The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-11-22
DELAwARE COLLEGE.


The Faculty of instruction 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
guages,
AProfessorshipo of Mathematics and NaturalPhi-
osophy,
A'Professorship OF Rhetoricand Bellies Lettres,
A Professorship of Chemistry and Natural His
tory,
Professorship Of Civil Eng gineering,
A Profcssorshipof Modern Languagesand Draw
ing.
or terms oftwenty- -one weeks each The first ses-
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wed nesday of
April. Each is followed by avacation of five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FRESHMAN Glass;. Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; 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.
junior CLAss.-I. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of Eschy ylus, and Electra of Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences Of Christianity.
III. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis OF
Earipides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, ,Pneu
matics, and Meteorology.
SopHoMoRE Glass;. Horace, finished Xono-
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
H. Cicero de Amicitia and de Senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigononetry; Spherical Trgo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero de Ohiciis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR Glass; Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
III Elements of Critci5m Butler'a Analopv
Cicero's Tuscuan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Galvanism; Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro-Dyna-
mics; Astronomy, begun
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 bra inches 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 attainmcnts communicated to the Board
OF Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION..
| In addition to daily morning and evening prayer,
div worship is held twice on every Sunday, and
the recitation on Monday morning is alwaysin in the
Greek Testament. AT the request of his parent or
guardian, student is permitted to attend any
place of worship which himself, 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, of the Professors, toiM their fami-
lies, will reside in the College buildings, and will
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 course,
O 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 Gramma Jacobs or Feton's Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs Doering's Latin Reader Salust 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 as Sophomore ten dollars; if
Junior, fifteen dollars; and if as Senior twenty
dollars
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