American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-04-15
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

NHE Faculty Of instruction Of this Insttuton unde.
Il its present organisation, consists Of the following
named professorships, 10 wit:
Professorship OF Mental and Moral Science,
Proessorship Of the Greek and Latin Languages,
A Professorship Of Mathematics aud Natural Philoso
professorship of Rhetoric and Belles.Lettres,
ProiessorBhip Of Chemistry and Natural History,
Professorship OF Civil Engineering,
Professorship Of Modern Languages and Drawing.
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
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 Glass;. Ivy begun; Xenophons Ana
basis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
III. Ivy finished Homer's Odyssey begun; Algebra,
finished; Geometry, begun History, continued;
ometry, FIVE books; History, finished.
JUNIOR CLASS. Tacitus begun The Prometheus Of
Eschyns and Electra of Sophocles Analytical Geometry
fnished Calculus; Natural Theoloy Evidences Chris
uanty.
H. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestus Of Euri
pides; Tactus finished; Natural Philosophy Mechanics
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato,s Gorgias The Captive
Of Pautus Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatcs, and
Meteorology.
soPHoMoRE Glass;. Horace, finished; xenophons
Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rhetoric, begun.
ii. Cicero dc Amcitia and de Senectute; Herodotus
begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigonometry
Rhetoric, continued.
Analytical Geometry begun; Rlietoric, finished
SENIOR CAss.-L Political Philosophy The Andria of
Terrence The Clouds of Arstophanes Acoustics Optics
H. Elements Of Criticism; Buffers Analogy; Ciceros
Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Corona; Votaic
Electricity or Gavanism; Magnetism Magnetic
Electricity, Electro-D d. namcs; Astronomy, begun.
ILL., The Constitution Of the United States Astronomy
finished The Science of Heat; Thermo Electricity Chem
istry and Geology. a.H~HE
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
The College is provided with Philosophical Apparatus
that furnishes ample Of experimental illustration
in all the different branches Of Natural Philosophy The
thousand dollars recently
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 the close of each study branch of study the
bers of the class carefully examined and at the close
of the year. IN all The Studies Of The year, in the presence
of Committee Of the Trustees; and their attachments
communicated TO the Board Of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION,
In addition to daily morning and evening prayer, d
vine worship is held twice every Sunday and the rec
taton Monday morning Is always in the Greek Tesla
ment At the request of his parent guardian student
permitted to attend any place of worship which himself
the parent guardian select One member of the
Faculty will attend at each of the different places Of wor
ship (Presby terrain, Epscopaan, and Methods in the
village, and note all absentees ft
Two at least Of the Professors, ,o their families, will
reside in the College buildings and will board at
table with the Students who required to occupy
such rooms as may be assigned them by the Faculty
ADMISSION.
In order to admission to pursue the entire course
student be least fourteen years age give
satisfactory evidence of good moral characters must
sustain an examination in the following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and Greek
Grammar Jacobs Feltons Greek Reader and the first
two books of Xenophons Anabasis, Jacobs Doerngs
Latin Reader Sallus Cesar Ciceros Select Oraons
and Virgil, or what shall be deemed equivalentl
EXPENSES.
ENTRANCE FEE-If the student enter Freshman, five
dollars if Sophomore ten dollars If Junior fifteen
dollars; and if as Senior twenty dollars.
LIST Ssssfon Cd Session
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