The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-02-01
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DELAWARE COLLH0E.
The Faculty Of Instruction Of this Institution; un-
der its present organization consists Of the follow
ing named Professorships. TO wits
Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
A Professorship Of the Greek and Latin Lam
"A Professorship of Mathematics and Natural Phi
osophy,
A Professorship of Chemistry and Natural His
A Professorship Of Civil Engineering,
A Professorship Of Modern LanguagesAnd Draw
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms of twenty one weeks each. The first
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday OF Octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday. OF
April Each is followed by avacation OF five weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FREsHMAs CLAm.-I. Livy, begun; xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun
II. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey. begun; Al
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
inued.
iii. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry. five books; History, finished.
JusIos CLAss.--I. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
rheus OF Eschylus. and Electra Of Sophocles; Ana
ytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural INC
Jlogy; Evidences Of Christianity.
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Aicestis OF
Earipdes; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
ILL., Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias The
SOPHOMORE Glass; Horace, finished; Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
rio, begun.
ii. Cicero de Amicitia and de Senectute; Hcrodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
Ill Cicero dc Oficiis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
yeying; Analytical Geometry, begun Rhetoric
finished.
sEsloa CLAss.--I Political Philosophy; The An
dria Of Terrence; The Clouds Of Aristophanes;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
ii. Elements OF Criticism Buffers Analogy
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co.
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Galvnnism 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
At the close of the year. in 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 prayer,
din me worship is held twice on every Sunday and
the recitation Monday morning 10 always in the
Greek Testament At the request of his parent or
guardian, 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 Epscopalian, and Methodist,
| in the village, and note all nbsentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors, s0ih their asai
Iies will reside in the College buildings, and viii
board, at common table, with the students, who
| are required to occupy such rooms as may be as
| signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION
| In order to admission to pursue the entire coursc
| a student must be at least fourteen years of age
| must give satisfactory evidence Of good mora
character and must sustain an examination in the
| following studies, viz:
| Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and
| creek Grammar, Jacobs or Feton's Greek Reader
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis
| Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust OF
| Cmsar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, OF
| what shall be deemed equivalent.
| EXPENSES.
ESrRANcE FEE.--If the student enter as Fresh.
man, five dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollars; il
as Junior fifteen dollars; and, il Senior, twenty
| dollars.