The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-12-02
WASHINGTON: TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER > 1851
DELAWARE COLLEGE.


The Faculty of instruction Of this Institution, ,un-
der its present organization, consists of the follow
ing named Professorships, TO wit:
Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
A Profes5orship of the Greek and Latin Lam
guages,
AProfessorshipof Mathematics and NaturalPhi-
losophy,
Professorship of Rhetoricand Bellies Lettres
Professorship Of Chemistry aud Natural His
tory,
Professorship of Civil Engineering,
Professorshipof Modern LanguagesandDraw-
ing.
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, of twenty-one weeks each. The frat ses-
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday Of Octo-
b.r; and the second on the fourth Wednesday of
April. Each is followed by vacation of five weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FnEsHMAE CLAss.-I. Livy. begun; xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun History, begun.
H. Lvy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; Al
zebra, finished; Geometry, bcguni History, con-
tinued.
ILL., Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
JUNIon CLAss-I. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of Eschylus, and Electra of Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences OF Christianity.
III. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis of
EuriPides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics begun.
Ill. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, ,Pneu
matics, and Meteoroogy
SOPHOMORE Glass;. Horace, finished; Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto
ric, begun.
ii. Cicero de Amicitia and de Senectute Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
uometry; Rhetoric, continued.
ILL., Cicero de Oficiis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun Rhetoric,
finished
SENIOR CLAss.-I. Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes; !;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
Etpmenta of Criticism Rutler'a
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Galvanism Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mics; Astronomy, begun
Ill 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 A p
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 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 are communicated to the Board
of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evening pra yer
di, me worship is held twice on every Sunday, and
the recitation on Monday morning ia always in the
Greek Testament. At the request of his parent OF
guardian, student is permitted 10 attend any
place of worship which himself, the parent OF
guardian may select. One member of the Faculty
will attend at each of the different places of
chip Presbyterian, Episcopalian, and Methodist, }
in the village, and note all absentees
Two, at least, of the Professors, ,ciih their ani
lies, will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at q common table, with the students, who
are required TO occupy such rooms as may be as
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
In order 10 admission to pursue the entire course
! a student must be at least fourteen years of age
must give. satisfactory evitienoe Of good mora
character; and must sustain examination In tn
1 following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin anc
creek Grammar, Jacobs or FELTON, IS Greek Reader
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust o.
Caesar, Cicero's Select Orations and Virgil, o.
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ENTRANCE FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; if as Sophomore, ten dollars;
as Junior fifteen dollars; and, fas Senior, twenty
dollars.