The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-11-08
No. 1875,
nELAwARE COLLEGE.

The Faculty. of Instruction Of this Institution, un-
der its present organization consists OF the ioilow
ing named Professorships, to wit;
Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
A Professorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
guages, -,
4 Frofesnorship Of Rhetoricand Bellies Lettres.
Professotshlp Of Chemistry aud Natural His
tory,
Professorshipo Modern LangungesandD Draw
The Collegiate yearis divided into two sessions
or terms, oftwenty-one weeks eacn. Ihe llrsI ses
sion commences on the fourth "wednesday of Ooto-
brr; and the second on the fourth Wednesday OF
April Each is followed by ayacation offy weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FRESHMAN Glass;. Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begunj History, begun
IT, Livy finished; Honiet's Odyssey, begun; AL
zebra, inished Geometry, begun; History con'
| tinued.
III. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
| Geometry five books; History, finished.
| JuNIoa Glass;. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
| thcus of .Fschylus and Electra of Sophoces; Ana
lytcal Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
| ology; Evidences of Christianity.
| H. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alccstis of
Euripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
| Mechanics, begun.
iii. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Pautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, ,Pneu
SopHomoRE CLAss.Sf Horace, fnished Keno
phons Memorabilia; Geometry, hnished Rheto-
rc, begun.
tus begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
| III Cicero dc Officiis; Hcrodotus, finished; Sur
vcying; Analytical Geometry, begun Rhetoric,
| finished.
SeNion Glass;. Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes;
! Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetam.
| ii. Elements OF Criticism; Butler's Analogy
| Ciccro's Tusculan Questions Demoshenes de Co.
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Calvanisrn Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mics; Astronomy, begun.
III The Constitution of the United States; AS
tronomy finished; The Science OF Heat; Thcrmo-
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 oil tie studies of The yer
in the presence of Committee of the Trustees and
| their attainmcnts are communicated to the Board
Of Trustees.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evening prayer,
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, the parent or
| guardian, may select. One member of the Faculty
will attend at each of the different places of wor-
ship Presbyterian, Episcopalian, 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 common table, with the students, who
arc required to occupy such rooms may be as
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
In order TO admission TO pursue the entire course
q student must be at least fourteen years of age
must give satisfactory evidence Of good mora
character; and must sustain examination in the
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra Latin and
creek @ raInmar, Jacob Feton's Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Cesar Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ENTRAHcE FEE:--If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollars if
as Junior fifteen dollars; and if as Senior twenty
dollars.
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