The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-01-20
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

The Faculty of Instruction OF this Institution,
der its present organization, consists OF the follow
ing named Professorships, TO wits:
Professorshp Of Mental and Moral Science,
A Professorship Of the Greek and Latin Ian
guages,
AProfcsaorship Of Mathematics and Natural Phi
'osophy,
A Pfofessorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
A Professorship of Chemistry aud Natural His
A Professorship Of Civil Engineering,
A Professorshipo of Modern Languages and Draw
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, of twenty weeks each. The first
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday of
April. Each is followed by vacation OF five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
Freshman CLAss.--I Lvy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
II. Lvy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; AL
tinued.
III. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, fnished
Geometry, five books; History, finished
Taf E,sor mhi
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
II: Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis OF
Enripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; Platos. Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
s soeno ana caassg Horace, Finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
rio, begun.
ii. Cicero de Amicitia and de Sencctute; Herodo
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero de OiIiciis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR CLAss.-.r. Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds Of Aristophanes;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
H. Elements Of Criticism; Buffers Analogy;
- A., nasy.p AnovSo In No
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; Thermo
Electricity; Chemistry and Geology.
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
The College is provided with Philosophical APP
pnratus, 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 Of the 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 Of the yea,
in the presence of Committee of the Trustees; and
their attainments communicated to the Board
Of Trustees
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
ouuitiou W NdiIy LoTHInS uucVcuuB prayer,
div me worship is held twice on every Sunday, and
the recitation on Monday morning is always in the
Greek Testament. At the request Of his parent or
guardian, a 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, trih their fdmi
hes will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at a common table, with the students, who
are required TO occupy such rooms may be as-
signed them by the faculty.
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
character; and must sustain an examination in the
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and
creek Grammar, Jacobs or Felton's Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs behring's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Cesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ENTRANCE FEE.--If the student enter az Fresh
man, five dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollars; il
Junior, fifteen doara; and, if as Senior; twenty
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