The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-12-24
DELAwARE COLLEoE.

DELAWARE COLLEGE.
The Faculty ofInstruction of this Institution, un
der it's present organization, consists ofthe follow
ing named Professorships, to wit:
A Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
gunges,
AProfessorshipof Mathematics and NaturalPhi
iosophy,
A Professorship Of Rhetoricand Belles- Lettres
A Professorship of Chemistry and Natural His
tory,
A Professorshipo of Modern Languagesan nd Draw
ing.
The Collegiate yeari is divided into two sessions
or terms, oftwenty-o -one weeks each. The first ges-
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday of
April. Each is followed by avacaton of five weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
Freshman CLAss.-I. Livy begun; Xenophon's e
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
H. Lvy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; AL
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
finued.
III. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
JUNIOR CLAss.-I. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
lytioal Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences Of Christianity
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis OF
Euripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, ,Pneu
matics, and Meteoroogy.
SOPHOMORE CLAss.-l. Horace, finished; Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
H. Cicero de Amicitia and de eScnectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero de Offciis; 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.
ii. Elements of Criticism Buffers Analogy !;
Cicero's Tuscuan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Gayanism 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 Ap-
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 ofthe 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 GHe studies Of the yea,
in the presence OF Committee of the Trustees; and
their attainments are communicated to the Board
ofTrustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION
la addition to daily morning and evenin o pray YER
di, 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 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, Episcopalan, and Methodist,)
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least of the Professors, toih 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, Jacob g or FELTON, IS C reck Reader
and the first two books of Xenophon's 3 Anabasis
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader Sallust or
CD5ar, Ciccro'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 dollars; if
Junior, fifteen dolars; and, if as Senior twenty
dollars.
lst Session. I'd Session
Tuition ............,,,.$2 $2l 90 S2l 90