The republic., 1851-01-01
ELAWARE COLLEGE.
N. X. HALL,
Postmaster General.
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The Faculty of Instruction Of this Institution,
der its present organization, consists of the follow
ing named Professorships, to wit:
Professorship of Mental and Moral Science
Professorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
guages,
AProfessorship of Mathematics and Natural Phi
'osophy,
A Professorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
Professorship of Chemistry and Natural His
A Professorship OF Civil Engineering,
Professorship OF Modern Languages and Draw
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, of twenty weeks each. The first
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
ber; and the second on the fourth Wednesday of
April. Each is followed by vacation of five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FRESHMAN CLAss.--l Lvy, begun; Xenophon's q
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
| III. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; AL
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinucd.
Iii. Horace, begun; Homer's Ody ssey, inshed
Geometry five books; History, finished
JuSIoR Glass raeitus, begun The Prone
thcus Of Eschy us, and Electra Of Sophocles; Ana
lytica Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
ii. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Acestis of
Euripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Pautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
matics, and Meteorology.
phons Memorabilia; Geometry, finished Rheto-
rc, begun.
ii. Cicero dc Amicitia and de Senectute; Hcrodo-
tus, begun; Plane rrgonometry; Spherical Trigo-
uometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero dc Otticiis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
vcying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
! finished.
/ SENIOR CLAss.--i Political Philosophy; The An
dra of Terrence The Clouds of Aristophanes ;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
| III. Elements OF Criticism; Buffers Analogy
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
roma; voltac Electricity Galvanism Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
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 Of the Physical Sciences.
EXAMINATIONS.
At the close Of each study branch of study, the
members of the class are carefully examined, and
the close of the year. all the studies of the year,
in the presence Of Committee of the Trustees and
their attainments are communicated to the Board
of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evening prayer,
div 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
guardian, a 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 each of the different places of wor-
ship, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, and Methodst,)
in the village, and note all absentees
Two, at least, of the Professors, UM their f1sni-
lies, will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at common table, with the students, who
are required to occupy such rooms may be
signed them by the faculty. 3
! ADMISSION.
In order to admission to pursue the entire course,
n 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 Jacobs or Felton, Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs Docring's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Caesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ENTRANGE FEE.--If the student enter Fresh
man, five dollars if Sophomore, ten dollars; if
Junior, fifteen dollars; and if as Senior twenty
dollars.