The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-10-15
DELAwARE CoLLEGE.

DELAWARE COLLEGE.
The Faculty of Instruction Of this Institution un-
der its present organization, consists of the follow
ing named Professorships to wit;
A ProfessoTship of Mental and Moral Science,
A Professorship of the Greek and Latin Ian
AProfessorshipof Mathematics and NaturalPhi-
losophy,
AProfessorship of Rhetoricand Bellies -Lettres,
Professorship Of Chemistry and Natural His
K Professorship Of Civil Engineering,
A Professorshipo of Modern rnLanguagesandDraw
ing.
The Collegiate yeari is divided into two sessions
or terms of twenty-one weeks each. The first
sion CONNIE noes on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
ber; and the second on the fourth Wednesday of
April. Each is followed by avacation of five weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
Freshman CLAss.-I. Liyy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun
IT. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey. begun; AL
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
hnued.
III Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, inished;
Geometry, FIVE books; History, finished.
JuNIoR Glass; Tacitus, begun; The ProIfe-
theus of Eschylus, 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.
III Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
matics, and Meteorology.
SOPHOMORE CLAss.-I. Horace, finished; Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
H. Cicero de Amicitia and de Senectute; Herodo-
tus begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued
III. Cicero de Oficiis; 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, Magnetism.
= ii. Elements of Criticism; Butler's Analogy;
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Denosthencs de 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; Thermo-
Electricity; Chemistry and Geology.
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
The College is provided with a Philosophical APP
paratus that furnishes ample meana of experiment
tai illustration in all the different branches of Nat
ural Philosophy. The sum of three thousand dol
country, and partly in London and Paris, in the
purchase of new apparat4s, adapted to the present
advanced state ofthe Physical Sciences.
li@ EXAMINATIONS.
Atthe close of each study, or branch of study, the
members of the class carefully examined, and
at the close OF the year, all the studies of the yea
in the presence of a Committee of the Trustees and
their attainments communicated TO the Board
of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evening prayer,
div me worship is held twice on every Sunday, and
the recitation 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 or
guardian, may select. One member of the Faculty
will attend at each Of the different places of wor-
ship, Presbyterian, Episoopalian, and Methodist)
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Profeasors tcith 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
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 Grammar, Jacob FELTON, Is G reek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabass,
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Salust or
Caesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent
EXPENSES.
ENTRANCE FEE.-f the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars if as Sophomore, ten dollars; if
Junior, fifteen dollars; and if as Senior, twenty
dollars.