American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-10-02
DELAWARE COLI,HaF


rINHE Faculty Of Instruction lls Inshtution uuder
its present organization consists Of the fshowing
named Professorships, to wits
PROFESSIONALLY of Mental and Moral Science
Professorship Of the Greek and Latin Languages
Protessorship Of Mathematics and Natural fhloso
ply,
q Professorshp OF Rhetoric and BellesIettres,
Proiessorshp Of Chemistry and Natural History,
Proiessorshp OF Civil Engineering,
Protessorship of Modern Languages and Drawing
Ihe collegiate year is divided into two sessions terms
Of twentyone weeks each The first session
on the fourth Wednesday of 0cober and the second on
the fourth "Wednesday Of April Each is followed by
vacation Of five weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION
FRESHMAN Glass;. LiYy, begun Xenophon's Ana
basis; Algebra, begun; History begun.
III. Liyy, finished; Homer's Odyssey begun Algebra
finished; Geometry, begun History, continued
IL Horace, begun; Homers Odyssey, inished &C.
ometry, five books History, finished.
JUNIOR class. Tacitus, begun; The Promctheus Of
hnshcd Calculus; Natural Theology Evidences ofChrs-
tianity.
III, Logic, Mental Philosophy; The Alcestus Of Euri
begun
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgas The Captive
OF Pautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumacs, and
Meteorology.
,soraonoRE cLAss.-I Horace, finished; xenophons
Memorabilia Geometry, finished; Rhetoric, begun
III. Cicero de Amcitia and de Senectute; IIerodotus
begun; Plane Trigonomety; Spherical Trigonometry;
Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero de onics; IIerodotus finished Surveying
Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric finished.
SENIOR Glass; Political Philosophy; The Andra Of
cS,
Electricity Magnetism.
II. Elements Of Criticism; Buffers Analogy; ciceros
Iuscuan Questions, Demosthenes de Corona; Voltac
Electricity or Galvanism; Electro Magnetism, Magnetic
Electricity, Eectro-D ynamics; Astronomy, begun
III. The Constitution OF the United States; Astronomy,
Finished Tho Science Of Heat Thero Electricity; Chem
shy and Geology
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
The College is provided with Philosophical Apparatus
that furnishes ample means of experimental illustration
in all the different branches of Natural Philosophy The
sum Of three thousand dollars has recently been
partly in this country and partly in London and Paris in
the purchase of apparatus adapted to the present
advanced state of the Physical Sciences.
EXAMINATIONS.
At tho close of each study branch of study the
bers of the class carefully examined and at the close
of the year, all the studies of the year. in the presence
of Committee of 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 is held twice every Sunday and the rec
ation Monday morning is always in the Greek Tesla
men At the request of his parent guardian, student
is permitted to attend place Of worship which himself
or the parent guardian may select One member Of the
Faculty will attend at each of the different places Of
ship Presby Episcopalian and Methodis in the
village, and note all absentees.
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 to pursue the entire course,
student be at least fourteen years give
satisfactory evidence of good moral characters and
sustain examination in the following studies viz
Arithmetic, Elements Of Algebra, Latin and Greek
two books of Xenophons Anabass Jacobs Doering's
Latin Reader Saust Caesar, Ccero's Select Orations,
and Virgil, or what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ENTRANCE FEE.-f the student enter as Freshman five
dollars; if Sophomore, ten doars If Junior fifteen
dollars; and if as Senior, twenty dollars.