American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-06-07
pELAWARE C0LLEGE

II nE Faculty Of Instruction OF this Institution nnde,
its present organization consists Of the following
u AIMED Protessorships, to wit
a Professorshp OF Mental and Moral Science
A Professorshp of the Greek and Latin Languages
froiessorship OF Mathematics and Natural PhiloSo
A. Professorshp of Rhetoric and Delles-Lettres
A Protessorshp Of Chemistry and Natural History
Professorship of Civil Engineering,
Professorship of Modern Languages and Drawing
The Collegiate year divided into two sessions or terms
or twentyone weeks each. The first session commences
the fourth Wednesday of October; the second on
the fourth Wednesday Of April. Each is followed by
vacation Of five weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FRESHMAN Glass; Lyy, begun; Xenophon's Ana
basis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
IL. Liyy, finished; Homers odyssey, begun; Algebra,
finished; Geometry, begun; History, continued
III. Horace, begun; Eomer's Odyssey, finished; &C.
ometry, five books; History, finished.
JUNIOR Glass;. Tactus, begun; The Prometheus OF
sehylus and Electra of Sophocles Analytical Geometry
finished; Calculus; Natural Theology; Evidences fChris
tianity.
H. Logic Mental Philosophy; The Alcestus of Euri,
pdes Iacitus, fnsned; Natural Philosophy; Mechanics
begun. d nG ..tE HAM. #8f.k
Of PlAntus; Mechanics, Hydrosatcs, Pneumatics, ami
Meteorology. ".#-h -
SOPHOMORE CLAss.--I. Horace, Finished Xenophon's
Me morabiiia; Geometry, fnished Rhetoric begun.
III. Cicero de Amica aud de Senectute; Ilerodotus,
begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigonometry
Rhetoric, continued.
III Cicero de ohicis; Herodotus finished surveying
! Analytical Geometry begun; Rhetoric, finished.
SENIOR Glass;. Political Philosophy; The Andria OF
Electricity Magnetism.
IL. Elements of Criticisms Buffers Analogy Cicero's
Tuscuan Questions; Demosthenes de Corona; Yotaic
Electricity or Galyanism; Electro-Magnesm, Magnetic
Electricity carbohydrates Astronomy, begun.
Ill. The Constitution of the United States Astronomy
finished The Science Of Heat; Thcrmo Electricity; Chem
istry and Geology
PIIlLosoPHICAL APPARATUS.
The College is provided with Philosophical Apparatus
that furnishes ample means Of experimental illustration
in all the different branches of Natural Philosophy The
of three thousand dollars hasreceny been expended
partly in this country and partly in London and Paris
tho purchase of apparatus, adapted to the present
advanced state of the Physical Sciences.
.Hm EXAMINATIONS.
At til close of each study, branch Of study the
beers OF the class carefully examined and at the close
of tie year, oil tie studies Of the year, in the presence
of a. Committee of the Trustees and their aainments
arc communicated to the Board Of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evening prayer, di-
vine worship is held twice every Sunday and the rec
tation Monday morning is always in the Greek Tesla
men At the request OF his parent guardian student
the parent guardian may select One member Of the
Faculty win attend at each of the different places of wor
ship presbyterian Eplscopalian, and Mehods in the
village, and note all absentees.
Two at least of the Professors t their fnfiieS, will
reside in the College buildings and will board at com.
table with the Students who required 10 occupy
such rooms may be assigned them by the Faculty
ADMISSION.
In order to admission to pursue the entire course
student 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 Feltons Greek Reader and the first
two books of Xenophon's Anabass Jacobs Doering's
Latin Reader Sallust Cesar Cceros Select 0rations,
and Virgil, or what shall be deemed equivaentI
| ill.,. EXPENSES.
ENTRANCE FEElf the student enter rs Freshman, five
dollars; if us Sophomore ten dollars if Junior, fifteen
dollars; and fas Senior, twenty dollars