The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-10-02
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

DELAWARE COLLEGE.
The Faculty of ofInstruction of this Institution un
der it's present organization consists OF the follow
ing named Professorships, TO wit:
A Professorship Of Mental and Moral Science,
A Professorship of the Greek and Latin Ian
AProfessorshipof Mathematics and NaturalPhi-
Iosophy,
A Pfofessorship of Rhetoricand Bellies -Lettres,
A Professorship of Chemistry aud Natural His
< Professorship Of Civil Engineering,
A Professorshipo of Modern Languagesand Draw
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms oftwenty-o -one weeks each The first ses-
sion commences on the fourth "Wednesday of Octo-
Der; 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.
H. 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 CLAss.l. Tacitus, begun; The Prone
theus of Eschylus, and Electra of Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
| ology; Evidences of Christianity.
| II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis of
Earipides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
! Mechanics, begun.
iii. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias; The
Captive of Plautus Mechanics, Hydrostatcs, Pneu
matics, and Meteoroogy.
SOPHOMORE Glass;. Horace, finished; Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
H. Cicero de Amicitia and esenectute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometryj Spherical Trigo-
uometry; Rhetoric, continued
III. Cicero de Officiis; 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; Demosthenes de Co
| roma; yoltaic Electricity Galvanism; Electro
Ma gnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
| mics Astronomy, begun.
| 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
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 or branch of study the
/ members of the class carefully examined, and
mt the close of the year. an 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 addition to daily morning and evening prayer,
div me worship is held twice on 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
| guardian may select One member of the Faculty
| will attend at each Of the different places of wor-
ship, presbyterian, Episcopalian, and Methodist)
| in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors, iuith their fani
lies, will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at common table, with the students, who
arc required to occupy such rooms as may be as
signed them by the faculty
ADMISSION.
In order to admission to pursue the entire course,
O. 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 Grammnr, Jacob FELTON, q G 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.
EXPENSES.
ENTRANCE FEE.-If the student enter Fresh
man. five dollars; if as Sophomore, ten dollars; if
as Junior fifteen dollars; and, if as Senior twenty
dollars.