The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-11-05
DELAWARE COLLEGE.


DELAWARE COLLEGE.
The Faculty of instruction Of this Institution, un-
der it's present organization, consists OF the follow
ing named Professorshps, TO wit:
A Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship of the Greek and Latin Ian
Professorshipof Mathematics and NaturalPhi-
loeophy,
A Professorahip of ofRhetoricand Bellies Lettres.
Professorship of Chemistry aud Natural His
4 Professorship Of Civil Engineering,
Professorship of Modern nLanguagesandDraw-
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms of twenty -one weeks each The first sea-
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
ber; and the second on the fourth Wednesday, of
April. Each is followed by avacation OF i've weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FRESHMAN CLAss.--I. Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabass; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
ii. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; AL
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
| tinued.
| III. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
| JuNion Glass;. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus Of Eschylus: and Electra Of sophocies; Ana
| ology; Evidences of Christianity.
| H. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis OF
Euripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Ill Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
matics and Meteoroogy.
SopHoMoRE CLAss-I Horace, finished; Keno
| phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
tus, begun; Plane Trigononetry; Spherical Trigo-
| uometry Rhetoric, continued
| ILL., Cicero de Offics; 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, Ma gnetsm.
/ H. Elements OF Criticism; Buffers Analogy /;
Ciceros Tuscuan 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; Thcrmo-
Electricity; Chemistry and Geology.
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
The College is provided with 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 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. 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,
di, me worship is held twice every Sunday and
the recitation on Monday morning is Away 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 ofthe Faculty
will attend 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, tUM their fa1,i-
lies, will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at q 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
\ student must be at least fourteen years of age
must give satisfactory evidence of good mora
character; and must sustain examination in the
following studiee, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin anc
creek Grammar, Jacob or FELTON, G reek Reader
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis
Jacobs Doering's Latin Reader, Salust ol
Cesar, Cicero's Select Oratons, and Virgil, OF
what shall be deemed equivalent
EXPENSES
| ENTRANcE FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollnrs if
as Junior, fifteen dollars; and if as Senior, twenty
dollars.