The republic., 1851-11-03
No. 40.
pEIAwARE OoLLEoH.


The Faculty of Instruction of this Inatituton un-
der it's present organization, consists oi the follow
ing named Professorships, 10 wit;
A Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
A Professorship of the Greek and Latin Ian
guages,
AProfcssorshipof Mathematics and NaturalPhi
losophy,
Professorship of Rhetoric and Bellies -Tettrcs.
A Professorship of Chemistry and Natural His
4 Professorship OF Civil Engineering,
Professorshipof Modern Languagesand Draw
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms Of twenty-one weeks each The first ses-
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday of 0cto-
bcr; and the second on the fourth "Wednesday of
April. Each is followed by vacation of five 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.
H. Horace, begun; siornor's Odyssey, finished,
Geometry, five books; History, fnished
junior CLAss.--I Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of Rschylus, and Electra of Sophocles; Ana
ytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcests Of
Euripides; 1acitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics begun
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, ,Pneu
mates, and Meteorology. rnH
SOPHOMORE CLAss.-I Horace, finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
ii. Cicero dc Amictia and deSenectute; Hcrodo-
tus begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued
III. Cicero de Officis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veyng; Analytical Geometry, begun Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR CLAss.--I. Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Ma gnetisn.
4 CrltlCI6m: nall
Cicero's Tusculan Questions Demosthenes dc Co
roma; Votaic 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 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 or branch of study the
members of the class are carefully examined, and
at the close of the year, all the studies Qf the yea,
in the presence of Committee Of the Trustees; and
their attainments are communicated 10 the Board
of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and cveningprayer,
ii, me worship is held twice every Sunday, and
the recitation on Monday morning is awaysin 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 of the Faculty
will attend at each of the different places of wor-
ship, presbyterian Episcopalian, and Methodist,)
in the village, and note all absentecs.
Two, ut least, of the Professors, ipiM their fani-
lies, will reside in the College buildings and will
board, at a common table, with the students who
arc required to occupy such rooms as NAV be as
sig nvd them by the mcuIty.
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
cha ractcr; and must sustain examination in the
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra Latin and
,ircek rammar, Jacobs or FELTON, s G reck Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Ana basis
Jacobs or Docrng's Latin Reader, Sallust or
CUsar, 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
as Junior, fifteen dollars; and if Senior, twenty
dollars.