The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-10-11
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

DELAWARE COLLEGE.
The Faculty of fInsruction of this Institution, un-
der it's present organizaon consists OF the follow
ing named Professorships, to witt
Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
A Professorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
AProfessorshipof Mathematics and NaturalPhi-
losophy,
A Professorship of Rhetoricand Bellies Lettres,
A Professorship OF Chemistry and Natural His
4 Professorsbip OF Civil Engineering,
Professorshipof Modern LanguagesandD 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-
ber; and the second on the fourth Wednesday of
April Each is followed by avacation of five weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION..
FRESHMAN CLAss.-I Livy, begun; Xenophons
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
H. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; Al
gebra finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinued.
III. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry five books; History, finished.
JuNIoR CLAss.-I. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus Of Kschylus and Electra of Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
! H. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis of
E1ripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneu
matics, and Meteorology.
Sophomore CLAss.-f. Horace, finished; Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished Rheto-
ric, begun.
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
uometry; Rhetoric, continued.
Ill Cicero de Officiis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
| finished.
SENIOR CLAss.-I PoliticalPhlosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
| ii. Elements of Criticism; Buffers Analogy
| Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes do CO.
| roma; Voltaic Electricity or Galvanism 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 Ap-
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
purchase of new apparatus, adapted to the present
advanced state 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. IN all the studies OF the yea'
in the presence of Committee of the Trustees and
their attainments are communicated to the Board
| of Trustees.
| RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
| In-addtion to daily morning and evening prayer,
di, me worship is held twice every Sunday, and
the recitation on Monday morning is alway ys 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
ship Presbyterian, Episcopulian, and Methodist,)
| in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors, toih their fami
| es will reside in the College buildings and will
board at a common table, with the students, who
| are required to occupy such rooms 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, Jacobs or FELTON, 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.
| ENTRANCE FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollars if
as Junior, fifteen dollars; and if Senior, twenty
dollars.