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DELAWARE COLLEGE.

Of twentyone weeks each The first session commences
the fourth Wednesday Of October; and the second ON
the fourth Wednesday Of April Each is Followed by
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FRESHMAN CLAss.-I Lvy, begun; Xenophon's Ana
basis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
H. Livy, finished; Iomers Odyssey, begun; Algebra,
finished; Geometry, begun; History, continued
III. Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished; Ge-
ometry, five books; History, finished.
JUNIOR CLAss-I Tacitus, begun; The Prometheus of
Kschylus and Electra of Sophocles; Analy Geometry
flushed; Calculus; Natural Theology; Evidences ofChris-
IL Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestus of Euri-
pdes; Tacitus Finished Natural Philosophy; Mechanics,
In Moral Philosophy Plato's Gorgias; The Captive
Of plautus Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics and
SOPHOMORE GLASS; Horace finished; xenophon's
Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rhetoric, begun.
III. Cicero de Amctia and de Senectute IIerodotus,
begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Irgonometfy;
III Cicero de ofacs; Herodotus, finished; Surveying;
Analytical Geometry begun Rhetoric finished r,. If
Terrence The Clouds of Arisophanes Acoustics Optics
Electricity Magnetism
ii. Elements of Criticism; Buffers Analogy; Cicero's
Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Corona; Votaic
Electricity Galvanism; Electro Magnetism Magnetic
III The Constitution Of the United States Astronomy,
nished The Science OF Heat; Thermo Electricity; Chem
pHfIosoPHICAL APPARATUS.
The College is provided with Philosophical Apparatus
that furnishes ample Of experimental illustration
all the different branches of Natural Philosophy The
Of three thousand dollars has recently been expende
partly in this country and partly London and Paris in
the purchase of apparatus adapted to the present
advanced state of the Physical Sciences.
EXAMINATIONS.
At the close of each study branch Of study the mem
bers of the carefully examined and at the close
of the year. in all e stdies Of the year. in the presence
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
tation on Monday morning is always in the Greek Tesla
ment At the request parent guardian student
is permitted to attend place of worship which himself
the parent guardian select One member OF the
Faculty will attend ut each of the different places of wor
ship presbyterian Epscopaan, and Methodst In the
village and note all absentees
Two at least of the Professors, NTH their families, will
reside in the College buildings and will board at com
table with the Students who required to occupy
such rooms may be assigned them by the Faculty
.a .8U ADMISSION.
In order to admission to pursue the entire course
student be at least fourteen of must give
satisfactory evidence of good moral character and must
sustain an examination in the following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin and Greek
Grammar Jacobs Fetons Greek Reader, and the first
books of Xenophons Anabasis, Jacobs or Doerngs
Latin Reader, Saust or Cesar Ciceros Select Oratons,
and Virgil, or what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
FEE-If the student enter as Freshman, five
dollars if Sophomore, ten doars if Junior fifteen
0' ~ : - LIST SESSION. I'd Session.
Tuition $2l 90 $2l 90
Room rent 40 go
Incidental expenses 90 90
Use of Library 10 10
Fae i for or mters and Recitation room SO
Fuel is afforded to the students at cost sum equal
to the probable cost advanced by each students more
refunded.
Board furnished with the families of the Professors
nc two dollars per week.
Washing, at the usual rates.
All dues payable in advance. The tuition is remit
ted application, to all students designed for the Min
stry.
The tuition fee for Modern Languages win be eight
dollars per session. to be paid to the Instructor in ad
For students who do not design to prosecute the whole
Course required for degree limited range Of stu
dies is furnished adapted to the sphere and course Of life
each individual far such can be reasonably antic
pated.
studies of this Course arranged under the follow
ing departments to wit:
LIST. MATHEMATICAL DEpARTMESI-In which, beginning
With Arithmetic and Algebra the student will be carried,
eriam, through all the higher branches of the Mahe
nacs ending in their application to Natural Philosophy,
ID An ESeIIsn DEpARDEsr-Comprising instruction
N photography, Reading, Eocution, Grammar, Writing
Geography, History, Composition, Rhetoric, Logic, Intel
ectua Philosophy Moral Philosophy, Political Grammar
Story the Constitution Philosophy Orthodoxy Ma
ural Theology Elements Of Criticism, and Evidences of
Sd A MERCANTILE DEpARrMEYr-In which will be inn
parted acquaintance with all that necessary to quail
fly youth for the immediate duties of the counting house.
l. PsnnHdnship-By an original and popular system Of
his art which invariably produces bold finished hand
peculiarly adapted to the purposes OF the accountant and
business man.
q A,ithmetic-Comprising numerous abbreviated me-
hods of computing Interest Discount Equation of Pay
ments &C. and other mercantile calculations founded
per centage together with all such operations
qute for thorough knowledge of the business Of the
3. Bookkeepipg-sngle and Double Entry by the most
approved methods. complete Of instruction In
this branch will be furnished designed to CT the student
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4th. AN AGRICULTURAL Observation-Disclosures a Sc
lection from the English and Mathematical courses; and
also, Surveying Botany, Mineralogy Geology Chemistry
and Agricultural Chemistry the last illustrated by
experimental lectures.
9Th. CIVIL ENGINEER DEpARrMESr-In which are
taught Arithmetic (mental and writtenO Algebra, (men-
tai and writtn,) Geometry, Trigon0metry, Surveying,
with the of instruments in the field Practical Engi
necrng Architecture, Perspective, Draughtng and To
9Th TEACHERS DEraRrMESre-The course Of study
will consist Of judicious selection of subjects from the
other departments including all the branches pursued in
common schools Practical Lectures will also be given
on School Teaching, both a science and an art.
Pupils will not only thus receive the fullest instruction
relative to the best and most popular methods Of teaching
but they will also have opportunities Of exempfying
them by hearing Rotations in the lower departments Of
the Institution.
eth. A DEPARTMENT or MODERN LlseuAoss-In which
students who wsh TO take thorough have
opportunity Of doing while Others whose object may
be acquire sufficient knowledge TRANSLATE with faci
ity and 70 proDounce with tolerabe correctness in as
short time az possible, are also provided for.
Newark Academy.
BY late reorganization ~ this department Of Della.
ware College, the Board Of Trustees have taken measures
10 place II upon and improved foundation and 10
endow IL with advantages possessed by few similar
buttons in the country The Academy heretofore merged
in the College, and Of subjected TO all the evils
which have been found 10 attend the the
two departments In the building, and under the
same government now enjoys the privilege Of separate
establishment without losing those which result from is
| relation TO the College proper.
large and elegant edice, with all the necessary FIX
lures Of complete boarding establishment, has been
erected and furnished in which the students Of the Acad
envy board under the immediate charge Of the Principal
and his ASSISTANTS and all its exercises conducted on
a system OF its own, uninterrupted by the interests or
operations Of the other department The furniture of the
sudyrooms and dormtores has been chosen with pccu
liar reference comfort and convenience for study and
expense has been spared in providing the apparatus
render the of instruction