The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-11-07
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

The Faculty of Instruction of this Institution, un
der its present organization consists OF the follow
ing named Professorships, to wits
A Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
A Professorship of the Greek and Latin Ian
guages,
losophy,
A Professorship of Rhetoric and Bellies Lettres,
A Professorship of Chemistry aud Natural His
x Professorship OF Civil En- gineering,
A Professionalism Modern nLanguagesandD Draw
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, of twenty-one weeks each. The tirst ses
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday of Ooto-
ber and the second on the fourth Wednesday of
April Each is followed by vacation of five weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FREsHMAN CLAss.--I. Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
ii. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; AL
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
tinued
III Horace, begun; Homer's Odyssey, finished;
Geometry, five books; History, finished.
JusIoR CLAss.-I Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus Of Eschylus, and Electra of Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
H. Logic; Mental philosophy; The Alcestis Of
Enripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun
III Moral Philosophy; Plato's Corgias; The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics Pneu
% sopaomonE MOI ClAss.sf Horace, finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
H. Cicero de Amicitia and dc Senectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
uometry; Rhetoric, continued.
Ill. Cicero de Oficiis Herodotus, finished; Sur
veying; Analytical Geometry, begun; Rhetoric,
finished.
SENIOR CLAss.--I. Political Philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes !;
| Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
H. Elements OF Criticism Buffers Analogy
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demoathenes 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
paratus that furnishes ample means of experiment
tai illustration in all the different branches of Nat
| ura Philosophy. The sum of three thousand doll
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 or 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
their attainments are communicated to the Board
| of Trustees
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
| IN auultlon W udiiy ana 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
guardian, may select. One member of the Faculty
will attend at each of the different places of wor-
ship, (Presbyterian Episcopnlian, and Methodist J
in the village, and note all absentees
Two, at least, of the Professors, ,aM their fami-
lies, will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at common table, with the students, who
are required to occupy such rooms as may be as
signcd them by the faculty.
ADMISSION.
In order TO admission to pursue the entire course
| student must be at least fourteen years of age
must give satisfactory evidence of good mora
| character; and must sustain examination in tn,
following studies, viz:
Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Latin an,
creek rammar, Jacob or Felton's G rcek Reader
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust o.
Caesar, Cicero's Select Oratons, and Virgil, OF
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES,
ENTnANcE FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollars; il
as Junior fifteen dollars; and, if as Senior, twenty
dollars.