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~ 81 DELAWARE COLLE0E.
The Faculty. Of Instruction Of ths Institution. un
der it, present organization consists ofthe follow
Ing named Profe6sorships, to wit:
A Profossorship of Mental and Moral Science,
Profcssorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
9 Afrofessorship Of Mathematics aud Natural Phi
A Professorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres.
A Professorship of Chemistry and Natural His
AProfessorship Of Civil Engineering,
A Professorship Of Modern Languages and Draw
ing; .n.~,. !. av;a.d into t,vo .e..;on.
or terms, offwenty -one weeks each The first SEES
sion com mences on the fourth Wednesday OF Octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday OF
April Each is followed by avacation OF fivc weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FREHnAN CLAss.--I. Livy. begun; xenophon's
II. Livy. finished; Homer's Odyssey. begun; Al
gebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinued. r5 s.ft agalrla1 $ 81. 'ii y
III Horace. begun; Homer's Odyssey. finished;
JUHIon Glass;. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus Of Eschylus, and Electra Of Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
0G ors; Msnal Z. Phosophyy The Aces Of
Earipides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
iii: Moral Philosophy; Pla.os Gorgias; The
msses soesoMosn smu es csoss Horace, finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rhetos
ii. Cicero de Amictia and de senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued
| III. Cicero de Oficis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
yeying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
SrNIoa CLAss--I Political Philosophy; The An
dria OF Terrence; The Clouds Of Aristophanes; 7;
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 Dyna-
iii The Constitution Of the United States; As
tronomy, finished; The Science of Heat; Thermo-
Electricity; Chemistry and Geology.
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
The College is provided with Philosophical APP
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
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 branch of study, the
members Of the class are carefully examined, and
At the close of the year, all the studies Of The yea,
in the presence Of Committee Of the Trustees; and
thclr Rttalnments are communicated 70 Inc DoaIo
| of Trustees. ap5 sFss
| 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 OF
i guardian, student is permitted to attend any
place of worship which himself or the parent OF
guardian, may select One member Of the Faculty
will attend at each Of the different places Of wor
ship, (Presbyterian, Episcopalan, and Methodist,)
in the village, and note all nbscntees.
Two, at least, Of the Professors, toih their fami
Iiss, will reside in the College buildings, and viii
board, at common table, with the students, who
arc required 70 occupy such rooms as may be as
signed them by the faculty.
M ADMISSION. M ss} s.
In order TO admission to pursue the entire course
. student must be ut least fourteen years Of age
must give satisfactory evidence Of good mora
character; and must sustain examination in the
following studies, viz:
| Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin an6
creek Grammar, Jacob or FELTON, g Greek Reader
and the first two books Of Xcnophons Anabasis
Jacobs Doering's Latin Reader, Snllust OF
Cesar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, OF
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ENTRANCE FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; if as Sophomore, ten dollars; i
Junior, fifteen dollars; and, If Senior, twenty