The republic., 1851-12-16
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DELAWARE COLLEGE.
The Faculty Of instruction of this institution un-
Ter its present organization, consists Of the follow
ing named Proiessorships, 20 wit;
Professorship Of Mental and Moral Science,
A Proiessorship Of the Greek and Latin Ian
AProfessorshipof Mathematics and NaturalPbi.
A AProfessorship of Rhetoricand Bellies -Lettres,
Professorship Of Chemistry and Natural His
A Proiessorship OF Civil Engineering,
A Professorshipo Modern nLanguagesandDraw
ing,
or terms, Of twenty-one weeks each. The fret
sion commences on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
Der; and the second on the fourth Wednesday Of
April. Each is followed by avacation off weeks
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
Freshman CLAss.--I. Livy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
III. Liyy, 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.
| JuNIoR Glass;. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of Eschylus, and Electra of Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
Ology; Evidences OF Christianity.
III. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis OF
Epripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive Of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, ,Pneu
SOPHOMORE CLAss.!f. Horace finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
II. Cicero de Amicitia and de Scnectute; Herodo
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical rrigo-
uometry; Rhetoric, continued.
III. Cicero de Officiis; Herodotus, finished; Sur
ycying; Analytical Geometry, begun Rhetoric.
SENIOR CLAss.-I, PoliticalP philosophy; The An
dria of Terrence; The Clouds of Aristophanes;
Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Magnetism.
Of NJ ID.
Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthcnes dc Co
roma; Yotaic Electricity or Galyanisn Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna
mics; Astronomy, begun.
III. Yhe 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
urai Philosophy; The sum OF three thousand dol
| lars has recently been expended, partly in thia
| 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 chstudy, or branch Of study the
| members of the class carefully examined, and
nt the close of the year. all The studies Of Tie yea,
in the presence off Committee of the Trustees; and
| their attainments are communicated to the Board
| ofTrustces.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
In addition to daily morning and evening pra yer,
di, me worship is held twice every Sunday and
the recitation 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, Episcopalian and Methodist
| in the village, and note all absentees
Two, least, of the Professors ,oith their fani-
| lies, will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at a common table, with the students, who
are required to occupy such as may be as
signed them by the faculty.
| ADMISSION.
| In ordcrto admission to pursue the entire course
student must be at least fourteen years of age;
| 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 G Grammar, Jacobs or Felton's Greek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Salust or
Caesar, Ciccros Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ENTRANcE FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; If Sophomore ten dollars; if
as Junior, fifteen dollars; and, if as Senior twenty
dollars.