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DELAWARE coLIEaE.

DELAWARE COLLEGE.
HE Faculty Of Instruction Of this Institution under
Il It's present organization, consists Of the following
Professorship OF Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship Of the Greek and Latin Languages
Professorship Of Mathematics and Natural Philoso
AProfessorshp Of Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres,
Professorshp Of Chemistry and Natural History,
A Professorshp of Civil Engineering,
Professionally of Modern Languages and Drawing.
The Collegiate year divided into two sessions terms
on Se osrb Wenssday Of OCTOBER and the second on
the fourth "Wednesday Of April Each Is followed by
vacation Of five weeks. ,*NEst4s
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FRESHMAN CLAss--L Liyy begun; Xenophon's Ana
III. Livy, finished; Homers Odyssey begun; Algebra,
finished; Geometry, begun; History continued d.
ometry, FIVE books; History, finished.
JUNIOR CLAss-I. Taotus, begun The Prometheus Of
Eschylus and Electra of sophocles Analytical Geometry
hnshed; Calculus Natural Theology Evidences fChrs-
tianity.
pdes; Tacitus, nshcd Natural Philosophy Mechanics
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgas; The Captive
Of Pautus; Mechanics Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, and
sopHoMoRE CLAss.-I Horace, finished; xenophons
Memorabilia; Geometry finished; Rhetoric, begun.
IL. Cicero de Amicitia and de senectute; Herodotus
begun; Plane Trigonomctry; Spherical Trgonometry;
Rhetoric, continued
III Cicero de Oficiis Herodotus finished; Surveying
Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric finished.
SENIOR GLASS;. Political Philosophy; The Andria of
Terrence; The Clouds OF Arstophanes; Acoustics Optics
II. Elements Of Criticisms Buffers Analogy; Ciceros
Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Corona; yoltac
Electricity Galvansm; Electro Magnetism, Magnetic
Electricity, ElectroD ynamics; Astronomy begun. 1s
Ill The Constitution Of the United States; Astronomy,
istry and Geology.
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
The College is provided with Philosophical Apparatus
that furnishes ample means Of experimental illustration
in fhQ m Vha
of three thousand dollars 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 of each study branch Of study the mem
beers Of the carefully examined and the close
of Committee of the Trustees and their attachments
are communicated to the Board of Trustees
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evening prayer, di
vine worship held twice every Sunday and the rec
ation Monday morning is always in the Greek Tesa-
ment At the request his parent or guardian student
is permitted to attend any place of worship which himself
the parent guardian select One member of the
Faculty will attend at each Of the different places of wor
ship Presbyterian Epscopalian and MethodisD in the
village, and note all absentees.
Two at least of the Professors, ayit their families, will
reside in the College buildings and will board at
table with the Students who required to occupy
such rooms as may be assigned them by the Faculty.
ADMISSION.
In order to admission to pursue the entire course
student must be least fourteen years of give
satisfactory evidence Of good moral character and must
sustain examination in the following studies, viz
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and Greek
Grammar Jacobs Feltons Greek Reader and first
two books of Xenophons Anabass, Jacobs behring's
Latin Reader Sallust Cesar Cceros Select Orations
and Virgil, or what shall be deemed equivalentl
EXPENSES.
ENTRANCE FEE.H the student enter as Freshman, five
dolars If as Sophomore dollars if as Junior fifteen
lst Session ID Session.
Tuition !. SCI 90 81 90
incidental ai, expenses 100 100
Use of Library .... rs rs
Janitor's Wages 90 90
Fuel for oratory and Recitation room ! 50
Fuel is afforded to the students at cost equal
to the probable cost is advanced by each STUDENT more
consumed it is charged to him if less the balance is
Board is furnished with the families of the Professors
at two dollars per week.
Washing at the usual rates.
All dues payable in advance. The tuition is remit
ted, application, to all students designed FOR the Min
The tuition fee for Modern Languages will be eight
dollars session, to be paid to the Instructor in ad
vance.
For students who do not design to prosecute the whole
Course required for degree, limited range of stu
dies is furnished adapted to the sphere and Of life
of each individually far as such can be reasonably anc
ipated.
The studies Of this Course arranged under the follow
ing departments, to wit:
list A MATHEMATICAL DEpARTmNT-Inw which, beginning
with Arithmetic and Algebra the student will be carried
seram through all the higher branches of the Mathe
macs ending in their application to Natural Philosophy
Astronomy, &c.
in 0rthography, Reading Eocution, Grammar Writing
Geography, History, Composition, Rhetoric Logic, Intel
Story the Constitutions Philosophy, ornithology Ma
tural Theology, Elements OF Criticism, and Evidences of
Christianity.
Sd. MERCANTILE DRpARrMENT-In which will be i'm
parted acquaintance with all that is necessary to quail
y youth for the immediate duties of the counting
including
psnomoos B;nRv an ORIGINAL md ponular svstoo NJ
this art which invariably produces bold finished hand
peculiarly adapted to the purposes of the accountant and
2. MISUNDERSTANDING numerous abbreviated
thods of computing Interest," Discount Equation of Pay
ment &c. and other mercantile calculations founded on
per centage together with all such operations
quste for thorough knowledge Of the business of the
countng-room.
Bootkeepiag- Single and Double Entry, by the most
approved methods. complete Of instruction in
this branch will be furnished designed to fit the student
to take charge of any set Of account books
4th. AN AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT-Comprisinga
lection from the English and Mathematical and
ALSO Surveying Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, Chemistry
and Agricultural Chemistry the last two illustrated by
5th CIVIL ENGINEER DKPARrMESr-In which are
taught Arithmetic mental and wrtten Ase6rs Omen
with the of instruments In the Held practc Engi-
neerng, Architecture Perspective, Draughtng and To
9Th TEACHERS DEPARrmNr.-The course Of study
will consist Of judicious selection Of subjects from the
other departments including all the branches pursued in
schools Practical Lectures will also be given
on School Teaching, both as science and as an art
Pupils will not only thus receive the fullest instruction
relative TO the best and most popular methods Of teaching
but they will also have opportunities of exemplifyng
them by hearing Rotations in the lower departments Of
the Institution.
7th A DEPARTMENT or MopERN LASGUAGEs-In which
students who wish to take thorough have
opportunity Of doing while Others whose object may
be acquire sufficient knowledge to translate with acl
y and to pronounce with tolerable correctness in
short time possible, are also provided for.
Newark Academy.
BY late reorganization Of this department OF Della
ware College, the Board of Trustees have taken
TO place 1t upon and improved foundation, and to
endow with advantages possessed by few similar inst
tutons in the country The Academy heretofore merged
in the College, and of subjected to all the evils
which have been found attend the anagamaton of the
two departments in the building, and under the
same government enjoys the privilege Of separate