The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-12-27
No. l65.
nELAwnnE COLLEGE.

DELAWARE COLLfSE
The Faculty of Instruction Of this Institution ,un-
der its present organization, consists otthe follow
ing named Professorships, TO wit;
4 Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
Profcssorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
Professorsbipo Mathematics and NaturalPhi-
losophy,
Professorship of ofRhetoricand Bellies Lettres.
A Professorship of Chemistry aud Natural His
A Professorship OF Civil Engineering,
A Professorshipo pof Modern Lnnguagesa
ing.
or terms oftwenty-one weeks each. The first ses-
sion commences 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. 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 Aeschylus, and Electra of Sophoces; Ana
lytical Geometry finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
| H. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis OF
Enripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
Captive of Plautus Mechanics, Hydrostatics, ,Pneu
matics and Meteorology.
SOPHOMORE CLAss-I. Horace, finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
ii. Cicero de Amictia and deSenectute; Herodo-
| tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
Ill Cicero de Oificiis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veyng; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR Glass;. PoliticalPhilosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes; ;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
II. Elements of Criticism Buffers Analogy;
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
roma; voltaic Electricity or Gavanism 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 witha Philosophical APP
paratus, that furnishes ample means of ex xpermcn-
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
Mt the close of the year. 1.-THE studies of Tie yea
in the presence of Committee of the Trustees; and
their attanments are communicated to the Board
| OF Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
| In addition to daily morning and evening" gprayer,
di, me worship is held twice on every Sunday, and
the recitation on Monday morning Is alwaysin 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 absentees.
Two at least of the Professors, tciM their faai-
hes will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at a common table, with the students, who
nre required to occupy such rooms may be as
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
lnorder 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
ureek Grammar, jacobs or Felton's Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabass,
Jacobs Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Cesar, Cccro'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
rs Junior fifteen dollars; and, ifas Senior, twenty
dollars.
1st Session 2d Session.
Tuition n....................$ $21 90 $2l 90
Room rent. ................ 90 90
Incidental expenses ....... O0 i 90
Use of Library. ........... rs rs
Janitor's Wages. l 90 | 90