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DELAwARE COLLEGE.
TINE Faculty Of Instruction Of this Insttuton under
i its present organization conniss Of the following
named Professorships, to wit: "a 3aTa 33li
A Professorship Of Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship Of the Creek and Latin Languages,
Professorship Of Mathematics and Natural Philoso
4 Professorship Of Rhetoric and Beles-Lettres,
Professorship Of Chemistry and Material History,
A Professorship Of Civil Engineering,
A Professorship of Modern Languages and Drawing.
The Collegiate year Is divided into two sessions terms
Of twentyone weeks each The rst session commences
the fourth Wednesday Of April Each is followed by
vacation of FIVE weeks. 5e Ea
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FRESHMAN CLAss.--I. Liyy, begun; xenophons Ana
basis; Algebra, begun; History, begun. 900
III. Livy, finished Homer's Odyssey, begun; Algebra,
finished; Geometry, begun; History, continued 10
III Horace, begun; Homers Odyssey, finished; Ge-
ometry, five books History, finished. r.
JUNIOR CLAss.-L Tacitus, begun; The Prometheus of
nished Calculus; Natural Theology Evidences ofChrs
tanity. 4EHMl
pides Tactus finished; Natural Phiosophy Mechanics
In Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias The Captive
OF Pautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatcs, Pneumatics, and
sorHoMossE crass,--I Horace, finished; xenophons
Memorabilia /; Geometry, finished; Rhetoric, begun.
III. Cicero dc Amicta and de Senectute; Herodotus,
begun; Plane Trgonometry; Spherical Trigonometry;
Rhetoric, continued. tslna.H sssa.i ,lat
Ill Cicero de OmCiB; HerOuOtuS, nnSneu
Analytical Geometry begun; Rhetoric, finished
SENIOR Glass; Political Philosophy The Andria of
Tcrrenoe The Clouds Of Aristophanes Acoustics Optics
IL Elements Of Criticism; Buffers Analogy; Ciceros
Tusculan Questions; Dcmosthenes de Corona; yoltac
Electricity or Gaivanis Electro Magnetism, Magnetic
Electricity, Electro-D ynamics Astronomy, begun
ILL., The Constitution of the United States Astronomy,
finished The Science Of Heat Thermo Electricity; Chem
istry and Geology. H i
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS
The College provided with Philosophical Apparatus
that furnishes ample Of experimental illustration
sum of three Thousand dollars 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 ench study branch Of study the
bers of the class carefully examined and Mt the close
Of the year. IN al te studies Of the year. in the presence
of Committee of the Trustees and their attachments
are communicated to the Board OF Trustees. tt
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evening PRAYER di
vine worship is held twice every Sunday and the rec
ment At the request Of his parent guardian student
permitted to attend any place worship which himself
the parent guardian may select One member of the
Faculty will attend at each of the different places of
ship (Presby terrain, Epscopaian and MethodsD in the
village, and note all abscntees. f s3n-3 aI
Two at least Of the Professors aoi their families will
reside in the College buildings, and will board at
table with the Students who required to occupy
such rooms may be assigned them by the Faculty.
tADMlSSlON.
In order to admission to pursue the entire course,
student be at least fourteen years of give
satisfactory evidence of good moral character and must
sustain an examination in the following studies viz
! Arithmetic. Elements of Algebra, Latin and Greek
Grammar, Jacobs Feton's Greek Reader, and the first
two books of Xenophon's Anabass Jacobs behring's
Latin Reader Salust Caesar, Cceros Select Orations
and Virgil, or what shall be deemed equivalent
EXPENSES
ENTRANCE FEE.f the student enter as Freshman, five
dollars if Sophomore ten dollars; If Junior fifteen
lOllars and III Senior, twenty dollars
LIST Session I'd Session
Tuition $50. -. 81 90. 81 90
Incidental Inc expenses ............ 10 100
Use of Library ;, IS rs
Fuel for ora tory and Recitation room So
Fuel is afforded to the students at cost. equal
to the probable cost is advanced by each students if more
is consumed it is charged to him. If less the balance
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 applications to all students designed for the Min
The tuition fee for Modern Languages will be eight
dollars per session. to be paid to the Instructor in ad
For students who do not design to prosecute the whole
Course required for degree limited range of
Of each individual far such can be reasonably antic
ipated
The studies Of this Course arranged under the follow
ing departments, TO wit:
LIST. A MATHEMATICAL DEPARTMENT-lnw which, beginning
with Arithmetic and Algebra the student will be carried
srfo through all the higher branches Of the Mathe
macs ending in their application to Natural Philosophy
ID An EsoLIsH DEPARTMENT. Comprising instruction
in Orthography Reading, Eocution Grammar Writing,
Geography, History Composition, Rhetoric Logic Intel
lectua Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Political Grammar
Story on the Constitution Philosophy, 0rnhology Ma
ural Theology Elements Of Criticism, and Evidences of
Christianity.
3D. A MERCANTILE DEpARTMENr-In which will be i'm
parted acquaintance with all that is necessary to quail
W youth for the immediate duties OF the counting house,
including
l. Rn,ananship-By original and popular system of
this art which invariably produces bold, finished hand,
peculiarly adapted to the purposes Of the accountant and
business man.
q Arlthnettc-C Comprising numerous abbreviated me-
hods of computing Interest Discount Equation of Pay
mens &c. and other mercantile calculations founded
per cenage; together with all such operations
quiste for thorough knowledge Of the business Of the
countingroom.
g. Bookkeeping and Double Entry by the most
approved methods. complete of instruction i'm
this branch will be furnished designed to fit the student
TO take charge Of any set of account books e
4th. An AeRIcUITuRAL DEpARrMENf-Comprisn Sc
lection from the English and Mathematical courses and
also Surveying Botany Mneralogy Geology Chemistry
and Agricultural Chemistry the last two illustrated by
experimental lectures.
5th A Cfy1L ENGINEER DEpARTMENT-In which are
tai and written) Geometry, Trironometry surveying.
with the Of Instruments in the field Practical Engi
necring Architecture Perspective Draughting and To
9Th. TEACHERS DEpARrMxSr The course Of study
will consist Of udicous selection of subjects from the
other departments including all the pursued In
schools Practical Lectures will also be given
School Teaching, both science and 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 exemplifying
thcm by hearing Rotations in the lower departments Of
the Institution.
It'll DEPARTMENT OF MopEBN LANeuAaEs-In which
students who wish to take thorough have
opportunity Of doing while others whose object may
be acquire sufficient knowledge to translate with fac
ity and to pronounce with tolerable correctness in
short time as possible, are also provided for.
Newark Academy.
BY "a late reorganization of this department of Della
College, the Board Of Trustees have taken
to place upon and improved foundation, and to
endow II with advantages possessed by few similar nst
buttons In the country The Academy heretofore merged
in the College, and Of subjected TO all the evils
which have been found to attend the Of the
two departments in the building and under the
government enjoys the privilege Of separate
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