The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-10-18
No. IO7.
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

DELAWARE COLLEGE.
The Facility Of instruction of this Institution,
der Re present organization consists OF the follow
ing named Professorships, to wit
Professorship of Mental ard Moral Science,
A Professorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
AProfessotshipof Mathematics and NaturalPhi-
lcsophy,
A Professorship Of Rhetorlcafid Bellies Lettres,
A Professorship Of Chemistry and Natural llis-
A Professorabip OF Civil Engineering,
A Professorshipof Modern LanguagesandDr Draw
ing.
The Collegiate yearis divided into two sessions
or terms, oftwcnty-on weeks each. The first ses
sion commences OH the fourth "wednesday of Octo-
ber; and tho second on the fourth Wednesday Of
April Each is followed by aYacation OF hve weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FnEsHMAv GLASS;. Livy, begun; xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
H. Livy finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; AL
gebra finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinued.
III Horace begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five bool,s History, finished
| JUNIOR CLAss.-I. Tacitd5, bggupI The Prone
| theus Of HIschylus and Electra of SopEoclesj Ana
lytcal Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences Of Christianity.
! H. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The 'Alcestis of
Euripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
| III. Moral Philosophy; PIato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Pautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, ,Pneu
| matics, and Meteorology.
SOPHOMORE CLAss.-I Horace, finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia Geometry, finished Rheto-
ric, begun.
Ii. Cicero de Amicitia and dc Senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometryi sPherica! Trigo-
uometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero dc Oificiis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity Magnetism
! II. Elements of Criticisms Buffers Analogy
| Cicero's Tusculan 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 witha Philosophical Ap-
parattle 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 the Physical Sciences.
EXAMINATIONS.
st the close of each study or branch of study the
members of the class are carefully examined, and
at the close of the year. in all tie 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 always 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
guardian, may select. One member Of the Faculty
will attend at each of the different places of wor-
ship, Presbyterian, Epscopalian, and Methodist,)
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors, tDH their fami-
hes will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at common table, with the students, who
are required to occupy such may be
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION
In order TO admission to pursue the entire course,
q student must be at least fourteen years of age;
| must give satisfactory evidence of good moral
chnractsy; and must sustain examination in the
| following studies, VIE:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and
Greek Grammar Jacobs FELTON, Grcely Reader,
| and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
| Jacobs or Doeripg's Latin Reader, Sallust or
CGsar 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 dollnrs if
as Junior fifteen dollars; and If as Senior, twenty
dollars.