The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-11-29
nELAwAnE COLLEGE.


der it's present organization, consists Of the follow
ing named Profcssorships, to wit;
A Professionally of Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
AProfessorshipof Mathematics and NaturalPhi-
Iosophy,
A Professorship of ofRhetoricand Bellies Lcttres,
A Professorship OF Chemistry aud Natural His
4 Professorship Of Civil Engineering,
Professorshipof Modern Languagesand Draw
ing.
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms oftwenry-one weeks earh. The first ses-
sion commences on the fourth /" ldnesday of Octo
bsr and the second on the fourth Wednesday of
April Each is followed by vacs 1on Of five weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FRESHMAN CLAss.-I. Livy, begun; xenophonS
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
II. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; AL
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinued.
ILL., Horace begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry five books; History, finished.
JUNIOR GLASS;. Tacitus, begun; The Prsme-
theus of Eschyl ylus and Electra Of Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
oogy; Evidences of Christianity.
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis Of
Earipides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; TIL,
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
matics, and Meteorology.
phons Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto
rc, begun.
II. Cicero dc Amicitia and deSenectute; Hcrodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trgo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
| III. Cicero de Ofhciis; Herodotus, hnished Sur
veyng; Analytical Geometry, begun Rhetoric,
| finished.
SENIOR Glass; 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; Votaic Electricity or Galvanism; Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna
| III The Constitution of the United States; AS
tronomy, finished; The Science of Heat; Thcrmo
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
ura 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 ofsudy, the
members of the class are carefully examined, and
at the close of the year. in all The studies of the yeaI
| in the presence of Committee ofthe Trustees and
their attainments communicated to the Board
| Of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evenngprayer,
di, me worship is held twice every Sunday, and
the recitation on Monday morning is alwaysin 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, Episcopaan and Methodist, }
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, oil the Professors Jgih t.eir fami-
iies will reside in the College bulldogs, 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 faculty.
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; and must sustain examination in the
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and
creek Grammar, Jacob or Felton's Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophons Anabasis
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Caesar Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
! ENTRANcE FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollars; il
as Junior, fifteen dollars; and ifas Senior, twenty
dollars.