The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-11-14
No. I3O.
DELAwARE COLLEGE,.

DELAWARE COLLEGE.
The Faculty of Instruction Of this Institution, un
der lite present organization, consists of the follow
| ing named Professorships, to wit:
| Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
| A Professorship Of the Greek and Latin Lam
guages,
| Professorshipof Mathematics and NaturalP Phi
losophy,
A Professorship of Rhetorica and Bellies Lettres,
| A Professorship of Chemistry and Natural His
4 Professorship Of Civil Engineering,
A Professorshipo Modern Languagesand Draw
The Collegiate yeari is divided into two sessions
or terms, Of twenty one weeks each. The first ses-
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;. Lvy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
| ~. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; Al
| zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tnucd.
| III. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
| JuNIoR Glass;. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of Eschylus, and Electra Of Sophocles; Ana
| lytcal Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
| ii. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis OF
Euripides; Tactus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Pautus; Mechanics Hydrostatics Pneu
sopHoMoaE CLAss.gf Horace, finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
ii. Cicero de Amcitia and de Senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigononetry; Spherical Trigo-
uometry; Rhetoric, continued.
Ill. Cicero de Oficiis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR Glass; Political PHILOSOPHY; The An
dria Of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
nrilf lfciop R,,tla A
Ciceros Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity or 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 Ap-
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 or branch of study the
members of the class are carefully examined, and
at the close of the year, in all The studies of tie yeay
in the presence of Committee of the Trustees; and
their attainmcnts are communicated to the Board
of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and eveningprayer,
d, 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, 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 at 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 toiM 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 facuity
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; apd must sustain examination in the
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and
creek Grammar r, Jacob or FELTON, IS Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Saust or
Caesar, Ciceros Select Oratons, 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.