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DELAWARE COLLEGE.

DELAWARE COLLEGE.
rHE Faculty Of Instrucen Of this Institution under
l. its present organization, eonsrtS % the Believing
| FAMED Professorships, TO wit;
A ProfessorshIp Of Mental and Moral Science,
| Professionally Of the Greek and Latin Language
\ PTofsssorship Of Mathematics and Natural Phioso
PROFESSIONALLY OF rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
A Proiessorship OF Chemistry and Natural History
/ Professorship of Civil Engineering,
A Professorshp Of Modern Languages and Drawing
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions or tm
of twentyone weeks each The rs session
the fourth Wednesday OF October; and the second or
the fourth Wednesday Of April Each is followed by
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FRESHMAN CLAss.-L Liyy, begun; xenophon's Ana
basis; Algebra, begun; History, begun
finished; Geometry, begun; History, continued
III. Horace, begun; Homer's cd yssey, finished; &c
JUNIOR CLAss.--I Tacitus, beg am The Prometheus Of
Hschylus and Electra sophocles; Analytical eometry
finished Caculus Natural Theology Evidences OF Chris
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Aloestus Of Eur
pides; Taous finished; Natural Philosophy; Mechanics
Ill Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The Captive
Of Plautus Mechanics Hydrostatos, Pneumatics, and
SOPHOMORE CLAss.--I Horace finished; xenophon's
Memorab.ia; Geometry, finished; Rhetoric, begun.
~. oIcero de Amicitia and de Scnectute Herodotus
pegr a; Plane Trgonometry; Spherical Trgonometry
IN Cicero de Oacis; Herodotus, finished Surveying;
Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric, finished.
SENIOR Glass; Political Philosophy The Andria OF
Terrenee The Clouds Of Arstophanes Acoustics Optics
IL. Elements of Criticism; Buffers Analogy Cicero's
Tusculan Questons Demosthenes de Corona; Votaic
Electricity Galyanism; Electro Magnetism, Magnetic
| Electricity, Electro Dynamics Astronomy, begun.
III. The Constitution of the United States Astronomy,
finished The Science Of Heat; Tlermo Electricity; Chem
| istry and Geology
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS
The College provided with Philosophical Apparatus
that furnishes ample means Of experimental Illustration r
of three thousand dollars has recently been expended
partly in this country and partly in London and Paris in
advanced state of the Physical Sciences.
.t.t EXAMINATIONS.
At the close Of each study branch Of study the
of Committee the Trustees and their attanments
| 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
tation Monday morning is always in the Greek Tesla
ment At the request OF his parent OF
the parent guardian select One member OF the
Faculty will attend at each of the different places OF wor
ship presbyterian, Epscopaian and MethodisD In the
| village and note all absentees.
Two at least the Professors, NTH 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.
| ADMISSION.
In order to admission pursue the entire course,
student least fourteen years of must give
satisfactory evidence good moral characters and must
| sustain an examination in the following studies viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra Latin and Greek
Grammar Jacobs or Fetons Greek Reader and the first
two books of Xenophons Anabass, jacobs behring's
Latin Reader saust or Cesar 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
N'''' - ','-' LIST Session, I'd Session
Tuition 81 90 $2i 90
room rent w w
Use Ias,; Of m1 Wn. ; 90 90 90
Fuel for oratory and Recitation room so
Fuel is afforded to the students at cost equal
the probable cost is by each student;
consumed it is charged to him. if less the balance is
refunded
at two dollars per week.
Washing, at the usual rates.
All dues payable in advance. The tuition is remit
The tuition fee for Modern Languages will be eight
per session. to be paid to the Instructor in ad
For students who design to prosecute whole
dies is furnished adapted to the sphere and of life
Of each individual far such be reasonably antc
! ipated.
The studies Of this Course are arranged the follow
ing departments, to wit:
1st A MATHEMATICAL DEPARTMENl-In which, beginning
with Arithmetic and Algebra the student will be carried
se1iat through all the higher branches of the Mathe
matcs, ending in their application to Natural Philosophy
Astronomy, &c.
~.
in 0rthography, Reading, Eocution Grammar, Writing
Geography History Composition, Rhetoric Logic, Intel
lectual Philosophy, Moral Philosophy Political Grammar
Story the Constitution, Philosophy 0rnithology, Ma
tural Theology, Elements OF Criticism and Evidences Of
Christianity.
3D. MERCANTILE DEpARTMENT-In which will be inn
parted acquaintance with all that is necessary to quail
y youth for the immediate duties Of the countnghouse
l. an original and popular system of
this art which invariably produces bold finished hand
peculiarly adapted to the of the accountant and
q Arlttnphc-C Comprising numerous abbreviated me
thods of computing Interest Discount Equation Of Pay
ments &c. and other mercantile calculations founded on
per centage; together with all such operations
quisite for thorough knowledge Of the business Of the
8. BookLeeping-s and Double Entry by the most
approved methods. complete Of instruction in
this branch win be furnished designed to fit the student
to take charge of any set of account books
4th. An AGRICULTURAL NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. se
lection from the English and Mathematical courses and
and Agricultural Chemisyj the last two illustrated by
experimental lectures.
5th CTvn ENGINEER DEPARrMENT-In which are
taught Arithmetic, (mental and wrtten) Algebra, men
tai and written Geometry, Trgonometry, Surveying,
with the instruments In the field Practical Eng-
neering Architecture, Perspective, Draughtng, and To
9Th < Tr,curR's Drp.RrmESr-The course of study
will consist OF udicious selection of subjects from
other departments including all the branches pursued in
on School Teaching, both a 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 exemplifyng
them by hearing Rotations in the lower departments
| the Institution.
| 7th. A DEPARTMENT MoDFRN LAsGUAeEs--In which
students who wish to take thorough have
opportunity Of doing while Others whose object may
be acquire sufficient knowledge 10 translate with fsc
ity and to pronounce with toerabe correctness, in
short time possible, are also provided for.
Newark Academy.
BY late reorganization of this department. OF Della
College, the Board Of Trustees have taken
to place II upon and improved foundation, and to
endow II with advantages possessed by few similar ins
buttons in the country The Academy heretofore merged
In the College, and Of subjected to all the evils
which been found to attend tho aagamaton of the
two departments in the building, and under the
government, enjoys the privilege OF separate