The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-11-13
No. I29.
DELAwARE COLLEGE.


The Faculty Of INSTRUCTION of this Institution, un-
der it's present organization, consists of the follow
ing named Professorships, to wit;
Prolessorship Of Mental and Moral Science,
A Professorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
guaees,
AProfessorshipof Mathematics and NaturalPhi-
losophy,
A Professorship of Rhetoricand Bellies Lettres,
Protessorship of Chemistry and Natural His
Professorship of Civil ngineering,
A Professorshipof Modern Languagesan nd Draw
ing:
The Collegiate year ia divided into two sessions
or terms of twenty-one weeks each. The first ses-
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
bcr and the second on the fourth Wednesday of
April. Each is followed by vacation of five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FREsHMAs Glass; Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis Algebra, begun; History, begun.
ii. Liyy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; Al
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinued
III. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
JuSIoR Glass;. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of Kschylus and Electra Of Sophocles; Ana
lytica Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
H. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis OF
Enripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; PIato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics ,Pneu
matics and Meteorology.
SOPHOMORE GLASS;. 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.
III. Cicero de Oiiciis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR CLAss---I Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Arstophanes;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism
ii. Elements OF Criticism; Buffers Analogv
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Dcmosthenes dc Co
roma; voltaic Electricity or Galvanism; Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mica; Astronomy begun.
III. The Constitution of the United States; AS
tronomy finished; The Science of Heat; Therrno-
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
ura 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 carefully examined, and
at the close of the year, all tie studies of the yea,
in the presence Off Committee of the Trustees; and
their attalnments are communicated to the Board
ofTrustees
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, a 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, Episcopalian, and Methodist }
in the village, and note all absentees
Two, at least, Of the Professors, tciM their fq1ni-
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 examination in the
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra Latin and
creek Grammar r, Jacob or Feltons reek 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.
ENTRANCE FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; if as Sophomore, ten dollars; if
Junior, fifteen dolars and, if as Senior twenty
dollars.
Lax c.