The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-01-13
DELAWARE COLLEGE.
N. X. HALL,
Postmaster General.
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The Faculty of Instruction of this Institution I'M
der its present organization consists of the follow
ing named Professorships, to wits
A Professorship Of Mental and Moral Science,
A Professorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
guages,
A Professorship of Mathematics and Natural Phi
losophy,
PROFESSIONALLY of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
Professorship of Chemistry and Natural His
tory
Professorship of Modern Languages and Draw
ing.
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, oftwenty one weeks each. The first SEES
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday Of Octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday OF
April Each is followed by avacation of five weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FRESHMAN Glass;. Livy, begun; Xenophon 3
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
II. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; AL
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinued.
III. Horace, begun; Homers Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
JuNIoR Glass;. Tactus, begun; The Prone
theus Of Eschylus, and Electra Of sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry finished; Calculus Natural The
| ology; Evidences Of Christianity.
H. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis OF
Elripides; Tacitus finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
Ill Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
matics, and Meteorology.
SOPHOMORE CLAss.-L Horace finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
rc, begun.
Ii. Cicero de Amicitia and de senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued
iii. Cicero de Ofticis; Hcrodotus finished; Sur
yeying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR Glass;. Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds Of Arstophanes
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism
III. Elements of Criticism Buffers Analogy (;
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| roma; Voltaic Electricity or Galvanism; Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro yna-
mics; Astronomy, begun.
III. 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 Philosophical APP
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 the 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. in all the studies of the yea,
in the presence of Committee of the Trustees; and
their attanmcnts communicated to the Board
of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evening prayer
di, me worship is held twice 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 absentees
Two, at least, of the Professors, with their fami-
lies, will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at a common table, with the students, who
are required to occupy such rooms may be as
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 moral
character; and must sustain an examination in the
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and
creek Grammar, Jacobs or Felton's G reek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Saust or
Caesar, Ccero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent
EXPENSES
ENTRANCE FEE.--If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; if as Sophomore, ten dollars; if
Junior fifteen dollars; and, if as Senior, twenty
dollars.
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