The republic., 1851-10-29
DELAwARE coLLEGE.

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The Faculty of Instruction Of this Institution un-
der its present organization consists of the follow
ing named Professorships, to wits
Professorship of Mental and Moral Science,
! A Professorship of the Greek and Latin Lam
guages,
AProfessorship pof Mathematics and Natural Phi
losophy,
| AProfessorship of Rhetoricand Bellies -Lettres,
Professorship of Chemistry and Natural Hia-
A Professorship OF Civil ngineering,
Professorshipo of Modern Languagesand Draw
| The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, oftwenty- -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 ia followed by yavacation of five weeks.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
FREsHmAN Glass;. Lvy, begun; Xenophon's
Anabasis; Algebra, begun; History, begun.
| ii. Livy, finished; Homer's Odyssey, begun; AL
zebra, finished; Geometry, begun; History, con-
III, Horace, begun; fIornersa Odyssey, finished;
GeomAtry, ave books; History, finished.
| JUNIOR CLASS. Taoitus, begun; The Prone
theus of Eschy ylus, and Electra of Sophocles; Ana
lytical Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences Of Christianity.
| III. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis OF
Earipides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
III. Moral Philosophy; Plato's Gorgias The
Captive of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, ,Pneu
matics, and Meteorology.
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, inished Rheto-
ric, begun.
Ii. Cicero de Amicitia and dc Sencctute; Herodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry;' Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued.
ILL., Cicero de Ofticiis; 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
ii. Elements of Criticism; Buffers Analogy
roma; Voltaic Electricity Galvanism; Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro Dyna-
mics; Astronomy, begun.
Ill. The Constitution of the United States; As
tronomy, finished The Science of Heat; Thermo-
Electricity; Chemistry and Geology.
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
The College s provided with a 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
country, and partly in London and Paris, in the
purchase of new apparatus, adapted to the present
advanced state fthc Physical Sciences.
EXAMINATIONS.
At the close of each study or branch of study the
members of the class carefully examined and
at the close of the year. an all e studies of year
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 ev ening prayer
d, me worship is held twice on every Sunday, and
the recitation on Monday morning is alwaysin 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, Episcopalian, and Methodist
in the village, and note all absentecs
Two, at least, of the Professors ioih their fa,ni-
hes will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at a common table, with the students, who
are required to occupy such rooms as may be as
signed them by the faculty.
ADMISSION
In order to admission to pursue the entire course
a 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 Grammar, Jacob or FELTON, G. reek Reader,
and the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
CIsar, Ciceros Select Oratons, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES
ENTRANCE FEE.-It the student enter as Fresh |
man, five dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollars; if
as Junior fifteen dollars; and, fas Senior, twenty
dollars.