The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-01-22
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DELAwARE COLLEGN.


The Faculty of Instruction OF this Institution.
der its present organizaton consists of the follow
ing named Professorships, to wits
Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
guages,
AProfessorship of Mathematics and Natural Phi
losophy,
Professorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
A Professorship Of Chemistry and Natural His
A Professorship Of Civil Engineering,
A Professorship of Modern Languages and Draw
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, of twenty 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 vacation Of five weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FRESHMAN Glass;. Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun History, begun.
H. Lvy, finished; Homer's Odyssey. begun; AL
gebra finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinued.
III. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five bOoks History, finished.
junior CLAss.-I. Tacitus, begun; The Promo
theus of Eschylus, and Electra Of Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus Natural The
ology; Evidences Of Christianity.
II: Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis OF
Enripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Ill. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive Of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
mates, and Meteorology.
phon's Memorabilia Geometry, finished; Rheto-
rio, begun.
ii. Cicero de Amcita and de Senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nomctry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero de Ofhciis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
vcying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR CLAss.---I. Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
II. Elements OF Criticism; Buffers Analogy !;
Ciccro's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Galvanism; Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mice; Astronomy, begun.
Ill The Constitution tic Of the United States; As
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 ofthe Physical Sciences.
EXAMINATIONS. 80
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 the studies of the yea,
in the presence of Committee Of the Trustees; and
their attainments communicated to the Board
of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evening prayer,
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
ship, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, and Mcthodist)
in the village, and note all absentees
Two, at least of the Professors, scih their fami-
hes, 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 entire course,
a student must be at least fourteen years of age;
must give satisfactory evidence Of good moral
character; and must sustain examination in the
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and
creek Grammar, Jacob or Felton's creek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabass,
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Caesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES
ENTRANeE FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollars; If
as Junior, fifteen dollars and, if as Senior twenty
dollars.
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