The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-10-16
DELAWARE COLLEGE.


der its present organizaton consists oft follow
ing named Professorships, to wit;
A Profcssorship of Mental and Moral Science,
A Professorship of the Greek and Latin Lnn-
guages,
AProfessorshipof Mathematics and NaturalPhi-
losophy,
AProfessorship OF Rhetoricand Bellies Lettres,
A Professorship Of Chemistry aud Natural His
x Professorship Of Civil Engineering,
Professorshipo Modern LanguagesandDraw-
ing.
or terms, oftwenty- -one 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 byavacation of five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FRESHMAN CLAss.-I. Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
ii. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; AL
gebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tnued.
III Horace, begun; Horner's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five books; History. finished.
JusIoa Glass;. Tacitus, begun; The Promo
theus of Eschylus and Electra of Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
ii. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis of
Enripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Iiydrostatics Pneu
matics, and Meteorology-
SOPHOMORE Glass;. Horace, finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished Rheto-
ric, begun.
H. Cicero dc Amicitia and de Senectute; Eerodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
uometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero dc Offics; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
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; voltac Electricity Gavanism Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mica; 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 a 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 ofthe 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, all The studies of the yea,
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 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 or
guardian, student is permitted to attend any
place of worship which himself, or the parent
guardian, may select One member of the Faculty
will attend at each of the different places of wor-
ship, presbyterian, Episcopalan, and Methodist,)
in the village, and note all absentees
Two, at least, of the Professors, tuih their fari-
lies, will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at a common table, with the students, who
nre required to occupy such rooms may be as
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
In order to admission to pursue the entire course,
q student must be ut least fourteen years of age;
must give satisfactory evidence of good moral
character; and must sustain an examination in the
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and
creek G Grammar, Jacob or Felton's Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Cesar, Ccero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ENTRANCE FEE.--If the student enter as Fresh
man, FIVE dollars; if as Sophomore, ten dolars if
Junior, fifteen dollars; and, if as Senior twenty
dollars