy, begun; Xenophou's Ana
basis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
H. Livy, finished; Homers odyssey, begun; Algebra,
finished; Geometry, begun; History, continued.
Ill. Horace, begun; Homer's odyssey, finished; &C.
ometry, five books; History, finished.
JUNIOR CLAss--l. Tactus, begun; The Prometheus of
Eschylus and Electra of Sophocles Analytical Geometry
fnished Calculus Natural Theology Evidences ofChris
tianity.
III. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestu of Euri-
pdes Tactus, nished Natural Philosophy; Mechanics,
begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; Platos Gorsias; The Captive
of Plautus; Mechanics ydrostatics, Pneumatics and
Meeorology.
sopHoMonE Glass;. Horace, finished; Xenophon's
Memorabilia; Geometry finished; Rhetoric, begun.
III. Cicero de Amicitia and de Senecue; Herodotus,
begun; Plane Trgonometry; Spherical Trgonometry;
Rhetoric, continued.
Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric, finished.
SENIOR Glass; Political Philosophy; The Andra of
Electricity Magnetism.
II. Elements of Criicism Buffers Analogy; Cicero's
Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Corona yoltaic
Electricity or Galva nsm EiectroMagnetsm, Magnetic
Electricity, Electro-J Jynamics; Astronomy, begun.
Ill The Constt Iion of the United States Astronomy,
finished The Sce of Heat Thermo Electricity Chem
istry and Geology.
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS
The COLLEGE is provided with Philosophical Apparatus
that furnihes ample means of experimental illustration
in all the different branches of Natural Philosophy The
sum OF three thousand dollars has recently been
partly in this country and partly in London and Paris in
the purchase of apparatus adapted to the present
advanced state of the Physical Sciences.
EXAMINATIONS.
At tho close of each study branch of study, the
bers the carefully examined and at the close
of the year, all the studies Of the year. in the presence
of Committee of the Trustees; and their atainments
are communicated to the Board of Trustees
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evening prayer, d-
vine worship held twice every Sunday and the
taton Monday morning is always in the Greek Tesla
ment At the request of his parent guardian student
the parent guardian may select One member of the
Faculty will attend at each of the different places OF wor
ship presbyterian, 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 rooms may be assigned them by the Faculty.
/ ADMISSION.
In order to admission to pursue the entire course
student must be at least fourteen years of must give
satisfactory evidence of good moral character and must
sustain examination in the following studies viz
| Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and Greek
Grammar Jacobs or Feltons Greek Reader and the first
two books of Xenophons Anabasis Jacobs Doerings
Latin Reader Sallust Caesar Ciceros Select Oratons
and Virgil, or what shall be deemed equiyalentI H
| EXPENSES.
ENTRANCE FEEIf the student enter as Freshman, five
dollars if as Sophomore ten dollars if Junior, fifteen
dollars; and if as Senior, twenty dollars,