The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-03-04


| DELAWARE COLLEGE.
The Faculty of Instruction of this Institution, un
der its present organization, consists of the follow
Ing named Professorships, to wit;
| Professorship Of Mental and Moral Science,
Professorship Of the Greek and Latin Lam
AProfessorship of Mathematics and Natural Phi
'Osophy,
APfofessorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
Profcssorship of Chemistry aud Natural His
4 Professorship of Civil Engineering,
Professorship OF Modern Languages and Draw
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, Of twenty weeks each. The first SEES
| sion commences on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
| Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday of
april Each Is followed by vacation Of five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
| FaEsHMAN Glass;. Livy, begun; Xenophon's
| Anabass; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
| ii. Livy. finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; Al
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
iii. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
JusIoR CLAss.-I. Tacitus, begun; The PRONE
theus Of lEschylus, and Electra Of Sophocles Ana
lytcal Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
| ology; Evidences of Christianity.
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis of
Enripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
iii. Moral Philosophy; PIato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
matlcs, and Meteoroiogy.
| SOPHOMORE CLAss.-I. Horace, finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto
1 rio, begun.
| II. Cicero de Amictia and de sencctute; Herodo-
| tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued
| iii. Cicero de Officis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
yeying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR Glass; Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds Of Aristophanes !;
| Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
| ii. Elements Of Criticism; Buffers Analogy /;
| Cicero's Tusculan Questions Demosthenes de Co.
roma; voltaic Electricity or Galvanism; Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dynn-
mcs; Astronomy, begun.
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
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 fthc Physical Sciences.
EXAMINATIONS. fasst fas
Attic close of each study, or branch of study, the
at the close Of the year, all the studies Of the yea,
in the presence Of Committee of the Trustees; and
| their attanmcnts communicated to the Board
| Of Trustees
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
| In addition to daily morning and evening prayer,
di, me worship is held twice 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
will attend at each Of the different places of wor-
ship, presbyterian, Episcopalian, and Methodist,
in the village. and note all abscntees:
lies will reside in the College buildings and will