The republic., 1851-02-19
.DELAwARE CoLLEGE.

The Faculty of Instruction of this Institution. un-
der its present organization, consists Of the follow
Ing named Proiessor,hips. : % hl % wit;
Profcssorship Of the Greek and Latin Lam
AProfessorship of Mathematics and Natural Phi
'osophy,
A Professorship Of Chemistry and Natural His
A Profcssorship Of Civil Engineering,
A Professorship Of Modern Languages and Draw
The Collegiate year is divided into two sessions
or terms, oftwenty- weeks each. The first SEES
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.
FaEsHMAN 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
Gnued.
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
lytcal Geometry, finished; Calculus; Natural The
ology; Evidences of Christianity.
II. Logic; Mental Philosophy; The Alcestis OF
Euripides; Tacitus, finished; Natural Philosophy;
Mechanics, begun.
Captive Of Plautus; Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pncu
matics, and Meteorology.
SoPHoMoRE Glass;. Horace, finished Keno
phon's Memorabilia; Geometry, finished; Rheto-
ric, begun.
Ii. Cicero de Amicitia and de Senectute; Hcrodo-
tus, begun; Plane Trigonometry; Spherical Trigo-
nometry; Rhetoric, continued
iii. Cicero de Ofiiciis; 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
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Cicero's Tusculan Questions; Demosthenes de Co
roma; Voltaic Electricity or Galvanism; Electro
Magnetism, Magnetic Electricity, Electro-Dyn
mice; Astronomy, begun.
Ill The Constitution of the United States AS
tronomy, finished; The Science of Heat; Thcrmo-
Electricity; Chemistry and Geology
PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS.
The College ia 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 branch of study. the
members of the class are carefully examined, and
at the close Of the year. all the studies of the 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 evening prayer,
d, 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, 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 Methodis,)
in the village, and note all absentees.
Two, at least, of the Professors, scih their fani
lies, will reside in the College buildings, and will
board, at q 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
q 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
creek Grammar Jacobs or Felton, Greek Reader,
and the first two books Of Xenophon's Anabasis,
Jacobs or Doering's Latin Reader, Sallust or
Cpsar, Cicero's Select Orations, and Virgil, or
what shall be deemed equivalent.
EXPENSES.
ESTRANoE FEE.-If the student enter as Fresh
man, five dollars; if Sophomore, ten dollars; if
Junior, fifteen dolars and, if as Senior, twenty
dollars