The republic., 1851-01-28
DELAWARE COLLEGE,.

DELAWARE COLLEGE.
The Faculty Of Instruction of this Institution, un-
der its present organization, consists of the follow
ing named Professorshps, TO wit;
Professorship Of Mental and Moral Science,
A Professorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
guages,
AProfessorship Of Mathematics and Natural Phi
losophy,
AProfessorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
A Professorship of Chemistry aud Natural His
A Professorship Of Civil Engineering,
Professorshipof Modern Languages and Draw
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, of twenty one weeks each The first SEES
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday OF Octo-
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.
ILL., Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey. finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
JUNIoa Glass. Tacitus, begun; The PRONE
theus Of Eschylus. and Electra OF SoPhocies; Ana
lytcal Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis OF
Earipides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
iii. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive Of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
'ss, sopaoaoas MOI % cI1ssy}. 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.
Ill. Cicero de Officiis; 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.
III. Elements of Criticism; Buffers Analogy /;
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Gnlvanism; Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro-Dyna
mcs; Astronomy, begun.
Ill 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
Paratus, 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. IN all the studies Of the yea,
in the presence ofa Committee Of the Trustees and
their attainments are communicated to the Board
of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evening prayer,
divine worship is held twice on every Sunday, and
the recitation on Monday morning IL always in the
Greek Testament. At the request Of his parent OF
I 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
ship, presbyterian, Episcopaian, and Methodist
| in the village, and note all absentees
Two at least, of the Professors, soih their fami-
lies, will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at a 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,
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 Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Caesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ENrnANcE FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh
man, FIVE dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollnrs il
Junior fifteen dollars; and, if as Senior twenty
dollars.