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nEr.AwAnE COLLEGE,.

DELAWARE COLLEGE.
The Faculty 5f .r.tructioh of this Institution un
der its present organization, consists OF the follow
ing named Professorships, to wit:
A Professorship of Mental and Moral science,
Professorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
Afrofessorshipo of Mathematics and NaturalPhi-
losophy,
Professorship Of Chemistry and Natural lis
4 Professotship Of Civil Engineering,
A Professorship OF Modern LenguagesandD Draw
ing.
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessiofs
or terms, oftwenty one weeks each. The hrst ses-
zion commences on the fourth "Wednesday OF Octo-
Der; ahd the cecond on the fourth Wednesday OF
April Each is follow ed Sy vacation OF five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FREsHMAN GLASS;. Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
H. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; Al
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History con-
tnued. .
Ill Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, hnished;
Geometry, five books; History, fnished:
JUNIoR Glass; Tacitus, begun; The Prone
thcus of Eschyus. and Electra OF soPhocies; Ana An
Y,ital Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences Of Christianity.
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy The Alcestis OF
Euripides; Tacitus, finished; Nattfal Philosophy;
iii. Moral Philosophy; Platos Gorgias; The
Captive OF Plautus Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
matics, and Meteoroogy.
SOPHOMORE GLASS; Horace, hnlshed Aeno-
phUti's Memorabilia; Geometry finished hneto-
ric, begun.
H. Cicero dc Amicitia and de senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonordetry; Spherical Trigo
nometry; Rhetoric, continued;
III Cicero de Officiis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR CLAss.-.I. PoliticalPhilosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes; ;
Electricity.
II Elements OF Criticism Buffers Analogy );
Ciceros Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Galvanlsm 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
tal illustration in all the different branches of Nat
ural Philosophy. The 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
the close of the year, IN all e studies Of the yedr
in the presence of Committee OF the Trustees; and
| their attainments communicated TO the Board
| OF Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
| In addition to daily morning and evening prayer,
di, 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 Methodist
| in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors, loih their fdvni
hes will reside in the College buildings, and viii
board, at a common table, with the students, who
are required to occupy such rooms 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 mora
| character; and must sustain examination in th
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin anc
creek Grammar Jacobs or FELTON, 8 Greek Reader
and the first two books of Xenophons Anabasis
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust OF
Cesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, OF
what shall be deemed equivalent
| EXPENSES.
ENTRANCE FEE.-lf the student enter Fresh
man. five dollars; if as Sophomore, ten dollars; il
as Junior fifteen dollars; and if Senior, twenty
dollars.